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Williams Family Legacy Fund at a glance

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Williams Family Legacy Fund

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.

$130k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $93k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PALMER HOME FOR CHILDREN$20,000
COURAGE WORLDWIDE INC$15,000
UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION$15,000
GATEWAY RESCUE MISSION INC$12,500
MISSISSIPPI COLLEGE$10,000
MISSION FIRST INC$10,000
BREAKTHRU MINISTRIES$10,000
SIM USA INCORPORATED$7,500
BECKET FUND$5,000
LIFELINE CHILDRENS SERVICES INC$5,000
SUNNYBROOK CHILDRENS HOME INC$5,000
EMPOWER MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION$5,000
OPERATION SHOESTRING INC$2,500
MISSISSIPPI COLLEGE$2,500
GREATER EASTOVER FOUNDATION INC$2,500
02The need
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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 (FY24–25, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PALMER HOME FOR CHILDREN: $20k → 10%EMPOWER MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%GATEWAY RESCUE MISSION INC: $5k → 23%COURAGE WORLDWIDE INC: $15k → 10%EMPOWER MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%OPERATION SHOESTRING INC: $3k → 23%SUNNYBROOK CHILDRENS HOME INC: $5k → 11%SUNNYBROOK CHILDRENS HOME INC: $2k → 11%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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$105k · 7 repeat orgs$80k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
1

Total granted

$105k
$7k

Still filing today

86%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’24’25
Human ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementReligionSocial ScienceEnvironmentOther
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

  • MC
    Mississippi College
    2× · 2024–2025 · $33k · revenue +19%
  • BM
    BREAKTHRU MINISTRIES
    2× · 2024–2025 · $20k
  • GR
    GATEWAY RESCUE MISSION INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $18k · revenue 0%

Funded once

  • ZC
    Z Cooley
    one grant, 2024 · $7k
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
Mission Mississippi

To encourage and demonstrate grace in the body of christ across racial lines, so that communities throughout mississippi can see practical evidence of the gospel message.

Civil Rights
2
Methodist Foundation of Mississippi Inc

The foundation exists to cultivate and administer current and deferred gifts for the benefit of ms united methodist related institutions, agencies, local churches, and other ministries for charitable purposes and support and to educate…

Religion
3
United Methodist Children's Home

Serving abused, neglected and abandoned children through group homes and foster care; facilitating adoptions; and family preservation.

Human Services
4
Mission First Housing Group Inc

Mission first housing group's mission is to develop and manage affordable, safe and sustainable homes for people in need, with a focus on the vulnerable. we ensure our residents have access to resources to help them live independently. we…

Housing & Shelter
5
Miracle Hill Ministries Inc

Miracle hill ministries is committed to life transformation for children and adults experiencing homelessness. more information and program outcomes may be found at www.miraclehill.org.

Human Services
6
Lutheran Social Services of the South Inc

Our mission is to break the cycle of child abuse by empowering children, families and communities.

Human Services
7
Fort Wayne Rescue Mission Ministries Inc

To provide, through the power of jesus christ, a home for the homeless, food for the hungry, and hope for their future.

Housing & Shelter
8
Mission Without Borders International

The organization is dedicated to reaching people for christ through an international network of christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,(continued on…

International
9
Habitat for Humanity Mississippi Capital Area

Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity mississippi capital area brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.

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10
Global Outreach International Inc

To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over fifty seven countries around the world.

International
11
Mercy Housing & Human Development

Empowered by the belief that all people have basic rights to dignity and compassion, our mission at mercy housing and human development is to recognize the need for sustainable, affordable housing for low-wealth families of south…

Human Services
12
Methodist Children's Home

Methodist children's home equips children, youth, and families to flourish by offering hope through christian-centered relationships, services, and support.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Mississippi Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Becket Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 17 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
5/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PALMER HOME FOR CHILDREN: $20,000 · Human ServicesPALMER HOME FOR CHILDRENGATEWAY RESCUE MISSION INC: $17,500 · Human ServicesGATEWAY RESCUE MISSION INCCourage Worldwide Inc: $15,000 · Human ServicesCourage Worldwide IncEMPOWER MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesEMPOWER MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATIONSUNNYBROOK CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesSUNNYBROOK CHILDREN'S HOME INCOPERATION SHOESTRING INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesBREAKTHRU MINISTRIES: $20,000 · OtherBREAKTHRU MINISTRIESMISSION FIRST INC: $15,000 · OtherMISSION FIRST INCSIM USA INCORPORATED: $7,500 · OtherSIM USA INCORPORATEDZ Cooley: $6,500 · OtherZ Cooley+1 more: $1,000 · OtherMississippi College: $32,500 · EducationMississippi CollegeUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOU…LIFELINE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $5,000 · ReligionThe Becket Fund: $5,000 · Social ScienceLEFLEUR EAST FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Community ImprovementGREATER EASTOVER NEIGHBORHOOD FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · Environment
Human Services$72,000Other$50,000Education$47,500Religion$5,000Social Science$5,000Community Improvement$3,000Environment$2,500

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 budgetMississippi College: $32,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPALMER HOME FOR CHILDREN: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGATEWAY RESCUE MISSION INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCourage Worldwide Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMISSION FIRST INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMPOWER MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSUNNYBROOK CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Becket Fund: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEFLEUR EAST FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetOPERATION SHOESTRING INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Ergon Foundation IncSelby and Richard McR…Community Foundation …Raymond James Charita…Feild Co-Operative As…Van Devender Family F…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Ergon Foundation IncMS17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ergon Foundation Inc · Selby and Richard McRae Foundation · Community Foundation for Mississippi · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Feild Co-Operative Association · Van Devender Family Foundation William Van Devender Trustee · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Legacy Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Williams Family Legacy Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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 17 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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