· Private foundation
The Nettie L and Charles L Wiley Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 56% of THE NETTIE L AND CHARLES L WILEY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $187k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $514k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RAPPAHANNOCK COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $207,909 |
| NORTHERN NECK FAMILY YMCA | $100,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE ACADEMY | $55,825 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE NN | $50,000 |
| NORTHERN NECK FREE HEALTH CLINIC | $50,000 |
| FIRST SPARK | $50,000 |
| HEALTHY HARVEST FOOD BANK | $47,355 |
| LANCASTER COUNTY VA EDUCATION FDN | $37,138 |
| THREE RIVERS HEALTHY FAMILIES | $37,000 |
| LIBERTY UNIVERSITY | $20,152 |
| BETHEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $20,000 |
| RAPPAHANNOCK FOUNDATION FOR ARTS | $15,000 |
| LANCASTER VIRGINIA HIST SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| LANCASTER COMMUNITY LIBRARY | $8,000 |
| OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY | $6,828 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 89% of your 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.
44 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 3 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- LCLANCASTER COUNTY VIRGINIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $338k · revenue +178% · 33% of their budget
- HHHEALTHY HARVEST FOOD BANK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $260k · revenue +42%
- CAChesapeake Academy Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $228k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- MBMARY BALL WASHINGTON MUSEUM AND LIBRARY INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $60k · revenue +76% · 26% of their budget
- RCRAPPAHANNOCK COMMUNIT COLLEGEone grant, 2020 · $12k
- TNTHE NEMOURS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +75%
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 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…
Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.
Mission statement of washington and lee university: washington and lee university provides a liberal arts education that develops students' capacity to think freely, critically, and humanely and to conduct themselves with honor, integrity,…
The virginia association of museums is a statewide network serving the museum community. the association's mission statement is "the virginia association of museums helps our museum community succeed".
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…
Promoting for the benefit of the general public, the preservation, protection and enjoyment of our natural resources, principally in the lower james, york, rappahannock and chowan rivers and surrounding watersheds.
To educate a diverse body of students to thrive in a college setting and beyond.
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).
New schools for virginia works with parents, students, educators and the community to improve educational outcomes by designing new schools and by supporting existing schools to improve outcomes.
The mission of washington heritage museums is to preserve, promote and maintain its five 18th century properties in fredericksburg, virginia and develop dynamic educational resources and programs to engage and inspire the intrest of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mary Ball Washington Museum and Library Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Haven Inc. 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 39 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 14% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
19 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. 19 of the 70 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 THE NORTHERN NECK-MIDDLESEX FREE HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE NORTHERN NECK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER COUNTY VIRGINIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY HARVEST FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Chesapeake Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds STEAMBOAT ERA MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds RAPPAHANNOCK ART LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds FIRSTSPARK INC ↗
- Who funds THE HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds MARY BALL WASHINGTON MUSEUM AND LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RAPPAHANNOCK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEMOURS 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: The Community Foundation Inc · Mason and Lula Cole Charitable Tua 600008015 · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Ben Conley Charitable & Education Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Nettie L and Charles L Wiley 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.
- The Nemours Foundation — 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.
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