· Private foundation
Watson-Brown Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k98 grants · $505k
- $10k–50k35 grants · $742k
- $50k–250k16 grants · $1.9M
- $250k+4 grants · $2.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY | $684,659 |
| UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA | $570,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA-COLUMBIA | $564,000 |
| AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY | $256,416 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA-AIKEN | $228,000 |
| WOFFORD COLLEGE | $219,000 |
| GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $210,000 |
| GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY | $180,000 |
| KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY | $120,000 |
| ANDERSON UNIVERSITY | $120,000 |
| COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON | $120,000 |
| GEORGIA COLLEGE & STATE UNIVERSITY | $111,000 |
| LANDER UNIVERSITY | $99,000 |
| FURMAN UNIVERSITY | $92,967 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA-UPSTATE | $90,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.
207 repeat relationships: 135 still active in FY2024, 72 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
WOFFORD COLLEGE6× · 2019–2024 · $944k · revenue +24%- AUANDERSON UNIVERSITY6× · 2019–2024 · $535k · revenue +86%
- FUFURMAN UNIVERSITY6× · 2019–2024 · $491k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- AHATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $300k · revenue +141%
- MCMadison-Morgan Conservancy Incone grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue -37% · 46% of their budget
- GSGeorgia State University Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $143k · revenue +189%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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How this is measured
161 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 161 of the 309 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: National Collegiate Athletic Association · Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Inc · Council of Independent Colleges · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Folds of Honor Foundation · Dick Horne Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · The Community Foundation for the Central Savannah River Area Inc · Spartanburg County Foundation · South Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities · Emory University
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Watson-Brown Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Watson-Brown Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute: 8% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
- University of Miami: 5% of income from government
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc: 3% of income from government
- Franklin W Olin College of Engineering Inc: 2% of income from government
- Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
- Bentley University: 1% of income from government
- Berklee College of Music Inc: 1% of income from government
- Lynn University Inc: 0% of income from government
- Williams College: 0% of income from government
- Palm Beach Atlantic University Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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