· Private foundation
The United Company 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 $10k38 grants · $109k
- $10k–50k47 grants · $977k
- $50k–250k17 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA OF BUCHANAN COUNTY | $236,334 |
| FEEDING AMERICA SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA | $125,000 |
| JOHNSON UNIVERSITY | $112,094 |
| VIRGINIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE | $100,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL APPALACHIA | $100,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL OPPORTUNITIES INC | $100,000 |
| APPALACHIAN HIGHLANDS COMMUNITY DENTAL CENTER | $94,894 |
| MILLIGAN UNIVERSITY | $84,264 |
| EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY | $74,477 |
| BARTER FOUNDATION INC | $65,000 |
| CROSSROADS MEDICAL MISSION | $60,000 |
| EMORY AND HENRY COLLEGE | $59,615 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF APPLACHIAN HIGHLANDS | $56,000 |
| YWCA - BRISTOL | $55,000 |
| BLUEFIELD COLLEGE | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $450k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 14% of The United Company Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 51% of the giving stays in VA; read by stated purpose it is 40% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
117 repeat relationships — 67 still active in FY2025, 50 since wound down; 14 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $280k 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
- MUMILLIGAN UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +59%
- BHBALLAD HEALTH FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2024 · $863k · revenue +36%
- FSFEEDING SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA9× · 2017–2025 · $825k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- HHHOLSTON HOME FOR CHILDREN INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $200k · revenue +32%
- UCUNITED COAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $100k
- SVSOUTHWEST VIRGINIA HIGHER EDUCATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $50k
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.
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The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
Since 1902, Franklin University has been a pioneer in meeting the needs of adult students who have the ambition to continue their education in combination with other responsibilities, receiving its status as a tax exempt organization in…
Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
Building on a rich Presbyterian heritage and a pioneering spirit, Tusculum University provides an active and experiential education within a caring Christian environment to inspire civic engagement, enrich personal lives, and equip…
John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…
Belhaven university prepares students academically and spiritually to serve jesus christ in their careers, in human relationships, and in the world of ideas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Syracuse University and the most unlike its peers is Rivers Way Outdoor Adventure. 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 52 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% 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.
83 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. 83 of the 160 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 MILLIGAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BALLAD HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL AND DEVE LOPMENTAL OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HEALING HANDS HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS MEDICAL MISSION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF APPALACHIAN HIGHLANDS ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL APPALACHIA INC ↗
- Who funds BLUEFIELD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BARTER FOUNDATION INC STATE THEATRE OF VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds FEEDING MY SHEEP INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF WISE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN HIGHLANDS COMMUNITY DENTAL CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds EMORY & HENRY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Boy Scouts of America Council 713 Sequoyah ↗
- Who funds SULLINS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of the Mountain Empire ↗
- Who funds BIRTHPLACE OF COUNTRY MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds BRISTOL FAITH IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds HOLSTON HOME FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds SYMPHONY OF THE MOUNTAINS ↗
- Who funds Jacksonville University ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOME OF THE HIGHLANDS INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Serving Orphans Worldwide Inc ↗
- Who funds Grand Canyon University ↗
- Who funds Girls Incorporated of Bristol ↗
- Who funds BRISTOL EMERGENCY FOOD PANTRY ↗
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 James W and Frances Gibson McGlothlin Foundation · Clarke Charitable Foundation · Speedway Children's Charities · Food City Charitable Foundation · The McGlothlin Foundation · The Joe W and Frankie Mae Street Foundat · United Way of Bristol Tn-Va Inc · The Horizon Foundation Inc · Wellmont Health System · Thompson Charitable Foundation · Bella Vista Foundation · Williams-Berry Charitable 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 United Company 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.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Jacksonville University — 3% of income from government
- Barry University Inc — 1% of income from government
- Quinnipiac University — 0% of income from government
- Mcdaniel College Inc — 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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