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Williams-Sonoma Inc 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.

$998k
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$531k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$1.4MCivil Rights$565kPhilanthropy$547kEducation$508kPublic Safety & Disaster$295kEnvironment$217kYouth Development$161kFood & Nutrition$158kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $155k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $269k
  • $250k+1 grant · $531k
$10,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$8.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
St Jude Children's Research$530,953
Bright Funds Foundation$111,507
Disaster Relief 98 Individuals$107,500
World Wildlife Fund$50,000
The Hidden Genius Project$30,000
Golden Gate National Parks Conserva$20,000
Embrace Kids Foundation$15,000
UCSF Foundation$10,000
IRCO$10,000
CAMBA Housing Works$10,000
CURYJ$10,000
Boys and Girls Club of Northeast MS$10,000
Tarrant Area Food Bank$10,000
Project 150$10,000
Unidos Por La Musica$10,000
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 (FY18–25, $301k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 72% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Black Organizing Project: $10k → 10%Send It Foundation: $200 → 11%UPLM - Unidos Por La Musica: $10k → 14%HBC Champions Foundation: $3k → 13%Urban League of Portland: $5k → 12%Streetwise Georgia: $5k → 9%Desoto County Dream Center: $10k → 10%Project 150: $10k → 13%Unidos Por La Musica: $10k → 14%Urban League of Portland: $5k → 12%Desoto County Dream Center: $10k → 10%Project 150: $10k → 13%CURYJ: $10k → 10%Unidos Por La Musica: $10k → 14%Urban League of Portland: $5k → 12%Desoto County Dream Center: $10k → 10%CURYJ: $10k → 10%Unidos Por La Musica: $10k → 14%National Urban League: $75k → 17%National Urban League: $50k → 17%CURYJ: $10k → 10%CURYJ: $10k → 10%American Red Cross: $13k → 14%Girl Ventures: $50 → 10%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

NH
WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
NV
OH
NJ
CT
CA
NE
KY
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
OK
MS
GA
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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.2M · 37 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

37 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
402

Total granted

$3.2M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+21%

Still filing today

65%
14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $156k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • NU
    NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $125k · revenue +4%
  • SHARE OUR STRENGTH
    3× · 2019–2024 · $107k · revenue +20%
  • WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC
    2× · 2019–2025 · $51k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • SG
    See Grant Statement
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M
  • GO
    GREENWAVE ORGANIZATION CORP
    one grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue +20%
  • SM
    See Matching Grant Statement
    one grant, 2018 · $55k
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
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
2
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
3
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
4
The Uc Davis Foundation

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

Education
5
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
6
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

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

Education
7
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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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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9
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
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Dominican University of California

Our institutional mission is to educate and prepare students to be ethical leaders and socially responsible global citizens who incorporate the dominican values of study, reflection, community and service into their lives.

Education
11
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
12
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Jersey Seeds Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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

91 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 91 of the 451 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)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
91/91
Grantees still filing
63/91
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

St Jude Children's Research: $1,156,342 · OtherSt Jude Children's ResearchSee Grant Statement: $1,046,833 · OtherSee Grant StatementNAACP: $200,000 · OtherNAACPGolden Gate National Parks Conserva: $140,000 · Other+163 more: $957,371 · Other+163 moreBRIGHT FUNDS FOUNDATION: $510,756 · PhilanthropyBRIGHT FUND…+1 more: $5,000 · PhilanthropyGREENWAVE ORGANIZATION CORP: $250,000 · EducationGREENWAVE …HIDDEN GENIUS PROJECT: $60,000 · EducationHIDDEN GEN…CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $50,000 · EducationCULINARY I…San Francisco Education Fund: $41,500 · EducationSan Franci…EDUCATION IS FREEDOM FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Education+3 more: $40,500 · Education+3 moreNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $125,000 · Human ServicesUNIDOS POR LA MUSICA: $40,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITIES UNITED FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE DBA CURYJ: $40,000 · Human ServicesDESOTO COUNTY DREAM CENTER INC: $30,000 · Human Services100 BLACK MEN OF LAS VEGAS INC: $28,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT 150: $20,000 · Human ServicesURBAN LEAGUE OF PORTLAND INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $13,411 · Human Services+4 more: $22,500 · Human ServicesAsian Law Caucus: $180,000 · Crime & LegalMILES OF FREEDOM: $10,000 · Crime & LegalWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $50,500 · EnvironmentNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EnvironmentEXODUS OUTREACH FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · HealthTHE INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN WITH CANCER AND BLOOD DISORDERS INC: $15,000 · HealthALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · HealthSPASTIC PARAPLEGIA FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 · HealthSUNSHINE ON A RANNEY DAY INCORPORATED: $5,000 · HealthGAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS INC: $5,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $4,264 · Health
Other$3,500,546Philanthropy$515,756Education$462,000Human Services$333,911Crime & Legal$190,000Environment$75,500Health$68,264

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetBRIGHT FUNDS FOUNDATION: $510,756 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetGREENWAVE ORGANIZATION CORP: $250,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetAsian Law Caucus: $180,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $125,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $107,150 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJACKIE ROBINSON FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHIDDEN GENIUS PROJECT: $60,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $50,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Education Fund: $41,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetUNIDOS POR LA MUSICA: $40,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMUNITIES UNITED FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE DBA CURYJ: $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetDESOTO COUNTY DREAM CENTER INC: $30,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budget100 BLACK MEN OF LAS VEGAS INC: $28,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNRF FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPROJECT 150: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetEXODUS OUTREACH FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MEMPHIS: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEDUCATION IS FREEDOM FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCatawba County Hispanic Ministry: $20,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetISLES INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF PORTLAND INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetStudents Without Mothers Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN WITH CANCER AND BLOOD DISORDERS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNEW JERSEY SEEDS INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $13,411 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $10,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAMBA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTarrant Area Food Bank: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILES OF FREEDOM: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Black Organizing Project Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSPASTIC PARAPLEGIA FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSUNSHINE ON A RANNEY DAY INCORPORATED: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWOODY WILLIAMS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVISIONSPRING INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHARROS PLACE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $4,264 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $2,620 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHBC CHAMPIONS FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 2.0% 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.

United Way WorldwideMarin Community Found…Jewish Community Fede…The Yelp FoundationThe San Francisco Fou…East Bay Community Fo…The James Irvine Foun…The David Lebuhn Foun…The William & Flora H…Silicon Valley Commun…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Tides Foundation
United Way WorldwideVA23.1× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way Worldwide · Marin Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Yelp Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · The David Lebuhn Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Tides 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-Sonoma Inc Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Williams-Sonoma Inc Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Urban League of Portland Inc: 33% of income from government
  • Isles Inc: 21% of income from government
  • Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
  • The Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization: 4% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
  • Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
  • Basic Rights Education Fund: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to Williams-Sonoma Inc Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Williams-Sonoma Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 451 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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