· Private foundation
The Jean and Graham Devoe Williford Charitable Trust
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $1k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
- $250k+1 grant · $264k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART | $263,645 |
| BLANTON MUSEUM OF ART | $50,000 |
| TYLER JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| TYLER MUSEUM OF ART | $30,000 |
| CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER | $25,000 |
| LSU Foundation | $25,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR PERFORMING ARTS | $20,000 |
| TRINITY STAR ARTS COUNCIL | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 71% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- DMDallas Museum of Art8× · 2018–2025 · $565k · revenue +338%
- TJTYLER JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $100k · revenue +66%
- HAHISPANIC ALLIANCE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS2× · 2023–2024 · $23k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +14%
- HMHunter Museum of American Artone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -17%
- WFWICHITA FALLS MUSEUMone grant, 2018 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The museum of fine arts, houston serves as a welcoming and inclusive place for all people, connecting the communities of houston with diverse histories of art spanning 6,000 years and six continents. through our permanent collections,…
The mission of the cleveland museum of art (cma) is to fulfill its dual roles as one of the world's most distinguished comprehensive art museums and as one of northeastern ohio's principal civic and cultural institutions. the museum,…
The morris museum of art exists for the purpose of collecting and exhibiting the art of the american south and interpreting it in regional, national, and global contexts. it is dedicated to encouraging artistic inquiry, providing a rich…
Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.
The San Antonio Museum of Art brings people together with art by collecting, preserving, and presenting significant works of art representing a broad range of history and cultures, advancing human connection and understanding, and…
For 124 years, the toledo museum of art has offered free admission to one of the world's great art collections housed in its greek revival main building and the glass pavilion. the museum has an extensive education program, offering…
The huntington library, art museum, and botanical gardens shares its world-renowned collections to support scholarship, foster learning, inspire creativity, and offer transformative experiences for diverse audiences.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Museum of Art and the most unlike its peers is Kindness From Case Memorial Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 19 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Dallas Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds TYLER MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds TYLER JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRINITY STAR ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds LSU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC ALLIANCE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE BERKSHIRE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Hunter Museum of American Art ↗
- Who funds AMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART ↗
- Who funds KINDNESS FROM CASE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
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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 Jean and Graham Devoe Williford Charitable Trust 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.
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.
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