· Private foundation
Ronald a and Patricia M Williams Charitable Foundation
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 $10k10 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $48k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST ROBERTS OF NEWMINSTER | $48,000 |
| VIBRANT FUTURES | $5,000 |
| CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES | $5,000 |
| DOMINICAN SISTERS | $5,000 |
| CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF WEST MICHIGAN | $5,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE GREATER GR | $5,000 |
| COVENANT HOUSE | $3,000 |
| AQUINAS COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| HAITI NURSING FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| THE BECAFE | $1,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $59k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
13 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 6 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SRST ROBERTS OF NEWMINSTER9× · 2017–2025 · $352k
- CCCATHOLIC CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL6× · 2017–2024 · $98k
- SOSISTERS OF THE ORDER OF ST DOMINIC OF GRAND RAPIDS6× · 2018–2025 · $66k
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $10k
- AAANN ARBOR COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $10k
GIRLS GROUPgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +121%
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.
Educate each student in spirit, mind and body by fostering personal excellence within the Catholic tradition.
Ave Maria Communications (AMC)employs radio, internet and other media to offer news, analysis, teaching, devotion and music to demonstrate Catholic values.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
Center for success unites literacy and community to empower students in the journey of education.
We believe that the first six years of a childs life are the most critical. We offer a high quality learning environment to a diverse community of children and families.
To advocate for, educate, and assist our target populations. our services address the needs of many different people, but we continue to target our services to older adults and persons with disabilities.
To create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
To award grants to students of needy families and scholarships to gifted children attending grand traverse area catholic schools in traverse city, mi.
Lansing Promise helps students in gaining access to higher education through readiness and scholarships.
Girl scouting builds girls of courage, confidence and character, who make the world a better place
Education of young people in the Montessori method
Children will discover their unique potential by living the Montessori lifestyle hand in hand with parents and staff.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 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.
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: Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ronald a and Patricia M Williams Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ronald a and Patricia M Williams Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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