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James M Williams Jr Family Foundati 990-Pf

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.

$613k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$2.3MEducation$355kYouth Development$300kHuman Services$184kHealth$155kInternational$136kHousing & Shelter$29kPhilanthropy$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $364k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $210k
$15,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$6.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
REGAN RANCH CO YOUNG AMERICANS$100,000
THE CROSS CHURCH$60,000
BERRY COLLEGE$50,000
JERSEY BAPTIST CHURCH$42,000
MACULAR DEGENERATION RESEARCH$40,000
PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA$40,000
INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF JEWS$30,000
THE HOPE CENTER$30,000
WORLD VISION$26,240
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$25,000
SAMARITANS PURSE$24,000
UNDER THE BRIDGE MINISTIRIES$19,000
CHRISTIAN BROADCASTING NETWORK INC$15,600
SUSAN KOMEN MISSION$15,000
FAMILY PROMISE OF HALL COUNTY$13,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–18, $250) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WOUNDED WARIROR PROJECT: $250 → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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IL
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CA
CO
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GA
TX
FL
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.3M · 30 repeat orgs$320k to everyone else

30 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
35

Total granted

$4.3M
$196k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+64%

Still filing today

33%
11%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $124k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthReligionHuman ServicesInternationalOther
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

  • AA
    Athens Academy Inc
    2× · 2018–2019 · $120k · revenue +23%
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    6× · 2018–2025 · $68k · revenue +163%
  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $40k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • GS
    GATEWOOD SCHOOLS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue +67%
  • FB
    FIRST BAPIST CHURCH LAWRENCEVILLE
    one grant, 2017 · $30k
  • GF
    GRACE FELLOWSHIP CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · $29k
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.

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Wounded Spirits Ministries

The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…

Recreation & Sports
2
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
3
Jubal Band Ministries

Jubal band ministries mission is to invite people to become disciples of christian life with jesus.

Religion
4
Mission Mutual

Equipping mission, ministry, and philanthropic organizations (of similar vision) with the organizational and relational perspective needed to accelerate and enhance their collective impact. mission mutual exists to provide centralized…

International
5
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
6
Amazing Facts International

To proclaim to the world the everlasting gospel of revelation 14:6-12 and to encourage revival in the remnant church by leading people to embrace salvation by faith in jesus, to establish them in the church, and to disciple all believers…

Religion
7
Walnut Grove Christian School

We are a k-12 christian school founded under the following (4) pillars: academics: we provide an amazing accredited academic program utilizing 100% certified teachers. schedule: we provide our students and their families an opportunity on…

Education
8
Aerial Recovery

Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…

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9
Portersville Christian School

The mission of portersville christian school is to glorify god by preparing students to serve christ and instilling high standards spiritually, academically, socially, and physically. the school provides a high-quality academic program, a…

Education
10
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
11
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
12
Tri-State Christian Academy Inc

Our desire is to provide balanced, biblical direction to the child as a support to the home and to train each student to be self-disciplined and biblically directed in their walk with god and their fellow man. it is also our desire to meet…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc; the most unlike its peers is Berry College Inc. 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

16 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. 16 of the 72 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
10/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $1,101,265 · OtherIndividual grant recipient1ST BAPT CH SNELLVILLE: $1,050,250 · Other1ST BAPT CH SNELLVILLECROSS CHURCH INC: $653,000 · OtherCROSS CHURCH INCREGAN RANCH CO YOUNG AMERICANS: $300,000 · OtherREGAN RANCH CO YOUNG AMERICANSJERSEY BAPTIST CHURCH: $255,500 · OtherJERSEY BAPTIST CHURCH+51 more: $725,045 · Other+51 moreBERRY COLLEGE INC: $150,000 · EducationAthens Academy Inc: $120,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $40,000 · EducationGATEWOOD SCHOOLS INC: $35,000 · EducationPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $40,000 · HealthST JUDE HOSPITAL: $36,000 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INC: $5,000 · Health+1 more: $2,000 · HealthSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $68,000 · ReligionThe Christian Broadcasting Network Inc: $10,600 · Religion+2 more: $2,250 · ReligionFAMILY PROMISE OF HALL COUNTY: $27,000 · Human Services+1 more: $250 · Human ServicesMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,500 · InternationalOPERATION SMILE INC: $1,750 · International
Other$4,085,060Education$345,000Health$83,000Religion$80,850Human Services$27,250International$7,250

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBERRY COLLEGE INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAthens Academy Inc: $120,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $68,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE HOSPITAL: $36,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGATEWOOD SCHOOLS INC: $35,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF HALL COUNTY: $27,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetThe Christian Broadcasting Network Inc: $10,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHRIST FOR ALL NATIONS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC: $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds BERRY COLLEGE INC ↗
  • Who funds Athens Academy Inc ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds GATEWOOD SCHOOLS INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF HALL COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds The Christian Broadcasting Network Inc ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA 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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA11.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization James M Williams Jr Family Foundati 990-Pf funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James M Williams Jr Family Foundati 990-Pf. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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.

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 72 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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