· Private foundation
Vianda Playter Williams 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHRISTIAN LEGAL SOCIETY | $1,300 |
| JUDICIAL WATCH | $1,000 |
| FAMILY INSTITUTE OF CONNECTICUT | $1,000 |
| WORLD VISION | $1,000 |
| YANKEE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY | $1,000 |
| HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL LEGAL POLICY CENTER | $1,000 |
| ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM | $700 |
| FOCUS | $500 |
| BRUNSWICK SCHOOL | $500 |
| PREGNANCY HELP CENTER | $300 |
| YALE PUBLIC HEALTH | $300 |
| KIND DEEDS INC | $300 |
| ADVOCATES INTERNATIONAL | $300 |
| CLARE BOOTH LUCE CENTER FOR CONSERV | $300 |
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 (FY20–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
71 repeat relationships — 49 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- FIFAMILY INSTITUTE OF CONNECTICUT INC6× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +37%
JUDICIAL WATCH INC6× · 2020–2025 · $4k · revenue +16%
ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM6× · 2020–2025 · $3k · revenue +84%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $1k
- YUYALE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $200
- NONATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MARRIAGEone grant, 2024 · $200 · revenue 0%
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 University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Dedicated to learning, personal growth, knowledge creation, and the betterment of society. the university engages students in aquiring the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to thrive in and contribute to a pluralistic, complex world.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Museum of the Bible. 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 37 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
59 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. 59 of the 96 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 FAMILY INSTITUTE OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds YANKEE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Advocates International Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTH KENT SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THOMAS MORE LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds PATRICK HENRY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BUCKLEY INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds SUDAN RELIEF FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL LEGAL AND POLICY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CLARE BOOTHE LUCE CENTER FOR CONSERVATIVE WOMEN ↗
- Who funds Williams College ↗
- Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN UNION 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: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Donors Trust Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Resource Foundation Inc · Vandevere Charitable Foundation · Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation Inc · Ken W Davis Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Ayco Charitable 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 Vianda Playter Williams Foundation Inc 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.
- Housatonic Valley Association Inc — 38% of income from government
- Barbaras House Inc — 17% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich — 7% of income from government
- Bruce Museum Inc — 0% of income from government
- South Kent School Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Greenwich Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Williams College — 0% 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.