About Catskill Watershed
Catskill Watershed Corporation’s recent grantmaking is centered on education projects tied to watershed protection in the Catskill-Delaware region. In the current grant list, the largest award is $17,534 to South Street Seaport Museum, and the same education track also includes repeated support for Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, which received $10,112 in 2024 and $9,993 in 2025. That pattern sits alongside the organization’s broader role in administering watershed protection programs that support the New York City water supply west of the Hudson.
The foundation’s work combines environmental education with infrastructure and municipal support. Its active programs include public education grants, community wastewater funding, stormwater management, septic repair and replacement, flood hazard mitigation, and community initiatives for land consultation and tax consulting. Recent grantees show that the education portfolio reaches both watershed communities and schools or museums outside the immediate watershed towns, including Hanford Mills Museum, Bennett Elementary School, and The Brooklyn New School.
Across this mix, the Catskill Watershed Corporation operates as a local funder with a strong emphasis on water quality protection, community capacity, and watershed-related public outreach.
What Catskill Watershed Funds
Education is the clearest recurring theme in the recent grant list. The Catskill Watershed Corporation gave $10,000 to Hanford Mills Museum in 2025 and another $10,000 to The Brooklyn New School in the same year, both under education. It also funded NYC H2O for $10,000 in 2024 and $9,750 in 2023, showing repeated support for watershed-related public education.
The grantmaking also reaches schools and youth-serving institutions in and around the watershed. Bennett Elementary School received $10,000 in 2024, Margaretville Central School received $10,000 in 2025, and Onteora Central School District received $9,600 in 2025. In the same area of work, the foundation supported Ashokan Center Inc with $9,000 in 2025, tying education to place-based environmental learning.
Community-centered environmental outreach appears as well: Bronx Children’s Museum received $10,000 in 2023, and Queens Museum of Art received $8,300 in 2024.
How Catskill Watershed Gives
Typical grants are tightly clustered around the same range: the 25th percentile is $7,812, the median is $9,922, and the 75th percentile is $10,000. That makes the foundation’s grantmaking highly standardized, with many awards at or near $10,000. The recent list also shows repeat support across years for several recipients, including City Parks Foundation, Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Columbia Secondary Schools, Hanford Mills Museum, NYC H2O, and East Village Community Village Co. The foundation is not a DAF and does not fund individuals. One active program, the Workforce Development Program, accepts unsolicited applications; several other programs do not.
