New York · Private foundation
Bruce T 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.
- $70k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 15
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Bruce T Williams Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 11 | $70k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $70k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $71k | 23% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $75k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $60k | 36% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $50k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Home of My Own of Wny Inc | $68,500 | 6 | 11% |
| Richard Knights-Sue Kaderli Memorial Fund Inc | $40,000 | 6 | 9% |
| East Amherst Fire Department | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Western New York Heritage Inc | $25,000 | 6 | 2% |
| The Teachers Desk Inc | $17,750 | 2 | 3% |
| Friends of Night People Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Knights of Columbus 651 | $5,000 | 1 | 10% |
| New Directions Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| United Cerebral Palsy Association of Niagara County Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Barker Fire Department Inc | $3,000 | 6 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Home of My Own of Wny Inc | $68,500 | 6 | 11% |
| Richard Knights-Sue Kaderli Memorial Fund Inc | $40,000 | 6 | 9% |
| East Amherst Fire Department | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Western New York Heritage Inc | $25,000 | 6 | 2% |
| The Teachers Desk Inc | $17,750 | 2 | 3% |
| Friends of Night People Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Knights of Columbus 651 | $5,000 | 1 | 10% |
| New Directions Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| United Cerebral Palsy Association of Niagara County Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Barker Fire Department Inc | $3,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Wings Flights of Hope | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($189k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bruce T Williams Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About Bruce T Williams Family Foundation
- How much does Bruce T Williams Family Foundation give?
- Bruce T Williams Family Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $70,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 15 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Bruce T Williams Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (17%), Housing & Shelter (17%), Health (15%).
- Who are Bruce T Williams Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Home of My Own of Wny Inc ($69k), Richard Knights-Sue Kaderli Memorial Fund Inc ($40k), East Amherst Fire Department ($25k).
- Does Bruce T Williams Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bruce T Williams Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bruce T Williams Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc, The Baird Foundation, Network for Good.
- Where is Bruce T Williams Family Foundation based?
- Bruce T Williams Family Foundation is based in NY.
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