· Public charity
The Willis Towers Watson Foundation
The willis foundation sponsors fundraising events and in turn makes charitable contributions to u.s.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 21 grants below total $675,145 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $776,968 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $101,823 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k3 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $181k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $474k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $119,400 |
| POSSE | $110,000 |
| FISHER HOUSE | $65,000 |
| AMERICAN VET DOGS | $65,000 |
| GARY SINISE FOUNDATION | $65,000 |
| WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION GRANGER COBB INSTITUTE FOR SENIOR L | $50,000 |
| AGC EDUCATION & RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CHARLES HUMPHREY KEATING IV FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| BE THE MATCH FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| KIDS CHANCE OF WISCONSIN | $20,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NYC | $19,636 |
| UMOM NEW DAY CENTERS | $10,941 |
| ADVENTURES IN RIDING | $10,715 |
| THE OPEN DOOR | $10,000 |
| BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HOUSING SERVICES | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $77k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2020, 0 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $631k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NEW YORK CITY INC3× · 2017–2020 · $68k · revenue -13%
- RIRehabilitation Institute of Chicago2× · 2017–2020 · $23k · revenue +31%
- AIADVENTURES IN RIDING WITH MISS JULIE2× · 2019–2020 · $21k
Funded once
- SASOUTHWEST AUTISM RESEARCH AND RESOURCE CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +138%
- TATAKE A BREATHER FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +145%
- CPCOMMUNITY PARTNERS IN ACTION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $16k · revenue +122%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
Susan g. komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting breast cancer across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the u.s. and in countries worldwide. we advocate for policies to protect patients, drive…
The mission of the lung cancer research foundation is to improve lung cancer outcomes by funding research for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure of lung cancer.
The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…
Break through cancer is a foundation dedicated to supporting translational research in the most difficult to treat cancers. our partner organizations are among the top cancer research centers and together, represent some of the most…
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Baldrick's Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Concerns of Police Survivors. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 43 of the 45 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NEW YORK CITY INC ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHARLES HUMPHREY KEATING IV FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AGC EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST AUTISM RESEARCH AND RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago ↗
- Who funds TAKE A BREATHER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NMDP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KIDS CHANCE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD INTERVAL HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA CORPORATION FOR AGING ↗
- Who funds PAWS CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA HARTFORD REGION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds UMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE PASSAGE PROJECT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF EASTERN WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds CONCERNS OF POLICE SURVIVORS ↗
- Who funds THE OPEN DOOR ↗
- Who funds H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER & RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HOUSING AND SERVICES ↗
- Who funds BROOKDALE SENIOR LIVING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HORIZON HOME CARE & HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF ORANGE COUNTY CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds LINC HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Sbm Charitable Foundation Inc · Ion Bank Foundation Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Willis Towers Watson Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Community Partners in Action Inc — 90% of income from government
- Horizons Inc — 39% of income from government
- Ywca Hartford Region Inc — 7% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.