Florida · Nonprofit
WATSON CARING SCIENCE INSTITUTE
WATSON CARING SCIENCE INSTITUTE (Florida) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,609 to it, the largest being CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $36k
- Net assets
- $188k
What Watson Caring Science Institute does
Mission
Through education, practice, research and leadership, Watson Caring Science Institute's (wcsi) mission is to inform, inspire and elevate nurses through its academic and clinical professional programs, focused on deep individual and cultural system change.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Doctoral program and post-doctoral programs ceased in 2025.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
The caritas coach education program (ccep) is a unique, six-month professional development program that incorporates interactive online instruction, virtual small group intensives, and an assigned caritas faculty coach. Through a formal application process, a new class of students is admitted to the program every may and november. Through dynamic inquiry and collaborative, compassionate dialogue, participants will explore caritas consciousness and caring literacy, preparing them to transform their personal and professional lives toward deeper meaning, purpose, dignity, and wholeness. As a caritas coach, participants will return to their settings with new insight, wisdom, skills, and confidence to give voice to and help translate and live out the theory and philosophy of human caring-healing,(continued on sch o) in service of deep system transformation.
$424,303 spentof which $6,217 as grants$482,027 earned by the program44% of program spendingOur consultation services provide exclusive access to dr. Watson and wcsi faculty through a variety of formats, including webinars, conference events, and both on-site and virtual sessions. Participants can earn contact hours by engaging in our free massive open online courses, which are designed to deepen their understanding and application of caring science principles. These opportunities allow individuals to connect with leading experts in the field, gain valuable insights, and enhance their professional development in a flexible and accessible manner.
$249,063 spent$68,128 earned by the program26% of program spendingWcsi has developed a distinctive organizational model based on dr. Jean watson's caring science, also known as unitary caring science. Dr. Watson, along with wcsi faculty experts, researchers, and scholars, has collaborated with nurses and healthcare leaders worldwide to develop indicators for the affiliation program that embraces humanistic values. These indicators serve as a foundation for leaders and organizations to authentically and meaningfully showcase the act of caring. The aim of being an affiliate with watson's caring science is to achieve a meaningful organizational cultural transformation. Current wcsi affiliates have shared examples of how adopting watson's caring science as their professional practice model can improve patient quality care outcomes, improve staff care, create authentic (continued on sch o) healing environments, reduce staff turnover, support magnet designation/exemplars, and align with environmental, social, and governance (esg) sustainability.
$101,428 spent$441,672 earned by the program10% of program spendingThe caritas leadership program has been developed for individuals and hospital systems, nursing schools, or other value/mission-driven organizations with a desire to develop and implement authentic care and value systems of watson's caring science within their workplace and beyond. Targeted at executive nurse leaders (vp, cne, cno roles), academic clinical professors, and educators, the program focuses on exploring an evolved worldview of unitary caring science as a context for higher consciousness of leadership, informed by a value, philosophy, ethics, and ontology of 'belonging', connectedness, and relations. Caritas leaders will embrace unitary caring science intellectually and experientially through the power of caritas leadership circles, engage in the 10 caritas processes as a foundation for ontological leadership practice, and become more congruent in personal and professional life to develop a deeper sense of mastery of self beyond roles. They will envision, articulate, and translate their personal/professional 'ontology of caritas leadership' toward organizational culture change, establish a shared caritas vision with others to create a collaborative community…
$92,466 spent$181,521 earned by the program10% of program spendingThe watson caring science lotus recognition honors organizations that authentically commit to and demonstrate the values, philosophy, and human caring theory-guided practices of wcsi. This recognition reflects the organization's caring and healing culture for staff, patients, and communities. It is intended for hospitals, care homes, or other mission-driven organizations and can be awarded at the unit, department, identified practice area, or program level within an organization, but not to individuals. Applicants must demonstrate their commitment to wcsi's theory through their practice, or what we refer to as 'praxis'. Wcsi defines praxis as the demonstration of exemplary informed loving kindness within one's work.
$76,124 spent$19,500 earned by the program8% of program spendingThe wcsi membership program supports the organization, nursing, and the wider world. Memberships are annual and include a unique membership number, discounts in the caring store, other perks and goodies throughout the year, and unique films and teachings by dr. Watson and caritas faculty.
$27,256 spent$20,530 earned by the program3% of program spendingThe caring store is an online marketplace dedicated to offering a curated selection of gifts, books, resources, and tools that resonate with our vision and values. Our goal is to provide products that are not only useful and aesthetically pleasing but also ethically sourced and environmentally friendly. We carefully select items that reflect our commitment to quality, sustainability, and social responsibility, ensuring that each purchase supports a greater purpose.
$17,209 earned by the program
The 7 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $970,640.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2018 to 2019, from $127k to $728k (+472%).
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.
3% of WATSON CARING SCIENCE INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (67% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
Julie Watson
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $20k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 WATSON CARING SCIENCE INSTITUTE’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
WATSON CARING SCIENCE INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
86% 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 WATSON CARING SCIENCE INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 98% · 2023 74% — 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
WATSON CARING SCIENCE INSTITUTE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
WATSON CARING SCIENCE INSTITUTE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 210 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 210 science & tech nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding WATSON CARING SCIENCE INSTITUTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $767k on record — $766k federal, $378 state.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$766k
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $378
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like WATSON CARING SCIENCE INSTITUTE
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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
42%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WATSON CARING SCIENCE INSTITUTE?
- WATSON CARING SCIENCE INSTITUTE (Florida) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,609 to it, the largest being CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WATSON CARING SCIENCE INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $35,609 in grants to WATSON CARING SCIENCE INSTITUTE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WATSON CARING SCIENCE INSTITUTE?
- CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WATSON CARING SCIENCE INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing