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Williams Family Private Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$6.9MEducation$4.2MPhilanthropy$1.0MRecreation & Sports$770kYouth Development$367kInternational$165kHealth$132kPublic Safety & Disaster$100kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $475k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.8M
$75,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOODCORPS INC$1,000,000
NORTH CAROLINA STATE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION$500,000
UNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION$250,000
COLLEGE TRACK$200,000
DIGNITY MOVES$100,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SAN FRANCISCO$75,000
BRING CHANGE 2 MIND$50,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$50,000
TEAM RUBICON$25,000
WPR CARES$10,000
INTO LIGHT$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $81k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FOSTER VILLAGE CHARLOTTE: $5k → 10%FOX VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACTION: $1k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $75k → 8%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
IN
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MD
NC
SC
DC
TX
FL
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 8 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +72% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
29

Total granted

$11M
$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+72%
+27%

Still filing today

75%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $190k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthInternationalArts & CultureFood & NutritionHuman ServicesOther
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

  • FOODCORPS INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $6.3M · revenue +72%
  • CT
    COLLEGE TRACK
    7× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +190%
  • US
    UNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $750k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • DUKE UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $1.1M · revenue +27%
  • Feeding Americagraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue +40%
  • UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -21%
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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
3
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
4
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
5
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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6
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
7
Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health
8
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
9
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
10
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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11
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
12
United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Foundation for Mexican Art and Culture. 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

38 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. 38 of the 47 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/38
Grantees still filing
25/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FOODCORPS INC: $6,350,000 · Food & NutritionFOODCORPS INCFeeding America: $500,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding America+1 more: $5,000 · Food & NutritionDUKE UNIVERSITY: $1,050,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYCOLLEGE TRACK: $1,040,000 · EducationCOLLEGE TRACK+4 more: $112,600 · EducationNORTH CAROLINA STATE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $2,039,000 · OtherNORTH CAROLINA STATE …DIGNITYMOVES: $100,000 · Other+24 more: $436,206 · Other+24 moreTIDES FOUNDATION: $500,000 · PhilanthropySocial Impact Fund: $375,000 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $40,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION: $750,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO: $350,000 · Youth DevelopmentUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $100,000 · InternationalPROJECT SOAR MARRAKECH: $17,000 · InternationalBest Buddies International Inc: $10,000 · InternationalGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · International
Food & Nutrition$6,855,000Education$2,202,600Other$2,575,206Philanthropy$965,000Recreation & Sports$755,000Youth Development$350,000International$137,000

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 budgetFOODCORPS INC: $6,350,000 over 8y, 7.1% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $1,050,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE TRACK: $1,040,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION: $750,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetFeeding America: $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO: $350,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIGNITYMOVES: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $56,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRING CHANGE 2 MIND: $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR MEXICAN ART AND CULTURE: $30,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION SANTA CRUZ COUNTY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPROJECT SOAR MARRAKECH: $17,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetKERSHAW'S CHALLENGE: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLSEN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPCD KS FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTIMMY GLOBAL HEALTH INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSOUL FIRE FARM INSTITUTE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFoster Village Charlotte: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSUMMER SEARCH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTO LIGHT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCentered Riding Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetFRANKIE LEMMON SCHOOL AND DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKQED INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSE OF SHINE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRiverwoods Christian Center dba Fox Valley Christian Action: $1,000 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.

Morgan Stanley Global…Silicon Valley Commun…American Endowment Fo…Paypal Charitable Giv…Charities Aid Foundat…Natl Christian Charit…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN11.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • Foodcorps Inc: 21% of income from government
  • Into Light Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 47 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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