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The Dave H & Reba W Williams Foundation

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.

$179k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
4
Grants FY2025
10
Organizations funded FY2024
30%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 15
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$38k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 30% of the organizations The Dave H & Reba W Williams Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
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 arriving4$179k0%
FY202410$79k30%
FY20238$133k50%
FY202211$170k36%
FY20219$165k11%
FY20207$182k57%
FY20199$124k33%
FY201815$80k73%
89% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$580kEnvironment$375kEducation$96kPublic Benefit$70kInternational$21kHousing & Shelter$6kRecreation & Sports$5kSocial Science$4kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
IA
IN
CT
CA
NE
AZ
SC
DC
OK
MS
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 21 grantees
All grantees of The Dave H & Reba W Williams Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Greenwich Tree Conservancy Inc$203,768819%
Greenwich Historical Society Inc$155,00063%
Metropolitan Museum of Art$150,00020%
New Philadelphia Association Inc$150,000398%
New York Botanical Garden$136,00040%
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc$70,00030%
Red Hen Press Inc$25,00013%
American Friends of the Art Fund$17,7521n/a
Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center$16,00012%
Living Desert The$12,00020%
Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness Inc$6,00020%
Roundabout Theatre Company Inc$5,00020%
Central Park Conservancy Inc$5,00010%
Lcu Fund for Women's Education Inc$5,00011%
Palm Springs Art Museum$2,00010%
Florence Griswold Museum Inc$1,50020%
The Frick Collection$1,50020%
Greenwich Arts Council Inc$1,25030%
Faith Presbyterian Church$1,0001n/a
National Arbor Day Foundation$1,00010%
Combined Organization of Police$1001n/a

Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($282k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Dave H & Reba W Williams Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Greenwich Tree Conservancy Inc: $203,768 over 8y, 19% of budgetGreenwich Historical Society Inc: $155,000 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetMetropolitan Museum of Art: $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew Philadelphia Association Inc: $150,000 over 3y, 98% of budgetNew York Botanical Garden: $136,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetManhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc: $70,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRed Hen Press Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetDenison Pequotsepos Nature Center: $16,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetLiving Desert The: $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetConnecticut Coalition to End Homelessness Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRoundabout Theatre Company Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Park Conservancy Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLcu Fund for Women's Education Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPalm Springs Art Museum: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFlorence Griswold Museum Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Frick Collection: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGreenwich Arts Council Inc: $1,250 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNational Arbor Day Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 18.

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.

Connecticut Humanities Council IncCT13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 The Dave H & Reba W Williams Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Dave H & Reba W Williams Foundation 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 The Dave H & Reba W Williams Foundation

How much does The Dave H & Reba W Williams Foundation give?
The Dave H & Reba W Williams Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $178,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Dave H & Reba W Williams Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (46%), Environment (30%), Education (8%).
Who are The Dave H & Reba W Williams Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Greenwich Tree Conservancy Inc ($204k), Greenwich Historical Society Inc ($155k), Metropolitan Museum of Art ($150k).
Does The Dave H & Reba W Williams Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Dave H & Reba W Williams Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Dave H & Reba W Williams Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Connecticut Humanities Council Inc, The Pfizer Foundation Inc, National Philanthropic Trust.
Where is The Dave H & Reba W Williams Foundation based?
The Dave H & Reba W Williams Foundation is based in VA.

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 52 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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