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The Bancker Williams Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
LAKE CLAIRE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST$3,000
CHIMP HAVEN$3,000
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA$2,500
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%WOMEN'S CENTER OF WAKE COUNTY: $1k → 8%WOMEN'S CENTER OF WAKE COUNTY: $1k → 8%LOST N FOUND YOUTH: $3k → 13%WOMEN'S CENTER OF WAKE COUNTY: $1k → 8%LOST N FOUND YOUTH: $3k → 13%LOST N FOUND YOUTH: $3k → 13%WOMEN'S CENTER OF WAKE COUNTY: $1k → 8%METHODIST HOME FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 8%METHODIST HOME FOR CHILDREN: $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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NY
MA
OR
PA
CA
CO
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 12% of The Bancker Williams Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 24% of the giving stays in GA; by stated purpose, 31%.

The Bancker Williams Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 11% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
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.

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%
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.

04Its field

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.

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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Cancer Partners of the Carolinas Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/43
Grantees still filing
18/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC: $1,500 · HealthCHILDREN'S FLIGHT OF HOPE: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION: $22,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST SIMONS LAND TRUST INC: $22,500 over 5y, 0.2% 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 budgetCHIMP HAVEN INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE CLAIRE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC: $3,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S FLIGHT OF HOPE: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBELOVED CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC: $1,500 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS WAKE COUNTY INC: $1,000 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 budgetPUBLIC RADIO EAST FOUNDATION: $700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCRAVEN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCRAVEN LITERACY COUNCIL: $600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAROLINAEAST 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
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.

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.

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Bancker Williams Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bancker Williams Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%10%23%40%funder's 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 55 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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