· Private foundation
Mary Jo Williams Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $122k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $189k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GARDEN CITY COMMUNITY COLLEGE ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION | $88,574 |
| EMMAUS HOUSE | $50,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY KANSAS CHAPTER | $50,000 |
| FINNEY COUNTY SENIOR CENTER MEALS ON WHEELS | $32,200 |
| GENESIS FAMILY HEALTH | $25,000 |
| FINNEY COUNTY UNITED WAY | $25,000 |
| KANSAS FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| CASA | $15,000 |
| TURNING POINT ACADEMY | $8,750 |
| GARDEN CITY PIANO TEACHERS LEAGUE | $2,500 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $2,500 |
| REAL MEN REAL LEADERS | $2,500 |
| FINNEY COUNTY MINISTERIAL ALLIANCE | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- EHEMMAUS HOUSE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $380k · revenue +27%
- GCGARDEN CITY COMMUNITY COLLEGE ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION4× · 2022–2025 · $368k · revenue +51%
- UMUNITED METHODIST WESTERN KANSAS MEXICAN- AMERICAN MINISTRIES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $225k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF LEE RICHARDSON ZOO INCone grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue -1%
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.
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.
Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.
The kansas city country club is a traditional, private, family-oriented country club dedicated to providing outstanding year-round dining, social and athletic activities to its members and their guests through superior services, staff and…
Kansas city community gardens is dedicated to improving the quality of life of low-income households and other members of the community by helping them grow their own nutritious fruits and vegatables. the member gardners develop…
Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.
The kansas children's discovery center enhances the lives of children and enriches the communities it serves.
Educate members, advise decisions, finance needs, and invest in community
Enriching western Kansas life through philanthropy, collaboration and leadership.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 21 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds EMMAUS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds GARDEN CITY COMMUNITY COLLEGE ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED METHODIST WESTERN KANSAS MEXICAN- AMERICAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds FINNEY COUNTY UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Turning Point Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds THE RUSSELL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LEE RICHARDSON ZOO INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS FOODBANK WAREHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds REAL MEN REAL LEADERS INC ↗
- Who funds KANZA Society Inc ↗
- Who funds TUMBLEWEED FESTIVAL INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mary Jo Williams Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mary Jo Williams Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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