· Private foundation
Watkins Christian Foundation Inc
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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $377k
- $50k–250k26 grants · $2.5M
- $250k+10 grants · $3.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUNG LIFE SOUTHWIND CAMP | $400,000 |
| PALMA CEIA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $350,000 |
| THE FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF LAKELAND INC | $325,000 |
| WELLSPRING LIVING | $318,750 |
| YMCA OF WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA | $318,750 |
| JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL OF TAMPA FL | $310,000 |
| ST JOHNS EPISCOPAL PARISH DAY SCHOOL INC | $300,000 |
| CORNERSTONE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $300,000 |
| VISION ATLANTA | $250,000 |
| GREATER ATLANTA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $250,000 |
| THE VASHTI CENTER INC | $210,000 |
| HOPE ACADEMY | $200,000 |
| ATLANTA YOUTH ACADEMY | $200,000 |
| WESLEYAN SCHOOL INC | $200,000 |
| BROOKWOOD SCHOOL INC | $200,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 51% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 Watkins Christian 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.
76 repeat relationships: 41 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 9 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- YLYOUNG LIFE5× · 2020–2025 · $885k · revenue +62%
- BSBROOKWOOD SCHOOL INC6× · 2020–2025 · $850k · revenue +19%
- HAHOPE ACADEMY INC5× · 2020–2025 · $720k · revenue +240%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $100k
- AAAthens Academy Incone grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue +3%
- VIVOLUNTEERS IN SERVICE TO THE ELDERLYone grant, 2024 · $75k
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.
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.
Oconee Christian Academy exists to glorify God by nurturing students and equipping them to fulfill God's unique purpose for their lives.
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.
To provide quality educational services to students in grades kindergarten through twelve, in a Christ-centered environment.
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.
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.
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.
To develope the next generation of christian leaders by providing education, mentoring, vocational experience, and leadership training
Legacy Christian School exists to equp the next generation in South Central Nebraska to be godly leaders by partnering with parents to disciple them into a biblical worldview through challenging academics for the glory of God.
Education, K-5 through 12th grade
The mission is to provide a biblically based classical college preparatory education that inspires a passion for excellence a heart of grace and the character of Christ.
Covenant Christian School (CCS) is committed to the academic, spiritual, physical, and social growth of our children in a Christ-centered environment. Continued on Schedule O Covenant Christian School cultivates a distinctive generation…
How this is measured
48 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. 48 of the 96 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 YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds BROOKWOOD SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds ADVENTURES OF THE HEART MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Vision Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds Wellspring Living Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds PARKER STREET MINISTRIES INC AND SUBSIDIARIES ↗
- Who funds GREATER ATLANTA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds Atlanta Youth Academies Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION AND YOUTH CENTER OF THOMASVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds Epworth By The Sea Inc ↗
- Who funds THE GATHERING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds CITY OF REFUGE ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds EAGLE RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds WESLEYAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Lighthouse Family Retreat Inc ↗
- Who funds Desire Street Ministries ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERDS HILL ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Radical Life Ministries ↗
- Who funds PEACE RIVER CENTER FOR PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds WESLEYAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ARCHBOLD FOUNDATION 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 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Watkins Christian Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Watkins Christian Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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