· Private foundation
Sharlene R Williams Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| CAROLINA COLLEGE OF BIBLICAL STUDIES | $2,500 |
| CARE CLINIC | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| FAYETTEVILLE FAMILY LIFE CENTER | $2,000 |
| CHILDREN'S CANCER PARTNERS OF THE CAROLINAS | $2,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NC | $2,000 |
| FTCC FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| FIRST TEE OF THE SANDHILLS | $1,500 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 100% of Sharlene R Williams Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 97% of the giving stays in NC; by stated purpose, 0%.
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 +23% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- SASANDHILLS AREA LAND TRUST INCone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -77%
- UCUNCW CAMERON SCHOOL OF BUSINESSone grant, 2020 · $2k
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.
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,…
How this is measured
34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
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 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 THREE RIVERS LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTIONS OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FAYETTEVILLE POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CUMBERLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE RICK HERREMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MYROVER-REESE FELLOWSHIP HOMES INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sharlene R Williams Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sharlene R Williams Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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