How much did WILLIAM M BACKER FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2024?

Environment$1.7MCrime & Legal$240kEducation$134kCommunity Improvement$117kArts & Culture$83kRecreation & Sports$77kPublic Benefit$40kFood & Nutrition$25kAnimals$19kOther$840k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

shenandoah

2020

shenandoahequinepark

2021

—

2022

—

2023

—

2024

planned parenthood

2025

planned parenthoodpark

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k41 grants · $97k
$10k–50k10 grants · $158k
$50k–250k1 grant · $246k

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

$9.6M

Total assets

Largest grants

PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL$245,800
CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER$35,000
GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH$25,000
FAUQUIER FREE CLINIC$17,500
PIEDMONT JOURNALISM FOUNDATION$15,000
WINDY HILL FOUNDATION$12,500
VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION$12,500
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$10,000
GRAYSON-JOCKEY CLUB RESEARCH FDN$10,000
OUR CHILDREN FOUNDATION$10,000
VIRGINIA LEAGUE FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD$10,000
FAC FOUNDATION$5,000
CLIFTON INSTITUTE$5,000
THE PLAINS TOWN FUND$5,000
RACING MEDICATION & TEST CONSORTIUM$5,000

02The need

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 11%. 46% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$3.1M · 65 repeat orgs$144k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +101% since the first grant, against +58% for the ones you funded once.

65 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.1M

$117k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+101%

+58%

Still filing today

54%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentArts & CultureFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementAnimalsCrime & LegalOther

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

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PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL
6× · 2018–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +161%
CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER
7× · 2018–2024 · $215k · revenue +144%
WH
WINDY HILL FOUNDATION
7× · 2018–2024 · $93k · revenue +101%

Funded once

SP
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTERgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +39%
NS
NATIONAL SPORTING LIBRARY INCgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +140%
VT
VIRGINIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
one grant, 2021 · $13k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Historic Virginia Land Conservancy

Promoting for the benefit of the general public, the preservation, protection and enjoyment of our natural resources, principally in the lower james, york, rappahannock, and chowan river watersheds.

Environment

Virginia Conservation Network

Support conservation in Virginia through public policy research, advocacy, education and capacity building for its member organizations.

Environment

Virginia Forestry Association

Vfa promotes stewardship and wise use of the commonwealth's forest resources for the economic and environmental benefits of all virginians.

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Virginia Zoological Society

The virginia zoological society inc (the "society") exempt from federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code. organized on september 21, 1979, its purpose is to act as an advisory and supportive organization to…

Animals

Virginia Agribusiness Council

Represent the agriculture, forestry, and agribusiness community in virginia.

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Virginia Foundation for Agriculture

To assist rural virginians in developing and advancing their agricultural, economic and social interests.to facilitate and coordinate technical and financial assistance to rural virginians in order to provide traditional and innovative…

Environment

Wild Virginia Incorporated

Protecting and connecting virginia's wild lands and waters.

Environment

Foothills Land Conservancy

Foothills land conservancy is dedicated to protecting, preserving, and enhancing the lands and environments of the southern appalachian region and promoting the character of the land for the benefit of the general public.

Environment

Virginias United Land Trusts

Virginias United Land Trusts was founded to promote conservation statewide and to coordinate conservation planning and green infrastructure. The Organization offers training and educational programs, like our annual Virginia Land…

Environment

New River Conservancy

To protect the water woodlands and wildlife of the New River Watershed.

Environment

Aia Virginia

AIA Virginia is the voice of the architecture profession in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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Virginia Petroleum and Convenience

The association was organized to keep members informed of current events and regulations affecting the petroleum and convenience store industries.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environment America Inc and the most unlike its peers is Upperville Colt & Horse Show Inc. 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 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/49

the rest of the field

11%

5,477/50,419

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.

05the grantee network

45 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

45/45

Grantees still filing

39/45

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Environment$1,668,800Other$923,700Crime & Legal$240,000Education$133,500Community Improvement$117,000Arts & Culture$82,500Recreation & Sports$77,000

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.

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.

Dun FoundationVA42× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dun Foundation · Fauquier Health Foundation · The Luminescence Foundation Inc · Wise Foundation · Awa Family Foundation · Northern Piedmont Community · The Principato Family Foundation Inc · Msa Family Fund · Frank Mangano Foundation · The Hall Family Foundation Inc · Monomoy Fund Inc · The Jesse and Rose Loeb Foundation Inc

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 organisation WILLIAM M BACKER FOUNDATION INC 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: PIEDMONT JOURNALISM FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~66 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.5× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 830785962 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on PIEDMONT JOURNALISM FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 66 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 12% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to William M Backer Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to William M Backer Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

WILLIAM M BACKER FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

45 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to William M Backer Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

WILLIAM M BACKER FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

45 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to William M Backer Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph