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Robert T and Marcia L Williams Family Foundation at a glance

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Robert T and Marcia L Williams Family Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$924k
Granted FY2023
14
Grants FY2023
5
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

Education$587kHuman Services$245kFood & Nutrition$72kCrime & Legal$65kCivil Rights$50kArts & Culture$21kReligion$2k
02FY2023 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k1 grant · $2k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $150k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $372k
  • $250k+1 grant · $400k
$50,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SUMMA FOUNDATION- JACLYN AND EVAN WILLIAMS FERTILITY FUND$400,000
LIRS$100,000
WESTERN RESERVE ACADEMY$72,000
PROVIDENCE HOUSE$50,000
EDWINS FOUNDATION$50,000
THE BAIL PROJECT$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
TUFTS UNIVERSITY$25,000
SPICE FIELD KITCHEN$25,000
CLEVELAND ROOTS$25,000
HAWKEN SCHOOL$25,000
RHODES COLLEGE$25,000
CLEVEALND STATE UNIVERSITY$25,000
GREATER CLEVELAND FOODBANK$1,697
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%EDWINS FOUNDATION: $50k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

26%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$271k · 6 repeat orgs$771k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
5

Total granted

$271k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+76%

Still filing today

100%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $750k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’23
EducationFood & NutritionArts & CultureHuman ServicesCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • WR
    WESTERN RESERVE ACADEMY
    3× · 2020–2023 · $87k · revenue +56%
  • PH
    PROVIDENCE HOUSE INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $70k · revenue +28%
  • LI
    LUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE
    2× · 2020–2021 · $20k · revenue +170%

Funded once

  • SF
    SUMMA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • RT
    RETURN TO ZERO HOPE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +210%
  • CM
    CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +76%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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3
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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5
The Cleveland Institute of Art

The mission statement of the cleveland institute of art is as follows: to cultivate creative leaders who inspire people, strengthen communities, and contribute to a thriving and sustainable economy through an innovative education in art…

Education
6
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
7
Tiffin University

Educate students by linking knowledge to professional practice.

Education
8
Oberlin College

Oberlin College and Conservatory educate students for lives of intellectual, musical and artistic rigor and breadth, sustained inquiry, creativity and innovation, and leadership. Oberlin aims to prepare graduates with the knowledge,…

Education
9
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
10
Williams College

Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.

Education
11
Clarkson University

Clarkson university is an independent, nationally recognized technological university whose faculty of teacher-scholars aspires to offer superior instruction and engage in high-quality research and scholarship in engineering, business,…

Education
12
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Western Reserve Academy; the most unlike its peers is The Musical Arts Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

15 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. 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
13/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SUMMA FOUNDATION- JACLYN AND EVAN WILLIAMS FERTILITY FUND: $400,000 · OtherSUMMA FOUNDATION- JACLYN AND EVAN WILLIAMS FERTILITY FUNDLIRS: $100,000 · OtherLIRSPROVIDENCE HOUSE INC: $70,000 · OtherPROVIDENCE HOUSE INCIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCLEVEALND STATE UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · Other+3 more: $32,000 · OtherWESTERN RESERVE ACADEMY: $87,000 · EducationWESTERN RESERVE A…Trustees of Tufts College: $25,000 · EducationTrustees of Tufts…HAWKEN SCHOOL: $25,000 · EducationHAWKEN SCHOOLRhodes College: $25,000 · EducationRhodes CollegeCLEVELAND ROOTS INC: $25,000 · Food & NutritionSPICE FIELD KITCHEN INC: $25,000 · Food & NutritionGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $21,697 · Food & NutritionTHE BAIL PROJECT INC: $65,000 · Crime & LegalEDWINS FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Human ServicesRETURN TO ZERO HOPE INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesThe Musical Arts Association: $7,000 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $2,000 · Arts & CulturePlayhouse Square Foundation: $2,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$677,000Education$162,000Food & Nutrition$71,697Crime & Legal$65,000Human Services$55,000Arts & Culture$11,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWESTERN RESERVE ACADEMY: $87,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPROVIDENCE HOUSE INC: $70,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetTHE BAIL PROJECT INC: $65,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetEDWINS FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetCLEVELAND ROOTS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWKEN SCHOOL: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPICE FIELD KITCHEN INC: $25,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetRhodes College: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $21,697 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Musical Arts Association: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRETURN TO ZERO HOPE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlayhouse Square Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Robert T and Marcia L Williams Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert T and Marcia L Williams Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 100%
  • Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge: 100% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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