· Private foundation
William M Cage Library Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| ORANGE COUNTY LIBRARY | $1,500 |
| RICHMOND COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL | $1,500 |
| LEGAL AID WORKS | $1,500 |
| KEGOTANK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $500 |
| VICTORY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $500 |
| EDGAR ALLAN POE MUSEUM & LIBRARY | $500 |
| COURTLAND HIGH SCHOOL | $500 |
| THORNBURG MIDDLE SCHOOL | $500 |
| LAKEVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $500 |
| COURTLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 79% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LALEGAL AID WORKS6× · 2020–2025 · $8k · revenue +82%
- GEGARRISONVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO6× · 2020–2025 · $3k · revenue +38%
- RRROCKY RUN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO6× · 2020–2025 · $3k · revenue ×43 · 73% of their budget
Funded once
- HCHAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGEone grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue +8%
- PMPOE MUSEUMone grant, 2020 · $500
- PEPOTOMAC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTAgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue +64%
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.
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.
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
How this is measured
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization William M Cage Library Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William M Cage Library Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
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