· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| FREE MEDICAL AND DENTAL CLINIC | $15,000 |
| CITY OF KETCHUM | $15,000 |
| LIFEWISE ACADEMY | $12,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,500 |
| VERITAS CHURCH | $12,000 |
| RIVERSIDE THEATHER | $11,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| HUALALAI OHANA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAM | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| NO FOOT TOO SMALL | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- M2MATTHEW 25graduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +46%
- CCCAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWAone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +6%
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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Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.
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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.
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How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 36 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
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.
- 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 MATTHEW 25 ↗
- Who funds CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds WAYPOINT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE NEW BOHEMIAN INNOVATION COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH LIBERTY COMMUNITY PANTRY ↗
- Who funds SHELTER HOUSE COMMUNITY SHELTER AND TRANSITION SERVICES ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Watts Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Watts Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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