· Private foundation
Phil and Lisa Williams Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TULANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $10,000 |
| US SPACE AND ROCKET CENTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $3,800 |
| TURNING POINT USA | $3,000 |
| HONORING VETERANS LEGACIES | $2,064 |
| 1819 NEWS | $2,000 |
| LIBERTY LEARNING FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| GRAMI | $1,500 |
| VILLAGE OF PROMISE | $1,000 |
| TURNING POINT USA AT UNIVERISITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE | $1,000 |
| PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $500 |
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 (FY24–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- TLTHE LIBERTY LEARNING FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2025 · $21k · revenue +32%
- SSSTILL SERVING VETERANS5× · 2020–2024 · $11k · revenue +18%
US SPACE & ROCKET CENTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $6k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- USUS SPACE & ROCKET CENTERone grant, 2020 · $5k
- PDPARKINSONS DYNAMICSgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +227%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
To provide firefighting, fire prevention, rescue, haz mat,and first responder emergency medical services to the citizens of madison county, al and surrounding communities. provides safety eduation and awareness.
Construct and maintain a memorial in honor of the veterans of madison county, alabama that will include recognition of the medals of honor recipients. it will reinforce the civil and military relationship in madison county and the city of…
Assistance to veterans especially in alabama
Education-military history
Provide honor guard services for fallen veterans. provide emergency funds to veterans for rent and utilities. provide assistanct to veterans and families to obain va benefits.
Non Profit Museum
Provide a place for veterans and their families to obtain fellowship; provide military flags, flowers and supplies for schools, communities and funerals; provide assistance for veterans
The alabama center of military history operates the us veterans memorial museum, open to the public wednesday - saturday to honor all veterans of the us armed forces and contains exhibits from the revolutionary war to today. the museum…
Hire heroes usa empowers u.s. military members, veterans and military spouses to succeed in the civilian workforce. as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, hire heroes usa's services are provided at no cost to the client.
Provide training for fire and rescue mem
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Us Space & Rocket Center Education Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Cure Diabetes Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 29 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
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 THE LIBERTY LEARNING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STILL SERVING VETERANS ↗
- Who funds HONORING VETERAN LEGACIES ↗
- Who funds US SPACE & ROCKET CENTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARKINSONS DYNAMICS ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds HUNTSVILLE POLICE CITIZENS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CURE DIABETES INC ↗
- Who funds Huntsville-Madison County Senior Center Inc ↗
- Who funds MONROVIA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE OF PROMISE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds AIDS ACTION COALITION OF HUNTSVILLE ↗
- Who funds MERRIMACK ACADEMY FOR THE PERFORMIN ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Greater Huntsville Humane Society 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: Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Wallace E Kirkpatrick Family Foundation · The I3 Cares Foundation · The Jane K Lowe Charitable Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organization Phil and Lisa Williams Family 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.
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.