· Private foundation
The United Company 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 $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 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 14% of The United Company Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 51% of the giving stays in VA; by stated purpose, 40%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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How this is measured
83 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
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 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 SULLINS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Boy Scouts of America Council 713 Sequoyah ↗
- 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 SYMPHONY OF THE MOUNTAINS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds HOLSTON HOME FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds Jacksonville University ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOME OF THE HIGHLANDS INC ↗
- Who funds Serving Orphans Worldwide Inc ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Grand Canyon University ↗
- Who funds Girls Incorporated of Bristol ↗
- Who funds BRISTOL EMERGENCY FOOD PANTRY ↗
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 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The United Company Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The United Company Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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