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Todd a Williams Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$186k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$1.0MCommunity Improvement$528kPhilanthropy$400kEmployment$178kHealth$60kPublic Benefit$38kYouth Development$34kArts & Culture$32kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $29k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$714k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BONTON FARMS$100,000
UNITED TO LEARN$50,000
STARFISH$18,927
THE GOODNESS WEB FOUNDATION$10,000
TEXAS WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY$3,000
BISHOP DUNNE CATHOLIC SCHOOL$2,500
MEDRANO JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL$600
Individual grant recipient$600
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 14%JONATHAN'S PLACE: $5k → 14%JONATHAN'S PLACE: $3k → 14%ON THE ROAD LENDING: $6k → 14%CITY SQUARE: $50 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NH
NY
MA
IN
OH
CA
NC
DC
GA
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 31 repeat orgs$486k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

31 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
71

Total granted

$1.5M
$470k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+10%

Still filing today

71%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitOther

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

  • AC
    AUSTIN COLLEGE
    5× · 2017–2021 · $346k · revenue +12%
  • UT
    UNITED TO LEARN
    7× · 2018–2024 · $117k · revenue +558%
  • C
    COMMIT2DALLAS
    4× · 2017–2021 · $103k · revenue +335%

Funded once

  • TW
    TEXAS WOMANS UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • S
    SCHOLARSHOTgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +75%
  • JF
    JOINED FOR GOOD INC DBA BRACKETS FOR GOOD
    one grant, 2017 · $29k · revenue -100%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Progress Texas Institute

The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.

Civil Rights
2
The Royal School System

The mission of Royal Public Schools is to spark students' natural curiosity and love of learning while providing the knowledge and skills they need to lead successful and fulfilling lives.

Education
3
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
4
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…

Education
5
Progress Texas

Progress Texas is a non-profit media organization advocating for progressive ideals and policies in our state.

Civil Rights
6
Trellis Foundation

We believe every texas student deserves the opportunity to earn a postsecondary credential or degree that helps them achieve the future they envision for themselves and their families. we invest in the programs, practices, and policies…

Human Services
7
Deans for Impact

See Schedule ODeans for Impact supports educator-preparation programs to bring the science of learning into teaching practice; partners with policymakers to ensure pathways into teaching are accessible, practice-based, and…

Education
8
Leadership Austin

Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.

Youth Development
9
Raise Texas

RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…

Human Services
10
Dallas Seminary Foundation

To support the mission of Dallas Theological Seminary by offering charitable planned giving and other related services to friends of the Seminary.

Education
11
Aclu Foundation of Texas Inc

The ACLU Foundation of Texas is the unyielding guardian and promoter of freedom, justice, equality and dignity of all people, particularly for those who are still fighting to secure the full exercise of their civil rights and liberties.…

Civil Rights
12
Uatx

Uatx is a nonprofit dedicated to building a liberal arts university committed to freedom of inquiry, freedom of conscience, and civil discourse. to maintain these principles, the university will be fiercely independent financially,…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Latinos for Education Inc and the most unlike its peers is Paisley's Pals. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr15%12%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr18%21%20–35yr12%16%35–55yr13%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr15%11%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr18%24%20–35yr12%8%35–55yr13%38%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/77
the rest of the field
13%
8,364/62,725

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.

04the grantee network

74 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 74 of the 110 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
69/74
Grantees still filing
46/74
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DAW DONOR ADVISED FUND — $200,000 · OtherDAW DONOR ADVISED FUNDBONTON FARMS — $190,000 · OtherBONTON FARMSSTARFISH — $150,396 · OtherSTARFISHTexas Women's Foundation — $108,500 · OtherTexas Women's FoundationTEXAS WOMANS UNIVERSITY — $100,000 · OtherTEXAS WOMANS UNIVERSITYSCHOLARSHOT — $75,000 · OtherSCHOLARSHOTQUALITY OF LIFE FOUNDATION — $45,000 · Other+61 more — $288,825 · Other+61 moreAUSTIN COLLEGE — $346,000 · EducationAUSTIN COLLEGEUNITED TO LEARN — $117,200 · EducationUNITED TO LEARNCOMMIT2DALLAS — $102,500 · EducationCOMMIT2DALLASTeach for America Inc — $90,000 · EducationTeach for America IncTEXAS TRIBUNE INC — $29,600 · Education+14 more — $126,100 · Education+14 moreTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION — $228,406 · PhilanthropyTHE DALLAS FO…COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC — $30,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITIES F…DALLAS SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS — $13,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GOODNESS WEB FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Philanthropy+3 more — $10,545 · PhilanthropyMomentous Institute — $37,500 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS — $10,500 · Youth DevelopmentBLACK ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS INC — $11,358 · Arts & CulturePEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE — $10,000 · Arts & CultureDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum — $4,500 · Arts & CultureALL STARS PROJECT INC — $2,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED STATES CAPITOL HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $2,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $1,750 · Arts & CultureJUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION — $10,000 · Human ServicesKID NET FOUNDATION JONATHANS PLACE — $7,500 · Human ServicesOTR RESOURCES — $6,042 · Human Services+1 more — $50 · Human ServicesCombined Arms — $5,000 · Public BenefitTexas 2036 — $5,000 · Public BenefitCenter for Public Policy Priorities — $2,500 · Public Benefit
Other$1,157,721Education$811,400Philanthropy$291,951Youth Development$48,000Arts & Culture$31,608Human Services$23,592Public Benefit$12,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAUSTIN COLLEGE — $346,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION — $228,406 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED TO LEARN — $117,200 over 7y, 3.9% of budgetTexas Women's Foundation — $108,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCOMMIT2DALLAS — $102,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $90,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOLARSHOT — $75,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetMomentous Institute — $37,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS TRIBUNE INC — $29,600 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTrinity University — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDallas Regional Chamber — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUPLIFT EDUCATION — $24,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGood Reason Houston Inc — $23,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Educator Collective — $13,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetDALLAS SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS — $13,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBLACK ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS INC — $11,358 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS — $10,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTEACH PLUS INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GOODNESS WEB FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLEADERSHIP ISD INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetI Am A Golfer Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetDALLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $8,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetKID NET FOUNDATION JONATHANS PLACE — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAFTER8TOEDUCATE — $7,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetOTR RESOURCES — $6,042 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLATINOS FOR EDUCATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMOVEMBER FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TEACHING TRUST — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCombined Arms — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTexas 2036 — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum — $4,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS OF GREATER DALLAS INC — $4,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH DALLAS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSEREOLIPI NOMADIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $3,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG — $3,350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCATIONAL FIRST STEPS — $3,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetChildren At Risk — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetABERG CENTER FOR LITERACY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEAGUE OF UNITED LATIN AMERICAN CITIZENS — $2,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMICHAEL YOUNG FAMILY FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCenter for Public Policy Priorities — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

The Dallas FoundationCommunities Foundatio…The Addy FoundationTexas Women's Foundat…Meadows Foundation IncUnited Way of Metropo…The Hoglund FoundationTexas Instruments Fou…Hoblitzelle FoundationThe Moody FoundationByrne Family Foundati…The Perot Foundation
The Dallas FoundationTX49.7× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Dallas Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Addy Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · Meadows Foundation Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · The Hoglund Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Byrne Family Foundation Trust · The Perot Foundation

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 Todd a Williams Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Todd a Williams Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Todd a Williams Family Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 110 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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