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Williams McClain Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| THE WARMING CENTER | $500 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION | $500 |
| YOUNG LIFE MARTINSVILLE-HENRY COUNTY | $250 |
| CAMP KUM-BE-YAH | $250 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $100 |
| FIGSBORO RURITAN CLUB | $100 |
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 (FY22–22, $250) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +20% 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- RWROOSTER WALK INC5× · 2021–2025 · $3k · revenue +24%
- PHPATRICK & HENRY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $2k · revenue +34%
- PCPREGNANCY CARE CENTER OF MHC INC3× · 2021–2024 · $1k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- SVSOUTHERN VA RECREATION FACILITIES AUTHORone grant, 2023 · $500
- MWMVHS WARRIOR BAND BOOSTERS INCone grant, 2024 · $500
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $500
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.
Support students at the Allegany College of Maryland - Bedford County campus.
The fredericksburg regional chamber of commerce promotes business and community activities in the fredericksburg region and surrounding areas.
Rock Hill Development Corporation develops business parks, recruits and supports new businesses to the area, and assists in the revitalization of Rock Hill.
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 Organization is a community based Organization dedicated to preserving the qualtiy of life and peaceful small town heritage by promoting community and economic development.
The randolph community college foundation is a non profit organization that provides a margin of excellence for randolph community college by building a strong relationship with the local community, aquiring and managing contributions, and…
Pitt Community College Foundation's purpose is to receive gifts and secure external resources for scholarships, academic programs, and other activities of Pitt Community College.
Educational nbsp;christian nbsp;school
The mission of the Foundation is to develop resources and increase public awareness to support the students, educational programs and campus for the benefit of the community serviced by the college
The Yadkin Valley Chamber of Commerce is an organization that promotes a positive business environment, community betterment and supports economic development
The mission of the harrisburg regional chamber is to be a catalyst for policy change, for job creation and for business growth in cumberland, dauphin, and perry counties that enhances the quality of life in our region.
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 Radford Chamber of Commerce. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 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 BLUE RIDGE INNOVATION CORRIDOR ↗
- Who funds ROOSTER WALK INC ↗
- Who funds PATRICK & HENRY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY CARE CENTER OF MHC INC ↗
- Who funds Spencer-Penn School Preservation Organization Inc ↗
- Who funds CARLISLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GODS PIT CREW INC ↗
- Who funds Camp Kum-Ba-Yah Inc ↗
- Who funds PEER RECOVERY CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds RADFORD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds Kim Jones Memorial Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF FOREST FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Foster Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 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.
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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