Watertown Area Community Foundation



The Watertown Area Community Foundation, established in 1979, promotes philanthropy, receives and administers charitable gifts and invests in programs that improve the quality of life in Watertown by promoting charity, education and culture in the community.

The Watertown Area Community Foundation encourages philanthropy at all levels, provides donor services and responds to the ever-changing needs and opportunities in the community.

Assets and Giving for Watertown Area Community Foundation

Assets

2019 - 23,707,895
2018 - 19,901,073
2017 - 18,893,535
Domestic Grants

2019 - 1,266,572
2018 - 639,482


    

Recent News from Watertown Area Community Foundation


Looking for nominations for outstanding volunteers
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This month, however, the Watertown Area Community Foundation joins the Watertown Volunteer Center in celebrating some unsung heroes...more

Foundation needs both restricted and unrestricted gifts
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At the Watertown Area Community Foundation, unrestricted gifts are used to meet the community's ever-changing and most pressing...more

Board service a family tradition
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When Laurie Benson joined the Watertown Area Community Foundation Board in 2006, she was following in the footsteps of her late father,...more

Keeping reading alive for Watertown's children
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When the Sharps established a fund at the Watertown Area Community Foundation, they did so with reading as one of their focuses. The...more

Local dollars keep Watertown Area Transit on the road
Foundation: Watertown Area Community Foundation

Fortunately, Hoffman has the Watertown Area Community Foundation ... The Community Foundation is far from the transit's only source of...more

Dakota Wind Quintet to perform free concert
Foundation: Watertown Area Community Foundation

The concert is sponsored by the Watertown Area Community Foundation and the Watertown Chapter of the South Dakota Symphony League. A...more

Jan DeBerg Column: Your land, your legacy
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Such assets can be gifted as a whole or in part, for a charitable purpose through the Watertown Area Community Foundation. The end result is...more

Farmland can keep on giving
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The Watertown Area Community Foundation recognized that in some instances, farmers were looking for another option. To meet this need, the...more

Dr. Harper was early Community Foundation supporter
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EDITOR'S NOTE: The following story was previously published in the Watertown Area Community Foundation's 2009 Annual Report when...more

Dale Christensen guest column: Congrats WACF
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I hope I am among the first to wish the Watertown Area Community Foundation a happy anniversary. Forty years of “Looking Forward and Giving...more



Social Enterprise Network Sites


MVYouth, a newly formed Vineyard philanthropy group with a mission to support Island youth, will pledge $4 million over the next four years to a diverse set of youth causes.




Federal Government Grant and Assistance Programs



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