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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.

$19k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$32kHuman Services$27kEnvironment$21kFood & Nutrition$17kArts & Culture$12kEducation$5kHousing & Shelter$5kCivil Rights$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$229k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$2,000
CHUM$1,500
DAMIANO CENTER$1,000
NRDC$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
SECOND HARVEST HEARTLA$1,000
FRIENDS OF THE BOUNDARY$1,000
THREE FIFTY DOT ORG$1,000
ST LUKE PRESBYTERIAN CH$1,000
SECOND HARVEST NORTHLAN$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
ICA FOODSHELF$1,000
WHITE EARTH LAND RECOVE$500
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.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ICA Foodshelf: $1k → 11%YMCA: $3k → 39%ICA FOODSHELF: $1k → 11%YMCA: $2k → 39%ICA food Shelf: $1k → 11%MENDING THE SACRED HOOP: $500 → 15%ICA food Shelf: $1k → 11%ICA Foodshelf: $1k → 11%Grace Smith House: $1k → 9%The Sioux YMCA: $1k → 39%ICA Foodshelf: $500 → 11%Grace Smith House: $1k → 9%ICA Foodshelf: $500 → 11%Think Small: $50 → 14%YMCA: $500 → 39%ICA Foodshelf: $500 → 11%Sioux YMCA: $500 → 39%ICA Foodshelf: $500 → 11%Dutchess Outreach: $1k → 9%Sioux YMCA: $500 → 39%Grace Smith House: $1k → 9%Grace Smith House: $1k → 9%Dutchess Outreach: $1k → 9%Grace Smith House: $1k → 9%Grace Smith House: $1k → 9%Dutchess Outreach: $1k → 9%Grace Smith House: $1k → 9%Dutchess Outreach: $1k → 9%Dutchess Outreach: $1k → 9%Grace Smith House: $700 → 9%Dutchess Outreach: $500 → 9%GRACE SMITH HOUSE: $500 → 9%Dutchess Outreach: $500 → 9%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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$138k · 25 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
7

Total granted

$138k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+58%

Still filing today

68%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
Human ServicesEnvironmentArts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionInternationalOther
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

  • TM
    The Mid-Hudson Heritage Center Inc DBA Fall Kill Creative Works
    9× · 2017–2025 · $11k · revenue +43%
  • 3
    350ORG
    6× · 2019–2024 · $9k · revenue +7%
  • GS
    GRACE SMITH HOUSE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $8k · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • Y7
    YMCA 7 Fires
    one grant, 2024 · $1k
  • E
    ECOLIBRIUM3graduated
    one grant, 2024 · $500 · revenue +58%
  • M
    MN350org
    one grant, 2018 · $500
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
Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy

Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.

Food & Nutrition
2
The Great Northern Winter Festival

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,…

Arts & Culture
3
Minnesota Environmental Partnership

The minnesota environmental partnership is a coalition that strengthens member effectiveness and builds collective power to secure a healthy environment for all minnesotans.

Environment
4
Second Harvest North Central Food Bank

Engaging the community to end hunger

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5
Environmental Initiative

Catalyze collaboration across perspectives, power, and systems for social equity and environmental health.

Environment
6
Fresh Energy

Shape and drive bold policy solutions to achieve equitable carbon-neutral economies.

Environment
7
Minnesota Business Partnership

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…

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8
Land Stewardship Project

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…

Environment
9
Sustainable Farming Association of Minnesota

Support the development and enhancement of sustainable farming systems through farmer-to-farmer networking, innovation, demonstration, and education.

Food & Nutrition
10
Science Museum of Minnesota

The museum's mission statement is "turn on the science: inspire learning. inform policy. improve lives."

Arts & Culture
11
North Country Food Alliance

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…

Food & Nutrition
12
Alliance for Metropolitan Stability

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…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Intercongregation Communities Association Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 45 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
14/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST LUKE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $20,000 · OtherST LUKE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $13,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientKwanzaa Community Church PCUSA Liberty Community Church PCUSA: $7,000 · OtherKwanzaa Community Church PCUSA Liberty Community Church PCU…HUDSON RIVER HOUSING INC: $4,500 · OtherHUDSON RIVER HOUSING INCFriends of the Boundary Waters: $3,500 · Other+20 more: $20,750 · Other+20 moreYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH: $9,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIA…GRACE SMITH HOUSE INC: $8,200 · Human ServicesGRACE SMITH HOUSE INCINTERCONGREGATION COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATION INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesINTERCONGREGATION COMMUNITIE…SIOUX YMCA: $7,000 · Human ServicesSIOUX YMCADUTCHESS OUTREACH INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesDUTCHESS OUTREACH INC+2 more: $550 · Human Services350ORG: $8,500 · Environment350ORGNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RE…ECOLIBRIUM3: $500 · Environment+1 more: $50 · EnvironmentThe Mid-Hudson Heritage Center Inc DBA Fall Kill Creative Works: $11,000 · Arts & CultureThe Mid-H…MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $1,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA…DUTCHESS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 · EducationCARLETON COLLEGE: $750 · EducationSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $1,700 · Food & NutritionWHITE EARTH LAND RECOVERY PROJECT: $1,000 · Food & NutritionHAITI OUTREACH INC: $500 · InternationalGREAT EXPECTATIONS FOUNDATION: $500 · Philanthropy
Other$78,750Human Services$37,750Environment$14,050Arts & Culture$12,000Education$4,750Food & Nutrition$2,700International$500Philanthropy$500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Mid-Hudson Heritage Center Inc DBA Fall Kill Creative Works: $11,000 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budget350ORG: $8,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGRACE SMITH HOUSE INC: $8,200 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetINTERCONGREGATION COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATION INC: $7,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSIOUX YMCA: $7,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetKwanzaa Community Church PCUSA Liberty Community Church PCUSA: $7,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDUTCHESS OUTREACH INC: $6,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHUDSON RIVER HOUSING INC: $4,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDUTCHESS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCHURCHES UNITED IN MINISTRY: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $1,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHITE EARTH LAND RECOVERY PROJECT: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSecond Harvest Northland: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARLETON COLLEGE: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetECOLIBRIUM3: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAITI OUTREACH INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREAT EXPECTATIONS FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMENDING THE SACRED HOOP: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThink Small: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLake Minnetonka Association: $50 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.

  • 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 ECOLIBRIUM3 ↗
  • Who funds HAITI OUTREACH INC ↗
  • Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
  • Who funds GREAT EXPECTATIONS FOUNDATION ↗

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.

The Minneapolis Found…Saint Paul & Minnesot…The Dyson FoundationCommunity Foundations…Otto Bremer TrustMightycause Charitabl…United Way of the Dut…Lloyd K Johnson Found…Duluth-Superior Area …Verizon FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…Vanguard Charitable E…
The Minneapolis FoundationMN21.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.

    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 45 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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