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The Warren and Sallie Williamson Charitable Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$145k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 73% of THE WARREN AND SALLIE WILLIAMSON CHARITABLE TRUST’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.

02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $105k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NICK'S KIDS FUND$25,000
BOYS&GIRLS CLUBS OF WEST ALABAMA$25,000
DESIRE STREET MINISTRIES$15,000
VALIANT CROSS ACADEMY$10,000
CRIMSON TIDE FOUNDATION$10,000
THE SEED COMPANY$10,000
MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY$10,000
THE TANNER FOUNDATION$5,000
SACRED SELECTIONS$5,000
BREAKTHROUGH TID$5,000
BLUE HAVEN$5,000
GREENVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL$5,000
OAK HILL SCHOOL$5,000
GREENVILLE SENIOR CENTER$5,000
LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR$3,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FIRST LIGHT SHELTER: $5k → 16%SACRED SELECTIONS: $5k → 9%FIRST LIGHT SHELTER: $5k → 16%SACRED SELECTIONS: $5k → 9%FIRST LIGHT SHELTER: $5k → 16%FIRST LIGHT SHELTER: $5k → 16%FIRST LIGHT SHELTER: $5k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$995k · 18 repeat orgs$115k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
7

Total granted

$995k
$80k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+234%

Still filing today

44%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesReligionInternationalYouth DevelopmentHealthOther

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

  • VC
    VALIANT CROSS ACADEMY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +13%
  • FL
    FIRST LIGHT INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $25k · revenue +93%
  • MB
    MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • SC
    SABAN CENTER FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +234%
  • GP
    GBC PUBLIC LIBRARY
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • WP
    WO PARMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
    one grant, 2019 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Franklin Academy

To provide quality education in a christian atmosphere.

Education
2
Alabama Christian Academy

To glorify god by providing a quality, christ-centered education which challenges students and teachers to maximize their potential so that graduates are prepared to further their education while becoming productive christian citizens.

3
Victory Christian Academy

Christian education victory christian academy exists to provide a christian education and team with parents to train and equip students to submit to the lordship of jesus christ in thought, word and deed.

4
Westminster Academy

The school provides classical christian education to students in grades junior kindergarten through twelve.

Education
5
Faith Christian Academy

Secondary education in a christian atmosphere

Education
6
Annapolis Christian Academy

Private school for grades k-12

Education
7
Mcminnville Christian Academy

Mcminnville christian academy, an exceptional academic environment where students can thrive.

Education
8
Saint Andrews Academy Inc

Boys boarding school offering religious education, academic excellence, and applied training in trades and farming.

Education
9
Cornerstone Academy

The Cornerstone Academy is a classical christian school that is parent supported, student centered and powered by passionate educators.

10
Hampton Christian Academy

Hampton christian academy provides a private christian education for grades 4k through 12th grade.

Education
11
Excelsior Academy

Excelsior academy's mission is to educate scholars with a broad classical foundation of knowledge, assisting them with opportunities to learn at their challenge level, in an intentionally inviting environment to help scholars acquire a…

Education
12
Candlelight Christian Academy Inc

Educational institution, kindergarten through 12th grade.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sacred Selections and the most unlike its peers is Greenville Area Arts Council a Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 28 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
5/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NICK'S KIDS FUND — $215,000 · OtherNICK'S KIDS FUNDCRIMSON TIDE FOUNDATION — $120,000 · OtherCRIMSON TIDE FOUNDATIONFORT DALE ACADEMY PTA — $90,000 · OtherFORT DALE ACADEMY PTASEED COMPANY INC — $70,000 · OtherSEED COMPANY INCREFORMED UNIVERSITY FELLOWSHIP — $70,000 · OtherREFORMED UNIVERSITY FELLOWSHIPGREENVILLE SENIOR CENTER — $40,000 · OtherOAK HILL SCHOOL — $35,000 · OtherGREENVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL A CORPORATION — $35,000 · Other+11 more — $130,000 · Other+11 moreDesire Street Ministries — $120,000 · ReligionDesire Stree…VALIANT CROSS ACADEMY — $80,000 · EducationVALIANT C…MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE — $15,000 · EducationMONTGOMER…FIRST LIGHT INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesSACRED SELECTIONS — $10,000 · Human ServicesSABAN CENTER FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Public BenefitENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTITUTE IN CHINA — $15,000 · InternationalHOPE AFIELD — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE TANNER FOUNDATION FOR NEUROLOGICAL DISEASES — $5,000 · Health
Other$805,000Religion$120,000Education$95,000Human Services$35,000Public Benefit$25,000International$15,000Youth Development$10,000Health$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDesire Street Ministries — $120,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetFORT DALE ACADEMY PTA — $90,000 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetVALIANT CROSS ACADEMY — $80,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WEST ALABAMA INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSABAN CENTER FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFIRST LIGHT INC — $25,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTITUTE IN CHINA — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSACRED SELECTIONS — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE AFIELD — $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetTHE TANNER FOUNDATION FOR NEUROLOGICAL DISEASES — $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budget
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 Desire Street Ministries
  • Who funds FORT DALE ACADEMY PTA
  • Who funds VALIANT CROSS ACADEMY
  • Who funds GREENVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL A CORPORATION
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WEST ALABAMA INC
  • Who funds SABAN CENTER FOUNDATION
  • Who funds FIRST LIGHT INC
  • Who funds ENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTITUTE IN CHINA
  • Who funds MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE
  • Who funds SACRED SELECTIONS
  • Who funds HOPE AFIELD
  • Who funds THE TANNER FOUNDATION FOR NEUROLOGICAL DISEASES

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.

Alabama Power Foundation IncAL21.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Warren and Sallie Williamson Charitable Trust 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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