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The James W and Frances Gibson McGlothlin Foundation at a glance

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The James W and Frances Gibson McGlothlin Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$4.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
36
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$17MHealth$5.7MCrime & Legal$1.1MArts & Culture$685kYouth Development$591kPublic Safety & Disaster$235kHuman Services$229kInternational$225kOther$0
02FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $250k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.0M
  • $250k+5 grants · $2.9M
$37,500
Median grant
9
States reached
$62M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
APPALACIAN COLLEGE OF PHARMACY$1,000,000
WILLIAM & MARY MARSHALL WYTHE SCHOOL OF LAW FOUNDATION$626,117
WILLIAM & MARY BUSINESS SCHOOL FOUNDATION$625,991
MCV FOUNDATION$375,000
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$250,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL APPALACHIA$100,000
EMORY & HENRY COLLEGE$100,000
FELLOWSHIP CHAPEL$100,000
THE MAYO CLINIC$100,000
MOUNTAIN MISSION SCHOOL INC$100,000
APPALACHIAN SCHOOL OF LAW$100,000
QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY$100,000
WILLIAM & MARY MARSHALL WYTHE SCHOOL OF LAW FOUNDATION$65,342
WILLIAM & MARY BUSINESS SCHOOL FOUNDATION$65,342
WILLIAM & MARY BUSINESS SCHOOL FOUNDATION$62,339
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 36% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PORTER'S CALL: $10k → 4%THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE: $10k → 14%YMCA OF BRISTOL: $10k → 15%THE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN: $25k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
WI
NY
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
KY
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
SC
DC
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$22M · 35 repeat orgs$3.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

35 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
50

Total granted

$22M
$2.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+31%

Still filing today

74%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • WM
    William & Mary Business School Foundation
    8× · 2017–2024 · $5.5M · revenue +29%
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2017–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +64%
  • AS
    APPALACHIAN SCHOOL OF LAW
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue +74%
  • EM
    ECOG-ACRIN MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $258k · revenue +1%
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $125k · revenue +3%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
3
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
4
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
5
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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6
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
7
Williams College

Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.

Education
8
Mitchell Hamline School of Law

Mitchell hamline school of law is an independent law school that advances its mission through a combination of legal education, public service, and community engagement. it is dedicated to preparing students to practice law, while also…

Education
9
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
10
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
11
Washington & Jefferson College

To graduate people of uncommon integrity, competence, and maturity, who are effective lifelong learners and responsible citizens, and who are prepared to contribute substantially to the world in which they live.

Education
12
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Casa for Kids Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

62 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 62 of the 99 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/62
Grantees still filing
53/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

William & Mary Business School Foundation: $5,517,021 · EducationWilliam & Mary Business School FoundationWILLIAM & MARY LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $2,576,620 · EducationWILLIAM & MARY LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATIONJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $2,000,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYAPPALACHIAN SCHOOL OF LAW: $1,021,036 · EducationAPPALACHIAN SCHOOL OF LAWAPPALACHIAN COLLEGE OF PHARMACY: $1,000,000 · EducationAPPALACHIAN COLLEGE OF PHARMACYFOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL AND DEVE LOPMENTAL OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL: $700,000 · EducationQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY: $600,000 · EducationMEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION: $525,000 · Education+9 more: $1,392,633 · Education+9 moreUPMC HILLMAN CANCER CENTER: $3,000,000 · OtherUPMC HILLMAN CANCER CENTERWILLIAM & MARY MARSHALL WYTHE SCHOOL OF LAW FOUNDATION: $2,939,244 · OtherWILLIAM & MARY MARSHALL WYTHE SCHO…+53 more: $2,058,800 · Other+53 moreST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,000,000 · HealthST JUDE C…MAYO CLINIC: $550,000 · HealthMAYO CLIN…ECOG-ACRIN MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $258,000 · HealthECOG-ACRI…CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $125,000 · HealthCHILDREN'…BALLAD HEALTH FOUNDATION: $112,500 · Health+5 more: $95,750 · HealthBIRTHPLACE OF COUNTRY MUSIC INC: $111,111 · Arts & CultureVirginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation: $110,000 · Arts & CultureARTIS-NAPLES INC: $60,000 · Arts & CultureTheatre Bristol Inc: $50,000 · Arts & CultureAPPALACHIAN LITERACY INITIATIVE: $30,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $33,000 · Arts & CultureBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL APPALACHIA INC: $225,000 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentServing Orphans Worldwide Inc: $125,000 · Food & NutritionThe Heal Foundation Inc: $55,000 · PhilanthropyNAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyCommunity Foundation of the Lowcountry: $15,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Education$15,332,310Other$7,998,044Health$2,141,250Arts & Culture$394,111Youth Development$235,000Food & Nutrition$125,000Philanthropy$125,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWilliam & Mary Business School Foundation: $5,517,021 over 8y, 8.6% of budgetWILLIAM & MARY LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $2,576,620 over 4y, 9.4% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $2,000,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAPPALACHIAN SCHOOL OF LAW: $1,021,036 over 6y, 6.8% of budgetAPPALACHIAN COLLEGE OF PHARMACY: $1,000,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL AND DEVE LOPMENTAL OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL: $700,000 over 6y, 15% of budgetQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY: $600,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $550,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION: $525,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMOUNTAIN MISSION SCHOOL INC: $460,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetEMORY & HENRY UNIVERSITY: $400,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetECOG-ACRIN MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $258,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL APPALACHIA INC: $225,000 over 4y, 22% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF VA: $201,364 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF APPALACHIAN HIGHLANDS: $165,269 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetTHE PARAMOUNT FOUNDATION INC: $135,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BRISTOL TN-VA INC: $127,500 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of the Mountain Empire: $125,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetServing Orphans Worldwide Inc: $125,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetBALLAD HEALTH FOUNDATION: $112,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetBIRTHPLACE OF COUNTRY MUSIC INC: $111,111 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetVirginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation: $110,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetARTIS-NAPLES INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION: $55,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Heal Foundation Inc: $55,000 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetTheatre Bristol Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetBARTER FOUNDATION INC STATE THEATRE OF VIRGINIA: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSULLINS ACADEMY: $50,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetMILLIGAN UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAPPALACHIAN LITERACY INITIATIVE: $30,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetSYMPHONY OF THE MOUNTAINS: $25,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetTHE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE WORKS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCommunity Foundation of the Lowcountry: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWILLIAM KING MUSEUM OF ART: $12,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGOLISANO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NAPLES INC: $11,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Association: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGOLF FORE AFRICA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPORTERS CALL: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWASHINGTON SCHOOL FOR GIRLS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

The United Company Fo…Food City Charitable …Clarke Charitable Fou…The McGlothlin Founda…The Joe W and Frankie…Wellmont Health SystemSpeedway Children's C…The Horizon Foundatio…Eastman Credit UnionWilliams-Berry Charit…United Way of Bristol…Ty & Julann Warren Fa…
The United Company FoundationVA47.3× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The United Company Foundation · Food City Charitable Foundation · Clarke Charitable Foundation · The McGlothlin Foundation · The Joe W and Frankie Mae Street Foundat · Wellmont Health System · Speedway Children's Charities · The Horizon Foundation Inc · Eastman Credit Union · Williams-Berry Charitable Foundation · United Way of Bristol Tn-Va Inc · Ty & Julann Warren Family Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The James W and Frances Gibson McGlothlin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The James W and Frances Gibson McGlothlin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Quinnipiac University: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to The James W and Frances Gibson McGlothlin Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 99 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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