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The William Foss II Memorial Foundation

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.

$392k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
28
Grants FY2024
14
Organizations funded FY2023
29%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$105,000
Organizations funded a year
13 to 21
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
13
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 29% of the organizations The William Foss II Memorial Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Youth DevelopmentFood & NutritionReligionHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving28$392k68%
FY202314$11k29%
FY202216$14k19%
FY202121$16k38%
FY202021$16k38%
FY201913$13kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$122kPhilanthropy$107kHealth$43kHuman Services$39kYouth Development$34kReligion$33kRecreation & Sports$30kEducation$30kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Prescott Community Cupboard Food Bank Inc$105,00016%
Special Olympics Arkansas Inc$28,00041%
Golden Harvest Food Bank Inc$11,50030%
Georgetown University$9,50060%
Childrens Place Association$7,0001n/a
Southwest Indian Foundation$6,0001n/a
Marine Toys for Tots Foundation$5,00010%
Helping Hands Corporation$5,0001n/a
Cumbee Center to Assist Abused Persons Inc$5,00010%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$5,00010%
Show all 31 grantees
All grantees of The William Foss II Memorial Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Prescott Community Cupboard Food Bank Inc$105,00016%
Special Olympics Arkansas Inc$28,00041%
Golden Harvest Food Bank Inc$11,50030%
Georgetown University$9,50060%
Childrens Place Association$7,0001n/a
Southwest Indian Foundation$6,0001n/a
Marine Toys for Tots Foundation$5,00010%
Helping Hands Corporation$5,0001n/a
Cumbee Center to Assist Abused Persons Inc$5,00010%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$5,00010%
St Josephs Indian School$3,5001n/a
Aiken Civic Orchestra$3,00012%
Dominican University$3,00030%
Aiken Womens Heart Board$3,00012%
The Launch Pad Teen Center$2,50040%
Atlanta Post Polio Association$2,0001n/a
Special Olympics Inc$2,00020%
East Bay Integrated Care Inc$2,00040%
Creative Growth Art Center$1,60040%
Yavapai Exceptional Industries$1,50030%
Diocesan Council for the Society of St Vincent de Paul Diocese Phoenix$1,50010%
Girls at Work Inc$1,50010%
Kqed Inc$1,20030%
Prescott Valley Food Bank Inc$1,0002n/a
Coalition for Compassion & Justice$80010%
Benilde St Margarets High School$7502n/a
St Mary Help of Christians Parish & the Aiken Missions$5001n/a
Citizens Water Advocacy Group$5001n/a
Cornucopia Community Advocates$50010%
World Wildlife Fund Inc$5210%
Reading Is Fundamental Inc$4810%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($242k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The William Foss II Memorial Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPrescott Community Cupboard Food Bank Inc: $105,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetSpecial Olympics Arkansas Inc: $28,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetGolden Harvest Food Bank Inc: $11,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgetown University: $9,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMarine Toys for Tots Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCumbee Center to Assist Abused Persons Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAiken Civic Orchestra: $3,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetDominican University: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAiken Womens Heart Board: $3,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetThe Launch Pad Teen Center: $2,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSpecial Olympics Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEast Bay Integrated Care Inc: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCreative Growth Art Center: $1,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYavapai Exceptional Industries: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDiocesan Council for the Society of St Vincent de Paul Diocese Phoenix: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGirls at Work Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKqed Inc: $1,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCoalition for Compassion & Justice: $800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCornucopia Community Advocates: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $52 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetReading Is Fundamental Inc: $48 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 22.

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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.

Arizona Community FoundationAZ16× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · St Mary's Food Bank Alliance · American Endowment Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The William Foss II Memorial Foundation

How much does The William Foss II Memorial Foundation give?
The William Foss II Memorial Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $392,009 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 21 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does The William Foss II Memorial Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (26%), Philanthropy (23%), Health (9%).
Who are The William Foss II Memorial Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Prescott Community Cupboard Food Bank Inc ($105k), Special Olympics Arkansas Inc ($28k), Golden Harvest Food Bank Inc ($12k).
Does The William Foss II Memorial Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The William Foss II Memorial Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The William Foss II Memorial Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arizona Community Foundation, St Mary's Food Bank Alliance, American Endowment Foundation.
Where is The William Foss II Memorial Foundation based?
The William Foss II Memorial Foundation is based in SC.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 56 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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