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The Bancker Williams Foundation Inc

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.

$200k
Granted FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.

Environment$277kInternational$203kEducation$186kAnimals$90kHealth$89kHousing & Shelter$65kHuman Services$17kArts & Culture$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k24 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $159k
$1,500
Median grant
10
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTHERN NEIGHBORHOODS NETWORK INC$25,100
ROOM TO READ$24,800
SOUTHERN ALLIANCE FOR CLEAN ENERGY$23,300
Individual grant recipient$18,800
WOMENS REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ASSIST$17,700
INTERNATIONAL ANIMAL RESCUE$17,000
GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND$16,700
HESPERIAN HEALTH GUIDES$15,900
FRIENDSHIP BRIDGE$7,700
ST SIMONS LAND TRUST$5,500
CITIZENS CLIMATE EDUCATION CORP$3,000
CHIMP HAVEN$3,000
LAKE CLAIRE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST$3,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$2,500
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA$2,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 51% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%WOMEN'S CENTER OF WAKE COUNTY: $1k → 8%METHODIST HOME FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 8%LOST N FOUND YOUTH: $3k → 13%METHODIST HOME FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 8%LOST N FOUND YOUTH: $3k → 13%LOST N FOUND YOUTH: $3k → 13%WOMEN'S CENTER OF WAKE COUNTY: $1k → 8%WOMEN'S CENTER OF WAKE COUNTY: $1k → 8%WOMEN'S CENTER OF WAKE COUNTY: $1k → 8%METHODIST HOME FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 8%METHODIST HOME FOR CHILDREN: $750 → 8%WOMENS CENTER OF WAKE COUNTY: $1k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

VT
NY
MA
OR
PA
CA
CO
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NC
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DC
LA
GA
TX
FL

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 12% of The Bancker Williams Foundation Inc’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, 24% of the giving stays in GA; read by stated purpose it is 31% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Bancker Williams Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 11% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$759k · 30 repeat orgs$139k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +11% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

30 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
14

Total granted

$759k
$108k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
0%

Still filing today

83%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsEducationEnvironmentInternationalHuman ServicesHealthOther

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

  • SA
    SOUTHERN ALLIANCE FOR CLEAN ENERGY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $103k · revenue +19%
  • SN
    SOUTHERN NEIGHBORHOODS NETWORK INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $79k · revenue +91%
  • SC
    STREET CHILD US
    3× · 2021–2023 · $43k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • TO
    THE OCEAN CLEANUP NORTH PACIFIC FOU
    one grant, 2021 · $26k
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $23k · revenue -37%
  • TB
    THE BOYCE L ANSLEY SCHOOL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $16k · revenue +76%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Animal Care Sanctuary

Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…

Animals
2
South Carolina Network of Children's Advocacy Centers

Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse

Youth Development
3
Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc

The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.

Human Services
4
Safe Haven for Cats

The mission of safe haven for cats is to use no-kill principles and education to save cats' lives through rescue, adoption, spay/neuter services and community programs.

Animals
5
Kidspeace National Centers of Georgia

Kidspeace, founded in 1882, is a healthcare nonprofit that is dedicated to providing hope, help, and healing to children, adults, and those who love them.continued on schedule o.with 40 offices and facilities across seven states, this…

Human Services
6
Amazon Conservation Association

Amazon conservation unites science, people, and innovation to protect the amazon - the greatest wild forest on earth. as guardians of the most iconic forest on the planet, we bring together the power of the latest science and technology…

Environment
7
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
8
Climate Leadership Council Inc

To develop and promote a carbon dividends framework - based on carbon fees whose revenues are rebated to citizens through dividends - as the most cost-effective, equitable, and politically viable climate solution.

Environment
9
The Georgia Center for Nonprofits

Our mission is to create thriving communities by helping nonprofits succeed. our work revolves around four primary areas of focus.1. we are a hub for social innovation 2. we are a capacity accelerator for organizations and their people3.…

Community Improvement
10
The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals
11
CureCervicalCancer

Dedicated to the early detection and prevention of cervical cancer around the globe for the women who need it most.

International
12
Children's Trust of South Carolina

To strengthen families, organizations, and communities to prevent child abuse and neglect.

Human Services

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 Saint Marys School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsHealth Access Advocacy and …Community College Foundatio…Elementary Literacy TutoringDomestic Violence ServicesAnimal Rescue and ShelterEnvironmental Conservation …Local Food System Organizat…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%14%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%33%20–35yr13%17%35–55yr16%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr16%42%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr16%11%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/43
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,522

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.

05the grantee network

43 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. 43 of the 55 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
43/43
Grantees still filing
19/43
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SOUTHERN NEIGHBORHOODS NETWORK INC — $78,500 · OtherSOUTHERN NEIGHBORHOODS NETWORK…IDEAS — $43,679 · OtherIDEASTHE OCEAN CLEANUP NORTH PACIFIC FOU — $25,858 · OtherTHE OCEAN CLEANUP NORTH PACIFI…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION — $22,500 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN …WOMENS REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ASSIST — $19,800 · OtherWOMENS REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ASS…Individual grant recipient — $18,800 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE OPEN ROAD — $13,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE — $9,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA — $8,700 · Other+13 more — $19,816 · Other+13 moreSOUTHERN ALLIANCE FOR CLEAN ENERGY — $102,757 · EnvironmentSOUTHERN ALLIANCE FOR CLE…GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND — $63,561 · EnvironmentGLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUNDST SIMONS LAND TRUST INC — $22,500 · EnvironmentST SIMONS LAND TRUST INCCITIZENS CLIMATE EDUCATION CORP — $15,000 · EnvironmentCITIZENS CLIMATE EDUCATIO…GEORGIA ORGANICS INC — $7,875 · Environment+1 more — $3,000 · EnvironmentHESPERIAN HEALTH GUIDES — $62,165 · InternationalHESPERIAN HEALTH GUI…STREET CHILD US — $42,947 · InternationalSTREET CHILD USTHE FRIENDSHIP BRIDGE — $41,075 · InternationalTHE FRIENDSHIP BRIDG…MEDSHARE INTERNATIONAL INC — $24,608 · InternationalMEDSHARE INTERNATION…+1 more — $3,000 · InternationalROOM TO READ — $95,339 · EducationROOM TO READPOPULATION MEDIA CENTER INC — $40,550 · EducationPOPULATION MEDIA CEN…THE BOYCE L ANSLEY SCHOOL INC — $15,625 · EducationTHE BOYCE L ANSLEY S…OPEN ROAD — $13,286 · EducationOPEN ROADSAINT MARYS SCHOOL — $5,984 · Education+1 more — $600 · EducationINTERNATIONAL ANIMAL RESCUE US INC — $55,925 · AnimalsINTERNATIONAL…REWILD — $41,255 · AnimalsREWILDLIFELINE ANIMAL PROJECT INC — $5,000 · Animals+5 more — $10,000 · Animals+5 moreLost-N-Found Youth Inc — $9,000 · Human ServicesTHE RALEIGH RESCUE MISSION INC — $8,250 · Human ServicesWOMENS CENTER OF WAKE COUNTY INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesThe Methodist Home for Children Inc — $3,750 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S FLIGHT OF HOPE — $1,500 · HealthCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC — $1,500 · HealthMERCI CLINIC INC — $700 · HealthCAROLINAEAST FOUNDATION — $600 · Health
Other$259,653Environment$214,693International$173,795Education$171,384Animals$112,180Human Services$26,000Health$4,300

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSOUTHERN ALLIANCE FOR CLEAN ENERGY — $102,757 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetROOM TO READ — $95,339 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN NEIGHBORHOODS NETWORK INC — $78,500 over 3y, 12% of budgetGLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND — $63,561 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHESPERIAN HEALTH GUIDES — $62,165 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ANIMAL RESCUE US INC — $55,925 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetSTREET CHILD US — $42,947 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetREWILD — $41,255 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRIENDSHIP BRIDGE — $41,075 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPOPULATION MEDIA CENTER INC — $40,550 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMEDSHARE INTERNATIONAL INC — $24,608 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST SIMONS LAND TRUST INC — $22,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION — $22,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOYCE L ANSLEY SCHOOL INC — $15,625 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCITIZENS CLIMATE EDUCATION CORP — $15,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOPEN ROAD — $13,286 over 1y, 37% of budgetLost-N-Found Youth Inc — $9,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE RALEIGH RESCUE MISSION INC — $8,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA ORGANICS INC — $7,875 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSAINT MARYS SCHOOL — $5,984 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLIFELINE ANIMAL PROJECT INC — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWOMENS CENTER OF WAKE COUNTY INC — $5,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetThe Methodist Home for Children Inc — $3,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHAND IN HAND OF GLYNN INC — $3,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNO KILL GLYNN COUNTY INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHIMP HAVEN INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE CLAIRE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC — $3,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBELOVED CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC — $1,500 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S FLIGHT OF HOPE — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEDERATION OF NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS WAKE COUNTY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC RADIO EAST FOUNDATION — $700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCRAVEN LITERACY COUNCIL — $600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAROLINAEAST FOUNDATION — $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCRAVEN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S CANCER PARTNERS OF THE CAROLINAS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOAK CITY CARES INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

North Carolina Commun…The Community Foundat…Triangle Community Fo…Duke Energy FoundationRobert L Mattocks II …The Thomas B and Robe…The Harold H Bate Fou…Foundation for the Ca…Duke University Healt…International Paper C…The Winston-Salem Fou…Truist Foundation Inc
North Carolina Community FoundationNC24.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: North Carolina Community Foundation · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Robert L Mattocks II and Carol J Mattocks Charitable Trust · The Thomas B and Robertha K Coleman Foundation Inc · The Harold H Bate Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke University Health System Inc · International Paper Company Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc

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 The Bancker Williams Foundation Inc 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.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 55 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

    Source object · view filing

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