· Private foundation
Ernest G & Cecil B Williams 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $36k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DCH FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA | $10,750 |
| ST LUKE EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $10,100 |
| CANTERBURY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $6,915 |
| THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TEXAS | $5,000 |
| CHILDRENS HEALTH FOUNDATION | $2,400 |
| LINLY HEFLIN SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $1,000 |
| UNLESS U | $1,000 |
| BANKS ACADEMY | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| DECATUR PUBLIC LIBRARY | $100 |
| LOVE IN THE NAME OF CHRIST | $100 |
| HEIGHTS NATIONAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION | $100 |
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 (FY17–25, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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 +46% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.
32 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 5 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CCARRYWELL3× · 2020–2023 · $25k · revenue +0%
- PPPRESCHOOL PARTNERS4× · 2018–2022 · $11k · revenue +64%
- UUUNLESS U INC8× · 2018–2025 · $8k · revenue +520%
Funded once
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA PRESIDENT'S CLUBone grant, 2020 · $8k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAMone grant, 2023 · $5k
- CTCRIMSON TIDE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $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.
Encourage and enhance advocacy and family support services on behalf of individuals suffering from mental illness.
The Urology Health Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 2003 by Birmingham urologist Dr. Thomas E. Moody. Its purposes are to educate physicians and other medical professionals in new techniques and procedures being…
To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of the community
The Alabama A&M University Foundation was established to receive, hold, invest, manage, use, and administer property of all kinds, whether given absolutely or in trust, for the benefit of Alabama A&M University and its educational,…
Oversee and facilitate the collection, pasteurization, and distribution of human milk. Provide training and education for healthcare providers and community members about the health importance of human milk for neonates and infants.
To further the image of medicine through financial support for health education programs and projects
The organization pledges to provide quality programs, service, and technology to meet the unique physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of the terminally ill and their families, and to educate the community about end of life issues.
We exist to provide quality, culturally competent primary and preventive health services to the residents of southeast alabama without regard to their ability to pay.
Autauga Interfaith Care Center, Inc. is a cooperative outreach ministry of Christian churches and individuals in Autauga County, Alabama.
The mission of Children's of Alabama is to provide the finest pediatric health services to all children in an environment that fosters excellence in research and medical education. Children's will be an advocate for all children and work…
Repairing homes, revitalizing communities and rebuilding lives.
How this is measured
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 77 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 DCH Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CARRYWELL ↗
- Who funds PRESCHOOL PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds UNLESS U INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDRY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Camp Nakanawa ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Quarterbacking Children's Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds Kings Home Inc ↗
- Who funds THE EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF WEST ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds STUDIO BY THE TRACKS INC ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Altecstyslinger Foundation · Debardeleben Foundation Inc · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Dunn-French Foundation · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Cooper Family Foundation · Nall-Whatley Foundation · The Michael D and Netagene R Thompson Fo · The Faulkner Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ernest G & Cecil B Williams Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ernest G & Cecil B Williams Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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