Kansas · Private foundation
Mary Jo Williams Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $329k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $88,574
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 14
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Mary Jo Williams Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 13 | $329k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $315k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $311k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $314k | 31% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $284k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $246k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $277k | 18% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $236k | 10% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emmaus House Inc | $380,000 | 9 | 17% |
| Garden City Community College Endowment Association | $367,927 | 4 | 10% |
| United Methodist Western Kansas Mexican- American Ministries Inc | $225,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Finney County United Way Inc | $225,000 | 9 | 10% |
| Turning Point Academy Inc | $49,750 | 4 | 5% |
| The Russell Child Development Center Inc | $33,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Friends of Lee Richardson Zoo Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 10% |
| Kansas Foodbank Warehouse Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Real Men Real Leaders Inc | $20,000 | 8 | 3% |
| KANZA Society Inc | $10,989 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 12 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emmaus House Inc | $380,000 | 9 | 17% |
| Garden City Community College Endowment Association | $367,927 | 4 | 10% |
| United Methodist Western Kansas Mexican- American Ministries Inc | $225,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Finney County United Way Inc | $225,000 | 9 | 10% |
| Turning Point Academy Inc | $49,750 | 4 | 5% |
| The Russell Child Development Center Inc | $33,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Friends of Lee Richardson Zoo Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 10% |
| Kansas Foodbank Warehouse Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Real Men Real Leaders Inc | $20,000 | 8 | 3% |
| KANZA Society Inc | $10,989 | 2 | 0% |
| Tumbleweed Festival Inc | $10,000 | 4 | 4% |
| The Garden City Piano Teachers League Inc | $10,000 | 4 | n/a |
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mary Jo Williams Charitable Trust supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Western Kansas Community Foundation · Finnup Foundation · Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas Foundation Inc · Kansas Health Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Mary Jo Williams Charitable Trust
- How much does Mary Jo Williams Charitable Trust give?
- Mary Jo Williams Charitable Trust reported 13 grants totaling $329,024 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Mary Jo Williams Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (30%), Human Services (20%), Environment (17%).
- Who are Mary Jo Williams Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Emmaus House Inc ($380k), Garden City Community College Endowment Association ($368k), United Methodist Western Kansas Mexican- American Ministries Inc ($225k).
- Does Mary Jo Williams Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mary Jo Williams Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mary Jo Williams Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Western Kansas Community Foundation, Finnup Foundation, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas Foundation Inc.
- Where is Mary Jo Williams Charitable Trust based?
- Mary Jo Williams Charitable Trust is based in KS.
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