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Willie H Pickard and Victoria Woodyard Pickard Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$825k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2024
15
Organizations funded FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$300,000
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$3.6M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Education$1.1MArts & Culture$980kEnvironment$125kPhilanthropy$125kCommunity Improvement$60kCivil Rights$20kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 19 grantees
All grantees of Willie H Pickard and Victoria Woodyard Pickard Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Museum of African American History$625,00022%
Clark Atlanta University Inc$250,00010%
Smithsonian Institution$200,00010%
Morehouse College$200,00010%
Western Michigan University Foundation$150,00020%
Motown Historical Musuem Inc$150,00012%
National Park Foundation$125,00020%
Spelman College$100,00020%
United Negro College Fund Inc$100,00010%
Florida Agricultural & Mechanical Univ Foundation Inc$100,00010%
National Black Mba Association Inc$40,00020%
Lane College$30,00010%
Florida Memorial University Inc$30,00020%
Mott Community College$25,0001n/a
Mississippi State University Foundation Inc$25,00010%
Morris Brown College$25,00010%
Urban League of Palm Beach County Inc$20,00010%
National Urban League Inc$20,00010%
Detroit Symphony Orchestra Inc$5,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($153k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Willie H Pickard and Victoria Woodyard Pickard Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMuseum of African American History: $625,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetClark Atlanta University Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSmithsonian Institution: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMorehouse College: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWestern Michigan University Foundation: $150,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMotown Historical Musuem Inc: $150,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNational Park Foundation: $125,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSpelman College: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Negro College Fund Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFlorida Agricultural & Mechanical Univ Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNational Black Mba Association Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLane College: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFlorida Memorial University Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMississippi State University Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMorris Brown College: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUrban League of Palm Beach County Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNational Urban League Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDetroit Symphony Orchestra Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.

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.

WK Kellogg FoundationMI13× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: WK Kellogg Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Willie H Pickard and Victoria Woodyard Pickard Family Foundation

How much does Willie H Pickard and Victoria Woodyard Pickard Family Foundation give?
Willie H Pickard and Victoria Woodyard Pickard Family Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $825,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does Willie H Pickard and Victoria Woodyard Pickard Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (45%), Arts & Culture (40%), Environment (5%).
Who are Willie H Pickard and Victoria Woodyard Pickard Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2024: Museum of African American History ($625k), Clark Atlanta University Inc ($250k), Smithsonian Institution ($200k).
Does Willie H Pickard and Victoria Woodyard Pickard Family 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 Willie H Pickard and Victoria Woodyard Pickard Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include WK Kellogg Foundation, The Blackbaud Giving Fund, Charities Aid Foundation America.
Where is Willie H Pickard and Victoria Woodyard Pickard Family Foundation based?
Willie H Pickard and Victoria Woodyard Pickard Family Foundation is based in MI.

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 24 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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