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Watts Family Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $149k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARENACO | $100,000 |
| CITY OF NORTH LIBERTY | $20,833 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $20,000 |
| CITY OF KETCHUM | $15,000 |
| FREE MEDICAL AND DENTAL CLINIC | $15,000 |
| LIFEWISE ACADEMY | $12,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,500 |
| VERITAS CHURCH | $12,000 |
| RIVERSIDE THEATHER | $11,000 |
| HUALALAI OHANA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAM | $10,000 |
| IOWA CITY BIKE LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| NO FOOT TOO SMALL | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
13 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $101k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- AARENACO6× · 2020–2025 · $600k · revenue +969%
- DVDOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAM3× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +33%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $30k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- BCBETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES INCone grant, 2020 · $10k
- WSWAYPOINT SERVICESgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +55%
- M2MATTHEW 25graduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +46%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To promote the common business interests of member companies without profit and without the inuring of income to the benefit of any member company or individual. to present the executive, legislative, judicial and regulatory bodies…
The university of iowa center for advancement's mission is to advance the university of iowa through engagement and philanthropy. we serve our alumni and friends in the state and the region, throughout the country, and around the world. we…
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.
This member-supported organization protects and restores iowa's land, water and wildlife for future generations. priorities include permanent land protection, promotion of improved land management and bringing new conservation…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Impact development fund helps people within our underserved communities seek fulfillment for themselves and their families by providing access to affordable living. we create these opportunities by delivering flexible capital to nonprofit…
Our mission is to strengthen the university of iowa through alumni engagement. we do this through our communications, alumni programs, and events.
Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.
Aligning donor passion and generosity to advance iowa state university's land grant ideals.
Through dynamic partnerships, quality family services, advocacy and education, neicac advances community development and improves social and economic conditions for individuals and families with limited resources.
The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Waypoint Services and the most unlike its peers is Arenaco. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 36 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ARENACO ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DEAFINITELY DOGS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JOHNSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE THEATRE CO ↗
- Who funds HUALALAI OHANA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NO FOOT TOO SMALL ↗
- Who funds WAYPOINT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE NEW BOHEMIAN INNOVATION COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH LIBERTY COMMUNITY PANTRY ↗
- Who funds MATTHEW 25 ↗
- Who funds CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds SHELTER HOUSE COMMUNITY SHELTER AND TRANSITION SERVICES ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · GreenState Credit Union · Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation · Hodge Family Foundation · Rpc Inc Charitable Foundation · Hawkeye Area Community Action Program Inc · Community Foundation of Johnson County · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Rohde Family Charitable Foundation · The Accel Foundation · The Kenneth K Kinsey Family Foundation · Midwestone Bank Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Watts Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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