· Private foundation
Lumen Clarke M Williams Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
99% of Lumen Clarke M Williams Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to American Online Giving Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Lumen Clarke M Williams Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 1007 organizations, $896k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k1271 grants · $538k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $269k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DESTINATION IMAGINATION INC | $192,000 |
| THE UNITED WAY OF NORTHEAST LOUISIANA INC | $77,015 |
| THE UNITED WAY OF NORTHEAST LOUISIANA INC | $36,563 |
| MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC | $16,113 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC | $13,480 |
| NORTH MONROE BAPTIST CHURCH OF MONROE INC | $12,000 |
| UNITED WAY FOR GREATER AUSTIN | $11,570 |
| GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY | $9,174 |
| HEART OF FLORIDA UNITED WAY | $9,070 |
| MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC | $8,661 |
| FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES | $7,611 |
| UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY | $7,131 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER KANSAS CITY INC | $6,850 |
| LIFE CHURCH | $6,250 |
| UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN NEVADA INC | $6,131 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $224k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 66% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
456 repeat relationships — 303 still active in FY2021, 153 since wound down; 584 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC3× · 2017–2021 · $449k · revenue +44%- DIDESTINATION IMAGINATION INC2× · 2020–2021 · $342k · revenue +169%
SHARE3× · 2017–2021 · $101k · revenue +115%
Funded once
- MFMARION-POLK FOOD SHARE INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +62%
- ATAlternatives to Hunger Bellingham Food Bankgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $65k · revenue +99%
- CAChristian Action Ministriesgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $44k · revenue +62%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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 works to increase the organized capacity of people to care for one another. united way is a funder, a mobilizer, a convener and a fundraiser. united way is a community builder, connecting people through philanthropy,…
To engage the community and focus resources for those in need in comal county
United way of the csra mobilizes the caring power of our community to make lasting change on the issues that matter most in our region. we want to ensure that children, young adults, and families have the tools and resources they need to…
Seeking to build a stronger, more caring community by forming partnerships with businesses, community experts, education & health & human service agencies to achieve targeted outcomes & sustained changes in community conditions which will…
The United Way of Cleveland County helps people by uniting resources and programs to responsibly meet the needs of our community.
United way brings together people and resources and collaborates with over 27 local non-profit agencies to advance the common good in etowah county.
United way's mission is to improve lives.
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.
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
The uwmpc enhances the quality of life in our community by helping those in need. we serve as a leader in building a stronger and healthier community by developing resources and creating partnerships to empower individuals to improve their…
Through strategic leadership and investments, united way of washington county, md will impact community improvement and inspire collaboration to address critical needs in education, income and health.
United way of jackson county (uwjc) is dedicated to creating a community rich in opportunities to eliminate poverty and allow all people to achieve financial stability and success. this emphasis on financial stability includes meeting…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of the Coastal Empire and the most unlike its peers is Faith to Faith Ministry Faith to Fatih Ministry. 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.
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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
1190 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1190 of the 2,000 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- Who funds AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHEAST LOUISIANA INC ↗
- Who funds MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds DESTINATION IMAGINATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SHARE ↗
- Who funds MARION-POLK FOOD SHARE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds HEART OF FLORIDA UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM ↗
- Who funds Alternatives to Hunger Bellingham Food Bank ↗
- Who funds EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST TN ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF RICHLAND COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Christian Action Ministries ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR LANE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NNEMAP INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds GoodRoots Northwest ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CITRUS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds PUYALLUP FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds GIFT OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST LOUISIANA INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of the Columbia-Willamette ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL NEW MEXICO ↗
- Who funds GREAT RIVERS UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHRISTIAN SHARING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds UTAH'S PROMISE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds ELDER CARE SERVICES 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.
Open a dossier: Siemer Institute · Park National Bank Employees' Community Service Fund · AT&T Foundation · Grinnell Mutual Group Foundation · Centene Foundation · Schlessman Foundation Inc · Libertygives Foundation · Pnc Foundation · Community Shares of Colorado Inc · Black Hills Corporation Foundation · United Way Worldwide · The Mosaic Company Foundation for Sustainable Food Systems
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 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.
- United Way of Lane County — 31% of income from government
- United Way of the Columbia-Willamette — 25% of income from government
- United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc — 23% of income from government
- Elder Care Services Inc — 22% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- United Way of the Mid-Willamette Valley — 6% of income from government
- The Christian Sharing Center Inc — 5% of income from government
- Marion-Polk Food Share Inc — 5% of income from government
- Food for Lane County — 5% of income from government
- United Way of Marion County Inc — 4% of income from government
- United Way of Northeast Florida Inc — 2% of income from government
- United Way of Lake and Sumter Counties Inc — 1% of income from government
- United Way Suncoast Inc — 1% of income from government
- The United Way of Lee County Inc — 1% of income from government
- Heart of Florida United Way Inc — 0% of income from government
- Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc — 0% of income from government
- United Way of the Big Bend Inc — 0% of income from government
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.