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Greater Williamsburg Community Trust
The williamsburg community foundation enhances the quality of life in greater williamsburg by connecting people with causes that matter, managing charitable funds, and providing grants and scholarships for our community's most pressing needs and promising opportunities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 19 grants below total $519,776 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,257,685 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $737,909 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $170k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $290k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GWENDOLYN'S WISH INC | $97,790 |
| BOYS HOME OF VIRGINIA | $73,333 |
| WALSINGHAM ACADEMY | $65,842 |
| SAINT BEDE CATHOLIC CHURCH | $52,921 |
| HOSPICE HOUSE AND SUPPORT CARE OF WILLIAMSBURG | $48,889 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY A GEORGIA CORPORATION | $32,921 |
| PGA TOUR CHARITIES INC | $30,000 |
| JACKSON-FEILD BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES | $24,434 |
| THE WILLIAMSBURG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $13,322 |
| NC STATE ENGINEERING FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF WILLIAMSBURG REGIONAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $9,750 |
| DEGOOD FOUNDATION | $9,750 |
| FISH INC | $9,750 |
| W&M MASON SCHOOL OF BUSINESS FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $784k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 26% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +37% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k 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
- GWGWENDOLYN'S WISH INC4× · 2021–2024 · $376k · revenue +16% · 99% of their budget
- HHHOSPICE HOUSE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $235k · revenue +60%
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation7× · 2017–2024 · $98k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- LULONGWOOD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $105k · revenue +28%
- HFHEART FOR ORPHANS INCone grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +24%
- VHVIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLSone grant, 2021 · $65k · revenue +15%
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 williams school builds with each child the foundation for academic, moral and social success. a williams school student embodies confidence, integrity and a love of learning.
Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.
The mission of william and mary real estate foundation is to acquire, hold, manage, sell, lease, and participate in the development of real properties in support of the educational goals of the college of william and mary in virginia.
To enhance, promote, and serve the business communities of the city of williamsburg, virginia, james city county, virginia, the bruton district of york county, virginia, and the yorktown, virginia waterfront.
Williamsburg regional hospital is a not for profit acute care hospital with 25 licensed beds, providing excellence in patient care in an environment that is respectful of others, adaptive to change, accountable for outcomes, and attentive…
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.
The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…
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…
Provides seminary, under-graduate, graduate, doctoral, and other continuing education programs
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 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).
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Housing Partnerships 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 35 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
63 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. 63 of the 79 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 GWENDOLYN'S WISH INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS HOME INC ↗
- Who funds LONGWOOD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ↗
- Who funds WORLD PEDIATRICS ↗
- Who funds JACKSON FEILD HOMES ↗
- Who funds HEART FOR ORPHANS INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMSBURG AREA FAITH IN ACTION I ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC VIRGINIA LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF GREATER WILLIAMSBURG ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS ↗
- Who funds PGA TOUR INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILLIAM & MARY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMSBURG MUSIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds William & Mary Business School Foundation ↗
- Who funds Housing Partnerships Inc ↗
- Who funds COVENANT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Child Development Resources ↗
- Who funds AVALON A CENTER FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF WILLIAMSBURG REGIONAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GROVE CHRISTIAN OUTREACH CENTER ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA PASTORAL COUNSELING CENTER ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE ARTS AND CULTURE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds LOCUS IMPACT INVESTING ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMSBURG AREA MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH COMMUNITY OF THE VIRGINIA PENINSULA INC ↗
- Who funds WMBG AREA MEDICAL ASSISTANCE CORP ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM & MARY ATHLETIC EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DREAM CATCHERS ↗
- Who funds OLIVET MEDICAL MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMSBURG HOUSE OF MERCY ↗
- Who funds RITA WELSH ADULT LITERACY PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds WJCC SCHOOLS 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: Sentara Health · United Way of the Virginia Peninsula · Peninsula Community Foundation of Virginia Inc · Langley for Families - the Foundation of Lfcu · Williamsburg Community Health Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · Kiwanis Club of Williamsburg · Hampton Roads Community Foundation · The Robert McEldowney Jr Family Foundation · Bernardine Franciscan Sisters Foundation Inc · Rotary Club of Williamsburg Foundation 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 Greater Williamsburg Community 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.
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pga Tour Inc — 0% 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.