· Private foundation
Williams McClain 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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| PIEDMONT ARTS | $1,000 |
| PATRICK & HENRY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| ROOSTER WALK INC | $600 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION | $500 |
| THE WARMING CENTER | $500 |
| CAMP KUM-BE-YAH | $250 |
| YOUNG LIFE MARTINSVILLE-HENRY COUNTY | $250 |
| FIGSBORO RURITAN CLUB | $100 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $100 |
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 (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 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +20% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- BHBASSETT HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC BOOSTERone grant, 2024 · $500
- SVSOUTHERN VA RECREATION FACILITIES AUTHORone grant, 2023 · $500
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $500
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.
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.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 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 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 PEER RECOVERY CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds Camp Kum-Ba-Yah Inc ↗
- Who funds GODS PIT CREW INC ↗
- Who funds RADFORD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF FOREST FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Kim Jones Memorial Fund Inc ↗
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: Foster Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Williams McClain Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Williams McClain Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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