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Rachel B 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.
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 · FY2024
- Under $10k33 grants · $84k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $27k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAMILY MATTERS | $17,000 |
| THE CAMP HIGHLAND FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FOX VALLEY FOOD FOR HEALTH | $5,000 |
| 29 Pieces | $5,000 |
| RUSSELL HOME FOR ATYPICAL CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| Planned Parenthood AZ | $5,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR | $5,000 |
| TOYS FOR TEXANS | $4,000 |
| Lurie Childrens Hospital of Chicago | $3,000 |
| Planned parenthood of greater Texas | $3,000 |
| BETWEEN FRIENDS | $3,000 |
| The Trevor Project | $3,000 |
| Oceana | $3,000 |
| HESED HOUSE | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $107k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 65% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- FMFAMILY MATTERS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $95k · revenue +28%
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC6× · 2019–2024 · $33k · revenue +32%- TRThe Russell Home For Atypical Children Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $30k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- CHCAMP HIGHLANDS FOR BOYSone grant, 2021 · $10k
- SCSWITZERLAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCone grant, 2018 · $5k
- BYBREMEN YOUTH SERVICES ATTN DONALD SEBEKone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +7%
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 improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.
The friends are dedicated to the rescue, protection, and adoption of companion animals in need while inspiring the human-animal bond. we meet our mission by:-saving 100% of healthy and treatable animals.-providing high-quality animal care…
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
Lincoln park zoo is dedicated to connecting people with nature by providing a free, family-oriented wildlife experience in the heart of chicago and by advancing the highest quality of animal care, horticulture, education, science and…
Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Between Friends and the most unlike its peers is 29 Pieces. 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 39 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
43 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. 43 of the 78 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 FAMILY MATTERS INC ↗
- Who funds 29 PIECES ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds The Russell Home For Atypical Children Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMP HIGHLANDS FOR BOYS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER INC D/B/A HESED HOUSE ↗
- Who funds HOLY FAMILY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds FOX VALLEY FOOD FOR HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds THE NIGHT MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BETWEEN FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND ANIMAL SHELTER NFP ↗
- Who funds KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL INC ↗
- Who funds Toys for Texans ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE BROTHERS - FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY ↗
- Who funds RETREET ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds SOUTH FLORIDA WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CIRCESTEEM INC ↗
- Who funds The Anti-Cruelty Society ↗
- Who funds NORTH AURORA MOTHERS CLUB ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER ↗
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: The Chicago Community Trust · Greater Chicago Food Depository · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Rhoades Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Carmax Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · American Endowment 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 Rachel B 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.
- Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida 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.
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