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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.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 44
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $956k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $102,058
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 32
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $46M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Greater Williamsburg Community Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 41 | $872k | 32% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $520k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $516k | 22% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $484k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $477k | 32% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $529k | 31% |
| FY2019 | 29 | $421k | 45% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $249k | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gwendolyn's Wish Inc | $477,968 | 5 | 99% |
| Walsingham Academy | $460,898 | 8 | n/a |
| Hospice House Inc | $306,577 | 9 | 5% |
| Boys Home Inc | $293,747 | 4 | 2% |
| The Salvation Army | $247,949 | 8 | n/a |
| St Bede the Venerable Catholic Church | $207,934 | 4 | n/a |
| World Pediatrics | $121,241 | 4 | 1% |
| Colonial Williamsburg Foundation | $121,050 | 8 | 0% |
| Jackson Feild Homes | $119,479 | 5 | 0% |
| Longwood University Foundation Inc | $104,798 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 89 grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($15k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Greater Williamsburg Community Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 70 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
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About Greater Williamsburg Community Trust
- How much does Greater Williamsburg Community Trust give?
- Greater Williamsburg Community Trust reported 44 itemized grants totaling $956,204, out of $1,461,700 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Greater Williamsburg Community Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (29%), Human Services (15%), Health (14%).
- Who are Greater Williamsburg Community Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Gwendolyn's Wish Inc ($478k), Walsingham Academy ($461k), Hospice House Inc ($307k).
- Does Greater Williamsburg Community Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Greater Williamsburg Community Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sentara Health, United Way of the Virginia Peninsula, Peninsula Community Foundation of Virginia Inc.
- Where is Greater Williamsburg Community Trust based?
- Greater Williamsburg Community Trust is based in VA.
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