· Private foundation
Watkins Christian 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 $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $440k
- $50k–250k23 grants · $1.9M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL OF TAMPA FL | $550,000 |
| HOPE ACADEMY | $400,000 |
| CORNERSTONE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $400,000 |
| THE FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF LAKELAND INC | $325,000 |
| BROOKWOOD SCHOOL INC | $200,000 |
| PALMA CEIA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $150,000 |
| VASHTI CENTER INC | $130,000 |
| GREATER ATLANTA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| CITY OF REFUGE INC | $100,000 |
| METCALFE INDEPENDENT CHURCH 229 | $100,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $100,000 |
| PARKER STREET MINISTRIES INC | $82,500 |
| ADVENTURES OF THE HEART MINISTRIES INC | $80,000 |
| FLORIDA BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOMES AND ONE MORE CHILD | $75,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS IN SERVICE TO THE ELDERLY (VISTE) | $75,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 6% of Watkins Christian 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.
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 +45% since the first grant, against -14% for the ones you funded once.
67 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 11 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $538k 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
- YLYOUNG LIFE4× · 2020–2024 · $800k · revenue +62%
- BSBROOKWOOD SCHOOL INC5× · 2020–2024 · $650k · revenue +19%
- AOADVENTURES OF THE HEART MINISTRIES INC5× · 2020–2024 · $621k · revenue +9% · 27% of their budget
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $100k
- WSWESLEYAN SCHOOL INCone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -14%
- AAAthens Academy Incone grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue +3%
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.
Arborbrook Christian Academy partners with parents to equip, empower, and encourage students to cultivate godly character, pursue life-long learning, and love the Lord Jesus Christ.
Landmark christian school partners with christian families by equipping college-bound students to embrace a christ-centered worldview, grow as servant leaders, and steward god's unique purpose for their lives.
Oconee Christian Academy exists to glorify God by nurturing students and equipping them to fulfill God's unique purpose for their lives.
The academy will seek to create a desire to know and serve god in the hearts of our students by equipping them academically, physically, spiritually, and socially to fulfill god's purpose for their lives.
To provide quality educational services to students in grades kindergarten through twelve, in a Christ-centered environment.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
To develope the next generation of christian leaders by providing education, mentoring, vocational experience, and leadership training
Trinity oaks christian academny partners with the christian home and church in the training of children maximizing their potential to lead christian lives according to biblical standards.
Religious preschool and daycare services
Christian teaching and the spreading of the gospel throughout the beaufort south carolina area.
Education, K-5 through 12th grade
Operate a private school.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is The Spring of Tampa Bay Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
45 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. 45 of the 87 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 YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds BROOKWOOD SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ADVENTURES OF THE HEART MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Atlanta Youth Academies Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PARKER STREET MINISTRIES INC AND SUBSIDIARIES ↗
- Who funds Vision Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION AND YOUTH CENTER OF THOMASVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds CITY OF REFUGE ↗
- Who funds Epworth By The Sea Inc ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds THE GATHERING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERDS HILL ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds EAGLE RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds Radical Life Ministries ↗
- Who funds Lighthouse Family Retreat Inc ↗
- Who funds Desire Street Ministries ↗
- Who funds Wellspring Living Inc ↗
- Who funds PEACE RIVER CENTER FOR PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds ARCHBOLD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GREATER ATLANTA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds PACT MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIONHEART LIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SPREADING HOPE 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: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · J Bulow Campbell Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · The Imlay Foundation Inc · Givewell Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Williams Family Foundation of Georgia Inc · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc · Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc
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 Watkins Christian 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.
- The Spring of Tampa Bay Inc — 33% of income from government
- Peace River Center for Personal Development Inc — 3% of income from government
- Florida Southern College — 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.
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