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Donnie Williams Foundation Inc at a glance

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Donnie Williams Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$871k
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$215k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$1.5MEducation$1.4MYouth Development$824kHuman Services$351kPhilanthropy$281kRecreation & Sports$218kHousing & Shelter$192kArts & Culture$179kOther$0
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $51k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $335k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $485k
$18,267
Median grant
2
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
GIRL SCOUTS OF THE CHESAPEAKE BAY COUNCIL INC$20,000
MARYLAND AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION$20,000
WICOMICO COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION$18,267
SALISBURY URBAN MINISTRIES$18,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%WORCESTER YOUTH & FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE INC: $150k → 8%ELEVEN 21 INC: $50k → 13%ELEVEN 21 INC: $50k → 13%ELEVEN 21 INC: $50k → 13%ELEVEN 21 INC: $50k → 13%ELEVEN 21 INC: $40k → 13%ELEVEN 21 INC: $30k → 13%ELEVEN 21 INC: $30k → 13%WORCESTER COUNTY G O L D INC: $68k → 8%WORCESTER COUNTY G O L D INC: $8k → 8%WORCESTER COUNTY G O L D INC: $8k → 8%WORCESTER COUNTY G O L D INC: $8k → 8%WORCESTER COUNTY G O L D INC: $7k → 8%HOPE AND LIFE OUTREACH INC: $61k → 13%CHRISTIAN SHELTER INC: $24k → 13%CHRISTIAN SHELTER INC: $24k → 13%CHRISTIAN SHELTER INC: $23k → 13%CHRISTIAN SHELTER INC: $23k → 13%HOPE AND LIFE OUTREACH INC: $15k → 13%CHRISTIAN SHELTER INC: $15k → 13%CHRISTIAN SHELTER INC: $7k → 13%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.
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.6M · 27 repeat orgs$742k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
15

Total granted

$4.6M
$622k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+34%

Still filing today

70%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterArts & CultureOther
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

  • E2
    ELEVEN 21 INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $300k · revenue +91%
  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE EASTERN SHORE INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $245k · revenue +270%
  • TC
    THE CHILD AND FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $120k · revenue +100% · 29% of their budget

Funded once

  • WY
    WORCESTER YOUTH AND FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +5%
  • SM
    ST MARY'S COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS (S
    one grant, 2019 · $141k
  • SM
    St Marys County Public School
    one grant, 2017 · $136k · 47% of their budget
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
Washington County Leadership Development Program Inc

Provide leadership development programs to enhance economic development and the quality of life in washington county, maryland.

Education
2
Worcester County Developmental Center Inc

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…

Education
3
Chesapeake Bay Outward Bound School Inc

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…

Youth Development
4
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Washington County Maryland Inc

To create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.

Youth Development
5
Chesapeake Center Inc

The center operates a facility for the training and care of the handicapped and elderly.

Employment
6
Mentoring Mentors Inc

Mentoring Mentors is a Baltimore-based non-profit dedicated to developing future community leaders through exposure that leads to college and career readiness.

Youth Development
7
The Children's Home Foundation of the Eastern Shore

Scholarships are granted to individuals attending colleges or universities within 250 miles of their home. scholarships are granted without regard to race or creed.

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8
Maryland C0MMUNITY Connection

Provide children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities with community and employment services.

Human Services
9
Communities in Schools of Delaware Inc

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…

Education
10
Hope Center of Maryland Inc

Assist low-income families

Food & Nutrition
11
Help and Outreach Point of Entry Inc

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…

Human Services
12
Chesapeake Bay Housing Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Worcester County Gold Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 44 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/31
Grantees still filing
19/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST MARYS RYKEN INC: $1,500,000 · OtherST MARYS RYKEN INCWICOMICO COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION: $323,967 · OtherWICOMICO COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATIONWORCESTER COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION: $270,579 · OtherWORCESTER COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATIONST MARY'S COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS (S: $140,701 · OtherSt Marys County Public School: $136,445 · OtherDELMARVA DISCOVERY CENTER & MUSEUM INC: $120,000 · OtherVILLAGE OF HOPE INC: $126,914 · Other+17 more: $635,154 · Other+17 moreELEVEN 21 INC: $300,000 · Human ServicesELEVEN 21 INCWORCESTER YOUTH AND FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICES INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesWORCESTER YOUTH…CHRISTIAN SHELTER INCORPORATED: $115,212 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN SHELT…WORCESTER COUNTY GOLD INC: $99,000 · Human ServicesWORCESTER COUNT…HOPE & LIFE OUTREACH INC: $76,340 · Human ServicesHOPE & LIFE OUT…THE CHILD AND FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $120,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF THE CHESAPEAKE BAY COUNCIL INC: $89,530 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE EASTERN SHORE INC: $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentOFF STREET SPORTS PERFORMANCE INC: $53,252 · Youth DevelopmentROTARY CLUB OF SALISBURY FOUNDATION INC: $52,521 · Youth DevelopmentUNITED WAY OF THE LOWER EASTERN SHORE INC: $281,200 · PhilanthropySALISBURY URBAN MINISTRIES INC: $78,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $5,000 · PhilanthropyJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE EASTERN SHORE INC: $245,000 · InternationalWOR-WIC COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $115,000 · EducationWORCESTER COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $53,017 · EducationHORIZONS DELMARVA INC: $25,000 · EducationFRUITLAND COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $12,049 · EducationEASTER SEALS DELAWARE & MARYLAND'S EASTERN SHORE INC: $171,562 · HealthEaster Seals Serving DC MD VA Inc: $20,000 · Health
Other$3,253,760Human Services$740,552Youth Development$375,303Philanthropy$364,200International$245,000Education$205,066Health$191,562

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetELEVEN 21 INC: $300,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE LOWER EASTERN SHORE INC: $281,200 over 6y, 6.3% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE EASTERN SHORE INC: $245,000 over 5y, 6.9% of budgetEASTER SEALS DELAWARE & MARYLAND'S EASTERN SHORE INC: $171,562 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWORCESTER YOUTH AND FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICES INC: $150,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetSt Marys County Public School: $136,445 over 1y, 47% of budgetVILLAGE OF HOPE INC: $126,914 over 7y, 8.2% of budgetDELMARVA DISCOVERY CENTER & MUSEUM INC: $120,000 over 7y, 11% of budgetTHE CHILD AND FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $120,000 over 6y, 29% of budgetCHRISTIAN SHELTER INCORPORATED: $115,212 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetWOR-WIC COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $115,000 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWORCESTER COUNTY GOLD INC: $99,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF THE CHESAPEAKE BAY COUNCIL INC: $89,530 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetSALISBURY URBAN MINISTRIES INC: $78,000 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetHOPE & LIFE OUTREACH INC: $76,340 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE EASTERN SHORE INC: $60,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetOFF STREET SPORTS PERFORMANCE INC: $53,252 over 3y, 16% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF SALISBURY FOUNDATION INC: $52,521 over 5y, 17% of budgetArt League of Ocean City Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetMAIN STREET GYM INC: $30,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetHORIZONS DELMARVA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetMARYLAND AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetEaster Seals Serving DC MD VA Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFURNACE TOWN FOUNDATION INC: $19,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetFRUITLAND COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $12,049 over 1y, 25% of budgetRISE UP FOUNDATION OF WORCESTER COUNTY: $8,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetLEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDRAPER HOLDINGS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION I: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCHESAPEAKE HOUSING MISSION INC: $345 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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.

Community Foundation …Franklin P and Arthur…Richard a Henson Foun…United Way of the Low…Salisbury Wicomico Ec…Jack P and Anne R Smi…The Philip & Barbara …Humphreys Foundation …The Keith Campbell Fo…Joan W Jenkins Founda…Nora Roberts Foundati…Jack Burbage Foundati…
Community Foundation of the Eastern ShorMD59× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Donnie Williams Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Donnie Williams Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Donnie Williams Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Donnie Williams Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 44 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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