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Rudolph Williams Charitable Trust at a glance

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Rudolph Williams Charitable Trust

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.

$15k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
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, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$42kHuman Services$41kAnimals$21kEducation$17kRecreation & Sports$2k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$313k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HADLEY INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUA$5,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF CENTRAL$5,000
VISION LOSS ALLIANCE OF NJ$5,000
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 (FY18–24, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ASSOCIATED SERVICES FOR THE BLIND: $8k → 22%VIA VISUALLY IMPAIRED ADVANCEMENT: $3k → 13%FREEDOM GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $5k → 16%FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 11%ASSOCIATION FOR THE MULTIPLE IMPAIRED: $4k → 11%ASSOCIATED SERVICES FOR THE BLIND: $5k → 22%FREEDOM GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $5k → 16%ASSOCIATION FOR THE MUTIPLE IMPAIRED BLI: $3k → 11%ASSOCIATED SERVICES FOR THE BLIND: $4k → 22%FREEDOM GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $5k → 16%FREEDOM GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $3k → 16%ASSOCIATED SERVICES FOR THE BLIND: $4k → 22%FREEDOM GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $3k → 16%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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$96k · 7 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
5

Total granted

$96k
$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+44%

Still filing today

71%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthOther
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

  • FG
    Freedom Guide Dogs for the Blind Inc
    5× · 2019–2023 · $21k · revenue +219%
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF CENTRAL NJ
    3× · 2021–2025 · $15k · revenue +44%
  • AF
    ASSOCIATION FOR THE MULTIPLE IMPAIRED BLIND INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $6k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF CENTRAL NEW JER
    one grant, 2023 · $6k
  • VIA VISUALLY IMPAIRED ADVANCEMENT
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -4%
  • OS
    OVERBROOK SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND
    one grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +7%
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
Visability

Provide innovative training and tools for people who are blind or visually impaired to help them achieve their goals and dreams

Human Services
2
Central Association for the Blind Inc

To assist people who are blind or visually impaired to achieve their highest level of independence by providing vision rehabilitation services and offering integrated competitive jobs throughout all levels of the association including…

Health
3
Eye Dog Foundation for the Blind Inc

To acquire and breed puppies that are suitable to be trained and developed as guide dogs. The Mission of Eye Dog Foundation for the Blind is to acquire and breed puppies that are suitable to be trained and developed as guide dogs. Once the…

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4
Association for the Visually Impaired Inc

To enable persons of all age who are visually impaired, blind, or deaf-blind living throughout rockland and orange counties to lead as independent a life as possible by providing rehabilitation,job placement,and counseling services in…

Health
5
Berks County Association ft Blind Inc Dba Vision Resource Center of Berks Cnty

To Enrich the Lives of Visually Impaired Persons and their Caregivers while providing Preventative Services and Education.

Health
6
Pennsylvania Association for the Blind

To prevent unnecessary blindness and promoting the physical, social and economic self-sufficiency for the commonwealth's blind and visually impaired population. the association functions as an executive office for a network of 26 member…

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7
Guiding Eyes for the Blind Inc

Guiding eyes for the blind provides guide dogs to people with vision loss. we are passionate about connecting exceptional dogs with individuals for greater independence.

Human Services
8
In-Sight

In-sight inspires confidence and builds skills that help people who are visually impaired and blind to thrive and succeed.

Human Services
9
Ensight Skills Center

To provide people with low vision the services and resources that empower independent and productive living. ensight's programs are designed to help our patients overcome barriers to living life independently and safely. hands-on programs…

Health
10
Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired

Vista Center enables individuals who are blind or visually impaired to achieve their highest potential through evaluation, counseling, education and training which promotes independence and improves quality of life.

Health
11
Doheny Eye Institute

To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).

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12
Lighthouse for the Blind of the Palm Beaches Inc

Lighthouse for the blind of the palm beaches, inc's mission is to assist persons with visual impairments to develop their capabilities to the fullest and to utilize them in the pursuits of life which are the right and privilege of all.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Via Visually Impaired Advancement; the most unlike its peers is The Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc. 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

9 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. 9 of the 14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF CENTRAL NJ: $14,500 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF CENTRAL NJJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF: $14,000 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OFCONCORDIA LEARNING CENTER AT ST JOSEPHS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $14,000 · OtherCONCORDIA LEARNING CENTER AT ST JOSEPHS SCHOOL FOR THE …JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF CENTRAL NEW JER: $6,000 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF CENTRAL NEW JERVISION LOSS ALLIANCE OF NJ: $5,000 · OtherVISION LOSS ALLIANCE OF NJHADLEY INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUA: $5,000 · OtherHADLEY INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUA+1 more: $2,000 · OtherFreedom Guide Dogs for the Blind Inc: $21,000 · Human ServicesFreedom Guide Dogs for the Blind IncVisionLink: $20,000 · Human ServicesVisionLinkASSOCIATION FOR THE MULTIPLE IMPAIRED BLIND INC: $6,300 · Human ServicesASSOCIATION FOR THE MULTIPLE IMPAIRED BLIND INCVIA VISUALLY IMPAIRED ADVANCEMENT: $3,000 · Human ServicesVIA VISUALLY IMPAIRED ADVANCEMENTFIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesFIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INCTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $6,200 · HealthOVERBROOK SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $3,000 · Education
Other$60,500Human Services$53,300Health$6,200Education$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFreedom Guide Dogs for the Blind Inc: $21,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetVisionLink: $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF CENTRAL NJ: $14,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR THE MULTIPLE IMPAIRED BLIND INC: $6,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $6,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVIA VISUALLY IMPAIRED ADVANCEMENT: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOVERBROOK SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED STATES ASSOCIATION OF BLIND ATHLETES INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

William G and Helen C…The Hyde and Watson F…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
William G and Helen C Hoffman FdnMO17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: William G and Helen C Hoffman Fdn · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · 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 Rudolph Williams Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rudolph Williams Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Jewish Family Service Agency of Central Nj: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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 14 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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