Michigan · Private foundation
The Williamson Foundation Inc
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.
- $432k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 40
- Grants FY2025
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 28%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $8,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $35,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 32
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 28% of the organizations The Williamson Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k 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 | 40 | $432k | 45% |
| FY2024 | 25 | $420k | 28% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $372k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 32 | $430k | 34% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $207k | 70% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $62k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adopt-A-Pet Inc | $265,000 | 4 | 12% |
| Food Bank of Eastern Michigan | $262,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Elga Credit Union Foundation for Impact | $167,500 | 5 | 16% |
| Old Newsboys of Flint Inc | $155,000 | 5 | 9% |
| Crossover Outreach | $95,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Boys & Girls Club of Greater Flint | $77,500 | 4 | 2% |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | $55,000 | 6 | n/a |
| The Flint Diaper Bank Inc | $47,500 | 4 | 6% |
| Irelands Dream Inc | $40,000 | 3 | 8% |
| Salvation Army | $40,000 | 3 | n/a |
Show all 54 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($267k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Williamson Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 41 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Flint · Nartel Family Foundation · Stella & Frederick Loeb Charitable Trust · The Serra Foundation · Ruth Mott Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · The Hagerman Foundation · United Way of Genesee County · Anna Paulina Foundation · Tummala Charitable Foundation · Burroughs Memorial Trust
How this is measured
About The Williamson Foundation Inc
- How much does The Williamson Foundation Inc give?
- The Williamson Foundation Inc reported 40 grants totaling $432,327 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 32 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Williamson Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (19%), Human Services (18%), Animals (16%).
- Who are The Williamson Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Adopt-A-Pet Inc ($265k), Food Bank of Eastern Michigan ($262k), Elga Credit Union Foundation for Impact ($168k).
- Does The Williamson Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Williamson Foundation Inc 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 Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, Community Foundation of Greater Flint, Nartel Family Foundation.
- Where is The Williamson Foundation Inc based?
- The Williamson Foundation Inc is based in MI.
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