Maryland · Private foundation
Watson Stone Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $136k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 52
- Grants FY2025
- 47
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 4%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $26,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 43 to 47
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 4% of the organizations Watson Stone Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 51 | $135k | 6% |
| FY2024 | 47 | $78k | 4% |
| FY2023 | 46 | $82k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 43 | $231k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 46 | $77k | 15% |
| FY2020 | 43 | $56k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chesapeake Multicultural Resource Center Inc | $76,000 | 6 | 2% |
| The Maryland Food Bank Inc | $63,000 | 6 | 0% |
| National Alliance to End Homelessness | $55,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Shorerivers Inc | $40,900 | 6 | 0% |
| Talbot Interfaith Shelter Inc | $37,800 | 6 | 1% |
| Fairplay Inc | $12,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Chesapeake Legal Alliance Inc | $12,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Talbot Hospice Foundation Inc | $11,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Avalon Foundation Inc | $10,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Talbot Mentorsinc | $6,700 | 6 | 2% |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($279k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Watson Stone Family Foundation Inc 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: The Llandaff Family Trust · Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc · The Seip Family Foundation Limited Eevercore Trust CO C/O Ashley Ferriello · Dock Street Foundation · Grayce B Kerr Fund Inc · T & M Mitchell Fdn Dima-Blrk · The Wyman Family Foundation Inc · The Rosenfeld Rumford Steckler Family Foundation Inc · Ruth and Robert St John Foundation Inc · Richard J and Ellen G Bodorff Charitable Foundation Inc · The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc · The Michael and Nancy Klein Foundation Inc
How this is measured
Compare Watson Stone Family Foundation Inc with peer funders
About Watson Stone Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Watson Stone Family Foundation Inc give?
- Watson Stone Family Foundation Inc reported 52 grants totaling $136,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 43 and 47 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Watson Stone Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (24%), International (20%), Education (15%).
- Who are Watson Stone Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Chesapeake Multicultural Resource Center Inc ($76k), The Maryland Food Bank Inc ($63k), National Alliance to End Homelessness ($55k).
- Does Watson Stone Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Watson Stone Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Watson Stone Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Llandaff Family Trust, Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc, The Seip Family Foundation Limited Eevercore Trust CO C/O Ashley Ferriello.
- Where is Watson Stone Family Foundation Inc based?
- Watson Stone Family Foundation Inc is based in MD.
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