· Private foundation
Sharlene R Williams Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k45 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $49k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAPE FEAR VALLEY HEALTH FDTN | $48,944 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| CAPE FEAR BOTANICAL GARDENS | $5,000 |
| CAPE FEAR REGIONAL THEATRE AT FAYETTEVILLE INC | $5,000 |
| OUR LADY OF LOURDES | $4,500 |
| SNYDER MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH | $3,000 |
| YOUTH FOR CHRIST | $3,000 |
| CARE CLINIC | $2,500 |
| CAROLINA COLLEGE OF BIBLICAL STUDIES | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NC | $2,000 |
| FAYETTEVILLE FAMILY LIFE CENTER | $2,000 |
| CHILDREN'S CANCER PARTNERS OF THE CAROLINAS | $2,000 |
| FIRST TEE OF THE SANDHILLS | $1,500 |
| FTCC FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
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 (FY23–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of Sharlene R Williams Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 97% of the giving stays in NC; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +23% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
64 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 5 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- CFCAPE FEAR BOTANICAL GARDEN4× · 2020–2025 · $16k · revenue +35%
- FTFAYETTEVILLE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $16k · revenue +201%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC5× · 2020–2024 · $15k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- NHNC HALL OF FAMEone grant, 2024 · $10k
- UCUNCW CAMERON SCHOOL OF BUSINESSone grant, 2020 · $2k
- SASANDHILLS AREA LAND TRUST INCone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -77%
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.
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
The research triangle regional partnership is an association of area economic development agencies dedicated to keeping the research triangle region economically strong by collectively marketing the region's competitive advantages and…
North carolina victim assistance network promotes the rights and needs of crime victims by educating north carolina's citizens and public policy leaders about the devastating impact that crime has on our society. serving our members as a…
Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
To assist carteret general hospital in providing the best possible healthcare to the people of carteret county through fund raising programs that support community based programs, purchase of vital equipment, capital expansion, renovations…
A christ-centered university committed to exceptional teaching, scholarly research, creative innovation, and professional collaboration.
The veterans life center is a residential program designed to help at-risk 21st century veterans. it is our goal to provide each of our residents the prospect of a constructive and personally satisfying role in civil society. by…
Facilitate networking among hospitals
Recruit and train and license foster parents to receive foster children from county government agencies.
The mission of hospice & community care is to give hope, comfort, and compassion to those that need it most. hospice & community care is a nonprofit healthcare organization providing hospice and palliative care to residents of york,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Cancer Partners of the Carolinas Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
34 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. 34 of the 76 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 CAPE FEAR BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds FAYETTEVILLE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA COLLEGE OF BIBLICAL STUDIES ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds FAYETTEVILLE FAMILY LIFE CENTER IN ↗
- Who funds CAPE FEAR REGIONAL THEATRE AT FAYETTEVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Sandhills Youth Development Inc ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTIONS OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THREE RIVERS LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds FAYETTEVILLE POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CUMBERLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BETTER HEALTH OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MYROVER-REESE FELLOWSHIP HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds THE RICK HERREMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Cumberland Community Foundation Inc · Riddle Family Foundation · Florence Rogers Charitable Trust · Jp Riddle Charitable Foundation Inc · Carolyn Riddle Armstrong Family Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Thomas R & Elizabeth E McLean Foundation Inc · Youth Growth Stock Trust · Robert E Bryan Jr Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · David & Elisabeth Nimocks Foundation Inc · Duke Energy 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 Sharlene R Williams Family 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.
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.
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