· Private foundation
Gordon C Willis Charitable Trust
Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST GEORGES EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 59% 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.
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.
11 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2022, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- RJRICHMOND JUSTICE LEAGUE3× · 2017–2019 · $115k
- CECHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH4× · 2017–2021 · $87k
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD HEALTH SYSTEMS I4× · 2017–2020 · $50k
Funded once
- MTMASONIC THEATRE PRESERVATION FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +106%
- NCNorth Cross Schoolgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +61%
- VMVIRGINIA MUSEUM OF TRANSPORTAION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +30%
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.
To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…
Roanoke College develops students as whole persons and prepares them for responsible lives of learning, service, and leadership by promoting their intellectual, ethical, spiritual and personal growth.
The richmond symphony performs, teaches and champions music to inspire and unite our communities.
Trade association for electric cooperatives
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
The mission of vt-arc is to extend the impact of the virginia tech research and innovation enterprise, delivering superior analytic and technology solutions to government and non-government customers.
The virginia association of museums is a statewide network serving the museum community. the association's mission statement is "the virginia association of museums helps our museum community succeed".
Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…
The mission of the organization is to provide physicians and other healthcare professionals to support the needs of the community, as well as the academic mission of the vcu school of medicine.
We produce vital works of classical and contemporary theatre, with Shakespeare as our foundation. We approach this work boldly with a resolve to ignite spirits, educate minds and defy expectation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Us Naval Academy Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Renovation Alliance Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 45 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 FREDERICKSBURG COUNSELING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds GRANDIN THEATRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MASONIC THEATRE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds North Cross School ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF TRANSPORTAION INC ↗
- Who funds FERRUM COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ROANOKE BALLET THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds BRADLEY FREE CLINIC OF ROANOKE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds APPLE RIDGE FARM INC ↗
- Who funds Renovation Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds Carilion Clinic Foundation ↗
- Who funds ROANOKE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA HUNTERS WHO CARE INC ↗
- Who funds OPERA ROANOKE ↗
- Who funds US NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia · Cartledge Charitable Foundation Inc · Evelyn F James Foundation · The Ceres Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Muse Family Foundation Co Elizabeth Muse · The Newbern Foundation · The Beirne Carter Foundation · Mw Armistead III Family Foundation · Sam & Marion Golden Helping Hand Foundation · Logan III Charitable Fund 610001380 · Edgar a Thurman Fdn Children Nect
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 Gordon C Willis Charitable Trust 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.