Skip to content
Plinth
Foundation DossiersAlso receives grants — funding profile →
Plinth

· Public charity

Williams College

Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.

$80M
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$2.9MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.3MArts & Culture$947kPhilanthropy$779kRecreation & Sports$559kCrime & Legal$459kCommunity Improvement$144kYouth Development$138kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 18 grants below total $1,781,187 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $79,937,160 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $78,155,973 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $55k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $98k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $595k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.5B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Williamstown Fire District$1,033,233
Mt Greylock Regional High School$190,000
THE BOSTON FOUNDATION$146,116
Taconic Golf Club Inc$108,886
CENTER FOR ECOTECHNOLOGY INC$100,000
Massachusetts MoCA Foundation Inc$50,000
Williamstown Community Chest$32,564
Images Cinema$26,100
Williamstown Youth Center$15,000
NAACP Berkshire County Branch$13,300
WilliNet Inc$10,625
Stockbridge-Munsee Community$8,000
Harmony Homestead & Wholeness Center Inc$8,000
Multicultural BRIDGE$8,000
Soul Fire Farm Institute Inc$8,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WOMEN'S FUND OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS: $15k → 17%Women's Fund of Western Massachusetts: $10k → 17%MULTICULTURAL BRIDGE: $15k → 12%Multicultural BRIDGE: $8k → 12%Multicultural BRIDGE: $7k → 12%Multicultural BRIDGE: $7k → 12%Multicultural BRIDGE: $6k → 12%BERKSHIRE IMMIGRANT CENTER: $15k → 12%Berkshire Immigrant Center: $8k → 12%Berkshire Immigrant Center: $7k → 12%Berkshire Immigrant Center: $7k → 12%Berkshire Immigrant Center: $6k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

VT
WI
NY
MA
CT
DC
LA
AL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.4M · 27 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

27 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
12

Total granted

$6.4M
$624k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
+12%

Still filing today

67%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $399k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthOther

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

  • MASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $494k · revenue +3%
  • WC
    WILLIAMSTOWN COMMUNITY CHEST
    9× · 2017–2025 · $335k · revenue +37%
  • CI
    COMMUNITY IMAGES INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $208k · revenue +204%

Funded once

  • PM
    PROSPECT MOUNTAIN ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $450k · revenue -25% · 45% of their budget
  • NA
    NORTH ADAMS AMBULANCE SERVICE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $86k · revenue +39%
  • LH
    LOUISON HOUSE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +240%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Berk County Regional Employment Board

To provide policy guidance, selection and oversight and to organize programs for the purpose of work force development in berkshire county, massachusetts.

Employment
2
Berkshire Innovation Center Inc

The berkshire innovation center expands the innovation capacity and growth potential of businesses by providing advanced capabilities to manufacturers in the berkshires region - primarily small and medium sized companies (and startups) in…

Employment
3
Williamstown Rural Lands Foundation

To preserve the rural new england character of williamstown, ma and surrounding areas for future generations; enable working landscapes including farms and forests; promote land stewardship.

Environment
4
Boston Architectural College

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

—
5
Massachusetts Business Roundtable Inc

The mission of the roundtable is to make massachusetts the most desirable place to live, work and do business by engaging private sector executives and public leaders to ensure access to a robust, diverse and talented workforce that…

—
6
United Way of Greater New Bedford Inc

Our mission is to mobilize people, partnerships and resources to catalyze change that strengthens the communities served.

—
7
Berkshire Grown Inc

Through events, workshops, promotions, advocacy and education highlighting locally-grown and produced food, the organization helps to create a thriving local food economy.

Food & Nutrition
8
Worcester Business Development Corp

The worcester business development corporation (wbdc) is a private, non- profit business organization with a public purpose mission to serve as an innovation and leading force in the economic development of the city of worcester and the…

—
9
Greater New Bedford Workforce Investment Board Inc

Meet the workforce needs of employers and support economic development in greater new bedford.

Community Improvement
10
Cambridge Chamber of Commerce

The mission of the cambridge chamber of commerce is to make cambridge a better place in which to live, to work, to do business, to visit and to study.

—
11
Massachusetts Nonprofit Network

The mission of the massachusetts nonprofit network is to unite and strengthen the nonprofit sector in the commonwealth through public policy, public awareness, and capacity building services.

Education
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northern Berkshire United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lowlander Center. 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 31 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%7%<5yr14%17%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr19%23%20–35yr14%20%35–55yr14%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%1%<5yr14%20%5–10yr20%6%10–20yr19%42%20–35yr14%12%35–55yr14%18%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/44
the rest of the field
11%
4,714/42,314

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.

04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 44 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/32
Grantees still filing
20/32
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MT GREYLOCK REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT — $2,539,053 · OtherMT GREYLOCK REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICTWilliamstown Fire District — $1,176,351 · OtherWilliamstown Fire DistrictWILLIAMSTOWN POLICE STATION — $596,527 · OtherWILLIAMSTOWN POLICE STATIONMt Greylock Regional High School — $190,000 · Other+24 more — $944,138 · Other+24 moreWILLIAMSTOWN COMMUNITY CHEST — $335,120 · PhilanthropyWILLIAMST…Boston Foundation Inc — $290,085 · PhilanthropyBoston Fo…+1 more — $16,185 · PhilanthropyMASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC — $494,000 · EducationBERKSHIRES TOMORROW INC — $60,000 · EducationRITES OF PASSAGE & EMPOWERMENT INC — $22,000 · Education+1 more — $10,000 · EducationPROSPECT MOUNTAIN ASSOCIATION INC — $450,010 · Recreation & SportsCOMMUNITY IMAGES INC — $207,602 · Arts & CultureWILLINET INC — $108,750 · Arts & CultureTHE WEB DU BOIS CENTER FOR FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY INC — $17,000 · Arts & CultureLEVER INC — $85,000 · Community Improvement1BERKSHIRE STRATEGIC ALLIANCE INC — $41,500 · Community ImprovementBERKSHIRE BLACK ECONOMIC COUNCIL INC — $17,000 · Community ImprovementLOWLANDER CENTER — $10,000 · Community ImprovementWILLIAMSTOWN YOUTH CENTER INC — $116,282 · Youth Development
Other$5,446,069Philanthropy$641,390Education$586,000Recreation & Sports$450,010Arts & Culture$333,352Community Improvement$153,500Youth Development$116,282

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC — $494,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetPROSPECT MOUNTAIN ASSOCIATION INC — $450,010 over 1y, 45% of budgetWILLIAMSTOWN COMMUNITY CHEST — $335,120 over 9y, 10% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc — $290,085 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY IMAGES INC — $207,602 over 7y, 10% of budgetWILLIAMSTOWN YOUTH CENTER INC — $116,282 over 5y, 9.8% of budgetWILLINET INC — $108,750 over 9y, 9.0% of budgetNORTH ADAMS AMBULANCE SERVICE INC — $86,381 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetLEVER INC — $85,000 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetVILLAGE AMBULANCE SERVICE INC CO NORTHERN BERKSHIRE EMERGENCY SERVICES — $79,583 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetNORTHERN BERKSHIRE UNITED WAY INC — $78,100 over 9y, 2.7% of budgetBERKSHIRES TOMORROW INC — $60,000 over 4y, 34% of budgetBERKSHIRE UNITED WAY INC — $59,388 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBERKSHIRE IMMIGRANT CENTER INC — $42,500 over 5y, 13% of budgetSOUL FIRE FARM INSTITUTE INC — $42,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBERSHIRE RESOURCES FOR INTEGRATION OF DIVERSE GROUPS & EDUCATION INC BRIDGE — $42,500 over 5y, 1.4% of budget1BERKSHIRE STRATEGIC ALLIANCE INC — $41,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetWOMEN'S FUND OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC — $25,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetWILLIAMSTOWN HISTORICAL MUSEUM — $25,000 over 2y, 30% of budgetLOUISON HOUSE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetRITES OF PASSAGE & EMPOWERMENT INC — $22,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetBERKSHIRE BLACK ECONOMIC COUNCIL INC — $17,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE WEB DU BOIS CENTER FOR FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY INC — $17,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetNEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $16,185 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOWLANDER CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetLATINOJUSTICE PRLDEF — $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law — $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND — $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDESTINATION WILLIAMSTOWN INC — $5,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budget
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.

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.

Berkshire Taconic Com…Berkshire Bank Founda…The Feigenbaum Founda…Berkshire United Way …Josephine and Louise …Gilson Family Foundat…Jane and Jack Fitzpat…Barr FoundationWilliamstown Communit…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…American Online Givin…
Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation IncMA37.4× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · The Feigenbaum Foundation Inc · Berkshire United Way Inc · Josephine and Louise Crane Foundation · Gilson Family Foundation Inc · Jane and Jack Fitzpatrick Trust · Barr Foundation · Williamstown Community Chest · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 College 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • 1BERKSHIRE Strategic Alliance Inc — 33% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
  • North Adams Ambulance Service Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Lever Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Center for Ecotechnology Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Berkshire Immigrant Center Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Prospect Mountain Association Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Williamstown Youth Center Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Community Images Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Louison House Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 44 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines