· Private foundation
The Williams Family Fund
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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DETROIT OPERA | $50,000 |
| GLAM4GOOD FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| HENRY FORD HEALTH | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,200 |
| ANGELS PLACE | $7,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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 +48% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 1 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DODETROIT OPERA5× · 2020–2025 · $160k · revenue +23%
- AAAMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME2× · 2020–2021 · $55k · revenue +57%
- HFHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM3× · 2020–2025 · $35k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- PGPLW GIVING FUND 40122170one grant, 2022 · $3.8M
- RCRJ CHARITABLE DAF 487822one grant, 2022 · $633k
- RCRJ CHARITABLE DAF 487816one grant, 2022 · $633k
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.
The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.
Gdahc mission: together with our partners, we empower and improve the health and economic vitality of individuals, organizations and communities by catalyzing the power of collaboration. gdahc vision: healthy people. healthy community.…
We believe in the life-changing, transformational, revelatory power of great art and opera. Lyric Opera of Chicago exists to provide a broad, deep, and relevant cultural service to the Chicago region and the nation, and to advance the…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Delta dental fund's mission is to improve the oral health of the public and to advance dental science and the dental profession through research and education.
Creating healthy communities - together
We, trinity health-michigan and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. trinity health-michigan is a member of trinity health.
Mclaren health care corporation, along with its subsidiaries, will be michigan's best value in healthcare as defined by quality outcomes and cost.
Jewelers of america, the most trusted and influential voice of the jewelry industry, empowers and unites its members through expert guidance and advocacy, driving excellence, integrity, and success in an ever-changing marketplace.
As one of the nation's leading integrated health systems, it is the mission of henry ford health system, a related entity of the filing organization, to improve people's lives through the excellence of the science and art of health care…
The Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University ("The Auditorium"), an Illinois not-for-profit corporation, is committed to presenting the finest in international, cultural, community and educational programming to Chicago and to the…
The chamber is the voice for business and works to power the economy for southeast michigan through public policy, advocacy and leading regional economic development and talent initiatives.
How this is measured
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 34 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 DETROIT OPERA ↗
- Who funds Glam4Good Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME ↗
- Who funds HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds SKY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds CHILD SAFE MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds ANGELS' PLACE ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY HEALTH CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds KIDS KICKING CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds DESIGNCONNECT ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
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: Edward C and Linda Dresner Levy Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Williams Family Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Williams Family Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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