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B Robert Williamson Jr Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $50
- $10k–50k18 grants · $369k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNC CHAPEL HILL FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| PAVE SCHOOLSPAVE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| CHILDREN'S VILLAGE | $35,000 |
| HARLEM GROWN | $35,000 |
| STANLY COUNTY FAMILY YMCA | $33,333 |
| BOYS CLUB OF NEW YORK | $33,333 |
| CULTURE FOR ONE | $27,500 |
| NEW LIFE OF NEW YORK CITY | $25,000 |
| NYU SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK | $20,000 |
| NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN | $15,000 |
| HUDSON RIVER COMMUNITY SAILING | $15,000 |
| BOYS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY | $15,000 |
| RED HOOK INITIATIVE | $15,000 |
| PISTE | $10,000 |
| CRISTO REY NEW YORK HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $427k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
20 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $87k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S VILLAGE INC7× · 2019–2025 · $248k · revenue +55%
- HGHARLEM GROWN INC7× · 2019–2025 · $246k · revenue +222%
- CFCULTURE FOR ONE7× · 2019–2025 · $154k · revenue +113%
Funded once
- NANAKED ANGELS LTDgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +50%
- YYYORKVILLE YOUTH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -51%
- CCCHRIST CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Cristo rey brooklyn is a catholic high school partnering with families of all creeds to educate deserving young people from underserved communities to become men and women of faith, purpose, and service. by integrating a rigorous…
The purpose of the organization is to build an enriching educational setting for under-served brooklyn youth, using athletics as a vehicle to inspire them to fulfill their academic, physical, and personal potential. bkysc is driven by an…
Compass charter school is a safe and nurturing educational environment that honors the individuality of each learner. by engaging in a process of inquiry, our graduates will be equipped with the necessary skills to lead fulfilling personal…
See schedule oto coordinate and facilitate the economic development of the hudson yards area of manhattan. this includes construction of an extension to the no. subway line, the coordination of the design and construction of certain public…
New york city charter school of the arts (the "school") inspires a diverse community of young people to engage with the arts as a pathway to rich and rigorous academic scholarship and a creative, purposeful life.
York school is an award-winning, private, coed college-prep school for grades 8-12, that develops confident and authentic leaders. we offer an academically challenging experiential program for bright, kind, and driven students in an…
Excellence community schools prepares young people in new york city and stamford to compete for admission to and succeed in top public, private and parochial high schools by cultivating their intellectual, artistic, social, emotional, and…
Apex for youth delivers possibilities to underserved asian and immigrant youth from low-income families in nyc. apex recruits working professionals to volunteer and become positive role models who inspire youth to expand their horizons and…
Through the discipline of rowing and rigorous academic support, row new york transforms the lives of new yorkers, regardless of background or ability.
To provide all students access to a high quality education by facilitating and supporting the creation, operation, and management of innovative and effective school models.
To manage the brooklyn navy yard for the city of new york, specifically to expand job opportunities for new yorkers by fostering the development of small businesses.
City year helps students and schools succeed, while preparing the next generation of civically engaged leaders who can work across lines of difference. partnering with teachers, teams of city year americorps members cultivate learning…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Life of New York City Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fencing in the Park Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 28 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds HARLEM GROWN INC ↗
- Who funds PAVE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CULTURE FOR ONE ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds HUDSON RIVER COMMUNITY SAILING INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds RED HOOK INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds NEW LIFE OF NEW YORK CITY INC ↗
- Who funds PAVE SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTIONS MENTOR INC ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY NEW YORK HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FENCING IN THE PARK INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS' CLUB OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds STANLY COUNTY FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds NAKED ANGELS LTD ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF GEORGICA POND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YORKVILLE YOUTH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PHILANTHROPY NEW YORK INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Robertson Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization B Robert Williamson Jr Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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