Program areas at Watson-Brown Foundation
Maintaining and preserving three historic house museums and their historic gardens and grounds for the conduct of various educational programming including public tours, school field trips, seminars and symposia, summer camps,
Allocation of expenses for administering scholarships andgrants incurred by the Foundation office. Allocation isbased on a combination of direct cost and a percentage ofall other expenses.
Tom watson brown book award. The annual award is made through the auspices of the society of civil war historian for a single outstanding book on the american civil war. Scholarly and trade presses submit books for consideration by a three juror panel of civil war scholars.
Environmental and archeological education of children and young adults
Grants made by Watson-Brown Foundation
Personnel at Watson-Brown Foundation
| Name | Title | Compensation | Date of data |
|---|
| Thomas W Brown | President | $168,254 | 2024-11-06 |
| Dexter E Rhodes | Ground Manager / Grounds Manager | $76,164 | 2022-12-31 |
| Ground Manager | Ground Manager | $78,384 | 2023-12-31 |
Financials for Watson-Brown Foundation
| Revenues | FYE 12/2023 | FYE 12/2022 | % Change |
|---|
| Total grants, contributions, etc. | $412 | $69 | 497.1% |
| Investment income and dividends | $6,027,394 | $1,109,491 | 443.3% |
| Net rental income | $20,682 | $20,290 | 1.9% |
| Net gain from sale of non-inventory assets | $1,063,715 | $1,749,064 | -39.2% |
| Gross sales of inventory | $953 | $523 | 82.2% |
| Miscellaneous revenues | $1,140 | $720 | 58.3% |
| Total revenues | $7,114,296 | $2,880,157 | 147% |
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Data update history
March 6, 2025
Posted financials
Added Form 990PF for fiscal year 2023
February 28, 2025
Updated personnel
Identified 2 new personnel
January 20, 2024
Posted financials
Added Form 990PF for fiscal year 2022
November 25, 2023
Posted financials
Added Form 990PF for fiscal year 2021
June 14, 2023
Posted financials
Added Form 990PF for fiscal year 2020
Nonprofit Types
Grantmaking organizationsPrivate foundationsPrivate non-operating foundationsCharities
Issues
Education
Characteristics
Provides grantsPartially liquidatedTax deductible donationsAccepts online donations
General information
- Address
- 310 Tom Watson Way
- Thomson, GA 30824
- Metro area
- Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC
- County
- McDuffie County, GA
- Website URL
- watson-brown.org/
- Phone
- (706) 595-8886
- Facebook page
- watson-brown-foundation
- Twitter profile
- @wbf_scholars
IRS details
- EIN
- 23-7097393
- Fiscal year end
- December
- Taxreturn type
- Form 990-PF
- Year formed
- 1972
- Eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions (Pub 78)
- Yes
Categorization
- NTEE code, primary
- T20: Private Foundations
- NAICS code, primary
- 813211: Grantmaking Foundations
- Parent/child status
- Independent
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