How much does The Paul J Williams Foundation give?

The Paul J Williams Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $500,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 35 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Paul J Williams Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (30%), Health (13%), Education (10%).

Who are The Paul J Williams Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Midland Classical Academy ($157k), Midland Bible Church ($152k), High Sky Childrens Ranch Inc ($112k).

Does The Paul J Williams Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Paul J Williams Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Paul J Williams Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Permian Basin Area Foundation, Pevehouse Family Foundation, The Henry Foundation.

Where is The Paul J Williams Foundation based?

The Paul J Williams Foundation is based in TX.

The Paul J Williams Foundation

The Paul J Williams Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$500k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$40k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$789kHealth$324kEducation$263kAnimals$262kReligion$221kHousing & Shelter$164kFood & Nutrition$145kArts & Culture$132kOther$0

02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k4 grants · $26k
$10k–50k21 grants · $474k

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.6M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Midland Bible Church	$40,000
Midland Classical Academy	$40,000
One Accord for Kids	$30,000
Bynum School	$30,000
CASA of West Texas	$24,000
High Sky Children's Ranch	$20,000
Crime Stoppers of Midland Inc	$20,000
Midland Children's Rehabilitation C	$20,000
311 Ministries	$20,000
The Field's Edge	$20,000
The Life Center	$20,000
Recording Library of West Texas	$20,000
Midland Humane Coalition	$20,000
The Springboard Center	$20,000
Family Promise of Midland	$20,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.3M · 40 repeat orgs$250k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.3M

$196k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%

+30%

Still filing today

70%

73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesAnimalsHealthReligionEducationHousing & ShelterOther

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

MC
MIDLAND CLASSICAL ACADEMY
8× · 2017–2024 · $157k · revenue +125%
BS
BYNUM SCHOOL
6× · 2019–2024 · $106k · revenue +182%
SL
SENIOR LIFE MIDLAND INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $102k · revenue +18%

Funded once

IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2021 · $25k
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2021 · $20k
CD
CASA DE AMIGOS OF MIDLAND TEXASINCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +30%

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.

Permian Basin Animal Advocates

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.

Animals

Childrens Advocacy Center of West Texas Inc

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.

Crime & Legal

Central Texas Spca

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…

Animals

Lone Star Casa Inc

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…

Civil Rights

Children's Aid Society of West Tx Inc

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…

Human Services

Central Texas Children's Home

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.

Human Services

One Tail At a Time West Texas

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…

Animals

Hospice of Wichita Falls Inc

Care, hope, and support for all when illness threatens life.

Human Services

Central Texas Animal Sanctuary

Animal rescue and rehabilitation

Animals

Lubbock Family Outreach Center Inc Dba Family Guidance & Outreach Center

The Family Guidance & Outreach Center of Lubbock is dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and neglect and supporting, mentoring, and educating parents.

Human Services

Food Bank of West Central Texas

To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.

Food & Nutrition

Humane Society of 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…

Animals

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of North Texas; 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.

04the grantee network

40 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. 40 of the 55 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

40/40

Grantees still filing

25/40

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,190,000Human Services$393,000Education$343,000Animals$242,000Health$192,000Religion$119,000Housing & Shelter$108,000

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.

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.

Permian Basin Area FoundationTX56.8× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Paul J Williams Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Paul J Williams Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%

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.

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