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Tex Williams Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
28
Grants FY2025
23
Organizations funded FY2024
26%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$130
Largest grant, FY2025
$600
Organizations funded a year
23 to 38
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
9
Total assets, FY2025
$184k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 26% of the organizations Tex Williams Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $735 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsHealthEducationPhilanthropyInternationalScience & TechOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving26$5k46%
FY202423$3k26%
FY202332$4k47%
FY202235$5k29%
FY202138$7k42%
FY202035$3k57%
FY201933$5k58%
FY201826$5kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$8kEducation$8kAnimals$7kCivil Rights$3kArts & Culture$3kReligion$2kInternational$1kYouth Development$1kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
WI
NY
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
VA
MD
NC
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 73 grantees
All grantees of Tex Williams Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Freedom From Religion Foundation Inc$1,95080%
Duke University$1,55070%
The California Wildlife Center$1,25070%
Healthcare for Homeless Animals$1,15030%
California Museum of Art Thousand Oaks$1,15030%
Planned Parenthood California Central Coast$99070%
California Lutheran University$91060%
Santa Monica Mountains Fund$90070%
National Wildlife Federation$86650%
Hope for Paws$85950%
Homeboy Industries$85060%
The Clear Fund$80020%
Ojai Playwrights Conference$65030%
Americans United for Separation of Church and State$65040%
La County Library Foundation$65060%
Wildlife Conservation Network Inc$55020%
Secular Coalition for America Inc$55030%
National Center for Science Education$54550%
The Los Angeles Free Clinic$50010%
International Rett Syndrome Foundation$50020%
Manna Food Bank Inc$39050%
Ganna Walska Lotusland$25810%
Americares Foundation Inc$25010%
Friends of the Thousand Oaks Library$25030%
Blood Cancer United Inc$25010%
World Central Kitchen Inc$25010%
Wolf Conservation Center Inc$25030%
Big Heart Ranch$2301n/a
Southern California Public Radio$22020%
Valley Cats Inc$20010%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc$20010%
Congregation Bnai Emet$2001n/a
Team Rubicon Inc$20010%
Goebel Senior Center Commission Inc$15810%
Foxy and the Hounds$15820%
Food Share Inc$15020%
National Geographic Society$13520%
William J Brennan Center for Justice Inc$12520%
Best Friends Animal Society$1201n/a
Wikimedia Foundation Inc$11150%
People for the American Way$10810%
Pasadena Humane$1051n/a
The Hawn Foundation$10010%
The Lawfare Project Inc$10010%
Earth Island Institute Inc$10010%
The Three Doctors Foundation Inc$10010%
ALS Network$10010%
Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation$10010%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$10010%
Turtle Conservancy$1001n/a
Amit Children Inc$1001n/a
United Way of North Carolina$10010%
Shelter Transport Animal Rescue Team$10010%
Adopt Me Rescue$10010%
Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Inc$1001n/a
Compassion & Choices$10010%
Common Cause$10010%
American Friends of the Ocean Cleanup Foundation$10010%
Los Angeles Lgbt Center$10010%
Humane Society of Ventura County$10010%
United Way Inc$10010%
Michael P Nosco Foundation Inc$10010%
Conejo Community Outreach$10010%
The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust USA Inc$10010%
League of American Wheelman Inc$10010%
Alzheimer's Foundation of America Inc$9510%
Happy Valley Foundation$7010%
Emancipet Inc$5610%
The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research$5010%
Share Our Strength$5010%
Boy Scouts of America Ventura County Council$5010%
Drug Policy Alliance$5010%
350 Conejo San Fernando Valley$351n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 51 recipients with no EIN on record ($12k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Tex Williams Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFreedom From Religion Foundation Inc: $1,950 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDuke University: $1,550 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe California Wildlife Center: $1,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHealthcare for Homeless Animals: $1,150 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCalifornia Museum of Art Thousand Oaks: $1,150 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPlanned Parenthood California Central Coast: $990 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia Lutheran University: $910 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Monica Mountains Fund: $900 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNational Wildlife Federation: $866 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHope for Paws: $859 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHomeboy Industries: $850 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Clear Fund: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOjai Playwrights Conference: $650 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAmericans United for Separation of Church and State: $650 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLa County Library Foundation: $650 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWildlife Conservation Network Inc: $550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSecular Coalition for America Inc: $550 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNational Center for Science Education: $545 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Los Angeles Free Clinic: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rett Syndrome Foundation: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetManna Food Bank Inc: $390 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGanna Walska Lotusland: $258 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmericares Foundation Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Thousand Oaks Library: $250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWolf Conservation Center Inc: $250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern California Public Radio: $220 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetValley Cats Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTeam Rubicon Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGoebel Senior Center Commission Inc: $158 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFoxy and the Hounds: $158 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFood Share Inc: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Geographic Society: $135 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam J Brennan Center for Justice Inc: $125 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWikimedia Foundation Inc: $111 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPeople for the American Way: $108 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hawn Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Lawfare Project Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Three Doctors Foundation Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALS Network: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of North Carolina: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShelter Transport Animal Rescue Team: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAdopt Me Rescue: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 65.

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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.

Mary Jo and Hank Greenberg Animal Welfare FoundationCA15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mary Jo and Hank Greenberg Animal Welfare Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · California Community Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Tex Williams Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Tex Williams Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Tex Williams Foundation Inc

How much does Tex Williams Foundation Inc give?
Tex Williams Foundation Inc reported 28 grants totaling $5,010 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 38 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Tex Williams Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (20%), Education (19%), Animals (18%).
Who are Tex Williams Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Freedom From Religion Foundation Inc ($2k), Duke University ($2k), The California Wildlife Center ($1k).
Does Tex Williams Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Tex Williams Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Tex Williams Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mary Jo and Hank Greenberg Animal Welfare Foundation, The Annenberg Foundation, Shell USA Company Foundation.
Where is Tex Williams Foundation Inc based?
Tex Williams Foundation Inc is based in NC.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 126 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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