· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $291k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $272k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AUBURN UNIVERSITY | $1,011,000 |
| EVERGREEN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $147,000 |
| ALABAMA MEDIA FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| VARIOUS OTHER TAX-EXEMPT ORGANIZATIONS (CONTRIBUTIONS OF 2500 OR LESS) | $31,850 |
| CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER | $30,000 |
| VIVIAN B ADAMS SCHOOL | $25,500 |
| WIREGRASS HOPE GROUP | $25,000 |
| ALABAMA INSTITUTE FOR DEAF AND BLIND | $20,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ARMY AVIATION | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| DOTHAN ROTARY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| CHRYSALIS A HOME FOR GIRLS | $20,000 |
| ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP OF AL | $15,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF OZARK | $12,000 |
| ACTS CHURCH CHRISTIAN CENTER | $11,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $129k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
31 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WHWIREGRASS HOPE GROUP INC5× · 2020–2025 · $80k · revenue +57%
- TCTHE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC3× · 2023–2025 · $63k · revenue +16%
- VBVIVIAN B ADAMS SCHOOL BOARD3× · 2021–2025 · $61k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $250k
- WUWIREGRASS UNITED WAY INCone grant, 2021 · $165k · revenue -5%
- 1N1819 NEWS LLCone grant, 2023 · $125k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The alabama broadcasters association (the association) is the official voice of the broadcasting industry in alabama. we are dedicated to protecting and enhancing broadcasting, and promoting the professional status of our members.the aba…
The wiregrass pet rescue and adoption center is dedicated to creating an exemplary animal shelter and pet adoption and community friendly facility in dothan/houston county, alabama. wprac will provide for the basic needs for domesticated…
To provide a child-focused approach to the intervention, treatment, prevention, and prosecution of child abuse cases. to provide free therapy to child abuse victims and age appropriate awareness in our school systems.
Operation of a public art museum
To work in partnership with families and organizations to ensure that all alabama children (birth to five) get everything they need to develop to their fullest potential.
Our mission is to speak for the well-being of Alabama's children through research, public awareness, and advocacy.
The alabama alliance netowrk works to strengthen and enhance alabama's civic society through research, education, and grantmaking
Established to serve as an advocate of children & to reduce the trauma & anxiety of victims of child abuse by providing coordinated multi- disciplinary & human approach to the investigation & interviewing process.
To educate, empower, and improve services for mental health consumers in the state of alabama.
Our mission is to help alleviate hunger and food insecurity in west alabama.
How this is measured
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 62 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ALABAMA POLICY INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA MEDIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WIREGRASS UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds WIREGRASS HOPE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VIVIAN B ADAMS SCHOOL BOARD ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA NETWORK OF FAMILY RESOURCE CENTERS ↗
- Who funds OZARK DALE COUNTY LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOTHAN ROTARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DOTHAN BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds WIREGRASS AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INC OF DOTHAN ↗
- Who funds CHRYSALIS A HOME FOR GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA PRO-LIFE COALITION EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John H Watson Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John H Watson Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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