· Private foundation
William M Cage Library Trust
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k131 grants · $79k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROANOKE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $11,028 |
| CENTRAL RAPPAHANNOCK REGIONAL LIBRARY | $4,500 |
| MASSANUTTEN REGIONAL LIBRARY | $3,500 |
| CAROLINE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $2,500 |
| CAROLINE COUNTY LIBRARY | $2,000 |
| RICHMOND COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL | $1,500 |
| ORANGE COUNTY LIBRARY | $1,500 |
| LEGAL AID WORKS | $1,500 |
| BATTLEFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $500 |
| CHINCOTEAGUE HIGH SCHOOL | $500 |
| CEDAR FOREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $500 |
| HAMPTON OAKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $500 |
| KING GEORGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $500 |
| T BENTON GAYLE MIDDLE SCHOOL | $500 |
| PARK RIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 79% of your 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.
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 +50% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
145 repeat relationships — 128 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 4 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- LALEGAL AID WORKS6× · 2020–2025 · $8k · revenue +82%
- RTRODNEY THOMPSON MIDDLE SCHOOL PTO6× · 2020–2025 · $3k · revenue +43% · 87% of their budget
- VCVIRGINIA CONGRESS OF PARENTS AND TEACHERS6× · 2020–2025 · $3k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- PEPOTOMAC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTAgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue +64%
- EAEDGAR ALLEN POE MUSEUM AND LIBRARYone grant, 2022 · $500
- MLMASSANUTTEN LIBRARYone grant, 2020 · $500
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.
Supporting the teachers, staff and students of Carrie Martin Elementary School
The PTO seeks to help build community among students and families through spirit days and special events throughout the year. The PTO also organizes events to help care for Stony Point teachers and staff in tangible ways. The Stony Point…
School support provided by parents and teachers.
To promote a partnership between home and school, serving as a forum for caregivers and educators to collaborate as we advocate for the needs of the children, families, faculty, and staff at CSPES.
To support teachers and students
The ptso raises money through fundrasising activities which is then distributed to teachers on an as-needed basis for classroom supplies, teaching resources, and equipment
Support Student and Teachers of school
To enhance and support the educational experience at Page Hilltop School
Pto support teachers & students
Elementary school PTA
Benefit local school
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Potomac Elementary School Pta and the most unlike its peers is Hampden-Sydney College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 165 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.
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: Cooking Autism Inc · Amazonsmile 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 M Cage Library Trust 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.