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The Ted & Rita Williams Foundation
Its FY2021 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 FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k11 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $61k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MONEY OUT VOTERS IN | $20,536 |
| PUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| OPICA | $20,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $2,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $2,500 |
| THE RICHARD ATLAS EARLY CHILDHOOD FUND | $2,500 |
| VENICE FAMILY CLINIC | $2,000 |
| NRDC COUNCIL OF 1000 | $1,000 |
| UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN HUMANIST ASSOCIATION | $500 |
| UC BERKELEY THE LETTERS & SCIENCE LEADERSHIP FUND | $500 |
| PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY LOS ANGELES | $500 |
| TREE PEOPLE | $500 |
| VENICE COMMUNITY HOUSING | $500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of your 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +110% since the first grant, against +65% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2021, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- PCPUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC5× · 2017–2021 · $40k · revenue +13%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC5× · 2017–2021 · $13k · revenue +98%
VENICE FAMILY CLINIC5× · 2017–2021 · $10k · revenue +110%
Funded once
- PCPALISADES CHARTER HIGH SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +65%
- LALOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue ×13
- PCPEDIATRIC CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +40%
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.
The los angeles conservancy is a nonprofit membership organization that works through education and advocacy to recognize, preserve, and revitalize the historic architectural and cultural resources of los angeles county.
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The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
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Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
Calnonprofits, the leading policy voice for california's nonprofit sector, focuses on advocacy, education, and research to build a more powerful and politically engaged nonprofit network across california.
The University of California Student Association (UCSA) is a coalition of students and student governments that aims to provide a collective voice for all students through advocacy and direct action. UCSA participates in the shared…
The la conservation corps creates equitable opportunities for young people to build resilience in themselves, their communities and the environment through a program of work, education and support.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Alliance to End Homelessness and the most unlike its peers is Women Against Gun Violence. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 24 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 PUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MONEY OUT VOTERS IN ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds VENICE FAMILY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds PALISADES CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PEDIATRIC CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Women Against Gun Violence ↗
- Who funds VENICE COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN HUMANIST ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY ↗
- Who funds TREEPEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds 10000 DEGREES ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL LAW CENTER ON HOMELESSNESS AND POVERTY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
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: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Ted & Rita 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.
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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