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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.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$4.0MEducation$2.3MArts & Culture$957kPublic Benefit$811kFood & Nutrition$472kHuman Services$422kRecreation & Sports$350kEnvironment$234kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $448k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $313k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$25,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$26M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MISSION GAIT$250,000
MAYMONT FOUNDATION$240,000
VMI FOUNDATION$72,500
SOLDIERSTRONG$27,500
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$27,500
JAMES BEARD HOUSE$27,500
NANTUCKET PRESERVATION TRUST$27,500
NANTUCKET LAND AND WATER COUNCIL$27,500
NANTUCKET COTTAGE HOSPITAL$27,500
SPECIAL OPS WARRIOR FOUNDATION$27,500
NANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION$27,500
NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION$27,500
ST JAMES'S CHILDREN'S CENTER$25,000
GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK$25,000
WORLD PEDIATRIC PROJECT$25,000
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:

Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%HAND TO HOLD: $9k → 10%CHARITY WATER: $10k → 4%SEAL VETERANS FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%SEAL VETERANS FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%SEAL VETERANS FOUNDATION: $9k → 10%PATH: $34k → 14%FULL CIRCLE GRIEF CENTER: $9k → 6%FULL CIRCLE GRIEF CENTER: $9k → 6%FULL CIRCLE GRIEF CENTER: $5k → 6%FULL CIRCLE GRIEF CENTER: $5k → 6%FULL CIRCLE GRIEF CENTER: $5k → 6%LITTLE HANDS VIRGINIA: $9k → 22%LITTLE HANDS VIRGINIA: $9k → 22%LITTLE HANDS VIRGINIA: $9k → 22%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ND
NY
MA
WY
IA
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.0M · 53 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
35

Total granted

$9.0M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+6%

Still filing today

64%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $275k 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
EducationHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsArts & CultureInternationalOther
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

  • MG
    MISSION GAIT
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +106% · 62% of their budget
  • TN
    THE NEW COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $446k · revenue +11%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $289k · revenue +145%

Funded once

  • SA
    St Andrew's Schoolgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $300k · revenue +32%
  • FU
    FOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue 0%
  • SP
    ST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL TRUST IN AMERICA
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -36% · 27% of their budget
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
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

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).

Education
2
Virginia Commonwealth University Intellectual Property Foundation

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…

Health
3
Vcu Investment Management Company

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…

Education
4
University of Virginia Foundation

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…

Education
5
Vcu Health Tappahannock Hospital

To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.

Health
6
Bon Secours - Richmond Health System Inc

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.

Health
7
United States Naval Institute

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.

—
8
Mcv Associated Physicians

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.

Health
9
Virginia Tech Applied Research Corporation

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.

Science & Tech
10
University of Virginia Law School Foundation

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.

Education
11
Community Memorial Hospital

To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.

Health
12
Conquer Cancer Foundation of the American Society of Clinical Oncology

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Operations Warrior Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

59 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. 59 of the 93 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/59
Grantees still filing
40/59
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VMI FOUNDATION (CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP AND ETHICS): $810,500 · OtherVMI FOUNDATION (CENTER FOR LEADERSHI…THE NEW COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $446,000 · OtherTHE NEW COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOUNDATIONF O C U S INC: $291,000 · OtherF O C U S INCNANTUCKET ISLAND SAFE HARBOR FOR ANIMALS (NISHA): $137,000 · OtherVMI KEYDET CLUB (FOR AOF LACROSSE): $120,000 · Other+52 more: $1,567,617 · Other+52 moreMISSION GAIT: $2,539,167 · InternationalMISSION GAITWORLD PEDIATRICS: $229,834 · InternationalWORLD PEDIATRICS+1 more: $10,000 · InternationalVMI Foundation: $307,500 · EducationVMI FoundationSt Andrew's School: $300,000 · EducationSt Andrew's SchoolSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $261,446 · EducationSPECIAL OPERATIONS WAR…ST JAMES'S CHILDREN'S CENTER: $200,000 · EducationST JAMES'S CHILDREN'S …ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL: $137,167 · EducationANNA JULIA COOPER SCHO…EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD NEW YORK: $132,000 · EducationEDIBLE SCHOOLYARD NEW …UP RVA: $127,500 · EducationUP RVARANDOLPH COLLEGE INC: $125,000 · EducationRANDOLPH COLLEGE INCSOLDIER STRONG INC: $117,188 · EducationSOLDIER STRONG INCVmi Keydet Club: $115,000 · EducationVmi Keydet ClubTHE ARCHER SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC: $89,838 · EducationCristo Rey Richmond High School Inc: $84,000 · Education+3 more: $60,833 · EducationST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $289,449 · HealthST JUDE C…SHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATION: $253,000 · HealthSHELTERIN…FOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION: $250,000 · HealthFOCUSED U…+6 more: $103,750 · Health+6 moreMAYMONT FOUNDATION: $240,000 · Arts & CultureNANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $198,441 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $166,000 · Arts & CultureNANTUCKET PRESERVATION TRUST INC: $117,187 · Arts & CultureST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL TRUST IN AMERICA: $100,000 · Arts & CultureWESTSIDE FOOD BANK: $144,258 · Food & NutritionFEED MORE INC: $91,000 · Food & NutritionNANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $117,188 · EnvironmentNANTUCKET LAND & WATER COUNCIL INC: $117,187 · Environment
Other$3,372,117International$2,779,001Education$2,057,472Health$896,199Arts & Culture$821,628Food & Nutrition$235,258Environment$234,375

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMISSION GAIT: $2,539,167 over 9y, 62% of budgetTHE NEW COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $446,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetVMI Foundation: $307,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSt Andrew's School: $300,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $289,449 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $261,446 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetSHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATION: $253,000 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetFOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMAYMONT FOUNDATION: $240,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetWORLD PEDIATRICS: $229,834 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetST JAMES'S CHILDREN'S CENTER: $200,000 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetNANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $198,441 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetVIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $166,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWESTSIDE FOOD BANK: $144,258 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL: $137,167 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetEDIBLE SCHOOLYARD NEW YORK: $132,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetUP RVA: $127,500 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetRANDOLPH COLLEGE INC: $125,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSOLDIER STRONG INC: $117,188 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetNANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $117,188 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNANTUCKET LAND & WATER COUNCIL INC: $117,187 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetNANTUCKET PRESERVATION TRUST INC: $117,187 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetVmi Keydet Club: $115,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetELK HILL FARM INC: $105,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL TRUST IN AMERICA: $100,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetFEED MORE INC: $91,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ARCHER SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC: $89,838 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCristo Rey Richmond High School Inc: $84,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetLittle Lights Urban Ministries Inc: $56,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetMETROPOLITAN RICHMOND SPORTS BACKERS: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetST CHRISTOPHER'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $41,833 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPATH: $33,821 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION HOMEFRONT INC: $33,821 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION RED WINGS FOUNDATION: $33,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetFULL CIRCLE GRIEF CENTER: $33,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetSEAL Veterans Foundation: $29,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetGREATER RICHMOND SCAN - STOP CHILD ABUSE NOW INC: $27,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLITTLE HANDS VIRGINIA INC: $27,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetGoochlandCares: $27,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $27,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER RETREAT CENTERS INC: $19,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetTHE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC: $11,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTeton County Search & Rescue Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBUILDON INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHooves & Paws Animal Rescue Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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 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 LAND & WATER COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds NANTUCKET PRESERVATION TRUST 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 ↗

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.

The Community Foundat…Herndon FoundationThe Mary Morton Parso…Pga Tour Charities IncDominion Energy Chari…Richard S Reynolds Fo…The Harrison Foundati…Virginia Sargeant Rey…Shelton H Short Jr Tr…Tesco FoundationThe Pauley Family Fou…Carmax Foundation
The Community Foundation IncVA37.7× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 4g Foundation (Fka Nordley-Gottwald Fndn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from 4g Foundation (Fka Nordley-Gottwald Fndn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Nantucket Historical Association: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to 4g Foundation (Fka Nordley-Gottwald Fndn through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 93 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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