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Lucille E Williams Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$46k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
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 FY20172025.

Human Services$75kFood & Nutrition$68kHealth$61kHousing & Shelter$48kEducation$34kArts & Culture$30kPublic Safety & Disaster$20kCrime & Legal$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $43k
$18,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CARE 4 CAREGIVERS$25,000
COMPASS AFFORDABLE HOUSING$18,000
CARE FUND$2,500
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $86k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%TUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $20k → 15%TUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 15%ST LUKE'S IN THE DESERT INCE: $10k → 15%HANDI-DOGS: $10k → 15%PIMA COUNCIL ON AGING: $1k → 15%HOMICIDE SURVIVORS INC: $10k → 15%HOMICIDE SURVIVORS INC: $10k → 15%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TUCSON: $10k → 15%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.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$175k · 6 repeat orgs$213k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
23

Total granted

$175k
$168k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+56%

Still filing today

83%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k 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 ServicesHealthEducationHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionArts & CultureOther

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

  • TJ
    TUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $35k · revenue +52%
  • University of Arizona Foundation
    3× · 2018–2024 · $23k · revenue +19%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    2× · 2018–2019 · $22k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • TC
    TUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON
    one grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue -32%
  • TP
    TUCSON PARKS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $17k · revenue -61% · 32% of their budget
  • SF
    SAINT FRANCIS SHELTER
    one grant, 2020 · $15k

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
Cancer Support Community Arizona

CSCAZ uplifts and strengthens people impacted by cancer by providing support, fostering compassionate communities, and breaking down barriers to care.

Health
2
Arizona Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
3
Tempe Community Action Agency Inc

TCAA's mission is to eliminate poverty and advance equitable communities. This mission is achieved through the delivery of comprehensive human services programs designed to improve housing stability, increase food security, improve health…

Community Improvement
4
United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc

Our vision is a community where every child receives a high-quality education from birth to career, every adult has the opportunity to thrive financailly and in the workplace, and every older person can retire and age with dignity and…

Philanthropy
5
Tucson Medical Center

Tucson medical center's mission is to deliver caring, personalized, quality healthcare to patients and their families in an environment that is supportive, education-focused and compassionate.

Health
6
Vitalyst Health Foundation

To connect, support and inform efforts to improve the health of individuals and communities in arizona.

Health
7
Justa Center Inc

A resource and day-center for seniors, age 55+, providing guidance and support on the PATH back to housing; and CARE supportive services to prevent a return to homelessness.

8
Arizona Healthiest State Foundation
9
Codac Health Recovery & Wellness

Codac provides tools, support and services to individuals, families, and communities so they may live with dignity, free from the harmful effects of mental illness, substance use disorders and trauma.

10
Impact of Southern Arizona

Impact of southern arizona is a private non-profit volunteer based organization which empowers southern arizonans with the resources required to pursue a stabilized and enhanced quality of life.

Community Improvement
11
Honorhealth

Honorhealth's mission is to improve the health and well-being of those we serve.

Health
12
Pima Council on Aging Foundation

The mission of the Pima Council on Aging Foundation is to develop a permanent and broad funding base that will ensure the continuity of the Pima Council on Aging and assist it in becoming less dependent upon unpredictable governmental…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Literacy Connects and the most unlike its peers is Homicide Survivors Inc. 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 backsteadyChild & Family Behavioral H…Affordable Housing Developm…Education Support Organizat…Professional & Community As…University Research SupportCommunity Food Assistance
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 41 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr15%5%5–10yr18%20%10–20yr19%15%20–35yr12%30%35–55yr13%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%2%5–10yr18%6%10–20yr19%17%20–35yr12%31%35–55yr13%44%55yr+

The field is 24% 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 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/25
the rest of the field
14%
582/4,270

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

24 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 32 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/24
Grantees still filing
18/24
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $35,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCARE 4 CAREGIVERS — $25,000 · OtherCARE 4 CAREGIVERSCOMPASS AFFORDABLE HOUSING INC — $18,000 · OtherCOMPASS AFFORDABLE HOUSING INCTUCSON PARKS FOUNDATION — $17,000 · OtherTUCSON PARKS FOUNDATIONSAINT FRANCIS SHELTER — $15,000 · OtherSAINT FRANCIS SHELTERCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SO A — $10,000 · OtherCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SO AInterfaith Community Services — $10,000 · OtherInterfaith Community ServicesLEND A HAND SENIOR ASSISTANCE INCORPORATED — $5,000 · Other+4 more — $7,300 · OtherTUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $35,000 · Human ServicesTUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY C…Homicide Survivors Inc — $20,000 · Human ServicesHomicide Survivors IncSt Lukes in the Desert Inc — $10,000 · Human ServicesSt Lukes in the Desert In…VIVA PIMA — $10,000 · Human ServicesVIVA PIMAHANDI-DOGS INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesHANDI-DOGS INC+1 more — $1,000 · Human ServicesCommunity Food Bank Inc — $40,000 · Food & NutritionCommunity F…American Heart Association Inc — $22,000 · HealthAmerican H…THE CENTER FOR NEUROSCIENCES FOUNDATION — $6,000 · HealthTHE CENTER…CAMP NOT-A-WHEEZE — $5,000 · HealthCAMP NOT-A…CARE FUND — $2,500 · HealthCARE FUND+1 more — $500 · HealthUniversity of Arizona Foundation — $22,500 · EducationUniversit…ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $6,000 · EducationARIZONA S…LITERACY CONNECTS — $4,000 · EducationLITERACY …+1 more — $1,000 · EducationTUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON — $30,000 · Arts & CultureHabitat for Humanity Tucson Inc — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterSister Jose Women's Center — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterFriends of Pima Animal Care Center — $5,000 · Animals
Other$142,300Human Services$86,000Food & Nutrition$40,000Health$36,000Education$33,500Arts & Culture$30,000Housing & Shelter$15,000Animals$5,000

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 budgetCommunity Food Bank Inc — $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON — $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation — $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $22,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHomicide Survivors Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCOMPASS AFFORDABLE HOUSING INC — $18,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTUCSON PARKS FOUNDATION — $17,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetSt Lukes in the Desert Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetInterfaith Community Services — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHabitat for Humanity Tucson Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVIVA PIMA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHANDI-DOGS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR NEUROSCIENCES FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Pima Animal Care Center — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCAMP NOT-A-WHEEZE — $5,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetSister Jose Women's Center — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLITERACY CONNECTS — $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCARE FUND — $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGENERAL FEDERATION OF WOMENS CLUBS — $1,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetEDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTU NIDITO CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Community Foundation for Southern ArizonaAZ40.1× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · Arizona Community Foundation · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · Connie Hillman Family Foundation · Tucson Medical Center · Fred & Christine Armstrong Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · Eugene C and Wiletta F Denton Family Foundation · Diamond Foundation · Kautz Family 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 Lucille E Williams Foundation 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%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 Lucille E Williams Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Lucille E Williams Foundation 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 32 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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