· Private foundation
William F Courtney Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $58k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WASHINGTON JESUIT ACADEMY | $18,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| ST THOMAS MORE NEWMAN CENTER | $15,000 |
| URSULINE HIGH SCHOOL ENDOWMENT FUND | $10,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $8,990 |
| HOLY TRINITY SCHOOL | $6,300 |
| RANCHO SANTA FE FOUNDAITON | $6,000 |
| ERIC PAREDE SAVE A LIFE FDN | $6,000 |
| YOUNG KINGS MOVEMENT | $5,665 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $4,790 |
| THE V FOUNDATION | $4,775 |
| ECAD EDUCATED CANINES ASSISTING | $4,165 |
| UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATION INC | $4,165 |
| FOUNDATION FOR GROSSMONT AND | $4,000 |
| ST RITA'S CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $3,000 |
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 (FY18–20, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +54% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
DUKE UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2024 · $118k · revenue +51%- ABANY BODY CAN YOUTH FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $36k · revenue +95%
- TVTHE V FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $26k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- MOMILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART OF THE USA INCone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -91%
- TVTHE VITAL GROUND FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue -8%
- MHMOBILE HOPE ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +8%
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 primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
An exceptional education that inspires a deep love of learning, a strong moral compass, the commitment to serve, and the confidence to lead.
To support and further the research, education and community service objectives of san diego state university.
The jefferson scholars foundation (foundation) provides academic merit-based scholarship, fellowship and professorship support to students and faculty at the university of virginia (uva).
To champion all students to and through their education and into careers as professional technicians.
The santa monica college foundation leads the private fundraising efforts of santa monica college in support of the college's mission to provide open and affordable access to high quality education. the foundation receives, disperses and…
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
George fox university, a christ centered community, prepares students spiritually, academically, and professionally to think with clarity, act with integrity, and serve with passion.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Washington Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is San Diego Museum of Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 60 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 DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ANY BODY CAN YOUTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE V FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Young Kings Movement ↗
- Who funds URSULINE HIGH SCHOOL ENDOWMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WINGMAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIVITY PREP ACADEMY OF SAN DIEGO INC ↗
- Who funds BRITEPATHS INC ↗
- Who funds RANCHO SANTA FE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART OF THE USA INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON SCHOOL FOR GIRLS ↗
- Who funds Replenish Foundation ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds KITCHENS FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds HIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Boys to Men Mentoring Network Inc ↗
- Who funds KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS COUNCIL 9332 ↗
- Who funds THE VITAL GROUND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROTARY YOUTH CAMP OF NORTH FL INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF FAIRFAX COUNTY 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: United Way of the National Capital Area · The San Diego Foundation · The Thomas C Ackerman Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment 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 William F Courtney 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.