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The Williams-King Foundation 10800 at a glance

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The Williams-King Foundation 10800

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.

$12k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$2k
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.

Recreation & Sports$41kReligion$40kAnimals$16kEducation$16kHealth$15kYouth Development$4kArts & Culture$3kEnvironment$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
2
States reached
$284k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SADDLE UP$1,500
CHRIST PRESBYTERIAN ACADEMY$1,500
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$1,500
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$1,000
FRIENDS OF WARNER PARKS$1,000
SILOAM FAMILY HEALTH CENTER$1,000
BATTLE GROUND ACADEMY$500
AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION$500
ELLA'S HOUSE$500
MCGOWAN GLOBAL INSTITUTE$500
THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY$500
ST GEORGE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH$500
OWL'S HILL NATURE SANCTUARY$500
FRIENDS OF WARNER PARKS$500
NASHVILLE TREE FOUNDATION$250
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SADDLE UP: $3k → 4%FRIENDS OF WARNER PARKS: $7k → 14%WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1k → 15%SADDLE UP: $2k → 4%FRIENDS OF WARNER PARKS: $7k → 14%SADDLE UP: $2k → 4%FRIENDS OF WARNER PARKS: $6k → 14%SADDLE UP: $2k → 4%FRIENDS OF WARNER PARKS: $6k → 14%SADDLE UP: $1k → 4%FRIENDS OF WARNER PARKS: $6k → 14%SADDLE UP: $1k → 4%FRIENDS OF WARNER PARKS: $4k → 14%SADDLE UP: $1k → 4%FRIENDS OF WARNER PARKS: $2k → 14%FRIENDS OF WARNER PARKS: $1k → 14%FRIENDS OF WARNER PARKS: $1k → 14%CHRIST PRESBYTERIAN ACADEMY: $2k → 14%CHRIST PRESBYTERIAN ACADEMY: $2k → 14%CHRIST PRESBYTERIAN ACADEMY: $1k → 14%CHRIST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $1k → 14%CHRIST PRESBYTERIAN ACADEMY: $1k → 14%BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $1k → 14%CHRIST PRESBYTERIAN ACADEMY: $1k → 14%OWL'S HILL NATURE SANCTUARY: $2k → 4%CHRIST PRESBYTERIAN ACADEMY: $1k → 14%OWL'S HILL NATURE SANCTUARY: $2k → 4%CHRIST PRESBYTERIAN ACADEMY: $1k → 14%OWL'S HILL NATURE SANCTUARY: $2k → 4%CHRIST PRESBYTERIAN ACADEMY: $1k → 14%OWL'S HILL NATURE SANCTUARY: $1k → 4%NASHVILLE ANTI HUMAN TRAFFICKING: $1k → 14%OWL'S HILL NATURE SANCTUARY: $1k → 4%OWL'S HILL NATURE SANCTUARY: $1k → 4%OWL'S HILL NATURE SANCTUARY: $1k → 4%OWL'S HILL NATURE SANCTUARY: $1k → 4%STUDIO TENN: $1k → 4%SILOAM FAMILY HEALTH CENTER: $1k → 14%FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $6k → 14%FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $5k → 14%FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $4k → 14%FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $4k → 14%FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $4k → 14%FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $4k → 14%FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $3k → 14%FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $2k → 14%FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $2k → 14%FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $1k → 14%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$138k · 23 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +43% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
9

Total granted

$138k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+43%

Still filing today

70%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250 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
EducationAnimalsEnvironmentReligionRecreation & SportsHealthOther
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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $41k · revenue +227%
  • OH
    OWL'S HILL NATURE SANCTUARY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $11k · revenue +48%
  • SU
    SADDLE UP
    8× · 2017–2025 · $11k · revenue +253%

Funded once

  • CB
    CHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDENS
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
  • AH
    ATRIUM HEALTH WAKE FOREST BAPTIST
    one grant, 2021 · $750
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
Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Association

Hawk mountain sanctuary association's mission is to conserve birds of prey worldwide by providing leadership in raptor conservation science and education, and by maintaining hawk mountain sanctuary as a model observation, research, and…

Animals
2
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
3
Discover Life in America Inc

Dlia will develop a model for research in biodiversity and will use the knowledge to develop and disseminate information to encourage the discovery, understanding, preservation, and enjoyment of natural resources.

Environment
4
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
5
Wildlife Alliance Inc

Wildlife alliance is the leader in direct protection of forests and wildlife in tropical asia. our mission is to combat deforestation, biodiversity loss, climate change, and poverty by partnering with local communities and governments.…

Animals
6
National Audubon Society Inc

We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).

Environment
7
Archbold Expeditions Inc

Archbold expeditions, inc.'s mission is to build and share the scientific knowledge needed to protect the life, lands, and waters of the heart of florida and beyond.

Unclassified
8
Tennessee Wildlife Federation Inc

Leading the conservation, sound management, and wise use of tennessee's wildlife and great outdoors, tennessee wildlife federation advocates sound natural resource policies and provides various educational programs that promote the…

Environment
9
National Wildlife Federation

Unite all americans to ensure wildlife thrives in a rapidly changing world.

Animals
10
Walnut Grove Christian School

We are a k-12 christian school founded under the following (4) pillars: academics: we provide an amazing accredited academic program utilizing 100% certified teachers. schedule: we provide our students and their families an opportunity on…

Education
11
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc

We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…

Environment
12
Tenngreen Land Conservancy

The organization's primary mission is conserving land where people and nature can thrive by creating green corridors linking existing public lands using conservation easments and outright purchase.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee; the most unlike its peers is African Wildlife Foundation Inc. 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

20 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. 20 of the 33 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
15/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $33,500 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHCHRIST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH INC: $11,750 · OtherCHRIST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH INC+18 more: $17,500 · Other+18 moreFRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC: $41,000 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INCOWL'S HILL NATURE SANCTUARY: $11,250 · AnimalsOWL'S HILL NA…THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE: $2,700 · AnimalsTHE ELEPHANT …AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · AnimalsAFRICAN WILDL…SADDLE UP: $10,500 · HealthBATTLE GROUND ACADEMY: $3,300 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,600 · EducationPRESTON TAYLOR MINISTRIES: $1,450 · EducationMONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE: $950 · EducationHARDING ACADEMY: $500 · EducationMCGOWAN GLOBAL INSTITUTE: $1,500 · ReligionOPERATION ANDREW GROUP INC: $1,500 · ReligionBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 560 MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $1,500 · Youth Development
Other$62,750Recreation & Sports$41,000Animals$16,450Health$10,500Education$7,800Religion$3,000Youth Development$1,500

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 budgetFRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC: $41,000 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetOWL'S HILL NATURE SANCTUARY: $11,250 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetSADDLE UP: $10,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBATTLE GROUND ACADEMY: $3,300 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE: $2,700 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSILOAM HEALTH: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,600 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetMCGOWAN GLOBAL INSTITUTE: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 560 MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEllas House: $1,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetOPERATION ANDREW GROUP INC: $1,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE REBEL FUND: $1,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetPRESTON TAYLOR MINISTRIES: $1,450 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF RADNOR LAKE: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE: $950 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHARDING ACADEMY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE TREE FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC ↗
  • Who funds OWL'S HILL NATURE SANCTUARY ↗
  • Who funds SADDLE UP ↗
  • Who funds BATTLE GROUND ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE ↗
  • Who funds AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SILOAM HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MCGOWAN GLOBAL INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 560 MIDDLE TENNESSEE ↗
  • Who funds Ellas House ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION ANDREW GROUP INC ↗
  • Who funds THE REBEL FUND ↗
  • Who funds PRESTON TAYLOR MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF RADNOR LAKE ↗
  • Who funds MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
  • Who funds HARDING ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE TREE 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.

The Community Foundat…The Wade-Buntin Famil…Thomas & Mamie Houser…Ebs FoundationDorothy Cate and Thom…Hca Healthcare Founda…Raymond James Charita…Yarbrough Family Foun…Dettwiller FoundationTennessee Titans Foun…Memorial Foundation I…American Endowment Fo…
The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee IncTN29× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation · Thomas & Mamie Houser Charitable Foundation · Ebs Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Yarbrough Family Foundation · Dettwiller Foundation · Tennessee Titans Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation

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-King Foundation 10800 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Williams-King Foundation 10800. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Williams-King Foundation 10800?

    Find your warmest path to The Williams-King Foundation 10800 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 33 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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