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Williams Cookie Jar Foundation at a glance

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Williams Cookie Jar Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$81k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0182% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Youth Development$360kEducation$205kHealth$105kEnvironment$31kRecreation & Sports$25kArts & Culture$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$20,665
Median grant
3
States reached
$336k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IMENTOR$25,000
UTAH FILM CENTER$25,000
SURFRIDER FOUNDATION$20,665
TIGER FOUNDATION$10,000
REDFORD CENTER$10,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 83% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%REDFORD CENTER: $10k → 10%IMENTOR: $25k → 17%SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $21k → 26%VELODROME DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%GREEN FARM ACADEMY: $50k → 9%UTAH FILM CENTER: $25k → 8%ALS ASSOCIATION: $100k → 7%UJA-FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%GREEN FARM ACADEMY: $50k → 9%IMENTOR: $180k → 17%GREEN FARM ACADEMY: $25k → 9%IMENTOR: $25k → 17%GREEN FARM ACADEMY: $25k → 9%FUTURES PROJECT: $50k → 17%IMENTOR: $25k → 17%FUTURES PROJECT: $10k → 17%IMENTOR: $20k → 17%FUTURES PROJECT: $10k → 17%IMENTOR: $15k → 17%SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS: $20k → 17%SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS: $15k → 17%SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS: $15k → 17%BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%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.
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$615k · 5 repeat orgs$196k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
5

Total granted

$615k
$140k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-24%
+72%

Still filing today

80%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyEducationHealthArts & 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

  • II
    IMENTOR INC
    6× · 2018–2025 · $290k · revenue -24%
  • GF
    GREEN FARM ACADEMY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $150k
  • TF
    The Future Project Inc
    3× · 2021–2023 · $70k · revenue -96%

Funded once

  • AL
    AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSNgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +72%
  • VD
    VELODROME DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +8%
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
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
2
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
3
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
4
Foundation of the Arc of the United States

To promote, support and further the interests and purposes of the arc of the united states, inc.

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5
Activate Global Inc

Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…

Environment
6
Alliant Educational Foundation

The alliant educational foundation builds bridges between under-resourced communities, universities, and other organizations to create a more equitable, healthy, and just society.

Education
7
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
8
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
9
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
10
Sea Research Foundation Inc

To inspire people to care for and protect our ocean planet through education and research.

Animals
11
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
12
Environment Next Inc

Environment next supports individuals, nonprofits and businesses around the world on solutions to complex climate issues. we provide leadership, outreach and communication support, grants, and investments to empower leaders and their ideas…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Success Academy Charter Schools Inc; the most unlike its peers is Tiger Foundation. 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

9 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. 9 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IMENTOR INC: $290,000 · Youth DevelopmentIMENTOR INCGREEN FARM ACADEMY: $150,000 · OtherGREEN FARM ACADEMYTIGER FOUNDATION: $55,000 · OtherTIGER FOUNDATIONVELODROME DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherVELODROME DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION+2 more: $10,000 · OtherAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $100,000 · HealthAMYOTROPHIC L…The Future Project Inc: $70,000 · PhilanthropyThe Futur…SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC: $50,000 · EducationTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $20,665 · EnvironmentREDFORD CENTER INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentUTAH FILM CENTER: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Youth Development$290,000Other$240,000Health$100,000Philanthropy$70,000Education$50,000Environment$30,665Arts & Culture$25,000Public Safety & Disaster$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIMENTOR INC: $290,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Future Project Inc: $70,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetTIGER FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Williams Cookie Jar Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Williams Cookie Jar Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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

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    How do I get to Williams Cookie Jar Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Williams Cookie Jar 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 13 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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