· Private foundation
Williams Family 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.
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 |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| CHUM | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST HEARTLA | $1,000 |
| ST LUKE PRESBYTERIAN CH | $1,000 |
| DAMIANO CENTER | $1,000 |
| NRDC | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST NORTHLAN | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE BOUNDARY | $1,000 |
| ICA FOODSHELF | $1,000 |
| THREE FIFTY DOT ORG | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO | $1,000 |
| GRACE SMITH HOUSE | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 26% 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.
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.
25 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 13 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, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- TMThe Mid-Hudson Heritage Center Inc DBA Fall Kill Creative Works9× · 2017–2025 · $11k · revenue +43%
- 3350ORG6× · 2019–2024 · $9k · revenue +30%
- GSGRACE SMITH HOUSE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $8k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- Y7YMCA 7 Firesone grant, 2024 · $1k
- GEGREAT EXPECTATIONS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $500 · revenue +195%
- MMN350orgone grant, 2018 · $500
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.
Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.
The great northern celebrates our cold, creative winters through ten days of diverse programming that invigorate mind and body. in an era of changing climate that threatens our signature season, we seek to create community, inspire action,…
The minnesota environmental partnership is a coalition that strengthens member effectiveness and builds collective power to secure a healthy environment for all minnesotans.
Engaging the community to end hunger
Catalyze collaboration across perspectives, power, and systems for social equity and environmental health.
Shape and drive bold policy solutions to achieve equitable carbon-neutral economies.
The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…
The land stewardship project (lsp) was organized on june 1, 1982, as a division of the national catholic rural life conference and in 1983 was incorporated under the minnesota (mn) nonprofit corporation act. lsp is supported primarily by…
Support the development and enhancement of sustainable farming systems through farmer-to-farmer networking, innovation, demonstration, and education.
The museum's mission statement is "turn on the science: inspire learning. inform policy. improve lives."
The mission of North Country Food Alliance is to strengthen food sovereignty in the Twin Cities Metro Area. We do this through two main program areas: foodshare and gardening. Our foodshare program rescues overstock food that would…
The alliance is a coalition of community-based organizations and advocacy groups with a mission to build power across the intersections of geography, race, culture, and issues in the twin cities region to eliminate systems of oppression…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Intercongregation Communities Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Mid-Hudson Heritage Center Inc Dba Fall Kill Creative Works. 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 39 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% 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 13% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 45 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 Mid-Hudson Heritage Center Inc DBA Fall Kill Creative Works ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH ↗
- Who funds 350ORG ↗
- Who funds GRACE SMITH HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds INTERCONGREGATION COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SIOUX YMCA ↗
- Who funds Kwanzaa Community Church PCUSA Liberty Community Church PCUSA ↗
- Who funds DUTCHESS OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds HUDSON RIVER HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds DUTCHESS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHURCHES UNITED IN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds WHITE EARTH LAND RECOVERY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Second Harvest Northland ↗
- Who funds CARLETON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MENDING THE SACRED HOOP ↗
- Who funds GREAT EXPECTATIONS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds HAITI OUTREACH 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 Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Dyson Foundation · Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · United Way of the Dutchess-Orange Region Inc · Lloyd K Johnson Foundation · Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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.