· Private foundation
Frank Williams Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED STATES SKI ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| STRINGS MUSIC FESTIVAL | $5,000 |
| ST PAUL'S EPOSCOPAL CHURCH | $4,200 |
| STEAMBOAT ART MUSEUM | $3,050 |
| CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION | $2,000 |
| STEAMBOAT SPRINGS WINTER SPORTS | $1,000 |
| ALPHA OMEGA ALPHA MEDICAL SOCIETY | $165 |
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 (FY17–17, $300) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +74% since the first grant, against +49% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 10 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, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- SMSTRINGS MUSIC FESTIVAL8× · 2017–2024 · $25k · revenue +239%
- SASTEAMBOAT ART MUSEUM6× · 2019–2024 · $8k · revenue +17%
- SASEMINARS AT STEAMBOAT3× · 2017–2019 · $300 · revenue +74%
Funded once
- TFTHE FLORIDA ORCHESTRAgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +50%
- TSTHE STEAMBOAT INSTITUTEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $986 · revenue +325%
- HVHope Villages of America Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $300 · revenue +49%
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.
Produce annual summer music series
Providing entertainment and education through the production of high-quality orchestral music.
The mission of the boulder philharmonic orchestra is to enrich connections and communities through the power of orchestral music. the boulder philharmonic orchestra presents performances that reflect our community's values, creativity, and…
The Roanoke Symphony Orchestra provides a professional symphony orchestra of artistic excellence and integrity to enrich lives, to educate, and to entertain diverse audiences in western Virginia with the highest quality instrumental and…
Educating the public about symphonic music through concerts and other educational activities. Educating students and serious musicians through symphony concerts and activities. Perform 6 annual concerts and 2 recitals during the year.
Stages makes plays and tells stories that invite everyone to live more deeply and love more boldly.
Enriching people's lives through the power of music.*producing the finest performances by the greatest artists*fostering music education, and*promoting a life-long appreciation for the arts
Professional production of opera for the public, and education about opera and the performing arts for audiences of all ages.
To create champions on and off the mountain by developing life skills and providing growth opportunities through participation in sports.
To shape the future of classical music by energizing, modernizing, and personalizing the concert experience.
On the Boards' mission is to invest in leading contemporary performing artists near and far and connect them to a diverse range of communities interested in forward-thinking art and ideas.
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Strings Music Festival and the most unlike its peers is Hope Villages of America Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 25 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 STRINGS MUSIC FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds United States Ski Association ↗
- Who funds STEAMBOAT ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds OPERA STEAMBOAT ↗
- Who funds THE STEAMBOAT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Hope Villages of America Inc ↗
- Who funds BOK TOWER GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds SEMINARS AT STEAMBOAT ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF THE CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY INC ↗
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: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Duffey Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Frank 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.
- Hope Villages of America Inc — 2% of income from government
- Bok Tower Gardens 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.