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William F Courtney Foundation at a glance

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William F Courtney Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$134k
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$372kHuman Services$92kYouth Development$55kAnimals$45kHealth$44kPhilanthropy$37kReligion$28kPublic Safety & Disaster$26kOther$0
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $76k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $58k
$4,775
Median grant
7
States reached
$973k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WASHINGTON JESUIT ACADEMY$18,000
ST THOMAS MORE NEWMAN CENTER$15,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY$15,000
URSULINE HIGH SCHOOL ENDOWMENT FUND$10,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$8,990
HOLY TRINITY SCHOOL$6,300
ERIC PAREDE SAVE A LIFE FDN$6,000
RANCHO SANTA FE FOUNDAITON$6,000
YOUNG KINGS MOVEMENT$5,665
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$4,790
THE V FOUNDATION$4,775
UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATION INC$4,165
ECAD EDUCATED CANINES ASSISTING$4,165
FOUNDATION FOR GROSSMONT AND$4,000
ST RITA'S CATHOLIC SCHOOL$3,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $800 → 11%YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $500 → 11%IONA SENIOR SERVICES: $1k → 14%IONA SENIOR SERVICES: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
MT
IL
NY
NV
OH
CT
CA
VA
NC
SC
DC
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$662k · 35 repeat orgs$51k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +24% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
20

Total granted

$662k
$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+24%

Still filing today

54%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitAnimalsHealthHuman ServicesOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2017–2024 · $118k · revenue +51%
  • AB
    ANY BODY CAN YOUTH FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $36k · revenue +95%
  • TV
    THE V FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $26k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • MO
    MILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART OF THE USA INC
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -91%
  • TV
    THE VITAL GROUND FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue -8%
  • MH
    MOBILE HOPE ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +8%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Furman University

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.

Education
2
United States Naval Institute

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.

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3
University of Virginia Foundation

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…

Education
4
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
5
Golden Gate University

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…

Education
6
St Luke's Foundation Inc

An exceptional education that inspires a deep love of learning, a strong moral compass, the commitment to serve, and the confidence to lead.

Education
7
San Diego State University Foundation Sdsu Research Foundation

To support and further the research, education and community service objectives of san diego state university.

Education
8
Jefferson Scholars Foundation

The jefferson scholars foundation (foundation) provides academic merit-based scholarship, fellowship and professorship support to students and faculty at the university of virginia (uva).

Philanthropy
9
Techforce Foundation

To champion all students to and through their education and into careers as professional technicians.

Philanthropy
10
The Santa Monica College Foundation

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…

Education
11
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

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).

Education
12
George Fox University

George fox university, a christ centered community, prepares students spiritually, academically, and professionally to think with clarity, act with integrity, and serve with passion.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Washington Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

35 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. 35 of the 60 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
33/35
Grantees still filing
25/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WASHINGTON JESUIT ACADEMY: $151,500 · OtherWASHINGTON JESUIT ACADEMYTHE SALVATION ARMY: $40,953 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYFOUNDATION FOR GROSSMONT AND: $35,900 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR GROSSMONT ANDHOLY TRINITY CHURCH: $33,300 · OtherHOLY TRINITY CHURCHECAD EDUCATED CANINES ASSISTING: $30,824 · OtherECAD EDUCATED CANINES ASSISTINGUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATION INC: $21,272 · OtherSALVATION ARMY DISASTER RELIEF: $16,500 · OtherST THOMAS MORE NEWMAN CENTER: $15,000 · Other+30 more: $104,597 · Other+30 moreDUKE UNIVERSITY: $118,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $16,290 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO …URSULINE HIGH SCHOOL ENDOWMENT FUND INC: $10,000 · EducationURSULINE HIGH SCHOOL ENDO…NATIVITY PREP ACADEMY OF SAN DIEGO INC: $6,900 · EducationKENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $6,000 · Education+3 more: $8,500 · EducationANY BODY CAN YOUTH FOUNDATION: $35,500 · Youth DevelopmentYoung Kings Movement: $11,165 · Youth DevelopmentBoys to Men Mentoring Network Inc: $2,400 · Youth DevelopmentROTARY YOUTH CAMP OF NORTH FL INC: $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentMOBILE HOPE ASSOCIATION: $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE V FOUNDATION: $25,934 · HealthATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,500 · HealthGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyRANCHO SANTA FE FOUNDATION: $6,000 · PhilanthropyGRANDE FOUNDATION: $1,000 · PhilanthropyTHE WINGMAN FOUNDATION: $7,000 · Public BenefitMILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART OF THE USA INC: $4,687 · Public BenefitSAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART: $3,800 · Arts & CultureSAVE STARLIGHT INC: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$449,846Education$165,690Youth Development$53,065Health$27,434Philanthropy$17,000Public Benefit$11,687Arts & Culture$4,800

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $118,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetANY BODY CAN YOUTH FOUNDATION: $35,500 over 8y, 5.6% of budgetTHE V FOUNDATION: $25,934 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $16,290 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Kings Movement: $11,165 over 3y, 19% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetURSULINE HIGH SCHOOL ENDOWMENT FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE WINGMAN FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNATIVITY PREP ACADEMY OF SAN DIEGO INC: $6,900 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBRITEPATHS INC: $6,600 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRANCHO SANTA FE FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART OF THE USA INC: $4,687 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON SCHOOL FOR GIRLS: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetReplenish Foundation: $4,250 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART: $3,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKITCHENS FOR GOOD: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBoys to Men Mentoring Network Inc: $2,400 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetKNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS COUNCIL 9332: $2,260 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetROTARY YOUTH CAMP OF NORTH FL INC: $2,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE VITAL GROUND FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF FAIRFAX COUNTY INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIona Senior Services: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOBILE HOPE ASSOCIATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $1,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGRANDE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMULTICULTURAL CAREER INTERN PROGRAM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRaise Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $437 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds URSULINE HIGH SCHOOL ENDOWMENT FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds THE WINGMAN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIVITY PREP ACADEMY OF SAN DIEGO INC ↗
  • Who funds BRITEPATHS INC ↗
  • Who funds KENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RANCHO SANTA FE 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 CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds Boys to Men Mentoring Network Inc ↗
  • Who funds KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS COUNCIL 9332 ↗
  • Who funds ROTARY YOUTH CAMP OF NORTH FL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE VITAL GROUND FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF FAIRFAX COUNTY INC ↗

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.

United Way of the Nat…The San Diego Foundat…The Thomas C Ackerman…David C Copley Founda…Rancho Santa Fe Found…Sempra FoundationBaird Foundation IncThe Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…Enterprise Holdings F…Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…
United Way of the National Capital AreaVA17.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization William F Courtney Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William F Courtney Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 60 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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