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Tommy and Trudy Williams Foundation at a glance

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Tommy and Trudy Williams 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.

$27k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0174% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Community Improvement$153kEducation$75kArts & Culture$31kYouth Development$9kPhilanthropy$9kHuman Services$6kReligion$3kHousing & Shelter$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$173k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RIVERFIELD COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL$7,000
SANIBEL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION$6,820
FK LOVE FOUNDATION$4,000
DUNNILL LIVESTOCK PROJECT$2,000
ROTARY CLUB OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA$1,500
BAILEY SHELL MUSEUM$1,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$1,000
FISH$1,000
TRAILWAYS FOUNDATION$750
Individual grant recipient$700
Individual grant recipient$500
MASONIC HOME$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 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CAPTIVA FOUNDATION: $2k → 13%AIM HIGH: $3k → 15%FK LOVE FOUNDATION: $4k → 11%SEA SCHOOL: $3k → 12%FERGUSON CHILDREN: $5k → 21%CAPTIVA FOUNDATION: $2k → 13%AIM HIGH: $3k → 15%SEA SCHOOL: $3k → 12%AIM HIGH: $2k → 15%SANIBEL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $55k → 11%SANIBEL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $21k → 11%RIVERFIELD COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $7k → 15%ROTARY CLUB OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA: $20k → 11%RIVERFIELD COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $7k → 15%ROTARY CLUB OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA: $19k → 11%RIVERFIELD COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $7k → 15%FISH: $10k → 11%RIVERFIELD COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $7k → 15%BAILEY SHELL MUSEUM: $9k → 11%RIVERFIELD COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $7k → 15%SANIBEL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $8k → 11%RIVERFIELD COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $7k → 15%BAILEY SHELL MUSEUM: $7k → 11%RIVERFIELD COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $7k → 15%SANIBEL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $7k → 11%RIVERFIELD COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $7k → 15%BAILEY SHELL MUSEUM: $6k → 11%RIVERFIELD COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $7k → 15%SANIBEL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $6k → 11%SANIBEL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $6k → 11%CHILDREN'S EDUCATION CTR OF THE ISL: $5k → 11%SANIBEL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $5k → 11%DUNES CARMINE: $5k → 11%SCCF: $4k → 11%ROTARY CLUB OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA: $4k → 11%FISH: $3k → 11%CROW CLINIC: $3k → 11%BIG ARTS: $3k → 11%BAILEY SHELL MUSEUM: $3k → 11%CHR: $3k → 11%CROW CLINIC: $3k → 11%CROW CLINIC: $2k → 11%CHILDREN'S EDUCATION CTR OF THE ISL: $2k → 11%ROTARY CLUB OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA: $2k → 11%FISH: $1k → 11%FISH: $1k → 11%SADLER ORPHANAGE: $1k → 11%CCA: $3k → 11%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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$302k · 12 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
17

Total granted

$302k
$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+36%

Still filing today

42%
18%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
Recreation & SportsEducationHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • SC
    SANIBEL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $107k · revenue +45%
  • RC
    Riverfield Country Day School
    9× · 2017–2025 · $63k · revenue +34%
  • CE
    CHILDRENS EDUCATION CENTER OF THE ISLANDS
    2× · 2020–2022 · $7k · revenue +73%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • C
    CCA
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
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
The National Academy of Education
Arts & Culture
2
Caa Foundation
—
3
Gca Education Foundation
—
4
The Academy for Small Membership Church Ministries
Religion
5
Ceca Foundation
Health
6
Global Academy Foundation % Walter Link
Philanthropy
7
Cabaa Educational Foundation
Education
8
The Neuberger Berman Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Ravi and Naina Patel Foundation
Philanthropy
10
The Advertising Educational Foundation Inc
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11
Gifted and Talented Educational School

The nasri academy for gifted children is committed to providing an engaging, stimulating, and nurturing environment where the intellectual, academic, social, emotional, and physical needs of students are met in order to produce ethical…

Education
12
National Academy of Design

The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Auctioneers Association; the most unlike its peers is The Captiva Foundation. 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

9 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. 9 of the 35 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROTARY CLUB OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA: $45,265 · OtherROTARY CLUB OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVABAILEY SHELL MUSEUM: $26,700 · OtherBAILEY SHELL MUSEUMFISH: $17,900 · OtherFISHIndividual grant recipient: $9,450 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCHILDRENS EDUCATION CENTER OF THE ISLANDS: $6,500 · OtherSEA SCHOOL: $5,500 · Other+24 more: $38,814 · Other+24 moreSANIBEL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC: $107,460 · Recreation & SportsSANIBEL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INCAIM HIGH ACADEMY INC: $9,000 · Recreation & SportsAIM HIGH ACADEMY INCRiverfield Country Day School: $63,000 · EducationRiverfield Country Da…THE CAPTIVA FOUNDATION: $3,500 · PhilanthropyPOWER OF A NICKEL INC: $1,000 · Health
Other$150,129Recreation & Sports$116,460Education$63,000Philanthropy$3,500Health$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSANIBEL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC: $107,460 over 7y, 5.2% of budgetRiverfield Country Day School: $63,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetAIM HIGH ACADEMY INC: $9,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDRENS EDUCATION CENTER OF THE ISLANDS: $6,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE CAPTIVA FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPOWER OF A NICKEL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE NATIONAL AUCTIONEERS FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL AUCTIONEERS ASSOCIATION: $400 over 1y, 0.0% 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 SANIBEL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Riverfield Country Day School ↗
  • Who funds AIM HIGH ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDRENS EDUCATION CENTER OF THE ISLANDS ↗
  • Who funds THE CAPTIVA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE GIFT OF LIFE CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds POWER OF A NICKEL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATIONAL AUCTIONEERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL AUCTIONEERS ASSOCIATION ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Tommy and Trudy Williams Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tommy and Trudy Williams Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2022
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Aim High Academy Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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.

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 35 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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