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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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 43% of WILLIAMS FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SISTERS IN CIRCLES | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,200 |
| NEW BEGINNINGS | $2,000 |
| NASHVILLE RESUCE MISSION | $2,000 |
| FRIENDS OF RANDOR LAKE STATE PARK | $2,000 |
| BRENTWOOD ACADEMY | $1,500 |
| CUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC | $1,000 |
| FIRST ART MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| PATRIOT FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| METRO NASHVILLE PARKS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| BLUE MONARCH | $1,000 |
| MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSTY OF NASHVILLE | $1,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 7 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, 70% 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
- MBMONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE5× · 2021–2025 · $16k · revenue +11%
- BABRENTWOOD ACADEMY4× · 2021–2025 · $10k · revenue +36%
- DCDAYSTAR COUNSELING MINISTRIES INC2× · 2023–2024 · $6k · revenue +0%
Funded once
- WTWine to Waterone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
- NMNASVHILLE MASTER GARDENERSone grant, 2022 · $2k
- MVMCKENDREE VILLAGE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +24%
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.
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
Park center has been serving nashville for over 40 years, providing a place for hope and recovery for people experiencing serious mental illness, homelessness, and addiction. we meet people where they are and provide support through…
To encourage philanthropy and foster leadership among women and support programs that enable women and children to reach their full potential.
Nashville banner is a locally owned, community supported, civic news organization. we exist to empower the people of nashville to make informed decisions by providing non-partisan journalism from an independent, nonprofit newsroom. we are…
The organization's primary mission is conserving land where people and nature can thrive by creating green corridors linking existing public lands using conservation easments and outright purchase.
Lead our community's efforts to house, support, empower and advocate for families experiencing homelessness.
Greenways for nashville promotes, supports, and enhances a system of greenways and open space in nashville and davidson county.
Provide support for under-served youth
To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
Memphis recovery centers, inc. (mrc) provides compassionate treatment services for youth and adults suffering from substance addiction and co-occurring disorders, utilizing professional methods to improve spiritual, physical, emotional,…
Nashville Wine Auction engages local and world wine communities to produce wine related events which raise money to fight cancer.
Saving animals.helping people. - to eliminate animal overpopulation, cruelty, and neglect. to create a culture of compassionate care, community engagement & advocacy for animals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Rescue Mission and the most unlike its peers is Lucky Farms Animal Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 7% 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.
28 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. 28 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 MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds BRENTWOOD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds DAYSTAR COUNSELING MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds PATRIOT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SISTERS IN CIRCLES ↗
- Who funds Wine to Water ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIST ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF NASHVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds BENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLUE MONARCH ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds MCKENDREE VILLAGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MID-CUMBERLAND HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY ↗
- Who funds THE NEW BEGINNINGS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds Mostly Mutts Animal Rescue and Adoption Inc ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds MOONLIGHT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
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 Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Ebs Foundation · Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · The Frist Foundation · Servant Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Hulme Family Foundation · The Danner Foundation · Louise B Wallace Foundation 19702 · Purity 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.
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