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Justin J Watt Foundation Inc

Our mission is to provide after-school opportunities for middle-school aged children in the community to become involved in athletics, so that they may learn the character traits of accountability, teamwork, leadership, work ethic, and perseverance, while in a safe and supervised environment with their peers.

$312k
Granted FY2026still arriving
29
Grants FY2026still arriving
18
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Public Safety & Disaster$28MFood & Nutrition$11MRecreation & Sports$3.9MHousing & Shelter$2.4MEducation$84k
02FY2026 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 29 grants below total $215,458, the rows itemized in this filing. The $312,288 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $96,830 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k27 grants · $194k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
$7,087
Median grant
18
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ELMHURST UNITED MIDDLE SCHOOL$11,901
KERNODLE MIDDLE SCHOOL$10,007
NICHOLAS SACCO JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL$9,415
APOPKA MIDDLE SCHOOL$8,366
CAMDEN MIDDLE SCHOOL$8,301
MOUNTAIN VALLEY COMMUNITY SCHOOL$8,301
RICHMOND COUNTY MIDDLE SCHOOL$8,301
DWIGHT RICH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS$8,301
KINDER MIDDLE SCHOOL$8,301
CLEAR DOT CHARTER SCHOOL$8,301
KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL$8,215
NORTH JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL$8,197
MORRIS FORD MIDDLE SCHOOL$7,816
JUDSON WALKER MIDDLE SCHOOL$7,800
ROLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL$7,087
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–19, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.

area typical 12%CENTRAL CHARTER SCHOOL: $9k → 13%CENTRAL CHARTER SCHOOL: $6k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

34%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$16M · 50 repeat orgs$30M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +77% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

50 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2026, 42 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
265

Total granted

$16M
$30M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+77%
+16%

Still filing today

10%
9%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $137k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
EducationInternationalPublic Safety & DisasterHuman ServicesFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • Feeding America
    2× · 2018–2019 · $11M · revenue +77%
  • AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $3.0M · revenue +77%
  • IP
    IDEA Public Schools
    3× · 2017–2019 · $44k · revenue +257%

Funded once

  • Save The Children Federation Inc
    one grant, 2018 · $13M · revenue +11%
  • TS
    THE ST BERNARD PROJECT INC
    one grant, 2018 · $8.5M · revenue +21% · 38% of their budget
  • HH
    Houston Habitat for Humanity Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $2.4M · revenue +30%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Alliance Charter Academy

Our mission is to personalize learning through a collaboration of family, community and school; to nurture the innate curiosity of our students; ignite their passion for learning; and prepare them for lifelong success.

Education
2
The New American Academy Charter School

The new american academy charter school empowers learners and inspires leaders to make this a better world. through our collaborative teacher teams, mastery-based career ladder, and looping cycles, we offer personalized rigorous…

Education
3
The Royal School System

The mission of Royal Public Schools is to spark students' natural curiosity and love of learning while providing the knowledge and skills they need to lead successful and fulfilling lives.

Education
4
Elevate Collegiate Inc dba Elevate Collegiate Charter School

To equip all students with the academic knowledge and character development necessary to set forth confidently on the path to college and life filled with success.

Education
5
Sonoma Charter School

Sonoma charter school seeks to achieve academic excellence through engaged learning in a setting that involves students, teachers, and parents.

Education
6
Independence Academy

The mission of independence charter school (iacs) is to educate students of diverse ages and backgrounds - helping them understand, thrive in, and enhance our community, our environment,and our world. iacs regards learning as a continuing…

Education
7
Philips Academy Charter School of Paterson

We will provide a moral and rigorous education, accomplished in a hands-on, technology infused educational environment that will allow our students to attend college, while developing a commitment to global citizenship, environmental…

Education
8
Heritage Academy Charter Schools Inc

The mission of heritage academy charter schools, inc. is to provide educational services to students in grades pre-k through 12 through the operation of open-enrollment public charter schools under the guidelines of the texas education…

Education
9
Achievement House Charter School

It is the mission of the achievement house cyber charter school to provide all students with an experience that is complete with improved personal outcome and academic success and achievement in a rich and personalized learning environment…

Education
10
Austin Trinity School

Trinity episcopal school (trinity) is a not-for-profit independent school whose mission is to provide an enriched academic curriculum in a christian environment. trinity is not affiliated with or sponsored by any parish. we will nurture…

Education
11
Academir Charter School Inc

Provide educational services to students in kindergarten to twelfth grade.

Education
12
Mastery Charter High School

All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Caliber Public Schools; the most unlike its peers is Southeast Raiders Youth Football and Che. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 332 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/31
Grantees still filing
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Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Save The Children Federation Inc: $12,800,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federation IncAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $3,001,288 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INCFeeding America: $11,163,087 · Food & NutritionFeeding AmericaTHE ST BERNARD PROJECT INC: $8,500,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTHE ST BERNARD PROJECT …ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC: $640,933 · Public Safety & DisasterALL HANDS AND HEARTS SM…THE SCHOOL BOARD OF BROWARD COUNTY: $123,548 · Other+181 more: $3,122,174 · OtherHouston Habitat for Humanity Inc: $2,353,000 · Housing & ShelterBakerRipley: $2,000,000 · Human Services+1 more: $14,577 · Human ServicesBoys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc: $1,155,000 · Youth DevelopmentIDEA Public Schools: $43,925 · EducationGuajome Park Academy: $13,346 · EducationSouthwest Georgia STEM Charter Inc: $11,210 · EducationKIPP TULSA ACADEMY COLLEGE PREP INC: $10,732 · EducationMASTERY CHARTER SCHOOL - HARRITY ELEMENTARY: $10,222 · EducationYES Prep Public Schools Inc: $9,321 · EducationJubilee Academic Foundation Inc: $8,905 · EducationCLEAR DOT CHARTER SCHOOL COLUMBIA INC: $8,301 · EducationCALIBER PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $8,146 · Education
International$15,801,288Food & Nutrition$11,163,087Public Safety & Disaster$9,140,933Other$3,245,722Housing & Shelter$2,353,000Human Services$2,014,577Youth Development$1,155,000Education$124,108

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $12,800,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFeeding America: $11,163,087 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ST BERNARD PROJECT INC: $8,500,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $3,001,288 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHouston Habitat for Humanity Inc: $2,353,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetBakerRipley: $2,000,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc: $1,155,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC: $640,933 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetIDEA Public Schools: $43,925 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC: $14,587 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASSISTANCE UNLIMITED INC: $14,577 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGuajome Park Academy: $13,346 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSouthwest Georgia STEM Charter Inc: $11,210 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMASTERY CHARTER SCHOOL - HARRITY ELEMENTARY: $10,222 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYES Prep Public Schools Inc: $9,321 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIBER PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $8,146 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Feeding America ↗
  • Who funds THE ST BERNARD PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Houston Habitat for Humanity Inc ↗
  • Who funds BakerRipley ↗
  • Who funds Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc ↗
  • Who funds ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC ↗
  • Who funds IDEA Public Schools ↗

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.

GenYOUTH IncorporatedIL61.2× affinity47 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: GenYOUTH Incorporated · Share Our Strength · Round It Up America Inc · Feed the Children Inc · The George W Bush Foundation · Good Sports Inc · Project Lead the Way Inc · Project Lead the Way Inc · Action for Healthy Kids · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · The Mr Holland's Opus Foundation · NRA Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Justin J Watt Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Justin J Watt Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Assistance Unlimited Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 332 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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