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Willmott J Truw L Willmott S

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$137k
Granted FY2025still arriving
55
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$3k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.1MHealth$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,350
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$3,301
Individual grant recipient$3,150
Individual grant recipient$3,150
Individual grant recipient$3,150
Individual grant recipient$3,050
Individual grant recipient$3,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
Individual grant recipient$2,850
Individual grant recipient$2,850
Individual grant recipient$2,850
Individual grant recipient$2,850
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 (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FURHAM UNIVERSITY: $1k → 10%MIAMI UNIVERSITY: $563 → 12%WILMINGTON COLLEGE: $2k → 12%GEORGETOWN COLLEGE: $5k → 8%MIDWAY UNIVERSITY: $2k → 10%MAYSVILLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $4k → 15%TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY: $6k → 15%EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY: $25k → 16%2018 SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDED TO QUALIFIED: $107k → 17%CAMPBELLSVILLE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 18%WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY: $563 → 18%MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 19%MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY: $17k → 21%UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS: $3k → 26%BEREA COLLEGE: $563 → 16%100 SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDED TO QUALIFIED: $100k → 17%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.

40%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$441k · 81 repeat orgs$655k to everyone else

81 repeat relationships: 42 still active in FY2025, 39 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

81
220

Total granted

$441k
$626k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+29%

Still filing today

0%
4%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthOther
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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    4× · 2021–2024 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    4× · 2022–2025 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    4× · 2022–2025 · $10k

Funded once

  • MD
    Miracle Dancer Scholarship Found
    one grant, 2018 · $107k · revenue -14%
  • 1S
    100 SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDED TO QUALIFIED
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
  • EK
    EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
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
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
2
Union University

Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.

Education
3
Greenville College

Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.

Education
4
Lehigh University

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…

Education
5
University of Lynchburg

The mission of the University is to inspire independent thinkers who become trustworthy, effective leaders that shape caring communities. The vision of the University of Lynchburg is to cultivate a world that is innovative, authentic, and…

Education
6
Lindsey Wilson University Inc

The mission of lindsey wilson university is to serve the educational needs of students by providing a living-learning environment within an atmosphere of active caring and christian concern where every student, every day, learns and grows…

Education
7
Wilmington University Inc

Wilmington university is committed to excellence in teaching, relevancy of the curriculum, and individual attention to students. as an institution with admissions policies that provide access for all, it offers opportunity for higher…

Education
8
Coker University

Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…

Education
9
Macalester College

Macalester is committed to being a preeminent liberal arts college with an educational program known for its high standards for scholarship and its special emphasis on internationalism, multiculturalism, and service to society.

Education
10
Columbia College

Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.

Education
11
Kentucky Christian University

The mission of kentucky christian university is to educate students for christian leadership and service in the church and in professions throughout the world.

Education
12
Cumberland University

The mission of cumberland university is to provide a personalized, high-quality, value-based educational experience that equips learners to lead, serve, and excel in an ever-evolving world.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Campbellsville University Inc; the most unlike its peers is Puck Cancer 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

10 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. 10 of the 314 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

100 SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDED TO QUALIFIED: $100,365 · Other100 SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDED TO QUALIFIED+190 more: $753,305 · Other+190 moreMiracle Dancer Scholarship Found: $106,579 · EducationMiracle Dancer…TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY: $6,241 · EducationGEORGETOWN COLLEGE: $5,302 · Education+5 more: $9,150 · Education+5 morePuck Cancer Inc: $4,150 · Health
Other$853,670Education$127,272Health$4,150

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY: $6,241 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN COLLEGE: $5,302 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC: $2,534 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIDWAY UNIVERSITY INC FKA MIDWAY COLLEGE: $2,299 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWilmington College: $1,548 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCampbellsville University Inc: $1,455 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFURMAN UNIVERSITY: $1,314 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Miracle Dancer Scholarship Found ↗
  • Who funds TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY ↗

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.

Willmott J Truw J Willmott SPA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Willmott J Truw J Willmott S · Litchfield Memorial Student Loan Fund Inc · Flora Hornbeck Scholarship Tr · John B & Brownie Young Memorial Fund · Woldenberg Foundation · Goldring Family Foundation · Peoples Bank Foundation · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Willmott J Truw L Willmott S funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Willmott J Truw L Willmott S. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.

    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 314 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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