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W W Burgiss Charities Inc

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.

$156k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2025
9
Organizations funded FY2024
78%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$35,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 12
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$2.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 78% of the organizations W W Burgiss Charities Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 67% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentFood & NutritionOther
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
FY2025still arriving12$156k67%
FY20249$152k78%
FY20239$151k78%
FY202210$145k100%
FY202012$134kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$158kHousing & Shelter$142kEducation$115kReligion$98kHealth$70kFood & Nutrition$61kYouth Development$33kEnvironment$15kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
YMCA of Greenville$95,00040%
Miracle Hill Ministries Inc$67,00020%
United Ministries$41,00021%
Legacy Advancement$25,00014%
Safe Harbor Inc$20,00011%
Youthbase Inc$17,50023%
United Housing Connections$15,00010%
Lead Collective Inccha$15,00012%
Conestee Foundation Inc$15,00011%
Communityworks Inc$15,00010%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($229k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget W W Burgiss Charities Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYMCA of Greenville: $95,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMiracle Hill Ministries Inc: $67,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUnited Ministries: $41,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetLegacy Advancement: $25,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetSafe Harbor Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetYouthbase Inc: $17,500 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetUnited Housing Connections: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLead Collective Inccha: $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetConestee Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCommunityworks Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMeals on Wheels Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPublic Education Partners Greenville County: $15,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetProject Host Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetJulie Valentine Center: $12,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTriune Mercy Center: $12,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPendleton Place Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFuller Center for Housing of McCormick Sc Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetJasmine Road Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCommunities in Schools of South Carolina: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetProject Hope Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Homeless Period Project Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetMeyer Center for Special Children: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHomes of Hope Inc: $9,525 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for Developmental Services: $9,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetA Child's Haven Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 25.

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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.

Scsymmes FoundationMO45.3× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Scsymmes Foundation · John I Smith Charities Inc · The Jolley Foundation · Scansource Charitable Foundation · Daniel-Mickel Foundation · United Way of Greenville County Inc · Sisk Foundation Buncombe St Methodist Church · Dabo's All in Team Foundation · Charity Ball Board of Greenville · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · United Community Bank Foundation · Hollingsworth Funds Inc

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 W W Burgiss Charities Inc

How much does W W Burgiss Charities Inc give?
W W Burgiss Charities Inc reported 12 grants totaling $156,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 12 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does W W Burgiss Charities Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (17%), Housing & Shelter (16%), Education (13%).
Who are W W Burgiss Charities Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: YMCA of Greenville ($95k), Miracle Hill Ministries Inc ($67k), United Ministries ($41k).
Does W W Burgiss Charities Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 78% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does W W Burgiss Charities Inc 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 W W Burgiss Charities Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Scsymmes Foundation, John I Smith Charities Inc, The Jolley Foundation.
Where is W W Burgiss Charities Inc based?
W W Burgiss Charities Inc is based in NV.

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 44 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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