How much does Hobart W Williams give?

Hobart W Williams reported 10 grants totaling $1,471,140 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 10 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Hobart W Williams fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (50%), Human Services (50%).

Who are Hobart W Williams's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Millikin University ($735k), The Admiral at the Lake ($735k), Chicago Commons Association ($735k).

Does Hobart W Williams fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Hobart W Williams accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Hobart W Williams?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Charities Aid Foundation America, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.

Where is Hobart W Williams based?

Hobart W Williams is based in TX.

Foundation Dossiers

Texas · Private foundation

Hobart W Williams

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.

$1.5M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 10
Grants FY2025: 10
Organizations funded FY2024: 0%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $147,114
Largest grant, FY2025: $147,114
Organizations funded a year: 10 to 10; FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $24M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Hobart W Williams funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	10	$1.5M	10%
FY2024	10	$1.2M	0%
FY2023	10	$959k	0%
FY2022	10	$1.5M	0%
FY2021	10	$1.1M	0%
FY2020	10	$1.0M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$3.7MHuman Services$3.6M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Millikin University	$735,211	6	0%
The Admiral at the Lake	$735,211	6	1%
Chicago Commons Association	$735,211	6	0%
Illinois Wesleyan University	$735,211	6	0%
Children's Care Foundation	$735,211	6	14%
Rockford University	$735,211	6	0%
Monmouth College	$735,211	6	0%
Family Focus	$696,974	6	2%
Illinois College	$147,114	1	0%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Hobart W Williams supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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.

The Chicago Community TrustIL14.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About Hobart W Williams

How much does Hobart W Williams give?: Hobart W Williams reported 10 grants totaling $1,471,140 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 10 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Hobart W Williams fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (50%), Human Services (50%).
Who are Hobart W Williams's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Millikin University ($735k), The Admiral at the Lake ($735k), Chicago Commons Association ($735k).
Does Hobart W Williams fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Hobart W Williams accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Hobart W Williams?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Charities Aid Foundation America, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is Hobart W Williams based?: Hobart W Williams is based in TX.