· Private foundation
The Paul J Williams Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $474k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Midland Classical Academy | $40,000 |
| Midland Bible Church | $40,000 |
| Bynum School | $30,000 |
| One Accord for Kids | $30,000 |
| CASA of West Texas | $24,000 |
| The Field's Edge | $20,000 |
| Family Promise of Midland | $20,000 |
| Rays of Hope Children's Grief Centr | $20,000 |
| Midland Rape Crisis and Children's | $20,000 |
| Wilderness Trek Christian Camp Inc | $20,000 |
| Midland Humane Coalition | $20,000 |
| Senior Life Midland | $20,000 |
| Midland Children's Rehabilitation C | $20,000 |
| High Sky Children's Ranch | $20,000 |
| 311 Ministries | $20,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $221k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 70% of those 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.
40 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 4 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k 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
- MCMIDLAND CLASSICAL ACADEMY8× · 2017–2024 · $157k · revenue +125%
- BSBYNUM SCHOOL6× · 2019–2024 · $106k · revenue +182%
- SLSENIOR LIFE MIDLAND INC8× · 2017–2024 · $102k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $25k
- CDCASA DE AMIGOS OF MIDLAND TEXASINCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +30%
- DRDOG RESCUE R USone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -28%
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.
Permian basin animal advocates strives to educate and help the public with spay and neuter while also rescuing abandoned or unwanted animals and finding them forever homes.
The Organizations mission is to bring unity and efficiency to investigations of child abuse through the use of a multi-disciplinary team and, thereby, to provide the best possible services to victims of child abuse and their families.
Rescue neglected, unwanted homeless dogs and cats nurture and provide shelter until they are placed with a forever family strive to reduce animal overpopulation prevent cruelty to animals teach responsible pet ownership through an outreach…
Lone Star CASA elevates the voices of children in Kaufman and Rockwall County who have experienced abuse and neglect by providing trained volunteer advocates to work alongside children and families so they can achieve safety and stability…
To provide shelter, supervision, and counseling for children in crisis; to cooperate with other agencies in order to resolve problems related to the welfare of these children; to assist the families of these children in seeking possible…
To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.
One tail at a time west texas otat wtx serves the rural communities of west texas by supporting animal shelter operations rescuing and sheltering homeless unwanted companion animals dogs and cats primarily arranging their veterinary care…
Care, hope, and support for all when illness threatens life.
Animal rescue and rehabilitation
The Family Guidance & Outreach Center of Lubbock is dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and neglect and supporting, mentoring, and educating parents.
To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.
As an advocate for the community goal of maintaining its no kill status, the humane society provides adoption, rescue and foster opportunities for the homeless animals at the city of waco animal shelter, as well as community education…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of North Texas and the most unlike its peers is Kelsey Logan Angel Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
40 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. 40 of the 55 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 MIDLAND CLASSICAL ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds HIGH SKY CHILDRENS RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds BYNUM SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SENIOR LIFE MIDLAND INC ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND HUMANE COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds 311 Ministries ↗
- Who funds CASA OF WEST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds ONE ACCORD FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds RECORDING LIBRARY OF WEST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds The Fields Edge ↗
- Who funds THE ATTIC FOSTER NETWORK ↗
- Who funds West of the Pecos Museum ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND SOUP KITCHEN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds WEST TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SAFE PLACE OF THE PERMIAN BASIN ↗
- Who funds THE SPRINGBOARD CENTER ↗
- Who funds WILDERNESS TREK CHRISTIAN CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds FIX WEST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds LONE STAR SANCTUARY FOR ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds SASSYS DOGS RESCUE ↗
- Who funds OILFIELD CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP OF HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUND ↗
- Who funds TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds CASA DE AMIGOS OF MIDLAND TEXASINC ↗
- Who funds DOG RESCUE R US ↗
- Who funds Grand Companions Humane Society ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Permian Basin Area Foundation · Pevehouse Family Foundation · The Henry Foundation · Scharbauer Foundation Inc · Yarborough Foundation · Abell-Hanger Foundation · The Fasken Foundation · Beal Foundation · Warren Charitable Foundation · James a Buddy Davidson Charitable Foundation · Wayne & Jo Ann Moore Charitable Foundation · Helen Greathouse Charitable Trust
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 Paul J Williams Foundation 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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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