Greater Williamsburg Community Trust
Williamsburg, VA · EIN 54-1927558. Reported 72 grants totalling $2,017,578 to 37 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Greater Williamsburg Community Trust, the IRS classifies it as a community foundation (NTEE T310).
- How spread out its giving is. 37 distinct organizations, with 19% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 70% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 56% median for grantmaking charities -- lower than the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $15,000. Half of what it reported fell between $9,750 and $48,147; the smallest was $5,574 and the largest $97,790. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gwendolynns Wish | Williamsburg, VA | $375,910 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Walsingham Academy | Williamsburg, VA | $239,207 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Boys Home Incorporated | Covington, VA | $217,203 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Hospice House and Support Care of Williamsburg Inc | Williamsburg, VA | $192,948 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| St Bede the Venerable Catholic Church | La Canada Flt, CA | $153,875 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| The Salvation Army | Brookhaven, GA | $129,603 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Jackson Feild Homes Incorporated | Jarratt, VA | $93,964 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Virginia Home for Boys and Girls | Henrico, VA | $64,721 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| World Pediatrics | Richmond, VA | $61,811 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Pga Tour Inc | Ponte Vedra, FL | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| College of William and Mary | Williamsburg, VA | $35,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Friends of Williamsburg Regional Library Foundation | Williamsburg, VA | $34,551 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Colonial Williamsburg Foundation | Williamsburg, VA | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| William & Mary Business School Foundation | Williamsburg, VA | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Locus Impact Investing | Richmond, VA | $29,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Saint Bede Catholic Church | Williamsburg, VA | $26,085 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Williamsburg Area Meals-on-Wheels Inc | Williamsburg, VA | $20,040 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Grove Christian Outreach Center | Williamsburg, VA | $18,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Arc of Greater Williamsburg | Williamsburg, VA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Williamsburg Area Faith in Action Inc | Williamsburg, VA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Williamsburg House of Mercy Inc | Williamsburg, VA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Dream Catchers | Toano, VA | $14,761 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Williamsburg Youth Orchestra | Williamsburg, VA | $13,322 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| William & Mary Athletic Educational Foundation | Williamsburg, VA | $12,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Child Development Resources Inc | Williamsburg, VA | $11,761 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Tidewater Jewish Foundation Inc | Virginia Beach, VA | $11,282 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Williamsburg Music Club | Williamsburg, VA | $11,233 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Bacon Street Youth and Family Services | Williamsburg, VA | $10,040 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Fish | Williamsburg, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Nc State Engineering Foundation Inc | Raleigh, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| North Carolina Community Foundation Inc | Raleigh, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Degood Foundation | Newport News, VA | $9,750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fish | Williamsburg, VA | $9,750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Charity Navigator | Union City, NJ | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Camp Kesem National | Covina, CA | $6,761 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Americares Foundation Inc | Stamford, CT | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Olivet Medical Ministry Inc | Yorktown, VA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
18 of 37 (49%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 24 of 37 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 19 | $477,120 | $15,000 |
| 2022 | 14 | $483,644 | $26,240 |
| 2023 | 20 | $537,038 | $10,641 |
| 2024 | 19 | $519,776 | $10,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
81% of its giving went to organizations in Virginia. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
Down to the city
Foundations that fund only organizations they pick gave to this one
4 private foundations that told the IRS they contribute only to organizations they select themselves reported 9 grants totalling $786,020 to Greater Williamsburg Community Trust. That is 25% of the 16 funders we can see giving to it. Those 4 foundations do not take unsolicited requests -- their own returns say so. The IRS classifies this organization as a community foundation.
3 of them gave in more than one tax year, which is the only durability signal the filings carry.
What that does not mean. It does not mean an application here reaches that money. A grant from a closed foundation is often a designated gift or a donor-advised fund earmarked by whoever gave it, and has nothing to do with any open programme this organization runs. Neither tax return says which, so neither do we. The list below is who put money in. It is not a route to it.
| Foundation | State | Reported | Grants | Years | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drake Family Foundation | Virginia | $582,984 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Daniel and Ingrid Jones Fam Fndn | Florida | $182,959 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| The Thomas Family Foundation | Washington | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Amazonsmile Foundation | Washington | $77 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
Both the count and the total are floors. A foundation appears here only where its return named this organization clearly enough for us to match the name to an EIN, which we manage for about two thirds of 990-PF grant rows. There are more; we cannot name them.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $15,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Virginia.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Greater Williamsburg Community Trust's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 19 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 1323 Jamestown Road Suite 103, Williamsburg, VA, 23185.
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