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Willies Family Foundation
Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PATHFINDER VILLAGE FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF BASSETT INC | $3,500 |
| A O FOX HOSPITAL | $3,500 |
| EARTHJUSTICE | $2,000 |
| COLGATE UNIVERSITY | $1,500 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DELAWARE | $1,500 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ONEONTA COMMUNITY | $1,500 |
| OTSEGO 2000 | $1,000 |
| COOPERSTOWN FOOD PANTRY | $1,000 |
| FAMILY PLANNING OF SOUTH CENTRAL | $1,000 |
| STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE AT ONEONTA | $1,000 |
| CATSKILL AREA HOSPICE AND PALIATIVE | $1,000 |
| DINING FOR WOMEN | $1,000 |
| SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC | $1,000 |
| DOROTHY AND LEWIS B CULLMAN CHILD | $1,000 |
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 (FY19–19, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
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.
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.
The mission of the Oswego Health Foundation is to raise and manage philanthropic support for Oswego Health and its not for profit entities as they provide accessible, quality care and improve the health of the residents in our community.
To coordinate actions for protecting and restoring the health of owasco lake and its watershed to ensure that owasco lake will serve as a source of public drinking water, a recreational asset, an economic driver, and an important natural…
The mission of Oswego Health, Inc. is to provide accessible quality care and improve the health of residents in our community.
The central new york land trust seeks to preserve and protect natural areas in order to provide our communities clean water, clean air, wildlife habitat, and a chance to connect with the land.
Opportunities for otsego, as a community action agency, mobilizes resources and creates solutions to unlock opportunities for low income individuals and families in the counties of otsego and chenango, new york. opportunities for otsego's…
The mission of opacum land trust is to engage communities in protecting the land, water, and wildlife in south-central massachusetts for the benefit of current and future generations.
OCCA is dedicated to promoting the enjoyment and sustainable use of Otsego County's natural resources through education, advocacy, resource management, research, planning and practice.
Provision of health care services to residents of schoharie county and the surrounding region.
To support and strengthen the fundraising programs of the state university of new york at oneonta so that gifts and grants are raised for student scholarships, faculty/student research, lectureships, and numerous academic and institutional…
The mission of the orange county land trust is to preserve water resources, critical habitat, rural and urban farmland, scenic viewsheds and ecosystems in and around orange county for the benefit of all who depend on them.
The mission of the katawba valley land trust is to protect the natural resources, cultural resources, open lands, waters, and vistas of aesthetic value in the catawba river valley and surrounding areas.
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Otsego 2000 Inc and the most unlike its peers is Earthjustice. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 20 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 PATHFINDER VILLAGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Bassett Inc ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ONEONTA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OTSEGO 2000 INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF ONEONTA NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER WOMEN RISE ↗
- Who funds COOPERSTOWN FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds OTSEGO LAND TRUST ↗
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: C J Heilig Foundation Inc · The Scriven Foundation · Allstadt Hardin Foundation · Community Foundation of Otsego County Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Willies Family 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.
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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