Massachusetts · 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 FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.8M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,033,233
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 23
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.5B
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations Williams College funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 17 | $1.6M | 18% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $212k | 7% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $251k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $388k | 39% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $328k | 46% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $249k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $1.4M | 25% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $763k | 43% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mt Greylock Regional School District | $2,539,053 | 2 | n/a |
| Williamstown Fire District | $1,176,351 | 5 | n/a |
| Williamstown Police Station | $596,527 | 3 | n/a |
| Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation Inc | $494,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Prospect Mountain Association Inc | $450,010 | 1 | 45% |
| Williamstown Community Chest | $335,120 | 9 | 10% |
| Community Images Inc | $207,602 | 7 | 10% |
| Mt Greylock Regional High School | $190,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Williamstown Youth Center Inc | $116,282 | 5 | 10% |
| Taconic Golf Club Inc | $108,886 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 42 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Williams College supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About Williams College
- How much does Williams College give?
- Williams College reported 18 itemized grants totaling $1,781,187, out of $79,937,160 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Williams College fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (38%), Public Safety & Disaster (17%), Arts & Culture (12%).
- Who are Williams College's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Mt Greylock Regional School District ($2.5M), Williamstown Fire District ($1.2M), Williamstown Police Station ($597k).
- Does Williams College fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Williams College?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc, Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc, The Feigenbaum Foundation Inc.
- Where is Williams College based?
- Williams College is based in MA.
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