· Private foundation
Williams Brenda Charitable Tr B
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JADASA | $4,125 |
| WESLEY HOUSE ASSOCIATION | $4,125 |
| THE GRIOT MUSEUM OF BLACK HISTORY | $4,125 |
| COMMUNITY WOMEN AGAINST HARDSHIP | $4,125 |
| BETTER LOVE YOURSELF FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| MAN OF VALOR INC | $3,500 |
| SATURDAY BOYS ACADEMY ORG | $3,500 |
| MANASSEH MINISTRY | $3,000 |
| ST LOUIS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FDN | $3,000 |
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 (FY24–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, 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.
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.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- CWCommunity Women Against Hardship9× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue -26%
- DCDIASPORA CONNECTIONS UNLIMITED8× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +251%
- MMMANASSEH MINISTRY9× · 2017–2025 · $29k · revenue -22%
Funded once
- GIGIRLS INCORPORATED OF ST LOUISone grant, 2019 · $4k · revenue +12%
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 St. Louis Workers Education Society (WES) educates and trains St. Louis residents, especially people of color, women and youth, to become community leaders. Our focus is on the intersection of workers rights, racial justice, sexual and…
Women Support Services
Gifts of Hope Unlimited (GOHU) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that supports those impacted by relationship violence by providing financial assistance, home resources, and community-focused initiatives as a step towards a safe and…
Glory House Services serves the Haitian community in Kansas City ,through education, mentoring and vocational and social areas to assist with assimilation into the American culture. In Haiti we support schools to provide elementary…
Assistance to women
To provide social and educational assistance to ethiopians
To organize Southeast Asian women, girls, Queer and Trans people to champion gender justice and collective liberation.
To advocate for human dignity
The primary activity of Women of Achievement is to recognize women who make significant volunteer contributions to the St. Louis, MO area by honoring them in an annual luncheon.
Our mission is to lead empower and inspire change by eliminating domestic violence sexual assault and teen dating violence through culturally responsive intervention and prevention programs. We focus on serving Black and African American…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Women Against Hardship and the most unlike its peers is Man of Valor Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 15 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 Community Women Against Hardship ↗
- Who funds DIASPORA CONNECTIONS UNLIMITED ↗
- Who funds MANASSEH MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAN OF VALOR INC ↗
- Who funds JADASA ↗
- Who funds Wesley House Association ↗
- Who funds BETTER LOVE YOURSELF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF ST LOUIS ↗
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: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Williams Brenda Charitable Tr B 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.
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.