Virginia · Private foundation
William M Cage Library Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $90k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 132
- Grants FY2025
- 121
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 3%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $11,028
- Organizations funded a year
- 101 to 139
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $584k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 3% of the organizations William M Cage Library Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 132 | $90k | 3% |
| FY2024 | 121 | $71k | 3% |
| FY2023 | 123 | $78k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 139 | $89k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 101 | $69k | 4% |
| FY2020 | 118 | $80k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legal Aid Works | $8,265 | 6 | 0% |
| Garrisonville Elementary School PTO | $2,950 | 6 | 2% |
| Rocky Run Elementary School PTO | $2,950 | 6 | 73% |
| Carlisle School | $2,950 | 6 | 0% |
| Margaret Brent Elementary School PTO | $2,950 | 6 | 2% |
| Parkside Elementary School PTA | $2,950 | 6 | 26% |
| Churchland Elementary School | $2,950 | 6 | n/a |
| Rodney Thompson Middle School PTO | $2,950 | 6 | 87% |
| Virginia Congress of Parents and Teachers | $2,950 | 6 | 1% |
| Wilderness Elementary PTA | $2,950 | 6 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legal Aid Works | $8,265 | 6 | 0% |
| Garrisonville Elementary School PTO | $2,950 | 6 | 2% |
| Rocky Run Elementary School PTO | $2,950 | 6 | 73% |
| Carlisle School | $2,950 | 6 | 0% |
| Margaret Brent Elementary School PTO | $2,950 | 6 | 2% |
| Parkside Elementary School PTA | $2,950 | 6 | 26% |
| Churchland Elementary School | $2,950 | 6 | n/a |
| Rodney Thompson Middle School PTO | $2,950 | 6 | 87% |
| Virginia Congress of Parents and Teachers | $2,950 | 6 | 1% |
| Wilderness Elementary PTA | $2,950 | 6 | n/a |
| Carrollton Elementary PTA | $2,450 | 5 | 19% |
| Conway Elementary School PTA | $1,950 | 4 | 1% |
| Dixon Smith Middle School PTO | $1,950 | 4 | n/a |
| Mary Ball Washington Museum and Library Inc | $1,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Amherst County Museum & Historical | $1,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Hampden-Sydney College | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Potomac Elementary School PTA | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| The Petersburg Library Foundation Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 147 recipients with no EIN on record ($432k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
William M Cage Library Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Cooking Autism Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About William M Cage Library Trust
- How much does William M Cage Library Trust give?
- William M Cage Library Trust reported 132 grants totaling $90,028 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 101 and 139 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does William M Cage Library Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (94%), Crime & Legal (2%), Arts & Culture (1%).
- Who are William M Cage Library Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Legal Aid Works ($8k), Garrisonville Elementary School PTO ($3k), Rocky Run Elementary School PTO ($3k).
- Does William M Cage Library Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does William M Cage Library Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as William M Cage Library Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Cooking Autism Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is William M Cage Library Trust based?
- William M Cage Library Trust is based in VA.
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