· Private foundation
Williams Family Foundation
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $91k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GENEVA LIGHT OPERA | $20,000 |
| GENEVA CONCERTS | $20,000 |
| FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE OF THE FINGER | $15,000 |
| ABILITY PARTNERS FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| MERCY FLIGHT | $11,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GENEVA | $10,000 |
| GENEVA MUSIC FESTIVAL | $9,000 |
| GENEVA THEATRE GUILD | $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 (FY20–25, $130k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Williams Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 87% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
13 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- GCGENEVA CONCERTS INC8× · 2017–2025 · $160k · revenue +262% · 31% of their budget
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GENEVA INC8× · 2017–2025 · $120k · revenue +126%
- GLGENEVA LIGHT OPERA8× · 2017–2025 · $100k · revenue +99% · 34% of their budget
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $15k
- HHHAPPINESS HOUSEone grant, 2018 · $15k
- YMYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GENEVA NEW YORK INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +253%
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.
Historic Geneva (Geneva Historical Society) shares and preserves Geneva's stories through crafted educational experiences that engage the community and visitors with its diverse history.
Fund raising for other charitable organizations
The foundation for geneva public library was established to receive and administer private funds for scientific, educational, and charitable purposes; and to invest and reinvest those funds in such a manner that will best promote the…
Raise funds and maintain and endowment to support the mission of the Geneva Public Library of Geneva IL
Compassionate services that are convenient, accessible and at reasonable cost, through the efforts of our employees, medical staff and volunteers. we are a center for health education that lives its leadership commitments through…
To collect, preserve, study, interpret and exhibit relating to the history of geneva.
To provide a safe, loving atmosphere full of rich traditions where children and young adults develop a love of nature, create life-long friendships, and enrich their character, values and leadership, inspired by dedicated and caring…
To provide a live musical experience that is professional, educational, and entertaining
Preserve and advocate for walworth county waterways, nautral areas and working lands.
Community development and pride to bring first class entertainment to Lake County and drive the mission of the Friends to raise and reinvest funds into the programs and ongoing upkeep of the Genesee Theatre.
To entertain, educate, engage, and enrich the community through family-oriented, theatrical programming.
We are a 501C3 organization that conducts an annual family event to raise monies to give back to the community
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Geneva Concerts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Geneva Light Opera. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 17 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 GENEVA CONCERTS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GENEVA INC ↗
- Who funds GENEVA LIGHT OPERA ↗
- Who funds MERCY FLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds GENEVA MUSIC FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds ABILITY PARTNERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE OF THE FINGER LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds UR MEDICINE HOME CARE INC ↗
- Who funds GENEVA THEATRE GUILD INC ↗
- Who funds GENEVA READS INC ↗
- Who funds SMITH CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GENEVA NEW YORK 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: The Wyckoff Family Foundation Inc · Rochester Area Community Foundation · Brenda & Dave Rickey Family Foundation · Nelson B Delavan Found Part a Xxxxx9000 · Greater Rochester Health Foundation · Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · Seneca Foods Foundation · Esl Charitable Foundation · 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 Family Foundation 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.