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WATERSTONE SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC

WATERSTONE SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC (Colorado) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,862,595 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,484,050). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$28M
Revenue FY2025
15
Funders on record
$2.9M
Grants received
$119M
Net assets
3/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 11%

Against its field

WATERSTONE SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 393 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin21% · above the median
Months of reserve0.7mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)17% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 393 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($7.8M) Expenses 100 ($9.2M) Net assets 100 ($39M)2018 Revenue 103 ($8.1M) Expenses 114 ($10M) Net assets 94 ($36M)2019 Revenue 199 ($16M) Expenses 123 ($11M) Net assets 102 ($39M)2020 Revenue 141 ($11M) Expenses 77 ($7.1M) Net assets 138 ($53M)2021 Revenue 147 ($11M) Expenses 135 ($12M) Net assets 150 ($58M)2022 Revenue 577 ($45M) Expenses 461 ($42M) Net assets 147 ($57M)2023 Revenue 264 ($21M) Expenses 143 ($13M) Net assets 183 ($71M)2024 Revenue 882 ($69M) Expenses 400 ($37M) Net assets 300 ($116M)2025 Revenue 358 ($28M) Expenses 241 ($22M) Net assets 307 ($119M)
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Revenue (358)Expenses (241)Net assets (307)Peer revenue range

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

58% of WATERSTONE SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (80% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 859 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.4M
17
$2.4M
18
$4.2M
19
$3.9M
20
$960k
21
$2.8M
22
$7.5M
23
$32M
24
$5.9M
25
0.7
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $270k → $393k.

10 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)99% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $42M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Waterstone Supporting Organization Trust 1); $31M from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Waterstone Support Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money WATERSTONE SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC raised.

From the IRS filings of WATERSTONE SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

WATERSTONE SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

99% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund WATERSTONE SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC.

52%
largest funder
94%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 66% · 2019 65% · 2020 92% · 2021 66% · 2022 75% · 2023 94%growing more concentrated.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

18% of WATERSTONE SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 20% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

99% of WATERSTONE SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $26k that is directly attributable, 78% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 4 states.

PA
CO
TN
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Colorado out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 15 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like WATERSTONE SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Colorado

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

99% of spending goes to programs.

Program 99%Management 1%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
67%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 28 states

AK
NH
WA
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
KY
WV
VA
MD
NM
AR
TN
NC
SC
MS
AL
GA

Part of a family of 18 related entities

  • Christian Community Foundation Dba Waterstone · exempt
  • National Foundation Inc · exempt
  • Cary Brown Family Foundation · exempt
  • The Genesis Foundation · exempt
  • Jonna and Jill Foundation Inc · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WATERSTONE SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds WATERSTONE SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC?
WATERSTONE SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC (Colorado) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,862,595 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,484,050). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does WATERSTONE SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $2,862,595 in grants to WATERSTONE SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WATERSTONE SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,484,050 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WATERSTONE SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 15funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing