California · Nonprofit
WATTS GANG TASK FORCE COUNCIL
WATTS GANG TASK FORCE COUNCIL (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $500,000 to it, the largest being WEINGART FOUNDATION ($200,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $500k
- Net assets
- $405k
What Watts Gang Task Force Council does
Mission
One Watts Initiative provides employment and training opportunities to gang-involved or Affiliated individuals ages 18-62.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
The creation of the WGTF in December of 2005 followed the shooting of an influential gang leaderwhich sparked an 18-day retaliation war between rival gangs in the public housing developments of Jordan Downs and Nickerson Gardens. Eight concerned Watts citizens gathered at the office of Los Angeles Councilwoman Janice Hahn, with LAPD captains, gang interventionists, along with the Congresswoman as the broker. This collective was able to arrange a private meeting between the leadership of the warring gangs at Hahns office. The gang leaders emerged and called for a cease fire that led to a lasting, long term truce. This peace process took 30 days. Most members of the current executive board of the WGTF were among the advocates who helped carve out a space for peace for all of Watts stakeholders
$804,122 spent$1,165,649 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $804,122.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $45k to $529k (+1073%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 96% · 2022 95% · 2023 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of WATTS GANG TASK FORCE COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 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.
Board chair
Hank Henderson
Chairman
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $15k → $40k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 WATTS GANG TASK FORCE COUNCIL’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
WATTS GANG TASK FORCE COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
48% 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 WATTS GANG TASK FORCE COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 50% — 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
81% of WATTS GANG TASK FORCE COUNCIL's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $190k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
WATTS GANG TASK FORCE COUNCIL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,260 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,260 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2023
Organizations like WATTS GANG TASK FORCE COUNCIL
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 51 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WATTS GANG TASK FORCE COUNCIL: 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 WATTS GANG TASK FORCE COUNCIL?
- WATTS GANG TASK FORCE COUNCIL (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $500,000 to it, the largest being WEINGART FOUNDATION ($200,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WATTS GANG TASK FORCE COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $500,000 in grants to WATTS GANG TASK FORCE COUNCIL, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WATTS GANG TASK FORCE COUNCIL?
- WEINGART FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WATTS GANG TASK FORCE COUNCIL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2020–2023), 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