How much did BETTY A & JAMES B WILLIAMS FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 66% of BETTY A & JAMES B WILLIAMS FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

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2020

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2021

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2022

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2023

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2024

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2025

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k2 grants · $10k
$10k–50k3 grants · $40k
$50k–250k3 grants · $200k

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$6.4M

Total assets

Largest grants

PEACHTREE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$100,000
BOYS SCOUTS OF AMERICA$50,000
THE MCCALLIE SCHOOL$50,000
EMORY WOODRUFF HEALTH SCIENCES$20,000
GA FAMILY CONNECTION PARTNERSHIP$10,000
BACK THE BLUE ATLANTA$10,000
DUKE ALS CLINIC AT DUKE UNIV$5,000
FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS$5,000

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.3M · 11 repeat orgs$253k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.3M

$223k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%

+68%

Still filing today

55%

58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyHuman ServicesHealthReligionOther

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

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THE MCCALLIE SCHOOL
9× · 2017–2025 · $500k · revenue +30%
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LAAMISTAD INC
2× · 2018–2021 · $50k · revenue +65%
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BACK THE BLUE ATLANTA
4× · 2022–2025 · $40k · revenue +106%

Funded once

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RABUN GAP NACOOCHEE SCHOOLgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +42%
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BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - ATLANTA
one grant, 2019 · $35k
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CAMP TWIN LAKESgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +96%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta Inc

Girl Scouting builds girls of courage, confidence & character, who make the world a better place.

Youth Development

Greater Atlanta Christian Schools Inc

To help each student grow as jesus did, in wisdom and stature, and in favor with god and man.

Education

The Atlanta Girls' School Inc

Inspiring girls to lead lives of purpose.

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Adventist Health System Georgia Inc

The provision of medical care to the community through the operation of two hospitals.

Health

Atlanta Land Trust Inc

TO DELIVER AND STEWARD PERMANENTLY AFFORDABLE HOUSING to support inclusive, equitable communities near the Atlanta beltline and other targeted areas in the city of atlanta.

Housing & Shelter

Atlanta Association of Legal

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Atlanta Woman's Club

To encourage our members to become interested, involved citizens of the community by engaging in the charitable activities that benefit the community as a whole.

Community Improvement

Ambleside School

Ambleside school is a christ-centered school committed to providing a charlotte mason "living education." in partnership with the family, the school guides and empowers each student to think with the mind of christ and to author a life…

Education

Atlanta Speech School Inc

To bring deep reading to each and every child so they can find their voice to determine their own future and make the greatest difference in the lives of others.

Education

Georgia State University Athletic

To provide advice, guidance, and leadership to advance athletics at georgia state university.

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Brewton-Parker College Inc

As a comprehensive georgia baptist institution, brewton-parker college provides liberal arts and professional programs in a learning community of shared christian values. through the application of biblical truth in scholarship and a…

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Gainesville Independent School Inc

Gainesville independent school, inc. a.k.a. lakeview academy is committed to excellence in the personal growth and academic development of the college-bound students through a partnership of school, family, and community.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shepherd Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Boy Scouts of America 92 Atlanta Area Council. 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

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

14/14

Grantees still filing

12/14

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,667,500Education$585,000Philanthropy$105,000Youth Development$81,500Public Safety & Disaster$40,000Recreation & Sports$25,000Religion$10,000

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.

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.

The Community Foundation for GreaterGA19.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable 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 organisation BETTY A & JAMES B WILLIAMS 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.

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typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~260 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 14.6× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 201238224 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 260 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 29% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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Find your warmest path to Betty a & James B Williams Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

BETTY A & JAMES B WILLIAMS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Betty a & James B Williams Foundation?

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BETTY A & JAMES B WILLIAMS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Betty a & James B Williams Foundation?

More from the funding graph