· Private foundation
The McGlothlin Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $197k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $670k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Appalachian College of Pharmacy | $175,000 |
| Appalachian School of Law | $105,000 |
| William King Art Center | $100,000 |
| Crossroads Medical Mission | $70,000 |
| King University | $70,000 |
| Alice Lloyd College | $50,000 |
| Paramount Theatre | $50,000 |
| Radford University | $50,000 |
| Boys Girls Club of Central Appala | $45,000 |
| Sunset Holler Inc | $40,000 |
| Emory Henry College | $26,500 |
| Theatre Bristol | $25,000 |
| Buchanan County Historical Society | $20,000 |
| George C Marshall Foundation | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those 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.
24 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $124k 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
- EHEMORY & HENRY UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +34%
- MMMOUNTAIN MISSION SCHOOL INC7× · 2018–2024 · $820k · revenue +4%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL APPALACHIA INC4× · 2022–2025 · $245k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- BUBLUEFIELD UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue -2%
- YNYWCA Northeast TN and Southwest VAone grant, 2020 · $30k
- VHVirginia Highlands Comm Collegeone grant, 2018 · $25k
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 mission of the University is to inspire independent thinkers who become trustworthy, effective leaders that shape caring communities. The vision of the University of Lynchburg is to cultivate a world that is innovative, authentic, and…
Is to provide educational opportunities for gifted students who have limited academic experiences and resources but unlimited potential for leadership in society.
The mission of the edward via college of osteopathic medicine (vcom) is to prepare globally-minded, community-focused physicians to meet the needs of rural and medically underserved populations and promote research to improve human health.
The mission of wvicu is to advance collectively the interests of west virginia's independent colleges and universities and their students.
Bridgewater college educates the whole person by providing a challenging and supportive learning community that fosters the growth of its students and empowers and motivates them to live educated, intelligent, healthy, purposeful and…
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.
Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…
Rocky mountain college educates future leaders through liberal arts and professional programs that cultivate critical thinking, creative expression, ethical decision making, informed citizenship, and professional excellence.
Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.
A leader among faith-based universities Eastern Mennonite University emphasizes peace-building creation care experiential learning and intercultural engagement. Founded in 1917 in Harrisonburg Virginia EMU is an educational institution of…
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…
The university of pikeville is the leading higher education institution of central appalachia. founded in 1889, upike remains steadfast in our commitment to preparing students for the future while creating intellectual, cultural, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Barter Foundation Inc State Theatre of Virginia and the most unlike its peers is Bristol Community Prayer Breakfast. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 39. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 53 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 EMORY & HENRY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN MISSION SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN COLLEGE OF PHARMACY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL APPALACHIA INC ↗
- Who funds SUNSET HOLLER INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN SCHOOL OF LAW ↗
- Who funds SYMPHONY OF THE MOUNTAINS ↗
- Who funds ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds KING UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS MEDICAL MISSION ↗
- Who funds THE PARAMOUNT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLUEFIELD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BUCHANAN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL AND DEVE LOPMENTAL OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BRISTOL COMMUNITY PRAYER BREAKFAST ↗
- Who funds Theatre Bristol Inc ↗
- Who funds BARTER FOUNDATION INC STATE THEATRE OF VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds GEORGE C MARSHALL RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OAKWOOD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BRISTOL HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN LITERACY INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC POCAHONTAS 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: The United Company Foundation · The James W and Frances Gibson McGlothlin Foundation · Wellmont Health System · Clarke Charitable Foundation · Food City Charitable Foundation · Thompson Charitable Foundation · Massengill-Defriece Foundation Inc · The Horizon Foundation Inc · The Joe W and Frankie Mae Street Foundat · Williams-Berry Charitable Foundation · Bane Foundation · Speedway Children's Charities
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 The McGlothlin Foundation 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.
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