· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| WESTERN NEW YORK HERITAGE PRESS INC | $5,000 |
| KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS | $5,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY OF LOCKPORT NY | $5,000 |
| FEEDMORE WNY | $4,000 |
| LOCKPORT HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| MT ST MARY ACADEMY | $2,500 |
| BARKER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +26% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HOHOME OF MY OWN OF WNY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $69k · revenue +576%
- 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
- NDNEW DIRECTIONS FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +29%
- DCDESALES CATHOLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 HOME OF MY OWN OF WNY INC ↗
- Who funds RICHARD KNIGHTS-SUE KADERLI MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds East Amherst Fire Department ↗
- Who funds WESTERN NEW YORK HERITAGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE TEACHERS DESK INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NIGHT PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS 651 ↗
- Who funds NEW DIRECTIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCIATION OF NIAGARA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BARKER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds WINGS FLIGHTS OF HOPE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · The Baird Foundation · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bruce T Williams Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bruce T Williams Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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