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Virgil R Williams Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k5 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CROSS POINTE BAPTIST CHURCH | $20,000 |
| CHURCH ON MAIN | $20,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH ATLANTA | $20,000 |
| GWINNETT MEDICAL CENTER (GMC) FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| EAGLE RANCH | $10,000 |
| IVY CREEK BAPTIST CHURCH | $10,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| AJ DONOHUE SCHOLARSHIP ENDOWMENT FUND | $10,000 |
| BLUEBIRDS FOR HOPE | $5,000 |
| NORTH GWINNETT CO-OP | $5,000 |
| TURNING POINT USA | $1,000 |
| ANNANDALE VILLAGE | $1,000 |
| GO TELL MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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 12% of Virgil R Williams Charitable 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, 87% of the giving stays in GA; read by stated purpose it is 98% — more 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.
13 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 8 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k 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
- FBFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH ATLANTA5× · 2017–2025 · $153k
- FBFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF SNELLVILLE2× · 2022–2023 · $145k
- IGIndividual grant recipient5× · 2018–2023 · $100k
Funded once
- DCDunwoody Christian School Incone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -22%
- GNGEORGIA NATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $15k
- YHYOUNG HARRIS COLLEGE - THE MILLER INSTITUTE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $10k
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.
To promote the education of children in pre-K through twelfth grade in a Christian atmosphere.
The mission of gatewood schools is to educate students in a nurturing, christian environment while instilling the life long commendable characteristics of excellence, truth, honor, loyalty and prinde in each student. gatewood schools will…
The primary purpose is to provide emergency financial relief to members of the georgia national guard.
Provide spiritual encouragement to men and women in the workplace.
A private elementary school in gwinnett county, ga, founded in 2022, gwinnett global school provides a student-centered, multilingual education grounded in gods love for the world and our core values of curiosity, courage, and care.
Our mission is to improve the lives of all we serve by being the destination of choice for healthcare services.
Global scholars exists so that christian academics are adequately equipped to have a redemptive influence among their students, colleagues, universities and disciplines, at a reasonable cost.
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
To proclaim gospel of jesus.
Benefit fallen soldiers
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
Gwinnett health system, inc., (health system) is operated for the benefit of and to perform the functions of gwinnett hospital system, inc. health system is the functionally integrated parent entity of a multi-entity healthcare system that…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Turning Point Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ronny Spillers Evangelistic Ministries Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 35 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 ZELL MILLER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Dunwoody Christian School Inc ↗
- Who funds GWINNETT HOSPITAL SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RONNY SPILLERS EVANGELISTIC MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds EAGLE RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAFE AMERICA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VIETNAM WAR MEMORIAL OF GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH GWINNETT COOPERATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of Georgia ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds GO TELL MINISTRIES F/K/A GO TELL INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS' CHANCE OF GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY ↗
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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Virgil R Williams Charitable 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.
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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