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Willingham Fdn-Dima

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$192k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2025
9
Organizations funded FY2024
78%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$83,250
Organizations funded a year
4 to 9
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$2.3M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 78% of the organizations Willingham Fdn-Dima funded were first-time grantees, receiving 69% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthInternationalReligionPhilanthropyEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving9$192k44%
FY20249$175k78%
FY20235$109k40%
FY20224$110k0%
FY20216$75k33%
FY20206$101k33%
FY20197$87k71%
FY20187$79kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$340kEducation$139kHealth$102kPhilanthropy$88kReligion$62kHuman Services$61kArts & Culture$39kYouth Development$34kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
OR
OH
CO
AZ
NC
OK
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Mercy Ships International$250,00060%
Samaritan's Purse$89,50030%
Grace Community Foundation$83,2501n/a
Tmc Health Foundation$69,50020%
Little Light House Inc$42,37521%
Zoe Hope Global Inc$40,00013%
Sabino High School Foundation$37,0001n/a
EmilyAnn Theatre Inc$30,00044%
Pinewood Fire Department Auxiliary Inc$21,0421n/a
Bethesda Health Clinic$20,44740%
Show all 21 grantees
All grantees of Willingham Fdn-Dima by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Mercy Ships International$250,00060%
Samaritan's Purse$89,50030%
Grace Community Foundation$83,2501n/a
Tmc Health Foundation$69,50020%
Little Light House Inc$42,37521%
Zoe Hope Global Inc$40,00013%
Sabino High School Foundation$37,0001n/a
EmilyAnn Theatre Inc$30,00044%
Pinewood Fire Department Auxiliary Inc$21,0421n/a
Bethesda Health Clinic$20,44740%
Trail Riders of Southern Arizona$17,000218%
Streetlightusa$15,0001n/a
Dallas Theological Seminary$15,00010%
Mentoring Alliance$15,00010%
elevateHER$14,00023%
House of Eli Inc$10,00021%
Interlink Ministries Inc$7,00010%
Young at Heart Together$5,0001n/a
Gigi's Playhouse Alliance$5,00010%
Action Group International Inc$4,0001n/a
Angel Layettes$2,50013%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($135k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Willingham Fdn-Dima supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMercy Ships International: $250,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $89,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTmc Health Foundation: $69,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLittle Light House Inc: $42,375 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetZoe Hope Global Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetEmilyAnn Theatre Inc: $30,000 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetBethesda Health Clinic: $20,447 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTrail Riders of Southern Arizona: $17,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetDallas Theological Seminary: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMentoring Alliance: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetelevateHER: $14,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetHouse of Eli Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetInterlink Ministries Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGigi's Playhouse Alliance: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAngel Layettes: $2,500 over 1y, 3.0% 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 15.

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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA8.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Willingham Fdn-Dima

How much does Willingham Fdn-Dima give?
Willingham Fdn-Dima reported 9 grants totaling $191,770 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Willingham Fdn-Dima fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (36%), Education (15%), Health (11%).
Who are Willingham Fdn-Dima's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Mercy Ships International ($250k), Samaritan's Purse ($90k), Grace Community Foundation ($83k).
Does Willingham Fdn-Dima fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 78% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Willingham Fdn-Dima accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Willingham Fdn-Dima?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, American Endowment Foundation.
Where is Willingham Fdn-Dima based?
Willingham Fdn-Dima is based in NJ.

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 31 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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