Jack & Marci Williams Endowment for Wednesday's Child
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About Jack & Marci Williams Endowment for Wednesday's Child
The Jack & Marci Williams Endowment concentrates its giving on Massachusetts-based services for children with special needs, consistently supporting residential care facilities and adoption/foster-placement organizations. Grants are directed to organizations that provide long-term, therapeutic, and placement services for vulnerable children and families, with several grantees receiving repeated support. The portfolio suggests an emphasis on sustaining existing child-care institutions (including some faith-affiliated homes) rather than broad national initiatives.
Focus Areas
Residential care homes for children with special needs in MassachusettsAdoption and permanent placement services for special-needs childrenTherapeutic youth centers and long-term treatment programs for vulnerable childrenSupport for faith-affiliated child welfare institutions in the New England region
Who They Fund
children with special needsfamilies/caregivers of special-needs childrenadoptive and foster children seeking permanent homes
About Jack & Marci Williams Endowment for Wednesday's Child
Repeated support for St Ann's Home shows the Jack & Marci Williams Endowment for Wednesday's Child Inc’s pattern: steady funding for residential care and related services for children with special needs and their families. Across 2023, 2024, and 2025, the foundation awarded the same recipient $60,000 each year, signaling a sustained relationship rather than isolated project support. The rest of the portfolio points in the same direction. It backs residential homes, placement services, and therapeutic programs for children who need long-term care or permanent family connections, with most grants staying in Massachusetts. The foundation also funds several organizations more than once, including child welfare and adoption partners that appear across multiple years. Recent grantees include Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange Inc, which received support in 2023, 2024, and 2025 for helping special needs, adoptive, and other children find permanent homes, and George H and Irene L Walker Home for Children Inc, which received repeat grants for assistance to a residential home and related services. The grant record suggests a portfolio built around continuity for established providers serving vulnerable children.
What Jack & Marci Williams Endowment for Wednesday's Child Funds
Residential care is the clearest throughline in the foundation’s recent giving. It supported George H and Irene L Walker Home for Children Inc in Needham, Massachusetts with $40,000 in 2025 for assistance to a residential home and related services for special needs children and families. The same purpose appears in grants to Italian Home for Children Inc in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, which received $40,000 in 2024 and 2025. Adoption and permanency work is another recurring theme. Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange Inc in Newton, Massachusetts received $40,000 in 2023, 2024, and 2025 to help special needs, adoptive, and other children find permanent homes. The foundation also supported therapeutic and placement-oriented services through Spaulding Youth Center Foundation Inc in Northfield, New Hampshire, again tied to residential home and related services.
How Jack & Marci Williams Endowment for Wednesday's Child Gives
Typical grants cluster at two levels: p25 and median are both $40,000, while p75 is also $40,000, showing a strong concentration at that amount. Smaller awards appear at $8,000, with occasional outliers of $1,000 and $500. The record shows repeated support to the same organizations across 2023 through 2025, indicating ongoing relationships rather than one-time gifts. The foundation is structured as an endowment and funds nonprofit partners directly; it does not fund individuals and makes no program-related investments.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$253K
Total Assets
$1.4M
Total Revenue
$138K
Total Expenses
$446K
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $8K and $40K, with a median of $40K.
25th Percentile
$8K
Median
$40K
75th Percentile
$40K
Geographic Reach
Local4 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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