· Private foundation
The Dean & Cam Williams Foundation Inc
Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of The Dean & Cam Williams Foundation Inc’s FY2021 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year The Dean & Cam Williams Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 10 organizations, $101k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k10 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $68k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GLOUCESTER-MATHEWS HUMANE SOCIETY | $38,000 |
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIVING ACCOUNT | $30,167 |
| MISES INSTITUTE | $9,000 |
| THE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION | $5,000 |
| NAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY | $4,000 |
| GRACE COVENANT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $3,000 |
| INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE | $2,000 |
| DOGS DESERVE BETTER | $2,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS IN EDUCATION | $1,000 |
| SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 11% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2019, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2020, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GHGLOUCESTER-MATHEWS HUMANE SOCIETY4× · 2017–2020 · $387k · revenue +397%
- LVLUDWIG VON MISES INSTITUTE FOR AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS INC3× · 2017–2019 · $24k · revenue +294%
- TITHE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE3× · 2017–2019 · $12k · revenue +185%
Funded once
- WEWARE EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $1k
- TPTURNING POINT USA INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue ×14
- CFCORNERSTONE FELLOWSHIP CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
Journeys of discovery that spark bold solutions to global challenges.
The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…
The institute of world politics is a graduate school of national security and international affairs, dedicated to developing leaders with a sound understanding of international realities and the ethical conduct of statecraft, based on…
To provide thoughtful, conservative solutions to the challenges presented by education, workforce, labor and employment issues.
To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.
Ilsi is a global, nonprofit federation dedicated to generating and advancing emerging science and groundbreaking research to ensure foods are safe, nutritious and sustainable, and that they improve planetary and human health and well-being…
The mission of the washington internship institute is to foster students' intellectual, personal, and professional development through individually tailored, quality internships and challenging academic coursework that take full advantage…
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 20 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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds GLOUCESTER-MATHEWS HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LUDWIG VON MISES INSTITUTE FOR AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS INC ↗
- Who funds THE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Economic Education Inc ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC ↗
- Who funds DOGS DESERVE BETTER INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Dean & Cam Williams Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dean & Cam Williams Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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