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Betty J and Robert P Williams Family Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$122k
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$47k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$218kHuman Services$121kEnvironment$99kInternational$75kEducation$73kArts & Culture$62kHealth$29kRecreation & Sports$26kOther$0
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k26 grants · $51k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $71k
$1,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
TRI-COUNTY CHRISTIAN CRISIS MINISTRY$3,000
BLUE RIDGE CONSERVANCY$3,000
THE GIDEONS INTERNATIONAL$3,000
MAYFLOWER HILLS BAPTIST CHURCH$3,000
FRIENDS OF THE ELKIN PUBLIC LIBRARY$3,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$3,000
THE ARK$2,000
KAKENYA'S DREAM$2,000
UNICEF USA$1,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $6k → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%INTERACTIVE RESOURCE CENTER: $2k → 16%INTERACTIVE RESOURCE CENTER: $2k → 16%INTERACTIVE RESOURCE CENTER: $2k → 16%HOSPICE OF GREENSBORO: $5k → 16%HOSPICE OF GREENSBORO: $5k → 16%HOSPICE OF GREENSBORO: $5k → 16%GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY: $2k → 16%GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY: $2k → 16%GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY: $2k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

WA
WI
MI
NY
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
KS
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$681k · 46 repeat orgs$104k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
27

Total granted

$681k
$79k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+5%

Still filing today

54%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesArts & CultureInternationalHealthOther
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

  • PL
    PIEDMONT LAND CONSERVANCY
    8× · 2017–2025 · $44k · revenue +64%
  • BLUE RIDGE CONSERVANCY
    8× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +51%
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    6× · 2019–2025 · $23k · revenue +151%

Funded once

  • GS
    GREENSBORO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue -4%
  • NC
    NORTH CAROLINA BAPTIST MEN
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • PB
    PUPPIES BEHIND BARS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue +69%
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.

1
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
2
Project Drawdown

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;…

Education
3
Global Water Center

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.…

International
4
Natural Resource Governance Institute

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…

International
5
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
6
National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners

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…

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7
Gordon Research Conferences Inc

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*

Science & Tech
8
Npr Foundation

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…

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9
North American Electric Reliability Corp

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.

Community Improvement
10
Western Electricity Coordinating Council

To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.

Public Benefit
11
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
12
Friends of the Earth

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…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is World Vision Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/50
Grantees still filing
29/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH ELKIN NC: $85,500 · OtherFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH ELKIN NCTHE SALVATION ARMY: $72,500 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $67,400 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHGREENSBORO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $25,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY (WILLIAM BOOTH SOCIETY): $20,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE ELKIN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $18,500 · OtherKAKENYA CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE: $17,836 · Other+49 more: $214,150 · Other+49 morePIEDMONT LAND CONSERVANCY: $43,500 · EnvironmentPIEDMONT LAND…BLUE RIDGE CONSERVANCY: $36,400 · EnvironmentBLUE RIDGE CO…BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION: $8,000 · EnvironmentBLUE RIDGE PA…+3 more: $5,000 · Environment+3 moreTHE FOUNDATION: $28,000 · EducationGUILFORD EDUCATION ALLIANCE: $16,000 · EducationSHIFT EDUCATION: $2,000 · EducationKAKENYA CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE: $2,000 · EducationGUILFORD TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · Education+2 more: $2,000 · EducationAUTHORACARE COLLECTIVE: $15,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 · Human ServicesPUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesTHE INTERACTIVE RESOURCE CENTER INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesGREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY: $6,000 · Human ServicesSHELTERBOX USA INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesGREENSBORO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSIC ACADEMY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureEDUCATIONAL INFORMATION CORPORATION: $2,250 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $2,000 · Arts & CultureELKIN VALLEY TRAILS ASSOCIATION: $24,500 · Recreation & SportsSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $23,145 · Religion
Other$520,886Environment$92,900Education$52,000Human Services$45,000Arts & Culture$34,250Recreation & Sports$24,500Religion$23,145

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPIEDMONT LAND CONSERVANCY: $43,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetBLUE RIDGE CONSERVANCY: $36,400 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION: $28,000 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetGREENSBORO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetELKIN VALLEY TRAILS ASSOCIATION: $24,500 over 6y, 6.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $23,145 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGREENSBORO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGUILFORD EDUCATION ALLIANCE: $16,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCommunities in Schools of Greater Greensboro Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetAUTHORACARE COLLECTIVE: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MUSIC ACADEMY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROSS CONNECTION INC: $8,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTRI COUNTY CHRISTIAN CRISIS MINISTR: $7,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetPUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE INTERACTIVE RESOURCE CENTER INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $5,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOUT OF THE GARDEN PROJECT: $5,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetREACH OUT FIRST INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP HALL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDICAL CENTER OF THE AMERICAS FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWATERSHED NOW INC aka Watershed NOW aka Friends of Big Elkin Creek: $3,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetEDUCATIONAL INFORMATION CORPORATION: $2,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHIFT EDUCATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKAKENYA CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTERBOX USA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUILFORD TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CLOUD FOUNDATION: $1,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO HORSE RESCUE: $1,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Houston: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF PHEASANT BRANCH CONSERVANCY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGREENSBORO HOUSING COALITION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHIRE HEROES USA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE RIDGE WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

  • 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 UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MUSIC ACADEMY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds CROSS CONNECTION INC ↗
  • Who funds BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TRI COUNTY CHRISTIAN CRISIS MINISTR ↗
  • Who funds PUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE INTERACTIVE RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds OUT OF THE GARDEN PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds REACH OUT FIRST INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ↗
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP HALL INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗

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.

Lincoln Financial Fou…Hillsdale FundTannenbaum-Sternberge…Community Foundation …Duke Energy FoundationThe Hummel Family Fun…Amg Charitable Gift F…The Cannon Foundation…Foundation for the Ca…Well-Spring Retiremen…The Joseph M Bryan Fo…David and Claudia Bab…
Lincoln Financial Foundation IncPA29.7× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Betty J and Robert P Williams Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Betty J and Robert P Williams Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 82 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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