Founder

Kate Q. Williams, ESQ.

Kate is the founder and owner of Philanthropy Partner LLC. Kate has had the unique opportunity to understand and support the needs of private foundations and grantmakers from the legal, operational, governance, grantee, and grantor perspectives. She has supported executive leadership, operations staff, and boards of directors on a wide range of issues, including affiliations, transactions, strategic initiatives, governance, and programmatic and operational needs. She has partnered with visionaries and trustees to ensure that grants and collaborations are impactful and are executed with attention to the foundations’ priorities, strategies, and legal compliance requirements. Most recently, Kate served as in-house legal counsel for a complex national nonprofit provider in the areas of behavioral health, intellectual and developmental disabilities, and education and autism services. In addition, Kate Clerks the Board of Trustees of the Thomas Scattergood Behavioral Health Foundation, where she is actively engaged in the direction and implementation of its strategy, grants, partnerships, initiatives, and operational needs. In this way, Kate’s legal background and skillset have broadened and overlapped with strategic and operational organizational and board leadership roles. Kate is a skilled generalist, able to problem-solve and issue spot effectively and efficiently with a solutions-oriented mindset. She brings a relevant and dynamic skillset and collaborative approach to the private foundations and grantmakers she supports.