· Private foundation
Williams-Berry Charitable Foundation
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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SULLINS ACADEMY | $1,600 |
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 (FY17–20, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 8% of Williams-Berry Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in VA; by stated purpose, 91%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- EHEMORY & HENRY UNIVERSITY4× · 2017–2020 · $2.5M · revenue +34%
- SASULLINS ACADEMY5× · 2017–2025 · $426k · revenue +18%
- CCCORNERSTONE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY4× · 2017–2020 · $329k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- BGBoys & Girls Club of the Mountain Empiregraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +56%
- GIGIRLS INCone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
Provide comprehensive primary medical care to the communites served.
The west virginia rural health association (wvrha) advocates for empowering all west virginians to advance their quality of life, their well-being, and their access to excellence in rural health care. our mission is to unite people,…
Agricultural education
The free clinic of franklin county, inc is founded on the belief that everyone should have access to quality, affordable, primary health care regardless of their socio-economic or insurance status.
The mission of wvicu is to advance collectively the interests of west virginia's independent colleges and universities and their students.
To foster and promote the growth, progress and general welfare of the southside virginia community college and the virginia college system.
To provide for scholarships, faculty & staff development and instructor equipment
Private Baptist College
Solicitation of public contributions on behalf of member colleges. provides foundations, businesses, and individuals a convenient way of supporting small colleges and universities in virginia.
To provide quality dental care and eye examinations at no cost to uninsured residents of east tennessee and southwest virginia
To provide medical & dental services to a rural area.
Roanoke College develops students as whole persons and prepares them for responsible lives of learning, service, and leadership by promoting their intellectual, ethical, spiritual and personal growth.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 21 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 EMORY & HENRY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SULLINS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds BARTER FOUNDATION INC STATE THEATRE OF VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds MEL LEAMAN FREE CLINIC OF SMYTH CO ↗
- Who funds HEALING HANDS HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BRISTOL FAITH IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS MEDICAL MISSION ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN EMPIRE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WYTHEVILLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM KING MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of the Mountain Empire ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN LITERACY INITIATIVE ↗
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: The United Company Foundation · Wellmont Health System · The James W and Frances Gibson McGlothlin Foundation · The Joe W and Frankie Mae Street Foundat · The McGlothlin Foundation · Ty & Julann Warren Family Foundation · The Richard & Leslie Gilliam Foundation · Clarke Charitable Foundation · Mountain States Health Alliance · The Genan Foundation · Food City Charitable Foundation · Speedway Children's Charities
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Williams-Berry Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Williams-Berry Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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