Texas · Private foundation
The Williamson Foundation
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.
- $75k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,580
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations The Williamson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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 | 20 | $75k | 30% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $97k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $80k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $71k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $61k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $30k | 42% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $6k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 2 | $6k | 100% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rancho Mirage Writers Festival | $60,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Texas Public Radio | $58,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Minnesota Environmental Partnership | $54,650 | 2 | 9% |
| San Antonio Metropolitan Ministries Inc | $31,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Freedom From Religion Foundation Inc | $20,264 | 5 | 0% |
| San Antonio Conservation Society | $20,250 | 7 | 2% |
| Microgrants | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Lamorinda Soccer Club | $19,750 | 2 | 1% |
| Alamo Public Telecommunications Council Doing Business as Klrn | $16,000 | 7 | 0% |
| McNay Art Museum | $14,500 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 33 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($91k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Williamson Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · San Antonio Area Foundation · Russell Hill Rogers Fund for the Arts · John R & Greli N Less Charitable Trust #FE324 · Marcia & Otto Koehler Foundation · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Muriel F Siebert Foundation Inc · The Ewing Halsell Foundation · Jack and Doris Smothers and Bud Smothers Memorial Foundation · Charitable Foundation Frost F0359600
How this is measured
About The Williamson Foundation
- How much does The Williamson Foundation give?
- The Williamson Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $74,975 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Williamson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (47%), Environment (17%), Recreation & Sports (7%).
- Who are The Williamson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Rancho Mirage Writers Festival ($60k), Texas Public Radio ($59k), Minnesota Environmental Partnership ($55k).
- Does The Williamson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Williamson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Williamson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992, San Antonio Area Foundation, Russell Hill Rogers Fund for the Arts.
- Where is The Williamson Foundation based?
- The Williamson Foundation is based in TX.
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