· Private foundation
The Williams Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $73k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $104k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $514k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF CO FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CO FOUNDATION | $196,603 |
| SCHOOL DISTRICT RE-3 | $117,100 |
| SCHOOL DISTRICT RE-50 | $35,300 |
| SCHOOL DISTRICT RE-2 | $28,975 |
| RISING UP | $15,000 |
| SCHOOL DISTRICT RE-20 | $13,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF MORGAN COUNTY | $12,000 |
| CENTER FOR HEALING TRUAMA & | $7,000 |
| HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SALK INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| EDUCATION FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| WEBB-WARING CENTER | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $52k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +167% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
28 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2025 · $4.5M · revenue +79%
- TUThe United Way of Morgan County Colorado9× · 2017–2025 · $94k · revenue +778%
- RURising Up8× · 2017–2025 · $94k · revenue +425%
Funded once
- MSMorgan Strong Incone grant, 2019 · $6k
- NCNE COLORADO HEALTH DEPARTMENTone grant, 2019 · $6k
- CDCONVERGE DAY TREATMENT CENTERone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue -35%
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.
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.
To provide mental health services in Morgan County, Colorado and Northeast Colorado.
Establish a secure way for the public to contribute to victims of mass tragedy and to assist local communities with the financial, emotional, and physical needs of victims of mass tragedies in Colorado
Grief support to those who have lost a loved one.
To foster relationships amoung diverse people and organizations to strengthen the well-being, safety, and cohesive nature of the community.
The Organization provides developed, evidence-based prevention and treatment mental health program services focused on alcohol, substance abuse, and domestic violence related issues. The Organization also provides affordable and accessible…
To develop and increase charitable giving that connects donors to community needs in Southwest Colorado and to support the nonprofit sector through granting and educational opportunities.
Juniper SoCO provides comprehensive healing resources to survivors of sexual assault / intimate partner violence, equipping the community to prevent future sexual violence, & fostering an organizational culture that prioritizes wellness…
Homeward Pikes Peak empowers individuals and families to access stable housing, increase mental health, recovery, and economic stability.
Promote the general interest of daily, weekly, and monthly newspapers and online publications, improve editorials and business methods of daily and weekly newspapers, and advance those newspapers' usefulness and influence in the public…
Increase awareness, advocate treatment and promote research and education on problem gambling
Centus is a top-tier provider of behavioral health services, education, and programs in metro Denver. We take pride in integrating every client's questions and concerns about their physical, behavioral, an spiritual self. We are champions…
Provide affordable and attractive independent living housing for seniors in a neighborhood setting that encourages fellowship and cooperative activities
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 39 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The United Way of Morgan County Colorado ↗
- Who funds Rising Up ↗
- Who funds SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds Regional Home Visitation Program dba Baby Bear Hugs ↗
- Who funds SARA Inc ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE PLAINS INC ↗
- Who funds MORGAN COUNTY FAMILY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds Morgan Strong Inc ↗
- Who funds SALUD FAMILY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds BLESSING BIKE ↗
- Who funds CONVERGE DAY TREATMENT CENTER ↗
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
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.
How this is measured
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