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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOME OF MY OWN OF WNY INC | $20,000 |
| THE RICHARD KNIGHTSSUE KADERLI MEMORIAL FUND INC | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF NIGHT PEOPLE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY OF LOCKPORT NY | $5,000 |
| KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS | $5,000 |
| WESTERN NEW YORK HERITAGE PRESS INC | $5,000 |
| FEEDMORE WNY | $4,000 |
| LOCKPORT HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| MT ST MARY ACADEMY | $2,500 |
| BARKER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $500 |
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 (FY20–25, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 36% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- HOHOME OF MY OWN OF WNY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $69k · revenue +413%
- RKRICHARD KNIGHTS-SUE KADERLI MEMORIAL FUND INC6× · 2020–2025 · $40k · revenue +111%
- EAEast Amherst Fire Department5× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- LALT AARON SALTER MEMORIAL FUNDone grant, 2023 · $15k
- DCDESALES CATHOLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $5k
- UCUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCIATION OF NIAGARA COUNTY INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +5%
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.
Provide 24 hour emergency rescue and first aid services to residents of the town of orchard park, ny.
Provide a death benefit for its members
The mission of the stoney point fire and rescue department is to protect life and property. we achieve this by striving for the highest level of professional skills and competence, and by focusing on both individual and organizational…
The department's main objective is the protection of life and property through fire fighting, fire prevention, and emergency rescue response.
Disabled american veterans of new york services inc. provides aid and services to americas disabled veterans in new york.
Provide Fire, EMS, and Water Rescue to the town of West Monroe in Oswego County NY
To provide fire protection services for the residents in the towns of caroga, bleecker, and piseco in upstate new york.
To provide fire protection and related services to the residents of the sir william fire district in upstate new york.
Act as volunteer fire department for the barnard fire district
Provide fire protection and rescue services to the wallburg community
Volunteer firefighting and emergency services.
The town of carlton fire department, inc. strives to provide protection, prevention, rescue and other emergency services to individuals and property in and around the township of carlton, ny from loss and injury by fire or accident.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Western New York Heritage Inc and the most unlike its peers is Richard Knights-Sue Kaderli Memorial Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 24 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 HOME OF MY OWN OF WNY INC ↗
- Who funds RICHARD KNIGHTS-SUE KADERLI MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN NEW YORK HERITAGE INC ↗
- Who funds East Amherst Fire Department ↗
- Who funds THE TEACHERS DESK INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NIGHT PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCIATION OF NIAGARA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS 651 ↗
- Who funds NEW DIRECTIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BARKER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds WINGS FLIGHTS OF HOPE ↗
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.
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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 Bruce T 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.
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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