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Jl Williams Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$950k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Food & Nutrition$2.6MPhilanthropy$1.7MHuman Services$594kEducation$529kAnimals$425kHousing & Shelter$215kHealth$157kPublic Safety & Disaster$105kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $185k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
  • $250k+2 grants · $650k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK$400,000
DALLAS MORNING NEWS CHARITIES$250,000
LUMIN EDUCATION$100,000
OPERATION KINDNESS$40,000
NORTH DALLAS SHARED MINISTRIES$30,000
TRIPLE MEMAC EQUINE SANCTUARY$25,000
HOPE SUPPLY CO$20,000
THE STEW POT$15,000
AUSTIN STREET SHELTER$15,000
COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF GREATER DALLAS$10,000
SPCA$10,000
RANCH HAND RESCUE$10,000
ARMY SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION$10,000
FW HOPE CENTER$5,000
BATTERED WOMEN'S FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $459k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%GRACE LAKE MINISTRIES: $5k → 5%GUIDE DOGS OF TEXAS INC: $5k → 16%CITY HOUSE: $10k → 5%GUIDE DOGS OF TEXAS INC: $5k → 16%GUIDE DOGS OF TEXAS INC: $5k → 16%GUIDE DOGS OF TEXAS INC: $5k → 16%GUIDE DOGS OF TEXAS INC: $5k → 16%GUIDE DOGS OF TEXAS INC: $5k → 16%BEHIND EVERY DOOR: $10k → 14%CITY SQUARE: $10k → 14%WESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 14%WESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 14%WESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 14%COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF GREATER DALLAS: $20k → 14%COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF GREATER DALLAS: $10k → 14%COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF GREATER DALLAS: $10k → 14%COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF DALLAS: $10k → 14%COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF GREATER DALLAS: $9k → 14%JONATHAN'S PLACE: $10k → 14%JONATHAN'S PLACE: $10k → 14%JONATHAN'S PLACE: $10k → 14%CITY SQUARE: $10k → 14%NORTH DALLAS SHARED MINISTRIES: $30k → 14%NORTH DALLAS SHARED MINISTRIES: $20k → 14%NORTH DALLAS SHARED MINISTRIES: $10k → 14%BRIGHTER TOMORROW'S: $15k → 14%NORTH DALLAS SHARED MINISTRIES: $10k → 14%BRIGHTER TOMORROW: $10k → 14%NORTH DALLAS SHARED MINISTRIES: $10k → 14%BRIGHTER TOMORROW'S: $5k → 14%NORTH DALLAS SHARED MINISTRIES: $10k → 14%BRIGHTER TOMORROW'S: $5k → 14%NORTH DALLAS SHARED MINISTRIES: $10k → 14%CITY SQUARE: $10k → 14%BUCKNER FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICE: $10k → 14%BUCKNER FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%HOPE SUPPLY CO: $20k → 14%HOPE SUPPLY CO: $20k → 14%HOPE SUPPLY CO: $5k → 14%HOPE SUPPLY CO: $5k → 14%METROCREST SERVICES: $10k → 14%CITY SQUARE: $10k → 14%HOPE SUPPLY CO: $5k → 14%METROCREST SERVICES: $5k → 14%CITY SQUARE: $5k → 14%METROCREST SERVICES: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.1M · 44 repeat orgs$425k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +79% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

44 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
44

Total granted

$6.1M
$410k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+79%
+21%

Still filing today

73%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesAnimalsEducationHealthPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • NT
    NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +105%
  • OK
    OPERATION KINDNESS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $140k · revenue +240%
  • ND
    NORTH DALLAS SHARED MINISTRIES INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $100k · revenue +138%

Funded once

  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY-DFW
    one grant, 2017 · $75k
  • GW
    GENESIS WOMEN SHELTER
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • AI
    AVANCE INC
    one grant, 2019 · $25k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Bridge Steps

To empower adults experiencing homelessness in dallas with the tools to homeless recovery as they move into sustainable housing.

Food & Nutrition
2
Ronald McDonald House of Dallas Inc

Our mission is to provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare. We support the health and well-being of seriously ill or injured children receiving treatment in the…

3
Hope's Door New Beginning Center

The mission of hope's door new beginning center is to offer intervention and prevention services to individuals and families affected by intimate partner and family violence and to provide education programs that enhance the community's…

Human Services
4
Goodwill Industries of Dallas Inc

Goodwill Industries of Dallas, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to help people with barriers to employment build skills, find jobs and reach their goals in life so that they can reach their full potential and experience…

Employment
5
The Dallas County System of Services Inc

To unify services across Dallas County, to empower youth, strengthen families and build safe, healthy communities.

Human Services
6
UnBound North Texas

Unbound North Texas exists to support survivors and resource the community to fight human trafficking through Survivor Advocacy, a 24/7 Drop-In Center, and Prevention and Awareness.

7
Elevate North Texas

Elevate North Texas offers a welcoming and affirming environment for youth 18-24 experiencing homelessness providing short-term housing and case management. Elevate North Texas addresses youth homelessness from two angles: a hotel program…

Health
8
Downtown Dallas Inc

Downtown Dallas, Inc. (DDI), is the champion of a clean and safe Downtown and of the economic development and vibrancy of this community of diverse, unique neighborhoods. DDI: Mobilizes and amplifies the services of public agencies.…

9
Operation Care International Inc

Operation care international exists to glorify god. in obedience to his will, we connect impoverished children and the homeless to jesus christ providing for their physical needs through god's provision both at home and abroad.

Human Services
10
Dallas Services

The mission of Dallas Services is to enable individuals with disabilities and other special needs to achieve their potential by fostering community inclusiveness and independence.

11
A Bridge to Opportunity Inc

To operate a 30 unit permanent and temporary housing facility known as Destiny Village for rental to low income individuals and families who are survivors of domestic violence and or sexual assault

Housing & Shelter
12
Homeward Bound Inc

To promote positive behavioral health and independence for individuals and families suffering from drug abuse, addiction, criminal behavior, and mental illness.

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Promise House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ranch Hands Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyIndependent Schools & Early…Affordable Housing & Basic …Youth Academic Support Prog…Senior Residential Communit…Women's Reproductive Health…Family Crisis Support Servi…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%0%<5yr17%2%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr15%27%20–35yr9%43%35–55yr14%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%0%<5yr17%30%5–10yr19%3%10–20yr15%6%20–35yr9%59%35–55yr14%2%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/54
the rest of the field
18%
2,549/14,148

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

53 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 20172026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 53 of the 89 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/53
Grantees still filing
37/53
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK — $2,395,000 · OtherNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK+52 more — $887,500 · Other+52 moreTHE DALLAS MORNING NEWS CHARITIES — $1,705,000 · PhilanthropyTHE DALLAS MORNING NEWS CHARIT…SHELTON LANDMARK FOUNDATION — $60,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $10,000 · PhilanthropyLUMIN EDUCATION — $375,000 · EducationWILKINSON CENTER — $70,000 · EducationArmy Scholarship Foundation Inc — $50,000 · Education+1 more — $10,000 · EducationNORTH DALLAS SHARED MINISTRIES INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesHOPE SUPPLY CO — $55,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY COUNCIL OF GREATER DALLAS — $48,500 · Human ServicesCITYSQUARE — $45,000 · Human ServicesBRIGHTER TOMORROWS INC — $35,000 · Human ServicesKID NET FOUNDATION JONATHANS PLACE — $30,000 · Human ServicesTHE BRIDGE — $30,000 · Human ServicesGuide Dogs of Texas Inc — $30,000 · Human ServicesWESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesBUCKNER FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesMETROCREST SERVICES — $20,000 · Human Services+7 more — $60,000 · Human ServicesOPERATION KINDNESS — $140,000 · AnimalsTriple Me Mac Equine Sanctuary — $65,000 · AnimalsRanch Hands Rescue — $60,000 · AnimalsSPAY NEUTER NETWORK — $35,000 · AnimalsTake Me Home Pet Rescue Inc — $25,000 · AnimalsFAMILY GATEWAY INC — $45,000 · Housing & ShelterPROMISE HOUSE INC — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterSOULS HARBOR INC — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER DALLAS INC — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentREADERS 2 LEADERS — $12,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH BELIEVING IN CHANGE INC — $2,500 · Youth Development
Other$3,282,500Philanthropy$1,775,000Education$505,000Human Services$503,500Animals$325,000Housing & Shelter$65,000Youth Development$34,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK — $2,395,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetLUMIN EDUCATION — $375,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetOPERATION KINDNESS — $140,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetNORTH DALLAS SHARED MINISTRIES INC — $100,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetWILKINSON CENTER — $70,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTriple Me Mac Equine Sanctuary — $65,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetRanch Hands Rescue — $60,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetSHELTON LANDMARK FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAUSTIN STREET CENTER — $55,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE SUPPLY CO — $55,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetArmy Scholarship Foundation Inc — $50,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY COUNCIL OF GREATER DALLAS — $48,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY GATEWAY INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCITYSQUARE — $45,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSPAY NEUTER NETWORK — $35,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBRIGHTER TOMORROWS INC — $35,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetKID NET FOUNDATION JONATHANS PLACE — $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDME Exchange of Dallas Inc — $30,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetTHE BRIDGE — $30,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetGuide Dogs of Texas Inc — $30,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetWESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $30,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetTake Me Home Pet Rescue Inc — $25,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetBUCKNER FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMETROCREST SERVICES — $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER DALLAS INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMI ESCUELITA PRESCHOOL INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WAY BACK HOUSE INC — $15,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetREADERS 2 LEADERS — $12,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budget22KILL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE WARREN CENTER INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDALLAS LIFE INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPROMISE HOUSE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHASE'S PLACE INC — $10,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLife Message Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTexas Health Resources — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HOUSE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSOULS HARBOR INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSAMARITAN INN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLOS BARRIOS UNIDOS COMMUNITY CLINIC INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOCUS ON TEENS — $5,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetLEGACY COUNSELING CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BRIDGE BREAST NETWORK INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN DIABETIC FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGrace Lake Ministries — $5,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK
  • Who funds THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS CHARITIES
  • Who funds LUMIN EDUCATION
  • Who funds OPERATION KINDNESS
  • Who funds NORTH DALLAS SHARED MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds WILKINSON CENTER
  • Who funds Triple Me Mac Equine Sanctuary
  • Who funds Ranch Hands Rescue
  • Who funds SHELTON LANDMARK FOUNDATION
  • Who funds AUSTIN STREET CENTER
  • Who funds HOPE SUPPLY CO
  • Who funds Army Scholarship Foundation Inc
  • Who funds COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF GREATER DALLAS
  • Who funds FAMILY GATEWAY INC
  • Who funds CITYSQUARE
  • Who funds SPAY NEUTER NETWORK
  • Who funds BRIGHTER TOMORROWS INC
  • Who funds KID NET FOUNDATION JONATHANS PLACE
  • Who funds Wings of a Butterfly
  • Who funds DME Exchange of Dallas Inc
  • Who funds THE BRIDGE
  • Who funds Guide Dogs of Texas Inc
  • Who funds WESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER INC
  • Who funds Take Me Home Pet Rescue Inc
  • Who funds BUCKNER FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds METROCREST SERVICES
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER DALLAS 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.

Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX60.8× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · The Perot Foundation · The Ninnie L Baird Foundation · Hattie Mae Lesley Foundation Inc

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 Jl 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Jl Williams Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Jl 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 89 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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