How much did THE TED & RITA WILLIAMS FOUNDATION grant in FY2021?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 61% of THE TED & RITA WILLIAMS FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2021 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

Under $10k11 grants · $14k
$10k–50k3 grants · $61k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants

MONEY OUT VOTERS IN$20,536
OPICA$20,000
PUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION$20,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$2,500
THE RICHARD ATLAS EARLY CHILDHOOD FUND$2,500
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$2,500
VENICE FAMILY CLINIC$2,000
UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS$1,000
NRDC COUNCIL OF 1000$1,000
AMERICAN HUMANIST ASSOCIATION$500
VENICE COMMUNITY HOUSING$500
UC BERKELEY THE LETTERS & SCIENCE LEADERSHIP FUND$500
TREE PEOPLE$500
PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY LOS ANGELES$500

02The need

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 10%. 95% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$143k · 14 repeat orgs$36k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +5% since the first grant, against -20% 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$143k

$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%

-20%

Still filing today

36%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationPublic BenefitHealthInternationalHousing & ShelterOther

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

VENICE FAMILY CLINIC
4× · 2018–2021 · $8k · revenue +98%
UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS
4× · 2018–2021 · $4k · revenue +5%
VC
VENICE COMMUNITY HOUSING
4× · 2018–2021 · $2k · revenue +930%

Funded once

LF
LAFD FOUNDATION
one grant, 2020 · $5k
PC
PEDIATRIC CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION
one grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue -53%
WA
WOMEN AGAINST GUN VIOLENCE
one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue -20%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Public Citizen Inc

Work for consumer rights

Public Benefit

Citizens Commission On Human Rights

To investigate and expose psychiatric abuses of human rights.

International

Voices for Virginia's Children

The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.

Civil Rights

Public Counsel

Public counsel is a nonprofit public interest law firm dedicated to (see sch o for continuation)advancing civil rights and racial and economic justice, as well as to amplifying the power of our clients through comprehensive legal advocacy.

Crime & Legal

International Aids Vaccine

Translate scientific discoveries into affordable, globally accessible public health solutions

International

CureCervicalCancer

Dedicated to the early detection and prevention of cervical cancer around the globe for the women who need it most.

International

League of Women Voters of California

The league of women voters of california is a nonpartisan organization that encourages informed and active participation in government and influences public policy through advocacy.

—

Consumer Attorneys of California

To seek justice for all by protecting the right to trial by jury and the rights of consumers.

—

Civicus World Alliance for Citizen

Civicus is a global alliance of civil society organisations and activists dedicated to strengthening citizen action and civil society throughout the world.

Youth Development

Consumer Watchdog Campaign

Public education and consumer advocacy.

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Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce

Chamber's vision: a thriving region for all

—

Human Rights Campaign Foundation

Research, advocacy and education to support and protect lgbtq+ individuals and families.

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 10000 Degrees 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.

04the grantee network

9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

9/9

Grantees still filing

4/9

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$108,170Public Benefit$35,000Education$21,371Health$8,000International$4,000Housing & Shelter$2,000

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.

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.

Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN11.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 organisation 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.

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1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: PUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~1 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 521263996 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on PUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 0% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to The Ted & Rita Williams Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Ted & Rita Williams Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE TED & RITA WILLIAMS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Ted & Rita Williams Foundation?

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THE TED & RITA WILLIAMS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Ted & Rita Williams Foundation?

More from the funding graph