· Private foundation
J Ben Watkins Private Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ELDER CARE COUNCIL | $100,000 |
| CHARLIE WARD'S CHAMPIONS RANCH | $50,000 |
| TALL TIMBERS RESARCH | $32,500 |
| TAUNTON FAMILY CHILDRENS HOME | $27,000 |
| FRANKLIN COUNTY SHERRIFF'S OFFICE CHARITABLE FUND | $20,000 |
| LLSE NEWELL FUND | $15,000 |
| FIRST ASSEMBLY OF GOD - CARRABELLE | $10,000 |
| GRACE MISSION CHURCH | $10,000 |
| TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $5,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH IN APALACHICOLA | $5,000 |
| SUWANEE RIVER AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS | $2,500 |
| BIG BEND HOSPICE FOUNDATION | $1,200 |
| BRING ME A BOOK-FORGOTTEN COAST | $1,000 |
| FRANKLINS PROMISE-FOOD PANTRY FRANKLIN COUNTY | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 54% of J Ben Watkins Private Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in FL; read by stated purpose it is 47% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- TFTAUNTON FAMILY CHILDRENS HOME3× · 2021–2024 · $47k · revenue +49%
- TTTALL TIMBERS RESEARCH INC2× · 2023–2024 · $38k · revenue +44%
- TTTALL TIMBERS FOUNDATION INC2× · 2021–2022 · $10k · revenue +201%
Funded once
- SUSTETSON UNIVERSITY INCone grant, 2022 · $11k · revenue -9%
- SISLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +144%
- CCCARRABELLE CHRISTIAN CENTERone grant, 2021 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…
Archbold expeditions, inc.'s mission is to build and share the scientific knowledge needed to protect the life, lands, and waters of the heart of florida and beyond.
Mission is to seek protection of land and water resources through restoration and conservation; and conducting education and outreach on the ecological and economic importance of natural lands. we protect land from development and protect…
The mission of the teton regional land trust is to conserve working farms and ranches, fish and wildlife habitat, and scenic open spaces in eastern idaho for this and future generations.
The mission of alachua conservation trust (act) is to protect the natural, historic, scenic and recreational resources in and around alachua county, florida. act protects land through purchase, donation, and conservation easements.
The florida state university foundation enhances the academic mission and vision of florida state university through its organized fundraising activities and funds management. the fsu foundation accomplishes its mission by fostering…
Plant with purpose, a christian nonprofit organization, reverses deforestation and poverty around the world by transforming the lives of the rural poor. we do this through: - watershed restoration & regenerative agriculture - savings…
Leading the conservation, sound management, and wise use of tennessee's wildlife and great outdoors, tennessee wildlife federation advocates sound natural resource policies and provides various educational programs that promote the…
The mission of the foundation is to restore and protect america's everglades through its three programmatic pillars: science, advocacy and education. (continued on schedule o)
Our mission is to: a. to support and advance agriculture in the state of alabama through education and research; to increase awareness of agriculture in albama through public programs and activities; to improve and expand agricultural…
The purpose of the corporation is to a) protect the right of jurisdiction of the southeastern states over their wildlife resources on public and private lands as supported by the southeastern association of fish and wildlife agencies; b)…
Our mission is to act to conserve threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science and take into account human needs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tall Timbers Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Echo Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 31 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CHAMPIONS RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds TAUNTON FAMILY CHILDRENS HOME ↗
- Who funds TALL TIMBERS RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE CHARITABLE FUND ↗
- Who funds STETSON UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds TALL TIMBERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds Big Bend Hospice Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SUWANNEE RIVER AREA COUNCIL OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ALFRED B MACLAY JR DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ECHO Inc ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds BRING ME A BOOK FORGOTTEN COAST INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER BREWTON FOUNDATION INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization J Ben Watkins Private Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Tall Timbers Research Inc — 10% of income from government
- Stetson University Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.