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4g Foundation (Fka Nordley-Gottwald Fndn
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $448k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $313k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MISSION GAIT | $250,000 |
| MAYMONT FOUNDATION | $240,000 |
| VMI FOUNDATION | $72,500 |
| JAMES BEARD HOUSE | $27,500 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $27,500 |
| SPECIAL OPS WARRIOR FOUNDATION | $27,500 |
| NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION | $27,500 |
| NANTUCKET COTTAGE HOSPITAL | $27,500 |
| NANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION | $27,500 |
| NANTUCKET PRESERVATION TRUST | $27,500 |
| SOLDIERSTRONG | $27,500 |
| NANTUCKET LAND AND WATER COUNCIL | $27,500 |
| WORLD PEDIATRIC PROJECT | $25,000 |
| GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK | $25,000 |
| ST JAMES'S CHILDREN'S CENTER | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $142k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 43% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +61% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $275k 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
- MGMISSION GAIT9× · 2017–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +106% · 62% of their budget
- TNTHE NEW COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $446k · revenue +11%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $289k · revenue +145%
Funded once
- SASt Andrew's Schoolgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $300k · revenue +32%
- FUFOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue 0%
- SPST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL TRUST IN AMERICAone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -36% · 27% of their budget
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 university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…
To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…
To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…
To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.
The mission is to bring compassion to health care and to be good to those in need, especially those who are poor and dying. as a system of caregivers, we commit ourselves to help bring people and communities to health and wholeness.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The mission of the organization is to provide physicians and other healthcare professionals to support the needs of the community, as well as the academic mission of the vcu school of medicine.
The mission of vt-arc is to extend the impact of the virginia tech research and innovation enterprise, delivering superior analytic and technology solutions to government and non-government customers.
The university of virginia law school foundation's primary purpose is to receive, manage and expend funds for the benefit of the university of virginia school of law.
To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.
Conquer cancer funds research for every type of cancer to benefit every patient, everywhere. working in collaboration with a global network of top scientists and clinicians, and leading advocacy and research organizations, conquer cancer…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Operations Warrior Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Charity Global Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
59 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. 59 of the 93 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 MISSION GAIT ↗
- Who funds THE NEW COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VMI Foundation ↗
- Who funds St Andrew's School ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAYMONT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD PEDIATRICS ↗
- Who funds ST JAMES'S CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds UP RVA ↗
- Who funds RANDOLPH COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds SOLDIER STRONG INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET PRESERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET LAND & WATER COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Vmi Keydet Club ↗
- Who funds ELK HILL FARM INC ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL TRUST IN AMERICA ↗
- Who funds FEED MORE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARCHER SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds Cristo Rey Richmond High School 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: The Community Foundation Inc · Herndon Foundation · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Pga Tour Charities Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · The Harrison Foundation · Virginia Sargeant Reynolds Foundation · Shelton H Short Jr Trust · Tesco Foundation · The Pauley Family Foundation · Carmax 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 4g Foundation (Fka Nordley-Gottwald Fndn 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.
- Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
- Nantucket Historical Association — 1% 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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