Margaret McCartney & R. Parks Williams Foundation Grant
Funding Amount
Average grant $5,000–$25,000
Deadline
Expected ~July
Based on past cycles
Grant Type
Foundation
Deadline history & next window
- Cycle
- Annual
- Current deadline
- July 1, 2027
- Tracked since
- April 2026
Deadlines typically fall in: July
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Required status
- 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status
Not eligible / not funded
- Not eligible: Capital improvements but emphasizes project support
- Not eligible: General operating costs for eligible organizations
- Not eligible: No grants are made for capital improvements.
Overview
The Margaret McCartney & R. Parks Williams Foundation, founded in 2001, focuses on supporting organizations for charitable, educational, and religious purposes, particularly in Florida. Funding priorities include vocational rehabilitation for individuals with disabilities, educational scholarships, health and comfort for the elderly, and prevention of cruelty to children. The Foundation does not fund capital improvements but emphasizes project support and general operating costs for eligible organizations.
Funding Priorities
Vocational rehabilitation for the blind and other handicapped persons.
Educational purposes, provided, however, that such distributions shall not be made for capital improvements of educational facilities but rather shall be used by the educational institutions to establish scholarships for needy students.
Supplementing the needs for health and comfort of sick and elderly people being cared for by governmental or qualified private charitable organizations, such as county nursing homes.
Care and education of needy children through qualified children’s homes.
Prevention of cruelty to children.
Surgical and other treatment of cancer and/or heart disease to indigent or needy people in the Lake County community.
Eligibility
The Trustees shall consider all qualified applications received from organizations that are exempt from taxation under the Internal revenue Code Sections 501 (c) (3) and 509.The Williams Foundation generally restricts its funding policy to Florida organizations.
Ineligibility
No grants are made for capital improvements.
What Williams M M & R P Fdn Ta actually gave
Source: IRS Form 990-PF, 2024 — the most recent filing with itemized grants
- Grants in 2024
- 71
- Total given
- $296K
- Median grant
- $5,000
- Range
- $2,500–$10K
- By dollars: Florida 98%, New York 2%. Top recipient cities: Orlando, FL; Winter Park, FL; Sarasota, FL.
- 100% of grants with a stated purpose were for general or operating support.
- 13% of recipients were new grantees, not repeat recipients.
Example grants
The Crisis Center of Tampa Bay Inc · Tampa, FL
General operating
$10K
A Gift for Teaching · Orlando, FL
General operating
$10K
Orlando Health Foundation · Orlando, FL
General operating
$7,500
Life Concepts Inc DBA Quest Inc · Orlando, FL
General operating
$7,000
Camaraderie Foundation Inc · Orlando, FL
General operating
$6,200
Focus Areas & Funding Uses
Fields of Work
- Nonprofits
- Disabled
- Education
- Healthcare
- Seniors
- Child abuse prevention
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