How much does Williams Mullen Foundation give?

Williams Mullen Foundation reported 114 grants totaling $228,453 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 81 and 98 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2025.

What does Williams Mullen Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2026, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (18%), Health (17%), Education (13%).

Who are Williams Mullen Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2021 to FY2026: Richmond Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ($32k), American Heart Association Inc ($32k), Nextup Rva ($30k).

Does Williams Mullen Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2025, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Williams Mullen Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Williams Mullen Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation, Townebank Foundation, Robins Foundation.

Where is Williams Mullen Foundation based?

Williams Mullen Foundation is based in VA.

Williams Mullen Foundation

Williams Mullen Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Williams Mullen Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$228k

Granted FY2026still arriving

114

Grants FY2026still arriving

States reached

$12k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2026.

Arts & Culture$228kHealth$217kEducation$168kCommunity Improvement$121kRecreation & Sports$78kHuman Services$78kYouth Development$70kPublic Benefit$59kOther$0

02FY2026 · 114 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

Under $10k113 grants · $216k
$10k–50k1 grant · $12k

$1,500

Median grant

States reached

$275k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Virginia Beach Neptune Festival	$12,000
Richmond SPCA	$5,640
Greater Richmond Partnership	$5,000
RVA Hampton Roads Mega Region Collaborative DBA RVA757 Connects	$5,000
NextUp RVA	$5,000
Metropolitan Richmond Sports Backers	$4,880
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation	$4,830
CARITAS	$4,500
Historic Richmond Foundation	$4,400
The Richmond Forum	$4,320
Maymont Foundation	$4,108
Chesapeake Bay Wine Classic Foundation	$4,000
Richmond Symphony	$4,000
Community Housing Partners Corporation	$3,500
American Heart Association	$3,500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–26, $82k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

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.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.0M · 123 repeat orgs$226k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

123 repeat relationships: 68 still active in FY2026, 55 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

123

103

Total granted

$1.0M

$176k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%

+6%

Still filing today

74%

41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

AH
American Heart Association Inc
6× · 2021–2026 · $32k · revenue +33%
NR
NEXTUP RVA
6× · 2021–2026 · $30k · revenue +102%
GR
Greater Richmond Partnership Inc
6× · 2021–2026 · $30k · revenue +121%

Funded once

CH
Children's Hospital Kings Daughters
one grant, 2024 · $7k
VA
Virginia Aquarium and Marine Scienc
one grant, 2021 · $5k
SP
SAMARITAN'S PURSEgraduated
one grant, 2025 · $5k · revenue +134%

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.

04Its field

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.

Vcu Investment Management Company

To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…

Education

Virginia Commonwealth University Intellectual Property Foundation

The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…

Health

Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce

Chamberrva is the trusted voice for modern business in the richmond virginia region. we are change agents, rallying to do the hard things that will create a more connected, prosperous, health and equitable community.

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University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education

University of Virginia Law School Foundation

The university of virginia law school foundation's primary purpose is to receive, manage and expend funds for the benefit of the university of virginia school of law.

Education

University of Virginia Foundation

To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…

Education

New Schools for Virginia

New schools for virginia works with parents, students, educators and the community to improve educational outcomes by designing new schools and by supporting existing schools to improve outcomes.

Education

Voices for Virginia's Children

The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.

Civil Rights

Virginia Tech Applied Research Corporation

The mission of vt-arc is to extend the impact of the virginia tech research and innovation enterprise, delivering superior analytic and technology solutions to government and non-government customers.

Science & Tech

Community Memorial Hospital

To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.

Health

Vcu Health Tappahannock Hospital

To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.

Health

Virginia Community Action Partnership Inc

Virginia community action partnership (vacap) is the statewide membership association for virginia's thirty-one non-profit and public community action agencies. vacaps mission is to build the capacity and competencies of virginias…

Human Services

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater Richmond & Petersburg; the most unlike its peers is Townebank Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

157 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 157 of the 254 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

154/157

Grantees still filing

101/157

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$774,015Arts & Culture$110,992Health$104,677Human Services$84,150Education$61,040Community Improvement$57,500Housing & Shelter$46,764

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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.

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.

Dominion Energy Charitable FoundationVA82.5× affinity62 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Townebank Foundation · Robins Foundation · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Herndon Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · The Pauley Family Foundation · Virginia Nonprofit Housing Coalition · Tesco Foundation · Richmond Memorial Health Foundation · Carmax Foundation · Townebank Richmond Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Williams Mullen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Williams Mullen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

50report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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