· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $88k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Piedmont Arts Association | $10,000 |
| The Salvation Army | $10,000 |
| United Way of MvilleHC | $10,000 |
| Grace Network | $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 |
| Bassett Cemetery Inc | $5,000 |
| Ferrum College | $5,000 |
| Boys and Girls Club | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Edwards Adult Day Center | $5,000 |
| MARC Workshop | $5,000 |
| Greater Bassett Area Community | $3,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 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.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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
How this is measured
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
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.
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization William Whidbee Sale & Virginia B Sale Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William Whidbee Sale & Virginia B Sale Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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