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Williams Charity Fund
We are organized exclusively for charitable purpose including but not limited to raising & distributing funds to organizations that benefit veterans, rescue missions, food kitchens, the poor, caring for the sick, charitable educational, civic & other 501(c)(3) doing good work.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $210k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YWCA Rock County | $50,000 |
| Salvation Army | $25,000 |
| Holy Cross Children Services | $25,000 |
| Gifts Shelter | $25,000 |
| Project 1649 | $25,000 |
| Covenant House | $25,000 |
| ECHO | $22,211 |
| Detroit Rescue Mission | $20,000 |
| House of Mercy | $12,500 |
| Healthnet | $10,000 |
| Child Safe MI | $10,000 |
| Childrens Trus Fund | $10,000 |
| Cass Community | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–17, $107k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 23% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cass Community Social Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Covenant House Michigan. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 13 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 YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ROCK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT 1649 INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds HOLY CROSS SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds EVERYONE COOPERATING TO HELP OTHERS INC ↗
- Who funds Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries ↗
- Who funds CHILD SAFE MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds HEALTHNET OF ROCK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CASS COMMUNITY SOCIAL SERVICES 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: Baird Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Jpc Foundation · Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Charity Fund 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.
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