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Williamson Road Foundation at a glance

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Williamson Road Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$17k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0179% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Environment$31kPublic Safety & Disaster$23kRecreation & Sports$12kFood & Nutrition$6kEducation$6kArts & Culture$5kHuman Services$4kHealth$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,315
Median grant
1
States reached
$219k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BLOSSBURG AREA SWIMMING ASSOC$7,000
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK$2,840
MATTHEW 25 FOOD PANTRY$2,000
BLOSSBURG MEMORIAL LIBRARY$1,500
TIOGA COUNTY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING$1,315
Individual grant recipient$1,300
NORTHERN TIER WRESTLING CLUB$250
Individual grant recipient$200
SOUTHERN TIOGA GRIDIRON CLUB$100
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NORTHCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY: $1k → 12%BLOSSBURG BOROUGH: $14k → 12%CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK: $3k → 12%NORTHERN TIER WRESTLING CLUB: $250 → 12%SUSQUEHANNA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $2k → 12%BOROUGH OF BLOSSBURG: $11k → 12%BOROUGH OF BLOSSBURG: $8k → 12%BLOSSBURG AREA SWIMMING ASSOC: $7k → 12%BLOSSBURG BOROUGH: $7k → 12%BLOSSBURG FIREMANS AMBULANCE ASSOC: $7k → 12%BLOSSBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $6k → 12%BOROUGH OF BLOSSBURG: $6k → 12%BLOSSBURG BOROUGH: $5k → 12%BLOSSBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $5k → 12%BOROUGH OF BLOSSBURG: $4k → 12%BOROUGH OF BLOSSBURG: $3k → 12%BLOSSBURG AREA SWIMMING ASSOC: $3k → 12%BLOSSBURG FIREMANS AMBULANCE ASSOC: $3k → 12%BLOSSBURG MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $2k → 12%TCCCC INC: $2k → 12%BLOSSBURG MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $2k → 12%TIOGA COUNTY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING: $1k → 12%BLOSSBURG VIBE: $1k → 12%BLOSSBURG BOROUGH POLICE DEPT: $1k → 12%BLOSSBURG MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $1k → 12%BLOSSBURG COAL FESTIVAL: $1k → 12%BLOSSBURG COAL FESTIVAL: $1k → 12%BLOSSBURG VIBE: $1k → 12%BLOSSBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $1k → 12%BLOSSBURG COAL FESTIVAL: $1k → 12%BLOSSBURG COAL FESTIVAL: $1k → 12%BOY SCOUT TROOP 69: $1k → 12%BRADFORD-TIOGA HEAD START: $849 → 12%BLOSSBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $804 → 12%BLOSSBURG VIBE: $800 → 12%BLOSSBURG VIBE: $750 → 12%BLOSSBURG FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $500 → 12%BLOSSBURG FIREMANS AMBULANCE ASSOC: $500 → 12%BLOSSBURG VIBE: $500 → 12%BLOSSBURG FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $450 → 12%BLOSSBURG VIBE: $350 → 12%BLOSSBURG VIBE: $300 → 12%BLOSSBURG VIBE: $300 → 12%MATTHEW 25 FOOD PANTRY: $2k → 12%SOUTHERN SLUGGERS BASEBALL: $1k → 12%MATTHEW 25 FOOD PANTRY: $600 → 12%MATTHEW 25 FOOD PANTRY: $500 → 12%WHY NOT YOU MINISTRIES: $500 → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$108k · 10 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
8

Total granted

$108k
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+24%

Still filing today

30%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationReligionPublic Safety & DisasterHealthFood & NutritionEnvironmentOther
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

  • BV
    BLOSSBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
    4× · 2019–2024 · $13k · revenue +27%
  • BF
    BLOSSBURG FIREMEN'S AMBULANCE ASSOC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $10k · revenue +33%
  • BM
    BLOSSBURG MEMORIAL LIBRARY
    3× · 2019–2025 · $5k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • SH
    Susquehanna Health Foundation
    one grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue -55%
  • TI
    TCCCC INC
    one grant, 2018 · $2k
  • BB
    BLOSSBURG BOROUGH POLICE DEPT
    one grant, 2018 · $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.

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.

1
Burkettsville Community Fire Depart

Fire and emergency response to granville twp.

Philanthropy
2
Fleetville Volunteer Fire Company

Fire & emergency protection

Public Safety & Disaster
3
Pennsboro Volunteer Fire Department

Provision of fire department and emergency services for pennsboro, wv and surrounding rural area

Public Safety & Disaster
4
Boonton Township Fire Departmentin

Local fire company

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5
Williamsburg Volunteer Fire Department

Volunteer fire department

Public Safety & Disaster
6
Nescopeck Township Volunteer Fire Co No 1

Volunteer fire company services

Public Safety & Disaster
7
West Bradford Fire Co

The west bradford fire company is a volunteer fire company providing fire suppression/rescue and prevention services to west bradford, east bradford and newlin townships all in the state of pennsylvania. the fire company provides mutual…

Public Safety & Disaster
8
Fowler-Center Twp Vol Fire Dept

Fire protection for the town of fowler & center township

Public Safety & Disaster
9
Pleasant Township Vol Fire Dept

Fire fighting

Public Safety & Disaster
10
Ebensburg Free Public Library

Public library services

Education
11
Tioga Fire Company No 1

Fire protection services to residents of tioga center, ny and the surrounding areas.

Public Safety & Disaster
12
Hyndman Volunteer Fire Department

Firefighting service Provides firefighting and rescue services to the Hyndman PA & surrounding areas.

Public Safety & Disaster
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Blossburg Volunteer Fire Department; the most unlike its peers is Why Not You Ministries Inc. 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

9 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. 9 of the 22 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $30,313 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $26,427 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBLOSSBURG AREA SWIMMING ASSOC: $10,000 · OtherBLOSSBURG AREA SWIMMING ASSOCBLOSSBURG FIREMEN'S AMBULANCE ASSOC: $9,828 · OtherBLOSSBURG FIREMEN'S AMBULANCE ASSOCIndividual grant recipient: $5,800 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $4,200 · Other+8 more: $10,324 · Other+8 moreBLOSSBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $12,731 · Public Safety & DisasterBLOSSBURG V…BLOSSBURG MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $4,900 · EducationBRADFORD-TIOGA HEAD START INC: $849 · Education+1 more: $100 · EducationCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK: $2,840 · Food & NutritionSusquehanna Health Foundation: $2,000 · HealthNORTHCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY: $1,000 · EnvironmentWHY NOT YOU MINISTRIES INC: $500 · Religion
Other$96,892Public Safety & Disaster$12,731Education$5,849Food & Nutrition$2,840Health$2,000Environment$1,000Religion$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBLOSSBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $12,731 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetBLOSSBURG FIREMEN'S AMBULANCE ASSOC: $9,828 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetBLOSSBURG MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $4,900 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK: $2,840 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSusquehanna Health Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRADFORD-TIOGA HEAD START INC: $849 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN TIOGA GRIDIRON CLUB: $100 over 1y, 0.9% of budget
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 BLOSSBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
  • Who funds BLOSSBURG FIREMEN'S AMBULANCE ASSOC ↗
  • Who funds BLOSSBURG MEMORIAL LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds Susquehanna Health Foundation ↗
  • Who funds NORTHCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds BRADFORD-TIOGA HEAD START INC ↗
  • Who funds WHY NOT YOU MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN TIOGA GRIDIRON CLUB ↗

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.

Robert M & Marion M J…The Robert Wood Johns…
Robert M & Marion M Jones Foundation CoPA17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Robert M & Marion M Jones Foundation Co · The Robert Wood Johnson 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 Williamson Road Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Williamson Road Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Williamson Road Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Williamson Road Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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