· 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 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 $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 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +87% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +87%
Funded once
- EAEAA AVIATION FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue +9%
- GCGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGANone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -15%
- APACCENT PONTIAC INCone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -16%
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.
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…
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 27 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.
- 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 GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds ACCENT PONTIAC INC ↗
- Who funds The Leonardo ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds YANKEE AIR FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACCESS UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sam Williams Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sam Williams Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Community Access Unlimited Inc: 15% of income from government
How this is measured
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