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The Michael and Pamela Williams Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$9k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2024
3
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$6,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$6,500
Organizations funded a year
1 to 8
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$502k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations The Michael and Pamela Williams Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureRecreation & SportsEmploymentOther
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
FY2024still arriving2$9k100%
FY20233$28k100%
FY20225$29k60%
FY20211$10k100%
FY20201$10k100%
FY20195$17k60%
FY20186$29k67%
FY20178$20kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$32kYouth Development$28kRecreation & Sports$19kHuman Services$19kHealth$16kReligion$14kArts & Culture$10kEmployment$4kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 11 grantees
All grantees of The Michael and Pamela Williams Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Palmer Nicklaus Foundation$15,0002n/a
Hidden Springs Youth Ranch Inc$13,000320%
Witte Museum$10,00010%
Military Warriors Support Foundation$10,00010%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$9,17410%
Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Inc$4,49510%
Purple Heart Project$3,50011%
The Centurions of Kendall County Inc$3,00012%
Bergheim Volunteer Fire Department$2,00011%
Boerne Volunteer Fire Department$1,00011%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$50020%

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($80k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Michael and Pamela Williams Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHidden Springs Youth Ranch Inc: $13,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetWitte Museum: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMilitary Warriors Support Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $9,174 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Livestock Show and Rodeo Inc: $4,495 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPurple Heart Project: $3,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetThe Centurions of Kendall County Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetBergheim Volunteer Fire Department: $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBoerne Volunteer Fire Department: $1,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $500 over 2y, 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 10.

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.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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Find your warmest path to The Michael and Pamela Williams Family 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 Michael and Pamela Williams Family Foundation

How much does The Michael and Pamela Williams Family Foundation give?
The Michael and Pamela Williams Family Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $9,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Michael and Pamela Williams Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (21%), Youth Development (18%), Recreation & Sports (13%).
Who are The Michael and Pamela Williams Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Palmer Nicklaus Foundation ($15k), Hidden Springs Youth Ranch Inc ($13k), Witte Museum ($10k).
Does The Michael and Pamela Williams Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Michael and Pamela Williams Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Michael and Pamela Williams Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The Michael and Pamela Williams Family Foundation based?
The Michael and Pamela Williams Family Foundation is based in TX.

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 25 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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