California · Private foundation
Williams Lewellin 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.
- $4k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 83%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $350
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 12
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $554k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 83% of the organizations Williams Lewellin Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 98% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 11 | $4k | 45% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $24k | 83% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $42k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $45k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $41k | 83% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $26k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $5k | 67% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $500 | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Food and Environment Reporting Network Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Russian River Historical Society | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Stewards of the Coast and Redwoods | $350 | 1 | n/a |
| Redwood Empire Food Bank | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| Biographers International Organization | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| Rancho Bodega Historical Society Inc | $100 | 1 | n/a |
| Woodland Pattern Inc | $50 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($165k), not named here.
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.
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How this is measured
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About Williams Lewellin Family Foundation
- How much does Williams Lewellin Family Foundation give?
- Williams Lewellin Family Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $4,125 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Williams Lewellin Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (63%), Food & Nutrition (19%), Human Services (12%).
- Who are Williams Lewellin Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Food and Environment Reporting Network Inc ($20k), Russian River Historical Society ($500), Stewards of the Coast and Redwoods ($350).
- Does Williams Lewellin Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 83% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Williams Lewellin Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Williams Lewellin Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Williams Lewellin Family Foundation based?
- Williams Lewellin Family Foundation is based in CA.
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