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Vianda Playter Williams Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$16k
Granted FY2025still arriving
58
Grants FY2025still arriving
19
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Civil Rights$20kInternational$12kPublic Benefit$10kEducation$9kReligion$7kHealth$6kCrime & Legal$4kArts & Culture$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 58 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$100
Median grant
19
States reached
$247k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHRISTIAN LEGAL SOCIETY$1,300
YANKEE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY$1,000
NATIONAL LEGAL POLICY CENTER$1,000
WORLD VISION$1,000
FAMILY INSTITUTE OF CONNECTICUT$1,000
JUDICIAL WATCH$1,000
HERITAGE FOUNDATION$1,000
ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM$700
FOCUS$500
BRUNSWICK SCHOOL$500
KIND DEEDS INC$300
CLARE BOOTH LUCE CENTER FOR CONSERV$300
YALE PUBLIC HEALTH$300
ADVOCATES INTERNATIONAL$300
PREGNANCY HELP CENTER$300
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:

Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%FATHER FLANAGAN'S BOYS TOWN: $100 → 12%KIND DEEDS INC: $300 → 14%FATHER FLANAGAN'S BOYS TOWN: $100 → 12%FATHER FLANAGAN'S BOYS TOWN: $100 → 12%FATHER FLANAGAN'S BOYS TOWN: $100 → 12%FATHER FLANAGAN'S BOYS TOWN: $100 → 12%FATHER FLANAGAN'S BOYS TOWN: $100 → 12%LITCHFIELD COMMUNITY CENTER: $100 → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $200 → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100 → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100 → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100 → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100 → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100 → 9%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
DC
OK
MS
FL
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$70k · 71 repeat orgs$4k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

71
16

Total granted

$70k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+25%

Still filing today

61%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationCivil RightsInternationalHuman ServicesPublic BenefitHealthOther
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

  • FI
    FAMILY INSTITUTE OF CONNECTICUT INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +37%
  • JUDICIAL WATCH INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $4k · revenue +16%
  • ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM
    6× · 2020–2025 · $3k · revenue +84%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $1k
  • YU
    YALE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $200
  • NO
    NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MARRIAGE
    one grant, 2024 · $200 · revenue 0%
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
University of New Haven

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…

Education
2
United States Naval Institute

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.

—
3
Foreign Policy Research Institute

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…

International
4
Saint Anselm College

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…

Education
5
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

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…

Education
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
7
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
8
University of Hartford

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.

Education
9
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
10
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

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…

Social Science
11
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Wheaton College

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

59 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/59
Grantees still filing
43/59
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHRISTIAN LEGAL SOCIETY: $6,700 · OtherCHRISTIAN LEGAL SOCIETYTRUSTEES OF THE CONVENT OF THE SACRED HEART INC: $5,200 · OtherTRUSTEES OF THE CONVENT OF THE SACRED HEART INCF O C U S INC: $3,100 · OtherF O C U S INCYANKEE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $2,500 · OtherYANKEE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICYNATIONAL LEGAL POLICY CENTER: $2,000 · OtherPREGNANCY HELP CENTER: $1,800 · Other+54 more: $19,300 · Other+54 moreFAMILY INSTITUTE OF CONNECTICUT INC: $7,400 · Civil RightsFAMILY INSTITUTE…ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $2,700 · Civil RightsALLIANCE DEFENDI…FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC: $700 · Civil RightsFOUNDATION FOR I…INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $400 · Civil Rights+1 more: $300 · Civil RightsWORLD VISION INC: $6,100 · InternationalWORLD VISION IN…International Rescue Committee INC: $2,100 · InternationalInternational R…Advocates International Inc: $1,700 · InternationalAdvocates Inter…SUDAN RELIEF FUND INC: $600 · InternationalSUDAN RELIEF FU…+2 more: $500 · InternationalJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $3,600 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL …THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $1,900 · Public BenefitTHE HERIT…Leadership Institute: $800 · Public BenefitLeadershi…CONCERNED WOMEN FOR AMERICA: $500 · Public BenefitCONCERNED…+1 more: $200 · Public BenefitBRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC: $1,700 · EducationBRUNSWICK…SOUTH KENT SCHOOL CORPORATION: $1,300 · EducationSOUTH KEN…PATRICK HENRY COLLEGE: $800 · EducationPATRICK H…BUCKLEY INSTITUTE INC: $700 · EducationBUCKLEY I…Williams College: $600 · EducationWilliams …JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $400 · EducationJOHNS HOP…The Trustees of Princeton University: $300 · EducationADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC: $300 · Education+3 more: $500 · Education+3 moreTHOMAS MORE LAW CENTER: $800 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $700 · Human ServicesFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $600 · Human ServicesKind Deeds Inc: $300 · Human ServicesLITCHFIELD COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $100 · Human ServicesGREENWICH HOSPITAL: $600 · HealthTWO HEARTS PREGNANCY CENTER INC: $500 · HealthBLYTHEDALE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $500 · HealthThe Center For Medical Progress: $200 · Health
Other$40,600Civil Rights$11,500International$11,000Public Benefit$7,000Education$6,600Human Services$2,500Health$1,800

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFAMILY INSTITUTE OF CONNECTICUT INC: $7,400 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $6,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $3,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $2,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetYANKEE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $2,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $2,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $1,900 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC: $1,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAdvocates International Inc: $1,700 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTH KENT SCHOOL CORPORATION: $1,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS MORE LAW CENTER: $800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPATRICK HENRY COLLEGE: $800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Institute: $800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBUCKLEY INSTITUTE INC: $700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC: $700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL LEGAL AND POLICY CENTER: $600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCLARE BOOTHE LUCE CENTER FOR CONSERVATIVE WOMEN: $600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH HOSPITAL: $600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSUDAN RELIEF FUND INC: $600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE INC: $600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWilliams College: $600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTWO HEARTS PREGNANCY CENTER INC: $500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCONCERNED WOMEN FOR AMERICA: $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetADOPT-A-DOG INC: $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN UNION INC: $500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBLYTHEDALE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWOODSON CENTER: $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICH: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT VERITAS: $400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSATONIC VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPHI GAMMA DELTA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF NATHANIEL WITHERELL INC: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTATE POLICY NETWORK: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJubilee Campaign USA Inc: $300 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEFFORTZ FOUNDATION INC: $200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChristian Herald Association Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY REENTRY INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MARRIAGE: $200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Organization For Marriage Education Fund: $200 over 2y, 0.1% 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 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 PATRICK HENRY COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
  • 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 NATIONAL LEGAL AND POLICY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CLARE BOOTHE LUCE CENTER FOR CONSERVATIVE WOMEN ↗
  • Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
  • Who funds GREENWICH HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds SUDAN RELIEF FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds GREENWICH EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds Williams College ↗
  • Who funds TWO HEARTS PREGNANCY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CONCERNED WOMEN FOR AMERICA ↗

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.

Fairfield County's Co…Donors Trust IncBradley Impact Fund I…Ge Aerospace Foundati…The Resource Foundati…Vandevere Charitable …Cornelia Cogswell Ros…Ken W Davis FoundationThe Bessemer Giving F…The Pfizer Foundation…Vanguard Charitable E…The Ayco Charitable F…
Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT20.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Vianda Playter Williams Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vianda Playter Williams Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 140%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
14get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 96 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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