How much did Lumen Clarke M Williams Foundation grant in FY2024?

Philanthropy$5.4MFood & Nutrition$422kHuman Services$274kEducation$237kAnimals$47kRecreation & Sports$34kYouth Development$34kArts & Culture$28kHealth$23kOther$3.3M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

hunger reliefway greaterchromebooksdigitalusingclassroomvalley

2021

food bankrescuecatholicladychurchcovid responsebreast cancer

2022

aid givengiven crisiscrisis ukraineonline givingchurch

2023

online giving

2024

online giving

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k2 grants · $605
$10k–50k1 grant · $12k
$250k+1 grant · $958k

$11,664

Median grant

States reached

$12M

Total assets

Largest grants

AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC$958,330
THE UK ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION$11,664
CHARITABLE GIVING$555
HAUS DES STIFTENS FUR UNTERNEHMEN AND NON-PROFITS$50

02The need

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 (FY17–22, $218k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 10%. 67% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$6.9M · 471 repeat orgs$2.9M to everyone else

471 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 468 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

471

1529

Total granted

$6.9M

$2.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%

+34%

Still filing today

79%

45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

PhilanthropyHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionAnimalsHealthOther

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

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AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC
3× · 2022–2024 · $2.9M · revenue +100%
MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC
3× · 2017–2021 · $449k · revenue +58%
UW
UNITED WAY OF GREATER KANSAS CITY INC
3× · 2017–2021 · $109k · revenue +33%

Funded once

MF
MARION-POLK FOOD SHARE INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +94%
AT
ALTERNATIVES TO HUNGERgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $65k · revenue +99%
EA
EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION
one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -55%

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.

United Way of South Central Michigan

United way of south central michigan strives for caring, connected, equitable communities.

Philanthropy

United Way of North Central Iowa

Connect and strengthen community resources to inspire change in the lives of all north Iowans.

Philanthropy

United Way of Comal County

To engage the community and focus resources for those in need in comal county

Philanthropy

United Way of Southeast Missouri

To raise funds for agencies providing health, social, and welfare activities

Philanthropy

United Way of Washington County

United way inspires collaborations through strategic leadership and investments to impact community improvement.

Philanthropy

United Way of Kentucky Inc

As a focused team of leaders, united way of kentucky will align resources and work to advance education, income and health.

Philanthropy

United Way of Portage County Inc

The united way of portage county brings people and resources together to achieve measurable results that improve people's lives and strengthen our community.

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United Way of Greater Union County

The mission of united way greater union county is to improve lives and build strong communities by uniting individuals and organizations.

Philanthropy

United Way of Cleveland County Inc

The United Way of Cleveland County helps people by uniting resources and programs to responsibly meet the needs of our community.

Philanthropy

United Way of Connecticut Inc

The mission of united way of connecticut is to help the people of connecticut to thrive through trusted partnerships and innovative solutions.

Philanthropy

Indiana Association of United Ways Inc

Indiana united way is the leading voice to advocate, engage, and partner with a strong united way network and key stakeholders to advance human well-being throughout indiana.

Philanthropy

United Way of Etowah County Inc

United way brings together people and resources and collaborates with over 27 local non profits agencies to advance the common good in etowah county.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Southwest Alabama Inc and the most unlike its peers is Vassar College. 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.

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 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.9%16/1,687

the rest of the field

11%

206,148/1,817,878

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.

05the grantee network

1108 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

310

Early backer (in before they grew)

1062/1108

Grantees still filing

771/1108

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Philanthropy$5,392,584Other$3,403,219Food & Nutrition$421,759Human Services$274,489Education$236,855Animals$47,000Recreation & Sports$34,464

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

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.

Siemer InstituteOH49.5× affinity23 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Siemer Institute · Centene Foundation · Schlessman Foundation Inc · United Ways of the Pacific Northwest · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Grinnell Mutual Group Foundation · Park National Bank Employees' Community · AT&T Foundation · Libertygives Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern · United Way of North Carolina · Mosaic Company 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 organisation Lumen Clarke M 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: DARE TO CARE INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 200540637 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on DARE TO CARE INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 47% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Lumen Clarke M Williams Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Lumen Clarke M Williams Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Lumen Clarke M Williams Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

1108 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Lumen Clarke M Williams Foundation?

More from the funding graph

Lumen Clarke M Williams Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

1108 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Lumen Clarke M Williams Foundation?

More from the funding graph