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· Private foundation
WILLIAMS MCCLAIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.
$27k
Granted FY2025
14
Grants
1
Communities
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 91% of WILLIAMS MCCLAIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2020
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2021
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2022
chamber commercemartinsville henryeducationrelief
2023
economicmartinsville
2024
athleticboosterbandmartinsville
2025
children
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2025 · 14 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$76k
Total assets
Largest grants
- BLUE RIDGE INNOCATION CORRIDOR$10,000
- MARTINSVILLE - HENRY COUNTY FAMILY YMCA$5,000
- UNITED WAY$4,500
- GRACE NETWORK$2,000
- CENTRA FOUNDATION$1,500
- PATRICK & HENRY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$1,000
- PIEDMONT ARTS$1,000
- ROOSTER WALK INC$600
- MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION$500
- THE WARMING CENTER$500
- YOUNG LIFE MARTINSVILLE-HENRY COUNTY$250
- CAMP KUM-BE-YAH$250
- BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB$100
- FIGSBORO RURITAN CLUB$100
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $250) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$62k · 15 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +71% since the first grant, against -25% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
15
15
Total granted
$62k
$4k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+71%
-25%
Still filing today
20%
33%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationYouth DevelopmentHealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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
- RWROOSTER WALK INC5× · 2021–2025 · $3k · revenue +83%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB5× · 2020–2025 · $2k · revenue +60%
- PCPREGNANCY CARE CENTER OF MHC INC3× · 2021–2024 · $1k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- SVSOUTHERN VA RECREATION FACILITIES AUTHORone grant, 2023 · $500
- MWMVHS WARRIOR BAND BOOSTERSone grant, 2024 · $500
- MBMARTINSVILLE BULLDOG BOOSTERone grant, 2024 · $500
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
Rogersville Area Chamber of Commerc
To promote, advocate, support and provide opportunities for growth and sustainability of businesses in the rogersville area.
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2
Radford Child Development Inc
Our mission is to develop and/or support excellent, nationally accredited child development programs in radford that embodies the best practices of early childhood care and education.
Human Services
3
Boys & Girls Club of Morgan County
To provide a safe environment for children to learn and enable them to reach their full protential.
Education
4
Robeson Health Care Corporation
Providing primary health care and professional counseling services to all indviduals who need it.
Health
5
Kids Connection Inc
To provide child care services for area residents
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6
Boys & Girls Club of Chicopee Inc
The organization promotes the health, social, educational, vocational, and character development of young people by providing community services and youth activities throughout the greater chicopee area.
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7
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Midlands
To inspire and enable all young people to reach their full potential.
Youth Development
8
Hampton Area Chamber of Commerce
To promote local businesses
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9
Boys Girls Club
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10
Community Resource Center of Robertson County
Human Services
11
Boys & Girls Clubs of Cumberland
To provide mentoring programs for at risk youth with educational and recreational opportunities that they normally may not be able to experience.
Crime & Legal
12
Kids Club of Harney County
To provide a safe and enriching out-of-school environment for youth that prepares them for success in academics and life by mentoring them to make healthy life choices.
Youth Development
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pregnancy Care Center of Mhc Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kim Jones Memorial Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$69,650Education$3,800Youth Development$1,800Health$1,100Human Services$250Philanthropy$100
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.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: 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 organisation WILLIAMS MCCLAIN CHARITABLE 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: RADFORD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 540448618 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on RADFORD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 0% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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Find your warmest path to Williams McClain Charitable Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines