Alabama · Private foundation
John H Watson Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,011,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 29
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $33M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations John H Watson Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $272k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 25 | $1.6M | 16% |
| FY2024 | 29 | $1.4M | 38% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $1.6M | 40% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $1.4M | 54% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $1.1M | 67% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $316k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama Policy Institute Inc | $390,000 | 3 | 12% |
| Alabama Media Foundation | $250,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Wiregrass United Way Inc | $165,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Southeast Education Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Wiregrass Hope Group Inc | $80,000 | 5 | 8% |
| The Child Advocacy Center Inc | $62,500 | 3 | 2% |
| Vivian B Adams School Board | $60,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Alabama Network of Family Resource Centers | $60,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Ozark Dale County Library Inc | $52,500 | 1 | n/a |
| The Dothan Rotary Foundation Inc | $40,000 | 2 | 45% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
John H Watson Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Paul & Barbara Flowers Foundation · Wiregrass Foundation · The George & Laura Flowers Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Robert and Carol Flowers Foundation · Newton Family Foundation Inc · Dove Family Foundation · Bruce G Cochener Foundation · Smurfit Westrock US Foundation F/K/A Westrock Foundation · Carmax Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation
How this is measured
Compare John H Watson Charitable Foundation with peer funders
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About John H Watson Charitable Foundation
- How much does John H Watson Charitable Foundation give?
- John H Watson Charitable Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $1,608,300 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 29 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does John H Watson Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (50%), Religion (16%), Philanthropy (7%).
- Who are John H Watson Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Alabama Policy Institute Inc ($390k), Alabama Media Foundation ($250k), Wiregrass United Way Inc ($165k).
- Does John H Watson Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does John H Watson Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as John H Watson Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Paul & Barbara Flowers Foundation, Wiregrass Foundation, The George & Laura Flowers Foundation.
- Where is John H Watson Charitable Foundation based?
- John H Watson Charitable Foundation is based in AL.
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