· Private foundation
The Michael and Pamela Williams Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Texas Parks Wildlife Foundation | $6,500 |
| Kendale County 4H | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–23, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 17% of The Michael and Pamela Williams Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 91% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 74%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +145% since the first grant, against +53% for those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HRHarte Research Institute-Gulf of Me2× · 2017–2018 · $25k
- PNPALMER NICKLAUS FOUNDATION2× · 2019–2022 · $15k
- HSHIDDEN SPRINGS YOUTH RANCH INC3× · 2018–2022 · $13k · revenue -39%
Funded once
- PNPalmer Niklaus Foundationone grant, 2023 · $15k
- WMWitte Museumgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +370%
- SASan Antonio Stock Show and Rodeoone grant, 2022 · $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.
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 mission of the texas wounded warrior foundation is to raise awareness, to honor, and to empower our wounded united state military warriors, enabling them to assimilate back to daily life upon their return from combat. we seek to…
West Harrison Volunteer Fire Department is organized to provide fire fighting, rescue and other emergency services for the preservation of life and the protection of property from fire or other emergencies within the area of its operation…
The primary purpose of the organization is provide fire protection and emergency services to the community of Hebbronville and Jim Hogg County.
Assisting veterans, military personnel and their families, advocacy for veterans and active duty personnel, historical education and commemoration, promoting patriotism, youth activities and community service. see supplemental information…
Volunteer Fire Department, providing fire, rescue, and medical services to a population of approximately 22,000 residents, 24 hours per day, 365 days per year.
The Poteet VFD is a 100% volunteer organization. In addition to responding to fires, vehicles accidents, medical emergencies and public assistance, the VFD is also trained to handle vehicle extrication.
The houston volunteer fire department provides fire protection and emergency services for the community.
The texas marines medal of honor fund is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization focused on the remembrance of the sixteen texas marines and one navy corpsman who received the medal of honor; the maintenance of the texas marine medal of honor…
Provide Fire Protection and Emergency Services
To acquire, operate and maintain fire fighting, rescue and other emergency equipment necessary for the preservation of life and the protection of property from and during fire or other emergencies within the area of its operation in Archer…
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 25 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 HIDDEN SPRINGS YOUTH RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds Witte Museum ↗
- Who funds MILITARY WARRIORS SUPPORT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO INC ↗
- Who funds PURPLE HEART PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE CENTURIONS OF KENDALL COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BERGHEIM VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds Boerne Volunteer Fire Department ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL 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 Michael and Pamela Williams Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Michael and Pamela Williams Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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