· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $158k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $363k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CHARLES H WRIGHT MUSUEM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY | $300,000 |
| UNCF | $100,000 |
| FAMU FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| NATIONAL PARKS FOUNDATION | $62,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| SPELMAN COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| THE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| MOTT COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| IOTA EDUCATION FUND | $22,500 |
| NATIONAL BLACK MBA ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| FLORIDA MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $5,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 69% 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.
6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $353k 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
MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY2× · 2023–2024 · $625k · revenue -8%- WMWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $150k · revenue +115%
- NPNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $125k · revenue +82%
Funded once
- CAClark Atlanta University Incone grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +17%
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTIONone grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue +4%- MCMOREHOUSE COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue +27%
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.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…
Lincoln university is a public, historically black university (hbcu) that provides a liberal arts based, undergraduate education on its main residential campus in chester county, pennsylvania; and professional programs on its urban campus…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The mission of the michigan state university college of law is to provide a rigorous educational program which prepares a diverse community of students to be national and international leaders in private legal practice, business and…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mississippi State University Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lane College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 24 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 MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY ↗
- Who funds Clark Atlanta University Inc ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds MOREHOUSE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOTOWN HISTORICAL MUSUEM INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Spelman College ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Florida Agricultural & Mechanical Univ Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BLACK MBA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Florida Memorial University Inc ↗
- Who funds LANE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Mississippi State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MORRIS BROWN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Urban League of Palm Beach County Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 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: 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
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 Willie H Pickard and Victoria Woodyard Pickard Family 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.
- Florida Memorial University Inc — 11% of income from government
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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