How much does The Williams Family Foundation give?

The Williams Family Foundation reported 52 grants totaling $311,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 54 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Williams Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (29%), Religion (20%), Health (15%).

Who are The Williams Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Georgia Tech Foundation Inc ($220k), Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation ($150k), Primitive Baptist Foundation Inc ($96k).

Does The Williams Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 2% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Williams Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Williams Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Washington Community Foundation, AbbVie Foundation, Verizon Foundation.

Where is The Williams Family Foundation based?

The Williams Family Foundation is based in VA.

The Williams Family Foundation

The Williams Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Williams Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$311k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$50k

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.

Education$550kReligion$380kHealth$286kRecreation & Sports$256kInternational$157kFood & Nutrition$71kHuman Services$50kPublic Safety & Disaster$49kOther$0

02FY2024 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k45 grants · $162k
$10k–50k6 grants · $100k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$4,000

Median grant

States reached

$6.1M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION	$50,000
GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION	$40,000
NORTHERN VA PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURC	$18,000
PRIMITIVE BAPTIST FOUNDATION INC	$11,500
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY	$10,000
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY	$10,000
FOOD FOR OTHERS	$10,000
THE LAMB CENTER	$7,500
TEAM RUBICON	$7,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE	$7,000
DISCIPLING MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL	$6,500
HUMANE SOCIETY OF FAIRFAX COUNTY	$6,000
ORGANIZATION FOR AUTISM RESEARCH	$6,000
AMERICAN LIVER FOUNDATION	$6,000
Individual grant recipient	$6,000

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, $77k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 37% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of The Williams Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Williams Family Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

How this is measured

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.9M · 78 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

78 repeat relationships: 49 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.9M

$3k

Still filing today

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthRecreation & SportsReligionInternationalEducationHuman ServicesOther

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

GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC
6× · 2019–2024 · $220k · revenue +11%
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
3× · 2022–2024 · $150k · revenue +83%
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
8× · 2017–2024 · $63k · revenue +45%

Funded once

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CATHOLIC CHARITIES DICESE OF ARLING
one grant, 2020 · $3k

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.

International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International

Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

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Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…

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Society for Neuroscience

Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…

Health

Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research

The foundation for sarcoidosis research (fsr) is the leading international organization dedicated to finding a cure for sarcoidosis and improving care for sarcoidosis patients through research, education, and support. since its…

Philanthropy

Gavi Alliance

To save lives and protect people's health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines.

International

American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement

Lymphoma Research Foundation

To eradicate lymphoma and serve those touched by this disease.

Health

University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education

The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment

International Biomedical Research Alliance

Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.

Health

Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for Others Inc; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

43 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. 43 of the 83 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)

42/43

Grantees still filing

34/43

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$921,500Education$432,500Health$228,500International$114,000Human Services$84,500Recreation & Sports$79,500Religion$51,000

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.

Greater Washington Community FoundationDC12.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Verizon Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

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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By state

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