· Private foundation
Donnie Williams Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $335k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $485k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WICOMICO COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION | $215,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE EASTERN SHORE | $120,000 |
| YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CHESAPEAKE | $100,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $50,000 |
| EASTERSEALS DELAWARE & MARYLANDS EASTERN SHORE INC | $41,562 |
| SALISBURY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $40,000 |
| ELEVEN 21 INC | $30,000 |
| ELEVEN 21 INC | $30,000 |
| WOR-WIC COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CHRISTIAN SHELTER INC | $23,800 |
| VILLAGE OF HOPE INC | $20,000 |
| MARYLAND AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION | $20,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF THE CHESAPEAKE BAY COUNCIL INC | $20,000 |
| WICOMICO COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION | $18,267 |
| SALISBURY URBAN MINISTRIES | $18,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $741k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 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.
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.
27 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k 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
- E2ELEVEN 21 INC6× · 2019–2024 · $300k · revenue +91%
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE EASTERN SHORE INC5× · 2019–2024 · $245k · revenue +270%
- TCTHE CHILD AND FAMILY FOUNDATION INC6× · 2019–2024 · $120k · revenue +100% · 29% of their budget
Funded once
- WYWORCESTER YOUTH AND FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICES INCone grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue -1%
- SMST MARY'S COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS (Sone grant, 2019 · $141k
- SMSt Marys County Public Schoolone grant, 2017 · $136k · 47% of their budget
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 leadership development programs to enhance economic development and the quality of life in washington county, maryland.
Worcester county developmental center is committed to empoweringadults with developmental and physical disabilities to be productive,responsible, and participating members of the community byidentifying, enhancing, and creating…
To inspire character development and self-discovery in people of all ages and walks of life through challenge and adventure and to impel them to achieve more than they ever thought possible, to show compassion for others and to actively…
To create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
The center operates a facility for the training and care of the handicapped and elderly.
Mentoring Mentors is a Baltimore-based non-profit dedicated to developing future community leaders through exposure that leads to college and career readiness.
Scholarships are granted to individuals attending colleges or universities within 250 miles of their home. scholarships are granted without regard to race or creed.
Provide children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities with community and employment services.
Communities in schools of delaware trains and supports site coordinators who work closely with schools to identify the most vulnerable students, and develop and implement a comprehensive, targeted, and customized plan to get them back on…
Assist low-income families
Hope, inc. assists those in need obtain healthcare, social, and basic living services. this is accomplished through outreach to the homeless, assessments of needs and eligibility, guidance and education, assistance with obtaining…
Charitable and educational purposes including, but not limited to, the provision and operation of decent, safe, sanitary, and affordable housing and related supportive services for low income individuals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Worcester County Gold Inc and the most unlike its peers is St Marys County Public School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% 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 10% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 44 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 ELEVEN 21 INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE LOWER EASTERN SHORE INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE EASTERN SHORE INC ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS DELAWARE & MARYLAND'S EASTERN SHORE INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER YOUTH AND FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds St Marys County Public School ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds DELMARVA DISCOVERY CENTER & MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILD AND FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN SHELTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds WOR-WIC COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER COUNTY GOLD INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF THE CHESAPEAKE BAY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds SALISBURY URBAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE & LIFE OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE EASTERN SHORE INC ↗
- Who funds OFF STREET SPORTS PERFORMANCE INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF SALISBURY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Art League of Ocean City Inc ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET GYM INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS DELMARVA INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Easter Seals Serving DC MD VA Inc ↗
- Who funds FURNACE TOWN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRUITLAND COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RISE UP FOUNDATION OF WORCESTER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD INC ↗
- Who funds DRAPER HOLDINGS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION I ↗
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: Community Foundation of the Eastern Shor · Franklin P and Arthur W Perdue Foundation Inc · Richard a Henson Foundation Inc · United Way of the Lower Eastern Shore Inc · Salisbury Wicomico Economic Development Inc · Jack P and Anne R Smith Foundation · The Philip & Barbara Long Family Foundation Inc · Humphreys Foundation Inc · The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc · Joan W Jenkins Foundation Inc · Nora Roberts Foundation · Jack Burbage Foundation Inc
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 Donnie Williams Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Easter Seals Serving Dc Md Va Inc — 29% of income from government
- Art League of Ocean City Inc — 6% of income from government
- Junior Achievement of the Eastern Shore Inc — 1% 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.
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