Womack Foundation
Chatham, VA · EIN 54-6053255. Reported 148 grants totalling $1,559,150 to 74 recipients across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Womack Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $10,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $12,000; the smallest was $2,000 and the largest $50,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salvation Army of Danville | Danville, VA | $107,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Gw Band Parent Association | Danville, VA | $95,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Danville Church Based Tutorial Prog | Danville, VA | $60,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters Danville | Danville, VA | $49,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Danville Concert Association | Danville, VA | $45,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Piedmont Blues Preservation Society | Greensboro, NC | $45,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Danvil | Danville, VA | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Danville | Danville, VA | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Dan Pitts Cnty-Habitat for Humanity | Danville, VA | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Project Lifesaver | Danville, VA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Danville Museum of Fine Arts | Danville, VA | $37,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Danville Family YMCA | Danvillle, VA | $35,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Caswell County Parrish | Yanceyville, NC | $34,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Caswell Council for the Arts | Yanceyville, NC | $33,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Roanoke, VA | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Chatham Band Boosters | Danville, VA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hoop Don't Shoot | Danville, VA | $28,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Second Chance Outreach Ministries | Ringgold, VA | $28,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Danville Science Center | Danville, VA | $27,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Gods Pit Crew | Danville, VA | $27,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Community Imprmt Council-Head Start | Danville, VA | $25,650 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Caswell County School Athletics | Yanceyville, NC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Danville Speech & Hearing Center | Danville, VA | $25,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Gw High School Athletics | Danville, VA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Southside Area Tennis Assoc | Danville, VA | $25,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Tunstall High School Athletics | Dry Fork, VA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Camp Selah | Danville, VA | $22,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Danville Area Training Center | Danville, VA | $22,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Golf Fore Fun | Clemmons, NC | $22,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Danville Parks & Recreation | Danville, VA | $20,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Danville Pittsylvania Community Svc | Danville, VA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Gods Storehouse | Danville, VA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Haus of Fashion | Danville, VA | $19,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Southside Soccer Club | Blairs, VA | $19,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Pittsylvania County NAACP | Chatham, VA | $18,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Alliance for Excellence-Cherrystone | Danville, VA | $17,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Danville Symphony Orchestra | Danville, VA | $15,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Danville-Pittsylvania County Cancer Association | Danville, VA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Friends of Danvile Public Library | Danville, VA | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Piedmont Community College | Yanceyville, NC | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Tunstall Middle School | Dry Fork, VA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cedar Grove | Yanceyville, NC | $13,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The First Tee of the Tract | Clemmons, NC | $13,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Abundant Life World Outreach | Danville, VA | $12,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| SPCA of Pittsylvania County | Chatham, VA | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Danville Speech & Hearing | Danville, VA | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Dry Fork Christian Academy | Dry Fork, VA | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Westmoreland Neighborhood | Danville, VA | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Va Coop Extension - Danville | Danville, VA | $11,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Dan River District Development Coun | Danville, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Danville Comm Coll-Educational Fndt | Danville, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Danville Public Schools-Educationfn | Danville, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| God's Storehouse | Danville, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Smokestack Theatre Company | Danville, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St Luke's United Methodist Church | Danville, VA | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Triad Musicians Matter | Greensboro, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Virginia Cooperative Extension - Danville | Danville, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Danville Redevelopment & Housing Au | Danville, VA | $8,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Good Hope Equestrian & Regenerative Farm | Halifax, VA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Southside Area Tennis Association | Danville, VA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Langhorne House | Danville, VA | $7,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Epic Caswell Inc | Yanceyville, NC | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Caswell County Local Foods Council | Yanceyville, NC | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| City of Danville | Danville, VA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ea Gibson Middle School | Danville, VA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Gwhs Athletics | Danville, VA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Kazelle and Company | Danville, VA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Twin Springs Elementary School | Danville, VA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| City of Danville - the Harry | Danville, VA | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Just Kids Child Development Ctr | Danville, VA | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Off Season | Altavista, VA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sacred Heart School | Danville, VA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Danville Public Schools-Bnnr Stm Ni | Danville, VA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| House of Hope | Danville, VA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
40 of 74 (54%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 59%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 38 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 34 | $425,000 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 41 | $418,000 | $8,000 |
| 2023 | 37 | $367,000 | $10,000 |
| 2024 | 36 | $349,150 | $10,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
86% of its giving went to organizations in Virginia. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. 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 foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $10,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Virginia.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Womack Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 111, Chatham, VA, 24531. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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