Colorado · Private foundation
The Williams Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $690k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 26
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.2M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Williams Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 27 | $690k | 15% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $1.4M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $664k | 8% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $409k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $1.6M | 9% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $1.4M | 18% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $2.6M | 8% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $1.5M | 9% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Colorado Foundation | $4,509,106 | 6 | 0% |
| The United Way of Morgan County Colorado | $94,000 | 9 | 10% |
| Rising Up | $93,500 | 8 | 5% |
| Scottish Rite Foundation of Colorado | $40,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Regional Home Visitation Program dba Baby Bear Hugs | $34,000 | 5 | 1% |
| SARA Inc | $26,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Hospice of the Plains Inc | $24,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Morgan County Family Center Inc | $18,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Rocky Mountain Public Media Inc | $8,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Morgan Strong Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 3% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Colorado Foundation | $4,509,106 | 6 | 0% |
| The United Way of Morgan County Colorado | $94,000 | 9 | 10% |
| Rising Up | $93,500 | 8 | 5% |
| Scottish Rite Foundation of Colorado | $40,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Regional Home Visitation Program dba Baby Bear Hugs | $34,000 | 5 | 1% |
| SARA Inc | $26,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Hospice of the Plains Inc | $24,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Morgan County Family Center Inc | $18,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Rocky Mountain Public Media Inc | $8,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Morgan Strong Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Salud Family Health | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Blessing Bike | $3,695 | 2 | 7% |
| Converge Day Treatment Center | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Williams Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Colorado Health Foundation · Bloedorn Foundation · Leprino Foods Company Foundation · Caring for Colorado Centennial Fund · Community Foundation of Northern Colorado · Anschutz Family Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Williams Family Foundation
- How much does The Williams Family Foundation give?
- The Williams Family Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $690,478 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Williams Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (68%), Health (24%), Housing & Shelter (5%).
- Who are The Williams Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Colorado Foundation ($4.5M), The United Way of Morgan County Colorado ($94k), Rising Up ($94k).
- Does The Williams Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% 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 The Colorado Health Foundation, Bloedorn Foundation, Leprino Foods Company Foundation.
- Where is The Williams Family Foundation based?
- The Williams Family Foundation is based in CO.
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