· Private foundation
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 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 $10k5 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHURCH ON MAIN | $20,000 |
| CROSS POINTE BAPTIST CHURCH | $20,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH ATLANTA | $20,000 |
| EAGLE RANCH | $10,000 |
| IVY CREEK BAPTIST CHURCH | $10,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| GWINNETT MEDICAL CENTER (GMC) FOUNDATION | $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 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 12% of Virgil R Williams Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 87% of the giving stays in GA; by stated purpose, 98%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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 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…
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 35 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 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 VIETNAM WAR MEMORIAL OF GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAFE AMERICA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EAGLE RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH GWINNETT COOPERATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of Georgia ↗
- Who funds GO TELL MINISTRIES F/K/A GO TELL INC ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS' CHANCE OF GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY ↗
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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Virgil R Williams Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Virgil R Williams Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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