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Williams Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$33k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$441kInternational$148kHousing & Shelter$55kPublic Benefit$30kCommunity Improvement$26kPublic Safety & Disaster$22kHealth$19kCivil Rights$17kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$750
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ONE BY ONE$8,900
PRESENT TIME MINISTRIES$8,750
CAJUN NAVY RELIEF INC$5,000
MERCY CHEFS$5,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
YOUTH REACH HOUSTON$750
OAK PARK CHURCH$500
YOUNG LIFE$350
PRICHARD PREPARATORY SCHOOL$309
USS ALABAMA BATTLESHIP FOUNDATION$200
Individual grant recipient$150
THE GIDEONS INTERNATIONAL$50
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 (FY24–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MERCY CHEFS: $5k → 20%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

MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
CO
KY
VA
TN
SC
DC
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$735k · 31 repeat orgs$54k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

31 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
36

Total granted

$735k
$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+1%

Still filing today

42%
28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
ReligionHealthInternationalHousing & ShelterPublic Safety & DisasterArts & CultureOther
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

  • OB
    ONE BY ONE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $115k · revenue +76%
  • MI
    MEDREACH INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $29k · revenue +7%
  • MM
    Missionary Ministries Inc
    5× · 2017–2022 · $25k · revenue +157%

Funded once

  • TL
    THE LIGHT OF THE VILLAGE A NONPROF CORPORATION
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +2%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • MM
    MERCY MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
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
Seaport Ministries

Preaching the gospel of jesus christ

Human Services
2
Jesus in Vietnam Ministries
Religion
3
Refuge for Prodigals International Bible Ministries Inc
Religion
4
Spirit Invasion Ministries

Spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ

Religion
5
Revision Ministries Inc
Religion
6
Power Ministries International Inc
—
7
Mr Mike Ministries
Religion
8
Fisherman for Life Ministers Inc

Minister

Education
9
Todd Worldwide Ministries
Housing & Shelter
10
Gods Promise Ministries International

Religious Purposes

Housing & Shelter
11
Wounded Spirits Ministries

The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…

Recreation & Sports
12
Rebel Ministries

Rebel ministries strives to show the love of jesus where we are and where we are called while making disciples of those we encounter.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wings of Life Inc; the most unlike its peers is The National World War Ii Museum Inc. 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

27 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. 27 of the 73 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
16/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHRIST ANGELICAN CHURCH: $208,200 · OtherCHRIST ANGELICAN CHURCHCHRIST ANGLICAN CHURCH: $81,000 · OtherCHRIST ANGLICAN CHURCHALABAMA POLICY INSTITUTE INC: $30,000 · OtherALABAMA POLICY INSTITUTE INCPURE WORD: $26,400 · OtherPURE WORDCHRISTIAN BUSINESS MEN'S COMMITTEE: $26,100 · OtherPEACEMAKERS INTERNATIONAL INC: $25,000 · OtherWINGS OF LIFE INC: $17,000 · Other+48 more: $77,897 · Other+48 moreONE BY ONE: $114,930 · InternationalONE BY ONEMEDREACH INC: $28,500 · InternationalMEDREACH INCMissionary Ministries Inc: $24,500 · ReligionMAN IN THE MIRROR INC: $11,500 · ReligionPRESENT TIME MINISTRIES: $10,750 · ReligionTHE LIGHT OF THE VILLAGE A NONPROF CORPORATION: $10,000 · Religion+4 more: $2,600 · ReligionMcKemie Place Inc: $37,250 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $100 · Housing & ShelterRANSOM MINISTRIES INC: $16,750 · Public Safety & DisasterTHE CAJUN NAVY RELIEF INC: $5,000 · Public Safety & DisasterVictory Health Partners Inc: $18,159 · Health+2 more: $600 · HealthWomens Resource Center Inc: $16,935 · Civil Rights
Other$491,597International$143,430Religion$59,350Housing & Shelter$37,350Public Safety & Disaster$21,750Health$18,759Civil Rights$16,935

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetONE BY ONE: $114,930 over 8y, 7.0% of budgetMcKemie Place Inc: $37,250 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetALABAMA POLICY INSTITUTE INC: $30,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetMEDREACH INC: $28,500 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetMissionary Ministries Inc: $24,500 over 5y, 7.1% of budgetVictory Health Partners Inc: $18,159 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetWINGS OF LIFE INC: $17,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetWomens Resource Center Inc: $16,935 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetRANSOM MINISTRIES INC: $16,750 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetMAN IN THE MIRROR INC: $11,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPRESENT TIME MINISTRIES: $10,750 over 2y, 59% of budgetTHE LIGHT OF THE VILLAGE A NONPROF CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE CAJUN NAVY RELIEF INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMERCY CHEFS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $1,350 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJON POTTER MINISTRIES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMETRO MINISTRIES OF MOBILE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYOUTH-REACH HOUSTON INC: $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEACEMAKERS INTERNATIONAL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPRICHARD PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $309 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUSS ALABAMA BATTLESHIP FOUNDATION: $300 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WELLHOUSE INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAGLES WINGS INTERNATIONAL INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHome of Grace For Women Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States LST Association: $100 over 1y, 0.3% 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 ONE BY ONE ↗
  • Who funds McKemie Place Inc ↗
  • Who funds ALABAMA POLICY INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDREACH INC ↗
  • Who funds Missionary Ministries Inc ↗
  • Who funds Victory Health Partners Inc ↗
  • Who funds WINGS OF LIFE INC ↗
  • Who funds Womens Resource Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds RANSOM MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds MAN IN THE MIRROR INC ↗
  • Who funds PRESENT TIME MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds THE LIGHT OF THE VILLAGE A NONPROF CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds THE CAJUN NAVY RELIEF INC ↗
  • Who funds MERCY CHEFS INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
  • Who funds JON POTTER MINISTRIES INC ↗

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.

Rjjb Family FoundationAlabama Power Foundat…The Charles and Wanda…The Miller Charitable…The Florence Foundati…Julien E Marx Foundat…Cd Helen and Jeff Gla…Crampton Trust #12550…Mapp Family FoundationJ L Bedsole Foundatio…The Daniel Foundation…Shell USA Company Fou…
Rjjb Family FoundationAL19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rjjb Family Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Charles and Wanda Barnett Charitable Foundation Inc · The Miller Charitable Foundation Inc · The Florence Foundation · Julien E Marx Foundation Trust · Cd Helen and Jeff Glaze Foundation · Crampton Trust #1255000731 Regions Bank Trustee · Mapp Family Foundation · J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Shell USA Company 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 Williams Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Williams Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Williams Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Williams Charitable 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 73 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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