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Williams 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $599k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CINCINNATI CANCER ADVISORS | $100,000 |
| PROKIDS | $100,000 |
| THE CHILDREN'S THEATRE OF CINCINNATI | $100,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF SOUTHWEST OHIO & NKY | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $48,333 |
| TAFT MUSEUM OF ART | $42,000 |
| TALBERT HOUSE | $37,000 |
| MATTHEW 25 MINISTRIES | $35,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOME OF CINCINNATI DBA BEST POINT | $30,000 |
| ARTSWAVE | $27,000 |
| ST XAVIER CHURCH | $25,000 |
| UNITED WAY | $25,000 |
| CINCINNATI BALLET | $25,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $664k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% 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 +25% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
79 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 50 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $380k 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
- XUXAVIER UNIVERSITY5× · 2017–2021 · $950k · revenue +24%
- TCThe Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio6× · 2018–2023 · $310k · revenue +44%
- CICincinnati Institute of Fine Arts6× · 2017–2024 · $133k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +3%
- CTCHILDREN'S THEATREone grant, 2022 · $100k
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER CINCINNATIgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $58k · revenue +324%
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.
To develop and promote economic development, talent initiatives and the unique offerings in the cincinnati region.
To resolve serious legal problems of low income people, to promote economic and family stability, and reduce poverty through effective legal assistance.
The CAC is a lab for understanding ourselves, others, and the world around us through the experience and creation of all contemporary art forms.
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.
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…
To empower Cincinnati entrepreneurs to launch bold, scalable startups; and we work to improve the odds of those startups growing into transformational companies.
Empowering women to break the cycles of poverty, addiction, and human trafficking.
The Jewish Federation of Cincinnati develops and connects leaders, contributors, organizations, and ideas to build an inclusive Jewish community that helps people in need, supports Israel, and assures a vibrant Jewish future.
Cincinnati Public Radio is the trusted, independent source of journalism, music and culture empowering a vibrant, engaged and informed community.
To promote professional excellence, foster justice, serve our members and educate the public.
Cincinnati children's hospital medical center will be the leader in improving child health. cincinnati children's will provide child health and transform delivery of care through fully integrated, globally recognized research, education,…
The mission of the cincinnati observatory is to maintain the integrity and heritage of an historic 19th century observatory and to educate, engage, and inspire our community about astronomy and science.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Greater Cincinnati Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Character & Courage Foundation. 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 43 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
93 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. 93 of the 169 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 XAVIER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio ↗
- Who funds TAFT MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts ↗
- Who funds ProKids ↗
- Who funds BEECHWOOD HOME ↗
- Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds CISE ↗
- Who funds ENNIS TAIT MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds TALBERT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE FIRST STEP HOME INC ↗
- Who funds Matthew 25 Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CAMPING AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLOC MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI USA REGIONAL CHAMBER ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds LA SOUPE INC ↗
- Who funds International Rett Syndrome 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 Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Robert H & Susan F Castellini Foundation · Marge & Charles J Schott Foundation · Farmer Family Foundation · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Louise Taft Semple Foundation · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Hcs Foundation · The James J and Joan a Gardner Family Foundation · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica
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 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.
- The Filmmakers Collaborative Inc — 1% of income from government
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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