Kansas · Private foundation
Watson Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2024
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,600
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,600
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 43
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Watson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 1 | $2k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $12k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $25k | 9% |
| FY2021 | 32 | $20k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 42 | $63k | 12% |
| FY2018 | 43 | $69k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Golf Foundation of Kansas City | $25,000 | 1 | 16% |
| The Als Association Mid-America Chapter | $8,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Welcome House Inc | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Kansas Golf Foundation | $4,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Heartland Therapeutic Riding Inc | $3,468 | 1 | 1% |
| The Francis Ouimet Scholarship Fund Inc | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Child Protection Center Inc | $3,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Crossroads Hospice Charitable Foundation | $3,000 | 3 | 1% |
| The Children's Mercy Hospital | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| The Children's Place Inc | $2,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 30 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($103k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Watson Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · The Morgan Family Foundation · The Sherman Family Foundation · The Curry Family Foundation · Constance M Cooper Charitable Foundation · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · The Francis Family Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Hickok Family Foundation F/K/A John D Hickok Foundation
How this is measured
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About Watson Family Foundation
- How much does Watson Family Foundation give?
- Watson Family Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $1,600 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 43 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Watson Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (19%), Recreation & Sports (12%), Crime & Legal (9%).
- Who are Watson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Golf Foundation of Kansas City ($25k), The Als Association Mid-America Chapter ($8k), Welcome House Inc ($5k).
- Does Watson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Watson Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Watson Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, The Sunderland Foundation, The Morgan Family Foundation.
- Where is Watson Family Foundation based?
- Watson Family Foundation is based in KS.
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