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The Troy & Sherri Williams Foundation for Education Inc at a glance

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The Troy & Sherri Williams Foundation for Education Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$164k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$72k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2025.

Education$801kAnimals$87kFood & Nutrition$76kYouth Development$45kArts & Culture$20kInternational$15kRecreation & Sports$15kHealth$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $87k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $72k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GRAUER FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION$71,765
GRAUER FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION$42,000
REIMAGINE$20,000
SCRATCH MY BELLY INC$15,000
NUZZLES & CO$10,000
HOPE WITHOUT BOUNDARIES$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $48k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%REMAKE: $3k → 10%AL OTRO LADO INC: $5k → 11%ENCIRCLE FAMILY AND YOUTH RESOURCE CENTER: $35k → 8%SAN DIEGO YOUTH SERVICES: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$842k · 9 repeat orgs$235k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
19

Total granted

$842k
$215k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
0%

Still filing today

67%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • GF
    GRAUER FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $441k · revenue +17%
  • Philabundance
    3× · 2017–2020 · $75k · revenue +101%
  • NC
    Nuzzles & Co
    3× · 2022–2025 · $30k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • BY
    BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • EF
    Encircle Family and Youth Resource Center
    one grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue -39%
  • EC
    E Clarks
    one grant, 2017 · $18k
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.

1
Amazing Dogs

Our mission is to save dogs in distressing conditions on both sides of the California/Mexican border. We provide them with essential medical treatment and care to help them regain their health, and ultimately match them with loving homes…

Animals
2
Legacy of Love 805

Legacy of Love rescues rehabilitates and rehomes high-risk dogs in need and realizes the healing power and second chances. We are dedicated to providing a safe haven for dogs from high kill shelters and unsafe environments helping them…

Animals
3
Crossing Guardians

Crossing Guardians is a nonprofit animal rescue and charitable organization. The purpose of our organization is to save and improve the lives of abused, neglected, and homeless animals suffering and struggling to survive along the…

Animals
4
North Bay Animal Services
Animals
5
Friends of Humane Services in Tijuana

Friends of Humane Services in Tijuana was founded in August of 2007. Our mission is to support organizations and individuals who work to improve the conditions in the US and Mexican communities that border the Tijuana, Mexico area, by…

Animals
6
J-Lo's Animal Rescue & Sanctuary in

Animal care and rescue

Animals
7
California Animal Rescue and Education Sanctuary Inc

C.A.R.E.S.MISSION STATEMENT*Rescue, foster and find good homes for abandoned and homeless domestic and farm animals.*Spay/neuter abandoned and homeless cats and dogs, as well as help low income families with same.*Conduct TNR+ programs to…

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8
Tazzy Animal Rescue Fund Inc

We rescue dogs and cats and provide free community services for underserved counties in California helping them keep their companion animals versus surrendering them to animal shelters. These programs include spay and neuter clinics…

Animals
9
California Bully Rescue

To reform the dog agenda through intentional rescue, educational resources and support structural change in the community, in order to give each dog a fighting chance.

Animals
10
Animal Rescuers Without Borders

Battling against the overpopulation of homeless pets and improving the lives of companion animals through rescue, fostering programs, adoption, pet care, educational programs and of course spaying and neutering.

Animals
11
Runaways Animal Rescue
Animals
12
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for Monterey County

The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Diego Youth Services; the most unlike its peers is Spartan Boxing Club. 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

16 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. 16 of the 29 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
7/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GRAUER FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION: $440,845 · EducationGRAUER FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION+1 more: $5,000 · EducationWESTTOWN SCHOOL: $150,000 · OtherWESTTOWN SCHOOLR Ham: $56,836 · OtherR HamBRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · OtherBRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITYC Allred: $27,454 · OtherC AllredREIMAGINE: $20,000 · OtherE Clarks: $18,200 · OtherW Adams: $15,000 · Other+9 more: $53,471 · Other+9 moreSCRATCH MY BELLY INC: $40,000 · AnimalsSCRATCH M…Nuzzles & Co: $30,000 · AnimalsNuzzles &…EAST BAY SPCA: $10,000 · AnimalsEAST BAY …DELCO DAWGS INC: $7,000 · AnimalsDELCO DAW…Philabundance: $75,000 · Food & NutritionEncircle Family and Youth Resource Center: $35,000 · Human ServicesSAN DIEGO YOUTH SERVICES: $5,000 · Human ServicesAL OTRO LADO: $5,000 · Human ServicesRemake: $3,000 · Human ServicesHOPE WITHOUT BOUNDARIES: $15,000 · InternationalSPARTAN BOXING CLUB: $15,000 · Recreation & Sports
Education$445,845Other$390,961Animals$87,000Food & Nutrition$75,000Human Services$48,000International$15,000Recreation & Sports$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGRAUER FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION: $440,845 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetPhilabundance: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSCRATCH MY BELLY INC: $40,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetEncircle Family and Youth Resource Center: $35,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNuzzles & Co: $30,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetHOPE WITHOUT BOUNDARIES: $15,000 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetSPARTAN BOXING CLUB: $15,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEAST BAY SPCA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDELCO DAWGS INC: $7,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetSAN DIEGO YOUTH SERVICES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RUSTIC PATHWAYS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 86% of budgetAL OTRO LADO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRemake: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

The Pfizer Foundation…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Charities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Paypal Charitable Giv…Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
The Pfizer Foundation IncNY13.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Troy & Sherri Williams Foundation for Education Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Troy & Sherri Williams Foundation for Education Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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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    How do I get to The Troy & Sherri Williams Foundation for Education Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Troy & Sherri Williams Foundation for Education Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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