· Private foundation
The McGlothlin Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| King University | $70,000 |
| Crossroads Medical Mission | $70,000 |
| Alice Lloyd College | $50,000 |
| Radford University | $50,000 |
| Paramount Theatre | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- FOFriends of Sycamore Shoalsone grant, 2018 · $25k
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
28 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. 28 of the 53 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL AND DEVE LOPMENTAL OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BUCHANAN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds BRISTOL COMMUNITY PRAYER BREAKFAST ↗
- Who funds Theatre Bristol Inc ↗
- Who funds BARTER FOUNDATION INC STATE THEATRE OF VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds OAKWOOD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds GEORGE C MARSHALL RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRISTOL HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN LITERACY INITIATIVE ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The McGlothlin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The McGlothlin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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