Texas · Nonprofit
PUBLIC HEALTH WATCH INC
PUBLIC HEALTH WATCH INC (Texas) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,387,930 to it, the largest being RESOURCES LEGACY FUND ($650,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $788k
What Public Health Watch Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to improve people's well-being through rigorous, data-driven journalism. We collaborate with newsrooms around the u.s. To ensure both targeted and broad distribution of our stories. We emphasize partnerships that give resource-constrained local news outlets the ability to do ambitious reporting they'd otherwise never be able to do.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2023, public health watch published investigative stories that prompted legislation, community action, editorials and other positive developments. Our journalism garnered national and regional awards. Among the highlights:- an investigative series, "toxic texas air," found that state environmental regulators knew about, but failed to stop, high benzene emissions in the majority-latino community of channelview, texas, for nearly two decades. A state senator promised to draft legislation to hold texas regulators accountable. - a project on the 10 states that have refused to expand medicaid "the holdouts" examined the human costs of failing to widen the program nearly a decade after the affordable care act took effect. We partnered with media outlets and a data team in hold-out states on the coverage. The project uncovered new evidence that expansion can save lives whether it's those struggling with diabetes or opioid addiction.- working with two researchers, public health watch analyzed the deadly toll of fine-particle pollution in texas and found that 8,405 residents had died from exposure to particulates in 2016. An interactive map traced the number and rate of deaths by county…
$612,320 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $612,320.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $629k to $836k (+33%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of PUBLIC HEALTH WATCH INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Jim Morris
Executive director
Board chair
Annette Lavoi
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $50k → $562k.
3 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of PUBLIC HEALTH WATCH INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
PUBLIC HEALTH WATCH INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
61% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund PUBLIC HEALTH WATCH INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 49% · 2023 53% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
PUBLIC HEALTH WATCH INC draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $483k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
PUBLIC HEALTH WATCH INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like PUBLIC HEALTH WATCH INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PUBLIC HEALTH WATCH INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PUBLIC HEALTH WATCH INC?
- PUBLIC HEALTH WATCH INC (Texas) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,387,930 to it, the largest being RESOURCES LEGACY FUND ($650,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PUBLIC HEALTH WATCH INC have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $2,387,930 in grants to PUBLIC HEALTH WATCH INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PUBLIC HEALTH WATCH INC?
- RESOURCES LEGACY FUND is the largest funder on record, with $650,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PUBLIC HEALTH WATCH INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 18 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing