· Private foundation
The Watson Foundation Inc
Its FY2022 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, FY2017 to 2022.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $54k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOOD FOR THE POOR | $15,000 |
| WORLD VISION | $15,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $12,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE | $12,000 |
| HEIFER INTERNATIONAL | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–20, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of The Watson Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2022, 5 since wound down.
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 FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC5× · 2017–2021 · $41k · revenue +36%- IHINTERFAITH HEALTH CENTER5× · 2017–2021 · $28k · revenue +256%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches4× · 2017–2020 · $20k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- KHKNOXVILLE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCone grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue +24%
- HFHabitat for Humanitygraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +193%
- KAKNOX AREA RESCUE MINISTRIES INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +198%
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.
Habitat seeks to eliminate poverty housing from the world and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.
Compelled by a deep passion for justice and mercy, World Renew joins communities around the world to renew hope, reconcile lives, and restore creation with programs focused on disaster response, community health, economic opportunity, food…
Habitat for humanity works to develop communities with people in need by building and renovating houses.
Dallas area habitat for humanity, inc. is a nondenominational christian not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to sponsor specific projects in habitat development for the dallas, texas area. modest but adequate housing, new or…
Habitat is a christian housing ministry that works with people in need to improve the conditions in which they live by providing affordable housing.
Food for the hungry is a christian humanitarian aid and global development organization that has designed, developed and delivered solutions for more than 50 years so that children, families and communities can flourish. (continued on…
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope.
Relief international (ri) partners with communities impacted by conflict, climate change, and disaster to save lives, build greater resilience, and promote long-term health and wellbeing of people in the communities that we serve. relief…
To build and rehabilitate affordable housing to families who cannot afford commercial mortgages using donated supplies, volunteer labor, contributed funds and properties. The constructed homes are sold to pre-selected families at a value…
Earthenable works to solve the housing crisis in africa by revolutionizing the rural housing industry through innovative, affordable, and sustainable home-building solutions. its mission is to create healthier, safer, and climate-resilient…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 16 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 WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds KNOXVILLE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds KNOX AREA RESCUE MINISTRIES INC ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Watson Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Watson Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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