· Private foundation
Wc English Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $298k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $507k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PATRICK HENRY FAMILY SERVICES | $125,000 |
| FAITH CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $120,000 |
| PENDLETON FOUNDATION FOR BLACK HISTORY AND CULTURE | $90,000 |
| COOPERATIVE BAPTIST FELLOWSHIP | $72,000 |
| AVOCA MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| ALTAVISTA AREA YMCA | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| LYNCHBURG DAILY BREAD | $35,000 |
| SOUTH CAROLINA GOVERNOR'S SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS | $30,000 |
| COMMUNITY STOREHOUSE | $30,000 |
| CLEMSON CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $30,000 |
| CLEMSON COMMUNITY CARE | $30,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF ALTAVISTA | $30,000 |
| GRACE NETWORK OF MARTINSVILLEHENRY COUNTY | $30,000 |
| SAFETYNET INC | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 2 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k 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
- FCFaith Christian Academy9× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +46% · 28% of their budget
- PHPATRICK HENRY FAMILY SERVICES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $855k · revenue +97%
- AAAltavista Area YMCA Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $492k · revenue +90%
Funded once
- DBDUKE BAPTIST HOUSE OF STUDIES-DIVINITY SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $75k
- BGBAPTIST GENERAL ASSOCIATION OF VIRGINIA EAGLE EYRIEone grant, 2022 · $65k
- MBMARY BETHUNE ACADEMYone grant, 2023 · $50k
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.
The establishment and operation of a child learning/daycare facility for the use, benefit, and general welfare of the children of rappahannock county, virginia.
To provide free meals and temporary shelter for the needy of robeson county.
Community care and learning center strives to provide accessible, qualaity child care that supports parents' ability to maintain stable employment while knowing their children are in a safe, nurturing, and enriching environment.
The organization provides quality care and education to 50 children in macon county and surrounding areas
The ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, dignity, and freedom for all.
The charlottesville regional chamber of commerce is a non-profit corporation organized under the laws of the commonwealth of virginia for the purpose of representing private enterprise, promoting business, economic growth and vitality, and…
Carolina community impact, inc. (cci) is a non-profit organization that provides access to credit and asset-building techniques for individuals and small businesses. our mission is to promote economic and community development by providing…
At The Childrens Center of Western North Carolina (TCC), we are dedicated to creating an inclusive, playful, and nuturing environment where children can grow and learn together in acceptance of one another.
Provides community service(family counseling & day care) to the inner of louisville.
Provision of safe and affordable housing.
Provide crisis intervention, counseling, and shelter; support and empowerment; education, information, and referrals to victims of sexual and domestic violence and to those significant in their lives; and outreach related to the issues of…
The Crisis Center of Russell County was organized to provide assistance and temporary housing to victims of domestic abuse through secured temporary housing and education with job placement to transition them back into society. In…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Clemson Community Care Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Christ our Life Ministries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
32 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. 32 of the 61 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 Faith Christian Academy ↗
- Who funds PATRICK HENRY FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Altavista Area YMCA Inc ↗
- Who funds METANOIA ↗
- Who funds LYNCHBURG DAILY BREAD INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY STOREHOUSE ↗
- Who funds CLEMSON COMMUNITY CARE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Grace Network of Martinsville & Henry Co ↗
- Who funds Clemson Child Development Center ↗
- Who funds CAPE FEAR BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds ANDREW P STEWART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHSIDE SURVIVOR RESPONSE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SAFETYNET INC ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY CARE CENTER OF MHC INC ↗
- Who funds PARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Campbell County Training School Complex ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LYNCHBURG ↗
- Who funds THE PENDLETON COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds ALTAVISTA AREA CAMPBELL COUNTY FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING INC ↗
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: Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation · Foster Foundation · Moore's Charitable Foundation · Easley Char Irr Tua 5019004715 · The Al Stroobants Foundation · Centra Health Inc · The Minnie and Bernard Lane Foundation · Beverly W & Hampton O Powell Charitable Foundation · Schewel Charitable Foundation · Fray Family Charitable Trust · M4k Lynchburg Inc · Edgar a Thurman Fdn Children Nect
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 Wc English 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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