· Private foundation
Sam Williams 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $71k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KIDDIE HAWK AIR ACADEMY | $150,000 |
| COMMUNITY BIBLE CHURCH PROVINCETOWN | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $19,681 |
| HOSPITALITY HOUSE | $16,300 |
| BOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE DETROI | $14,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE OF PONTIAC | $10,851 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CELANI FAMILY FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN | $6,764 |
| YCC FAMILY CRISIS CENTER | $3,330 |
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 (FY17–25, $132k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +57% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 4 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, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $132k 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
- HHHOSPITALITY HOUSE8× · 2017–2025 · $93k · revenue +271%
GRACE CENTERS OF HOPE3× · 2017–2020 · $53k · revenue +94%
UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN2× · 2017–2018 · $28k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- EAEAA AVIATION FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue +9%
- TLThe Leonardoone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -4%
- GCGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGANone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -15%
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.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
Uniting our community to empower individuals and families to thrive.
United way of central ohio is the local organization that harnesses the power of communities working together - people, nonprofits, businesses and government - to create a stronger, more equitable central ohio. see schedule o.we do this…
The tulsa area united way unites people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
The mission of the atlanta community food bank is to engage, educate and empower our community to fight hunger. our bold goal is to see that all people in our service area have access to the nutritious meals they need when they need them.
The mission of heart of florida united way is to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our communities. this is accomplished by standing up for the health, education, and financial stability of every person in central florida.
United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…
United way of central oklahoma is committed to connecting people and resources to improve the well being of those in our community.
To apply the principles of workforce development to grow michigan's economy while improving the lives of michigan workers.
Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.
The new england air museum's mission is to preserve and present the story of aviation and aerospace, with an emphasis on new england's role, and the genius and inspiration that made it possible. the museum also seeks to inspire young…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ycc Family Crisis Center and the most unlike its peers is The Leonardo. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 27 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 KIDDIE HAWK AIR ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds HOSPITALITY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds EAA AVIATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE CENTERS OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds YCC FAMILY CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN UTAH ↗
- Who funds CELANI FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Leonardo ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds ACCENT PONTIAC INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACCESS UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds YANKEE AIR FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS ↗
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 for Southeast Michigan · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Sam 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.
- Community Access Unlimited Inc — 15% 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.