How much does Arthur Ashley Williams Foundation give?

Arthur Ashley Williams Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $98,600 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 37 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Arthur Ashley Williams Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (19%), Health (15%), Environment (11%).

Who are Arthur Ashley Williams Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Americares Foundation Inc ($93k), Captains for Clean Water Inc ($93k), South Shore Young Men's Christian Association ($39k).

Does Arthur Ashley Williams Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Arthur Ashley Williams Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Arthur Ashley Williams Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, Eversource Energy Foundation Inc, Maine Community Foundation Inc.

Where is Arthur Ashley Williams Foundation based?

Arthur Ashley Williams Foundation is based in ME.

Arthur Ashley Williams Foundation

Arthur Ashley Williams Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Arthur Ashley Williams Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$99k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$25k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$231kHealth$177kEnvironment$131kEducation$125kReligion$109kHuman Services$97kInternational$93kAnimals$77kOther$0

02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k24 grants · $74k
$10k–50k1 grant · $25k

$3,100

Median grant

States reached

$4.1M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER	$25,000
SOUTH SHORE HEALTH	$7,000
OVERLOOK FOOD AWARENESS RESOURCE MA	$7,000
SOUTH SHORE YMCA	$7,000
LAKELAND BIBLE CHURCH	$5,000
Individual grant recipient	$5,000
CANAAN FIREFIGHTER'S ASSOCIATION	$5,000
HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK INC	$4,000
GALA COMMUNITY CENTER	$3,500
DANVILLE MUSEUM FINE ARTS & HISTORY	$3,500
KEARSARGE FOOD HUB	$3,500
WAKE EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP	$3,500
AMERICARES	$3,100
UPPER VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY	$3,000
THE LEARNING PROJECT ELEMENTARY SCH	$2,500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $89k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 6% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of Arthur Ashley Williams Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 66% of the giving stays in ME; by stated purpose, 61%.

Arthur Ashley Williams Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 4.7% directed abroad (not shown)

How this is measured

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$945k · 52 repeat orgs$262k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +48% for those funded once.

52 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$945k

$259k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%

+48%

Still filing today

54%

35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

HealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentAnimalsArts & CultureEducationOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

CF
CAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC
7× · 2018–2024 · $93k · revenue +30%
SS
South Shore Young Men's Christian Association
4× · 2021–2024 · $39k · revenue +55%
KF
KEARSARGE FOOD HUB INC
3× · 2020–2024 · $37k · revenue +96%

Funded once

OF
Overlook Food Awareness Resources
one grant, 2019 · $80k
PP
PARENT PROFESSIONAL ADVOCACY LEAGUE INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $35k · revenue +52%
ND
NATURAL DHARMA FOUNDATION
one grant, 2023 · $10k

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.

04Its field

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.

Massachusetts Outdoor Heritage Foundation Inc Attn Susan Sacco

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Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment

Seacoast Science Center Inc

It is the mission of the seacoast science center to spark curiosity, enhance understanding, and inspire conservation of our blue planet. the center's programming and exhibits encourage visitors and other program participants to recognize…

Arts & Culture

Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…

Environment

Wildlands Trust Inc

The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…

Environment

The Trustees of Reservations

Overview - founded in boston by pioneering landscape architect and open space visionary charles eliot in 1891, the trustees is the nation's first and the commonwealth's largest conservation and preservation nonprofit.

Environment

Bartlett Arboretum Association Inc

To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.

Environment

Massachusetts Association of Conservation Commissions Inc

The organization protects massachusetts natural resources by supporting conservation commissions through education and advocacy.

Environment

Squam Lakes Natural Science Center

To advance understanding of ecology by exploring new hampshire's natural world.

Environment

Boston Harbor Now Inc

Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…

Environment

Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation

Northeast wilderness trust is a regional land trust working to preserve and restore forever-wild landscapes for nature and people in new york, vermont, new hampshire, maine, massachusetts and connecticut.

Environment

Sudbury Valley Trustees Inc

Sudbury valley trustees, inc. ("the organization") works to protect natural areas and farmland for wildlife and people in the 36 communities that surround the sudbury, assabet, and concord rivers. the organization cares for some of the…

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests; the most unlike its peers is Holliston Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 43 of the 90 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

42/43

Grantees still filing

33/43

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$682,100Environment$118,400Human Services$107,000International$93,400Health$79,500Food & Nutrition$67,000Animals$59,400

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.

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.

New Hampshire Charitable FoundationNH24.9× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Arthur Ashley Williams Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arthur Ashley Williams Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

6get no government money at all

8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home