· Private foundation
Williamson 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MYERS PARK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
| WEE KIRK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD CENTER | $5,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $5,000 |
| ROCKY MOUNT ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| THE NORTH CAROLINA AQUARIUM SOCEITY | $5,000 |
| CROSSNORE SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| AVERY COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $4,000 |
| EDGECOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| FOCUS ON THE FAMILY | $3,000 |
| TURNING POINT USA INC | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +43% for those funded once.
33 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CFCape Fear Academy8× · 2018–2025 · $38k · revenue +71%
- GSGood Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $37k · revenue +87%
- SMSAINT MARYS SCHOOL8× · 2018–2025 · $35k · revenue +36%
Funded once
ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOMgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +134%- TOTHE OUTREACH CENTERone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +318%
- LHLIBERTY HILL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $5k
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.
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.
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
Ashland university, guided by our christian heritage, is a comprehensive, private university that provides a transformative learning experience, shaping graduates who work, serve and lead with integrity in their local, national, and global…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Northeastern seminary strives to be a vibrant source for christian theological formation whose students are formed in a biblical vision of gracious christianity and impact wholeness to the world in an expansive array of vocations and…
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.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Houghton university provides an academically challenging, christ-centered education in the liberal arts and sciences to students from diverse traditions and economic backgrounds and equips them to lead and labor as scholar-servants in a…
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
Concord academy is a community animated by love of learning, diverse and striving for equity, with common trust as our foundation. honoring each individual, we challenge and expand our understanding of ourselves and the world through…
How this is measured
30 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. 30 of the 53 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Cape Fear Academy ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Inc ↗
- Who funds SAINT MARYS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNT ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds AVERY COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds LINC INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISE WELLS CAMERON ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds TROUT UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds THE NORTH CAROLINA AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LINVILLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE OUTREACH CENTER ↗
- Who funds HopeWay Foundation ↗
- Who funds EDGECOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDA ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds THE NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PLAN INTERNATIONAL USA INC ↗
- Who funds Red Sweater Project ↗
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.
Open a dossier: North Carolina Community Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Dickson Foundation Inc · The Winston-Salem Foundation · George Smedes Poyner Foundation Inc · Barnhill Family Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Williamson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Williamson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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