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William R Gunby Jr Charitable Foundation at a glance

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William R Gunby Jr Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$71k
Granted FY2024still arriving
38
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$21k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$205kEnvironment$135kEducation$31kCivil Rights$27kReligion$21kHuman Services$17kAnimals$14kYouth Development$12kOther$0
02FY2024 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k35 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $43k
$1,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI OF MARYLAND$21,000
MOUNTAINTRUE$12,070
ATLANTA BALLET$10,000
WOODWARD ACADEMY$2,500
MANNA FOOD BANK$2,000
TAPESTRY HOUSEFILM SCHOOL OF AFRICA$1,500
NORTHSIDE UNITED METHODIST CHRUCH$1,100
RONALD MCDONAL HOUSE$1,030
URBAN RECIPE$1,029
WELLROOT FAMILY SERVICES$1,026
HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE US$1,000
YELLOW JACKET FLYING CLUB$1,000
UNC-TV$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
KATIE HAUMESSER FOUNDATION$1,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WELLROOT FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 14%ALMOST HOME DOG RESCUE: $500 → 13%ALMOST HOME DOG RESCUE: $500 → 13%ALMOST HOME DOG RESCUE: $500 → 13%ALMOST HOME DOG RESCUE: $500 → 13%LOST-N-FOUND YOUTH INC: $1k → 13%MIDTOWN ASSISTANCE CENTER: $500 → 13%JAM FOR CAM INC: $1k → 13%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

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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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$489k · 52 repeat orgs$91k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.

52 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
59

Total granted

$489k
$85k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+38%

Still filing today

52%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
EnvironmentHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureAnimalsHealthOther
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

  • M
    MountainTrue
    7× · 2018–2024 · $95k · revenue +192%
  • TS
    THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI OF MARYLAND INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $63k · revenue +112%
  • TS
    THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI
    2× · 2017–2018 · $41k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • SO
    SOC OF THE CINCINNATI OF MARYLAND
    one grant, 2021 · $21k
  • GC
    GEORGIA CAMPAIGN FOR ADOLESCENT
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • FRACTURED ATLAS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue +49%
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
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
2
National Association of Clean Water Agencies

Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.

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3
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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4
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
5
African Parks Foundation of America

To engage the united states and its citizens in the work of african parks and to promote access to american experience and expertise in the african parks actiities by 1) raising funds for specific projects, activities, training, equipment…

Recreation & Sports
6
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Animals
7
American Forests

Protection and expansion of threatened urban and wildland forest ecosystems. See Part III

Environment
8
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
9
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
10
Amazon Conservation Association

Amazon conservation unites science, people, and innovation to protect the amazon - the greatest wild forest on earth. as guardians of the most iconic forest on the planet, we bring together the power of the latest science and technology…

Environment
11
Natural Areas Conservancy Inc

The natural areas conservancy champions urban natural areas in new york city and across the nation through innovative research, partnerships, and advocacy. we increase the health and resilience of urban forests and wetlands, catalyze…

Environment
12
North Carolina Conservation Network

The north carolina conservation network supports, trains, and coordinates diverse groups and directly advocates to achieve equitable and sustainable solutions for our environment.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Park Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Jam for Cam Inc. 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

52 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. 52 of the 123 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)
51/52
Grantees still filing
40/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $40,250 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSOC OF THE CINCINNATI OF MARYLAND: $21,000 · OtherSOC OF THE CINCINNATI OF MARYLANDCLEAN WATER FOR AFRICA: $10,200 · OtherGEORGIA CAMPAIGN FOR ADOLESCENT: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $9,858 · Other+87 more: $130,539 · Other+87 moreATLANTA BALLET INC: $82,500 · Arts & CultureATLANTA BALLET INCTHE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI OF MARYLAND INC: $63,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI OF MARY…THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI: $41,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI+1 more: $4,348 · Arts & CultureMountainTrue: $94,500 · EnvironmentMountainTrueConserving Carolina: $4,250 · EnvironmentWATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC: $4,000 · Environment+5 more: $9,806 · Environment+5 moreWOODWARD ACADEMY INC: $19,000 · EducationYELLOW JACKET FLYING CLUB INC: $1,000 · EducationTHE GEORGE AND BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Education+2 more: $1,070 · EducationSERVEHAITI INC: $7,022 · Human ServicesAlmost Home Dog Rescue NC: $2,000 · Human ServicesJAM FOR CAM INC: $1,050 · Human ServicesUNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME OF THE NORTH GA CONFERENCE INC: $1,026 · Human ServicesLost-N-Found Youth Inc: $1,024 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,000 · Human ServicesMIDTOWN ASSISTANCE CENTER INC: $500 · Human ServicesHumane World for Animals Inc: $6,800 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF THE ANIMALS: $2,000 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,450 · AnimalsDefenders of Wildlife: $1,000 · AnimalsAgape Community Center: $8,607 · Recreation & SportsPARK PRIDE INC: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsAPPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY: $1,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$221,847Arts & Culture$190,848Environment$112,556Education$22,070Human Services$13,622Animals$11,250Recreation & Sports$10,607

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMountainTrue: $94,500 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetATLANTA BALLET INC: $82,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI OF MARYLAND INC: $63,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetTHE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI: $41,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWOODWARD ACADEMY INC: $19,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAgape Community Center: $8,607 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSERVEHAITI INC: $7,022 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $6,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetERASE RACISM INC: $5,536 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $4,348 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetConserving Carolina: $4,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC: $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWISKOTT-ALDRICH FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetMANNA FOOD BANK INC: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $3,056 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTA FIRE RESCUE FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $2,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Whitewater: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN RECIPE INC: $2,029 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PISGAH CONSERVANCY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ANIMALS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlmost Home Dog Rescue NC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $1,547 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF DUPONT FOREST: $1,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,450 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $1,089 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEmpty Stocking Fund Inc: $1,052 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJAM FOR CAM INC: $1,050 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME OF THE NORTH GA CONFERENCE INC: $1,026 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLost-N-Found Youth Inc: $1,024 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARK PRIDE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYELLOW JACKET FLYING CLUB INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOCUS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAPPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGOFUNDMEORG: $585 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTA-FULTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $570 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMIDTOWN ASSISTANCE CENTER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBREVARD COLLEGE CORPORATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION: $200 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 MountainTrue ↗
  • Who funds ATLANTA BALLET INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI OF MARYLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI ↗
  • Who funds WOODWARD ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds Agape Community Center ↗
  • Who funds SERVEHAITI INC ↗
  • Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
  • Who funds ERASE RACISM INC ↗
  • Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
  • Who funds Conserving Carolina ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds WISKOTT-ALDRICH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MANNA FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ATLANTA FIRE RESCUE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds American Whitewater ↗
  • Who funds URBAN RECIPE 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.

The Community Foundat…Georgia Power Foundat…The Imlay Foundation …The Community Foundat…Salesforce FoundationBailey Family Foundat…James a and Mayme H R…The Virginia & Charle…The Vasser Woolley Fo…The Zeist Foundation …Second Helpings Atlan…The Sartain Lanier Fa…
The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA18.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Imlay Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Salesforce Foundation · Bailey Family Foundation Inc · James a and Mayme H Rowland Foundation · The Virginia & Charles Brewer Family Foundation · The Vasser Woolley Foundation Inc · The Zeist Foundation Inc · Second Helpings Atlanta Inc · The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation Inc

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 R Gunby Jr Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William R Gunby Jr Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • American Whitewater: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 123 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home