· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NICK'S KIDS FUND | $25,000 |
| BOYS&GIRLS CLUBS OF WEST ALABAMA | $25,000 |
| DESIRE STREET MINISTRIES | $15,000 |
| MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| THE SEED COMPANY | $10,000 |
| CRIMSON TIDE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| VALIANT CROSS ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| GREENVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| OAK HILL SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| THE TANNER FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| GREENVILLE SENIOR CENTER | $5,000 |
| BLUE HAVEN | $5,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH TID | $5,000 |
| SACRED SELECTIONS | $5,000 |
| LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $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 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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- VCVALIANT CROSS ACADEMY8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +13%
- FLFIRST LIGHT INC5× · 2017–2021 · $25k · revenue +93%
- MBMONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- SCSABAN CENTER FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +746%
- WPWO PARMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $10k
- HAHOPE AFIELDone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -23%
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.
To provide quality education in a christian atmosphere.
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.
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.
The school provides classical christian education to students in grades junior kindergarten through twelve.
Secondary education in a christian atmosphere
Private school for grades k-12
Mcminnville christian academy, an exceptional academic environment where students can thrive.
Boys boarding school offering religious education, academic excellence, and applied training in trades and farming.
The Cornerstone Academy is a classical christian school that is parent supported, student centered and powered by passionate educators.
Hampton christian academy provides a private christian education for grades 4k through 12th grade.
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…
Educational institution, kindergarten through 12th grade.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 28 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Warren and Sallie Williamson Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Warren and Sallie Williamson Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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