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Jl Williams Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$600k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$2.6MPhilanthropy$1.7MHuman Services$594kEducation$529kAnimals$425kHousing & Shelter$215kHealth$157kPublic Safety & Disaster$105kOther$0
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k28 grants · $490k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $140k
  • $250k+1 grant · $600k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK$600,000
DALLAS MORNING NEWS CHARITIES$140,000
OPERATION KINDNESS$40,000
Individual grant recipient$35,000
TRIPLE MEMAC EQUINE SANCTUARY$35,000
LUMIN EDUCATION$25,000
THE BRIDGE$25,000
SALVATION ARMY$25,000
THE STEW POT$25,000
HOPE SUPPLY CO$20,000
GENESIS$20,000
SPAY NEUTER NETWORK$20,000
ARMY SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION$20,000
COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF GREATER DALLAS$20,000
REFUGE FOR WOMEN$15,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25, $564k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%GRACE LAKE MINISTRIES: $5k → 5%GUIDE DOGS OF TEXAS INC: $10k → 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%GUIDE DOGS OF TEXAS INC: $5k → 16%BEHIND EVERY DOOR: $10k → 14%RESTORED HOPE MINISTRIES: $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: $20k → 14%COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF GREATER DALLAS: $10k → 14%COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF 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%CITY SQUARE: $10k → 14%JONATHAN'S PLACE: $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%THE BRIDGE: $25k → 14%BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICE: $10k → 14%BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICE: $10k → 14%BUCKNER FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%CITY SQUARE: $10k → 14%BUCKNER FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%HOPE SUPPLY CO: $20k → 14%HOPE SUPPLY CO: $20k → 14%HOPE SUPPLY CO: $20k → 14%METROCREST SERVICES: $10k → 14%CITY SQUARE: $10k → 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.
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.
$7.2M · 48 repeat orgs$525k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +71% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

48 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
41

Total granted

$7.2M
$380k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+71%
+20%

Still filing today

73%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $145k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesAnimalsHealthEducationHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther
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

  • NT
    NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK
    9× · 2017–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +105%
  • OK
    OPERATION KINDNESS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $180k · revenue +240%
  • ND
    NORTH DALLAS SHARED MINISTRIES INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $100k · revenue +92%

Funded once

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

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
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.

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3
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
4
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…

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5
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
6
Texas Reach Out Inc

Provides housing and spiritual development for Christians reintegrating into society upon exiting the criminal justice system.

Health
7
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
8
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
9
Bridges Safehouse Inc

A Christian ministry providing safe shelter and nurturing support for women and their children during an immediate time of need. Bridges Safehouse seeks to encourage, empower and equip pregnant, homeless women in crisis, and their…

Human Services
10
Dallas Mission for Life Doing business as Dallas Life

Dallas life reaches out to the homeless men, women, and children of the metroplex with food, shelter, clothing, education, and long-term drug and alcohol rehabilitation programs.

Housing & Shelter
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
LifeHouse of Houston Inc

LifeHouse is a Christ-centered ministry ensuring life for unborn children by providing opportunities for housing, help, and hope for young women during their pregnancies and beyond.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Promise House Inc; the most unlike its peers is National Kidney Foundation 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

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

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 57 of the 100 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)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/57
Grantees still filing
42/57
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $2,995,000 · OtherNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK+59 more: $1,107,000 · Other+59 moreTHE DALLAS MORNING NEWS CHARITIES: $1,845,000 · PhilanthropyTHE DALLAS MORNING NEWS CHAR…+2 more: $70,000 · PhilanthropyNORTH DALLAS SHARED MINISTRIES INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesHOPE SUPPLY CO: $75,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY COUNCIL OF GREATER DALLAS: $68,500 · Human ServicesTHE BRIDGE: $55,000 · Human ServicesCITYSQUARE: $45,000 · Human ServicesGuide Dogs of Texas Inc: $40,000 · Human ServicesBRIGHTER TOMORROWS INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesKID NET FOUNDATION JONATHANS PLACE: $30,000 · Human ServicesWESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $30,000 · Human Services+10 more: $130,000 · Human ServicesLUMIN EDUCATION: $400,000 · EducationWILKINSON CENTER: $70,000 · EducationArmy Scholarship Foundation Inc: $70,000 · Education+1 more: $10,000 · EducationOPERATION KINDNESS: $180,000 · AnimalsTriple Me Mac Equine Sanctuary: $100,000 · AnimalsRanch Hands Rescue: $70,000 · AnimalsSPAY NEUTER NETWORK: $55,000 · AnimalsTake Me Home Pet Rescue Inc: $25,000 · AnimalsFAMILY GATEWAY INC: $45,000 · Housing & ShelterSOULS HARBOR INC: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterREFUGE FOR WOMEN INC: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterPROMISE HOUSE INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterSIMPLY GRACE: $10,000 · HealthTexas Health Resources: $10,000 · HealthLEGACY COUNSELING CENTER INC: $5,000 · HealthNational Kidney Foundation Inc: $5,000 · HealthTHE BRIDGE BREAST NETWORK INC: $5,000 · Health
Other$4,102,000Philanthropy$1,915,000Human Services$608,500Education$550,000Animals$430,000Housing & Shelter$90,000Health$35,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $2,995,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DALLAS MORNING NEWS CHARITIES: $1,845,000 over 9y, 5.3% of budgetLUMIN EDUCATION: $400,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetOPERATION KINDNESS: $180,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetNORTH DALLAS SHARED MINISTRIES INC: $100,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetTriple Me Mac Equine Sanctuary: $100,000 over 5y, 19% of budgetHOPE SUPPLY CO: $75,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetAUSTIN STREET CENTER: $75,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetWILKINSON CENTER: $70,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetRanch Hands Rescue: $70,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetArmy Scholarship Foundation Inc: $70,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY COUNCIL OF GREATER DALLAS: $68,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSHELTON LANDMARK FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BRIDGE: $55,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetSPAY NEUTER NETWORK: $55,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY GATEWAY INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCITYSQUARE: $45,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGuide Dogs of Texas Inc: $40,000 over 7y, 0.7% 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 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 budgetSOULS HARBOR INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetMETROCREST SERVICES: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER DALLAS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBUCKNER FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE WAY BACK HOUSE INC: $15,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetMI ESCUELITA PRESCHOOL INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetREADERS 2 LEADERS: $12,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCITY HOUSE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPROMISE HOUSE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDALLAS LIFE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLife Message Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WARREN CENTER INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget22KILL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSAMARITAN INN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTexas Health Resources: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHASE'S PLACE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetLOS BARRIOS UNIDOS COMMUNITY CLINIC INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEGACY COUNSELING CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRIDGE BREAST NETWORK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFOCUS ON TEENS: $5,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetRIDING UNLIMITED INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.9% 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 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 Triple Me Mac Equine Sanctuary ↗
  • Who funds HOPE SUPPLY CO ↗
  • Who funds AUSTIN STREET CENTER ↗
  • Who funds WILKINSON CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Ranch Hands Rescue ↗
  • Who funds Army Scholarship Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF GREATER DALLAS ↗
  • Who funds SHELTON LANDMARK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE BRIDGE ↗
  • Who funds SPAY NEUTER NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY GATEWAY INC ↗
  • Who funds CITYSQUARE ↗
  • Who funds Guide Dogs of Texas Inc ↗
  • 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 WESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Take Me Home Pet Rescue Inc ↗
  • Who funds SOULS HARBOR INC ↗
  • Who funds METROCREST SERVICES ↗

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.

Communities Foundatio…The Dallas FoundationW P & Bulah Luse Foun…Hillcrest FoundationTexas Women's Foundat…The Moody FoundationTexas Instruments Fou…The Rees-Jones Founda…United Way of Metropo…The Perot FoundationThe Ninnie L Baird Fo…Hattie Mae Lesley Fou…
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

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 Jl Williams Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jl Williams Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's 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, 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 100 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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