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Williams Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$420k
Granted FY2025still arriving
48
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What you fund
0186% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212025.

International$799kReligion$493kHealth$257kHuman Services$185kFood & Nutrition$140kHousing & Shelter$75kCivil Rights$70kAnimals$42kOther$0
02FY2025 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k41 grants · $118k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $125k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $177k
$2,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$685k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHOICES Pregnancy Centers$125,000
Compassion International$52,017
Wooddale Church$40,000
One Mission$35,100
Christ's Church$30,000
Mercy Ships$10,000
Prison Fellowship$10,000
Feed My Starving Children$9,680
World News Group$7,511
Individual grant recipient$7,500
Individual grant recipient$7,500
Christian Veterinary Mission$7,500
Blessing for Life$5,091
Alliance Defending Freedom$5,000
Mission Ministries$5,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $67k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BLESSING FOR LIFE: $15k → 11%Christian Family Care: $10k → 11%CHRISTIAN FAMILY CARE: $10k → 11%Blessing for Life: $10k → 11%Blessing for Life: $7k → 11%Blessing for Life: $5k → 11%Christian Family Care: $5k → 11%Blessing for Life: $2k → 11%Christian Family Care: $1k → 11%Christian Family Care: $1k → 11%ANGELS ON PATROL: $500 → 11%Angel's On Patrol: $250 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.1M · 43 repeat orgs$176k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +15% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.

43 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
36

Total granted

$2.1M
$145k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
-4%

Still filing today

19%
6%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionCivil RightsReligionOther

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

  • FM
    FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $130k · revenue +40%
  • OM
    ONE MISSION INC DBA 1MISSION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $75k · revenue +11%
  • ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM
    4× · 2022–2025 · $40k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • OM
    ONE MISSION FB
    one grant, 2021 · $16k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $15k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Child Crisis Arizona

To provide children and youth in arizona a safe environment, free from abuse and neglect, by creating strong and successful families.

Crime & Legal
2
Umom New Day Centers Inc

To end family homelessness by restoring hope and rebuilding lives, so no child will ever have to sleep on the streets.

Housing & Shelter
3
Caring Ministries Inc

Food and clothing distribution along the arizona/mexico border and southern arizona. provide living quarters for volunteer missionaries who have no other place to live and to provide support to orphanages.

Religion
4
Springfield Rescue Mission

The goal of the springfield rescue mission since 1892 has been to meet the physical and spiritual needs of the hungry, homeless, addicted, and poor by introducing them to christ and helping them apply the word of god to every area of their…

Human Services
5
Light of Life Ministries Inc

Light of life transforms lives through the love of christ by providing food, shelter, and hope to men, women, and children experiencing homelessness, poverty, or addiction to restore them as healthy members of our community.

Human Services
6
Lutheran Social Services of the Southwest

We stabilize people during crisis and transition, build a foundation where people can thrive, and preserve dignity and respect for the most vulnerable.

Religion
7
Orlando Union Rescue Mission Inc

To bring the hungry, hurting, and homeless to a new life, new goals, and a new future in christ.

Housing & Shelter
8
Eyewitness Missions
Philanthropy
9
Phoenix Seminary Inc

Phoenix seminary's mission is to train men and women for christ-centered ministry for the building of healthy churches in phoenix and the world.

Education
10
La Mission Por Vida
International
11
Fruitful Missions
Religion
12
American Bible Society

Since 1816, american bible society has been fulfilling its mission of making the bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford so all people may experience its life-changing message.

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Phoenix Gospel Mission and the most unlike its peers is Blessing for Life Inc. 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

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 92 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Compassion International — $267,572 · OtherCompassion InternationalWooddale Church — $240,158 · OtherWooddale ChurchCHRISTS CHURCH — $187,750 · OtherCHRISTS CHURCHCHOICES Pregnancy Centers — $167,639 · OtherCHOICES Pregnancy CentersMercy Ships — $162,650 · OtherMercy ShipsSamaritan's Purse — $141,133 · OtherSamaritan's PurseEducarte — $66,500 · Other+74 more — $644,895 · Other+74 moreFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC — $130,325 · InternationalFEED MY ST…ONE MISSION INC DBA 1MISSION — $74,620 · InternationalONE MISSIO…+1 more — $5,000 · InternationalBLESSING FOR LIFE INC — $39,315 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN FAMILY CARE AGENCY INC — $27,011 · Human Services+1 more — $750 · Human ServicesALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM — $40,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR ARIZONA POLICY INC — $25,000 · EducationGilbert Christian Schools Inc — $5,702 · EducationPHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION — $11,400 · ReligionST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE — $10,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,878,297International$209,945Human Services$67,076Civil Rights$40,000Education$30,702Religion$11,400Food & Nutrition$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC — $130,325 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetONE MISSION INC DBA 1MISSION — $74,620 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetSTEPS OF LOVE — $52,200 over 3y, 16% of budgetALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN FAMILY CARE AGENCY INC — $27,011 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR ARIZONA POLICY INC — $25,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION — $11,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGilbert Christian Schools Inc — $5,702 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LEPROSY MISSIONS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANGELS ON PATROL INC — $750 over 2y, 0.2% of budget
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 FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC
  • Who funds ONE MISSION INC DBA 1MISSION
  • Who funds STEPS OF LOVE
  • Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM
  • Who funds BLESSING FOR LIFE INC
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN FAMILY CARE AGENCY INC
  • Who funds CENTER FOR ARIZONA POLICY INC
  • Who funds PHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION
  • Who funds ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE

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.

Arizona Community FoundationAZ15× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Williams Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Williams Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 92 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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