· Private foundation
Williams Charles F Scholarship Fd Pfdn
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 |
|---|---|
| THE CATHEDRAL SCHOOL | $7,000 |
| LOYOLA SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| MARYMOUNT SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| THE NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL | $500 |
| THE ETHEL WALKER SCHOOL | $500 |
| THE HEWITT SCHOOL | $500 |
| THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL | $500 |
| FORDHAM PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $500 |
| TRINITY SCHOOL | $500 |
| THE MASTERS SCHOOL | $500 |
| CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL | $500 |
| ETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL | $500 |
| RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL | $500 |
| LREI SCHOOL | $500 |
| BARD COLLEGE AT SIMON'S ROCK | $500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% of your 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 19 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
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
- TSTHE SPENCE SCHOOL6× · 2017–2022 · $6k · revenue +12%
- RCRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC8× · 2017–2025 · $6k · revenue +37%
- TNTHE NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL6× · 2017–2025 · $4k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- TCTHE CALHOUN SCHOOL INCone grant, 2018 · $500 · revenue -2%
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.
Darrow school is dedicated to serving students with diverse backgrounds and abilities, building on each student's talents and interests to inspire enduring confidence for success in college and life. this mission is accomplished through…
Harpeth hall is an independent, college preparatory school for girls and young women in grades five through twelve.
Morristown beard school is an educational college preparatory school in grades 6 to 12 located in morristown, new jersey.
A preschool through 12th grade, private, college preparatory school. the school's mission statement is "together, cultivating the best in each for the benefit of all."
Hillbrook provides an extraordinary educational experience that fosters a love of learning in our students and helps them to develop the knowledge, skills and confidence to achieve their highest individual potential in school and in life.…
An independent college preparatory school for girls from age three through twelfth grade.
We engage a diverse community of learners in a collaborative educational experience, preparing them for college success and a lifetime of meaningful engagement with the broader world.
Suffield Academy is a coeducational independent secondary school serving a diverse student body of day and boarding students from across the United States and from many foreign counties. The school is grounded in a tradition of academic…
Concord academy is a community animated by love of learning, diverse and striving for equity, with common trust as our foundation. honoring each individual, we challenge and expand our understanding of ourselves and the world through…
Running a private school.
Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…
Within a community of belongin, greenhills school inspires and challenges students to be curious, think deeply, explore creatively, act with empathy, and better the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Miss Porter's School Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bard College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 80 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 35 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 THE SPENCE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WESTOVER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds POLY PREP COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PACKER COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ETHEL WALKER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MISS HALL'S SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE BREARLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GROTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds DALTON SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds GRACE CHURCH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE HEWITT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MILTON ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds EMMA WILLARD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE CALHOUN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MASTERS SCHOOL ↗
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: Jewish Communal Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Ibm International Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Fidelity Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · American Express Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 Charles F Scholarship Fd Pfdn 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.
- Milton Academy — 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.