North Carolina · Private foundation
Sharlene R Williams Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $117k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 46
- Grants FY2025
- 49
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $48,944
- Organizations funded a year
- 31 to 50
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Sharlene R Williams Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 45 | $116k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 49 | $105k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 50 | $108k | 12% |
| FY2022 | 48 | $98k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 33 | $81k | 15% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $82k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Snyder Memorial Baptist Church | $18,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Cape Fear Botanical Garden | $16,146 | 4 | 0% |
| Fayetteville Technical Community College Foundation Inc | $16,134 | 6 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $15,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Carolina College of Biblical Studies | $13,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $12,277 | 2 | 0% |
| Fayetteville Family Life Center In | $12,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Cape Fear Regional Theatre at Fayetteville Inc | $11,854 | 4 | 0% |
| The Care Clinic Inc | $10,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Sandhills Youth Development Inc | $9,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 38 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($363k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sharlene R Williams Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
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About Sharlene R Williams Family Foundation
- How much does Sharlene R Williams Family Foundation give?
- Sharlene R Williams Family Foundation reported 46 grants totaling $116,769 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 50 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Sharlene R Williams Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (33%), Human Services (16%), Youth Development (9%).
- Who are Sharlene R Williams Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Snyder Memorial Baptist Church ($18k), Cape Fear Botanical Garden ($16k), Fayetteville Technical Community College Foundation Inc ($16k).
- Does Sharlene R Williams Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sharlene R Williams Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sharlene R Williams Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Cumberland Community Foundation Inc, Riddle Family Foundation, Florence Rogers Charitable Trust.
- Where is Sharlene R Williams Family Foundation based?
- Sharlene R Williams Family Foundation is based in NC.
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