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The Jean and Graham Devoe Williford Charitable Trust at a glance

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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.

$465k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$264k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.3MEducation$140kCrime & Legal$50kPublic Benefit$500Youth Development$500
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $1k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $100k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
  • $250k+1 grant · $264k
$30,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 71% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BERKSHIRE MUSEUM: $15k → 12%ALLIANCE FOR PERFORMING ARTS: $20k → 14%BLANTON MUSEUM OF ART: $100k → 10%AMON CARTER MUSEUM: $3k → 11%TYLER JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $50k → 12%CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $25k → 12%DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART: $264k → 14%TRINITY STAR ARTS COUNCIL: $76k → 16%ELLEN NOEL MUSEUM: $10k → 16%Hunter Museum of Art: $10k → 12%University of Mississippi Foundation: $15k → 18%LSU Foundation: $25k → 19%BERKSHIRE MUSEUM: $5k → 12%BLANTON MUSEUM OF ARTS: $100k → 10%AMON CARTER MUSEUM: $3k → 11%Tyler Junior College Foundation: $50k → 12%Children's Advocacy Center: $25k → 12%DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART: $50k → 14%TRINITY STAR ARTS COUNCIL: $1k → 16%LSU MUSEUM OF ART: $10k → 19%BLANTON MUSEUM OF ART: $50k → 10%AMON CARTER MUSEUM: $3k → 11%TYLER MUSEUM OF ART: $30k → 12%DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART: $50k → 14%TRINITY STAR ARTS COUNCIL: $500 → 16%BLANTON MUSEUM OF ART: $50k → 10%TYLER MUSEUM OF ART: $26k → 12%DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART: $50k → 14%Trinity Star Arts Council: $500 → 16%BLANTON MUSEUM OF ART: $50k → 10%TYLER MUSEUM OF ART: $25k → 12%DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART: $47k → 14%CITY OF FAIRFIELD: $500 → 16%BLANTON MUSEUM OF ART: $50k → 10%TYLER MUSEUM OF ART: $23k → 12%DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART: $47k → 14%KINDNESS FROM CASE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $500 → 16%BLANTON MUSEUM OF ARTS: $5k → 10%TYLER MUSEUM OF ART: $20k → 12%DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART: $47k → 14%TRINITY STAR ARTS COUNCIL: $500 → 16%HISPANIC ALLIANCE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $18k → 10%TYLER MUSEUM OF ART: $20k → 12%DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART: $10k → 14%Hispanic Alliance for the Performing Arts: $5k → 10%TYLER MUSEUM OF ART: $20k → 12%TYLER MUSEUM OF ART: $12k → 12%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 10 repeat orgs$101k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
7

Total granted

$1.4M
$56k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
0%

Still filing today

60%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationOther
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

  • DM
    Dallas Museum of Art
    8× · 2018–2025 · $565k · revenue +338%
  • TJ
    TYLER JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $100k · revenue +66%
  • HA
    HISPANIC ALLIANCE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
    2× · 2023–2024 · $23k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +14%
  • HM
    Hunter Museum of American Art
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -17%
  • WF
    WICHITA FALLS MUSEUM
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
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
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston

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,…

Arts & Culture
2
Kimbell Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
3
The Tobin Theatre Arts Fund
Arts & Culture
4
Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation
Philanthropy
5
Cleveland Museum of Art

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,…

Arts & Culture
6
Terra Foundation for American Art
Philanthropy
7
The Diversity Museum of Art and Culture
Arts & Culture
8
Morris Museum of Art

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…

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9
Clyfford Still Museum

Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.

Arts & Culture
10
San Antonio Museum of Art

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…

Arts & Culture
11
The Toledo Museum of Art

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…

Arts & Culture
12
Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery

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.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Museum of Art; 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.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/12
Grantees still filing
5/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Dallas Museum of Art: $564,645 · Arts & CultureDallas Museum of ArtTYLER MUSEUM OF ART: $176,000 · Arts & CultureTYLER MUSEUM OF ARTTRINITY STAR ARTS COUNCIL INC: $78,000 · Arts & CultureTRINITY STAR ARTS COUNCIL INC+5 more: $82,000 · Arts & Culture+5 moreBLANTON MUSEUM OF ART: $300,000 · OtherBLANTON MUSEUM OF ARTBLANTON MUSEUM OF ARTS: $105,000 · OtherBLANTON MUSEUM OF ARTSCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $50,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER+4 more: $30,500 · Other+4 moreTYLER JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $100,000 · EducationTYLER JUNI…LSU FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationLSU FOUNDA…UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY…+1 more: $500 · Education
Arts & Culture$900,645Other$485,500Education$140,500

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 budgetDallas Museum of Art: $564,645 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTYLER MUSEUM OF ART: $176,000 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetTYLER JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTRINITY STAR ARTS COUNCIL INC: $78,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetLSU FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHISPANIC ALLIANCE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $23,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE BERKSHIRE MUSEUM: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHunter Museum of American Art: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART: $9,000 over 3y, 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.

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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 Jean and Graham Devoe Williford Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jean and Graham Devoe Williford Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    Find your warmest path to The Jean and Graham Devoe Williford Charitable Trust 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.

    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 19 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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