This foundation didn’t begin with a résumé or a highlight reel.

It began with how Slick made people feel.

Long before there was a nonprofit, Slick Watts was already doing the work — encouraging kids, mentoring young people, uplifting families, and reminding everyone he met that they mattered.

Not because it was his responsibility —
but because, to him, it was all about the love.

Our family watched that love ripple outward — across Seattle, across generations, across lives.

The Watts Foundation was created to ensure that love didn’t fade into memory — but kept moving, carried forward through action, opportunity, and belief.