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Lucille E Williams Foundation at a glance

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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 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 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%TUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $20k → 15%TUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 15%HANDI-DOGS: $10k → 15%ST LUKE'S IN THE DESERT INCE: $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
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.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • 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
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
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.

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Literacy Connects; 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.
04the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 32 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 SHELTERInterfaith Community Services: $10,000 · OtherInterfaith Community ServicesCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SO A: $10,000 · OtherCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SO ALEND 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 IncVIVA PIMA: $10,000 · Human ServicesVIVA PIMASt Lukes in the Desert Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesSt Lukes in the Desert In…HANDI-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 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 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 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 budgetSt Lukes in the Desert Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHANDI-DOGS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR NEUROSCIENCES FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 4.1% 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 budgetEDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGENERAL FEDERATION OF WOMENS CLUBS: $1,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTU NIDITO CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Community Foundation …Arizona Community Fou…The Hs Lopez Family F…United Way of Tucson …Connie Hillman Family…Tucson Medical CenterFred & Christine Arms…Jewish Community Foun…The Diane and Bruce H…Eugene C and Wiletta …Diamond FoundationKautz Family Foundati…
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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's 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, 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 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 32 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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