· Public charity
General Society of Colonial Wars
Preservation and furtherance of the general public's knowledge of america's colonial history and heritage through education
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $222,300 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $394,557 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $172,257 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k3 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $185k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JAMES GOOSE CREEK | $75,000 |
| DETROIT HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $60,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY INC | $50,000 |
| HISTORIC ST MARY'S CITY FOUNDATION | $18,000 |
| AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY INSTITUTE | $7,500 |
| PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC | $6,000 |
| AMERICAN VILLAGE LIBERTY FOUNDATION | $5,800 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 79% of your 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $151k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
Detroit Historical Society4× · 2021–2024 · $110k · revenue +118%- JRJAMESTOWN REDISCOVERY FOUNDATION3× · 2018–2024 · $103k · revenue +663%
- PPPLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC5× · 2018–2023 · $34k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $240k · revenue +67%
- NYNew York Historical Societyone grant, 2021 · $14k · revenue -23%
- FLFORT LIGONIER ASSOCIATION2× · 2021–2022 · $10k · revenue 0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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 schs mission is to expand, preserve, and make accessible our invaluable collection, and to encourage interest and pride in the rich history of our state.
It seeks to collect and preserve manuscripts, rolls, relics, and records; to hold suitable commemorations, and to erect memorials relating to the american colonial period; to inspire in its members the fraternal and patriotic spirit of…
To preserve, promote and serve as an advocate for virginia's irreplaceable historic places for cultural, economic and educational benefits for everyone.
Tudor place historic house & garden preserves the stories of six generations of descendants of martha washington and the enslaved and free people who lived and worked at this georgetown landmark for nearly two centuries. by examining their…
The rhode island historical society, through its collections, museums, and educational initiatives, welcomes everyone to engage with rhode island's complex and significant past.
To promote interest in, knowledge of, and appreciation for north carolina history and culture through historical preservation, library service, and perpetuation of state literary and cultural heritage.
The purpose of the montauk historical society is to collect, restore, preserve and display historically significant buildings, objects and writings and to preserve and share the history and cultures of montauk and the east end for this and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America and the most unlike its peers is American Village Liberty Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 57 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
34 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.
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 UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Detroit Historical Society ↗
- Who funds JAMESTOWN REDISCOVERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC ↗
- Who funds GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC ST MARY'S CITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN VILLAGE LIBERTY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OLD BARRACKS ASSOCIATION OF TRENTON NEW ↗
- Who funds New York Historical Society ↗
- Who funds FORT LIGONIER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC MORVEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE WAYSIDE INN ↗
- Who funds LES AMIS DU FORT DE CHARTRES ↗
- Who funds THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC ANNAPOLIS INC ↗
- Who funds Beautiful Places Alliance ↗
- Who funds THE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION ↗
- Who funds Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ↗
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: Donors Trust Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
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 General Society of Colonial Wars 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Old Barracks Association of Trenton New — 90% of income from government
- Historic Annapolis Inc — 45% of income from government
- Plimoth Patuxet Museums Inc — 1% of income from government
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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