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William Whidbee Sale & Virginia B Sale Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $88k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| United Way of MvilleHC | $10,000 |
| The Salvation Army | $10,000 |
| Grace Network | $10,000 |
| Piedmont Arts Association | $10,000 |
| MHC Warming Center | $8,000 |
| Southside Survivor Response Center | $8,000 |
| Bassett Vol Fire Department | $7,000 |
| Henry County Furniture Museum | $6,000 |
| Ferrum College | $5,000 |
| MARC Workshop | $5,000 |
| Edwards Adult Day Center | $5,000 |
| Bassett Cemetery Inc | $5,000 |
| Boys and Girls Club | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Tackfully Teamed Riding Academy | $3,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 100% of those 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.
30 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- TPThe Piedmont Arts Association9× · 2017–2025 · $100k · revenue +22%
- TTTackfully Teamed Riding Academy Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $28k · revenue +38%
- SSStepping Stones Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $10k
- MHM-HC Histrocial Societyone grant, 2021 · $2k
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.
To provide elederly and/or disabled persons with housing facilities and services especially desgined to meet their needs.
Maintenance of records of history of Martinsville and Henry County Virginia and preservation of the former Courthouse.
Provide a structured, supportive, supervised and enrichment environment for the elderly at a low cost to the participants and their families.
Provide housing for developmentally disabled adults. Also to develop and provide educational and recreational programs to children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
To help revitalize downtown Martinsburg, WV
To provide supervised housing and treatment to clients who require assistance with mental, cognitive, and physyical aspects of their lives to attain an optimal quality of life.
Low income housing for seniors and handicapped To provide a safe, secure, affordable, and aesthetically pleasing environment designed to compassionately meet the needs of seniors and handicapped persons without regard to their racial,…
To provide services to senior citizens of McDowell County, West Virginia.
The martinsville-henry county chamber of commerce, inc. is organized for the purpose of advancing the commercial, industrial, and civic inerests of the city of martinsville and henry county, virginia
The united way of henry county-martinsville unites and mobilizes the community in assessing and meeting the critical human service needs in henry county-martinsville, virginia.
To provide high quality venues and performing arts for the Highlands - Cashiers community.
To provide services to senior citizens of Monroe County, West Virinia
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Adult Day Care of Martinsville & Henry County and the most unlike its peers is Ferrum College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 33 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.
- Who funds The Piedmont Arts Association ↗
- Who funds SOUTHSIDE SURVIVOR RESPONSE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MARC Workshop Inc ↗
- Who funds Henry County Furniture Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds FERRUM COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Tackfully Teamed Riding Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds Stepping Stones Inc ↗
- Who funds TheatreWorks Community Players Inc ↗
- Who funds BASSETT CEMETERY ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY CARE CENTER OF MHC INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY DREAM CENTER ↗
- Who funds Adult Day Care of Martinsville & Henry County ↗
- Who funds MARTINSVILLE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION ↗
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: Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia · The Harvest Foundation of the Piedmont · United Way of Henry County & Martinsville · Marjorie Sutton Memorial Foundation · Groves-Chaney Founda · 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 Whidbee Sale & Virginia B Sale Foundation 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.
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