· Private foundation
Betty J and Robert P Williams Family 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 61% of BETTY J AND ROBERT P WILLIAMS FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k26 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $71k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $47,400 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH ELKIN NC | $14,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $10,000 |
| PIEDMONT LAND CONSERVANCY | $7,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY OF GREENSBORO (WILLIAM BOOTH SOCIETY) | $5,000 |
| THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS | $5,000 |
| MAYFLOWER HILLS BAPTIST CHURCH | $3,000 |
| TRI-COUNTY CHRISTIAN CRISIS MINISTRY | $3,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $3,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ELKIN PUBLIC LIBRARY | $3,000 |
| THE GIDEONS INTERNATIONAL | $3,000 |
| BLUE RIDGE CONSERVANCY | $3,000 |
| KAKENYA'S DREAM | $2,000 |
| THE ARK | $2,000 |
| HEARTCRY MISSIONARY SOCIETY | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 7 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- PLPIEDMONT LAND CONSERVANCY8× · 2017–2025 · $44k · revenue +64%
BLUE RIDGE CONSERVANCY8× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +51%- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE6× · 2019–2025 · $23k · revenue +151%
Funded once
- GSGREENSBORO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue -4%
- NCNORTH CAROLINA BAPTIST MENone grant, 2024 · $10k
- PBPUPPIES BEHIND BARS INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue +69%
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.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
Global water center (gwc) accelerates progress toward reliable access to safe water by strengthening the people and institutions responsible for rural water service delivery to the 1.3 billion people living in water poverty in those areas.…
Nrgi envisions a world where natural resources enable fair, prosperous and sustainable societies, instead of undermining them. nrgi exists because decisions about how natural resources are governed determine the well-being of people in…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Founded in 1889, the national association of regulatory utility commisioners (naruc) is a non-profit organization dedicated to representing the state public service commisions who regulate the utilities that provide essential services such…
The gordon research conferences, inc. provide an international forum for the presentation and discussion of frontier research in the biological, chemical, physical and engineering sciences and their interfaces. *see schedule o*
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
The north american electric reliability corporation (nerc) is a not-for-profit international regulatory authority whose mission is to assure the effective and efficient reduction of risks to the reliability and security of the grid.
To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is World Vision Inc and the most unlike its peers is Communities in Schools of Greater Greensboro Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% 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 15% 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.
50 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. 50 of the 82 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 PIEDMONT LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds ELKIN VALLEY TRAILS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds GUILFORD EDUCATION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Communities in Schools of Greater Greensboro Inc ↗
- Who funds AUTHORACARE COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds THE MUSIC ACADEMY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds CROSS CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRI COUNTY CHRISTIAN CRISIS MINISTR ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds THE INTERACTIVE RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds REACH OUT FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds OUT OF THE GARDEN PROJECT ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP HALL 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: Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Hillsdale Fund · Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The Hummel Family Fund Inc · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Well-Spring Retirement Community Inc · The Joseph M Bryan Foundation · David and Claudia Babb Reich Family 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 Betty J and Robert P Williams Family 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
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.