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Abbitt Family Foundation
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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Faison Center | $50,000 |
| Virginia Living Museum | $10,000 |
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 (FY21–22, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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 +50% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TFTHE FAISON CENTER INC5× · 2021–2025 · $314k · revenue +12%
- TMTHE MARINERS' MUSEUM5× · 2021–2025 · $226k · revenue +43%
- VLVIRGINIA LIVING MUSEUM INC3× · 2023–2025 · $115k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- CNChristopher Newport Universityone grant, 2021 · $170k
- AAAn Achievable Dream Foundation Incone grant, 2023 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $21k
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 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…
The virginia association of museums is a statewide network serving the museum community. the association's mission statement is "the virginia association of museums helps our museum community succeed".
To generate private and public funds for the children's museum of virginia, and to serve as a receiving agent for funds benefiting all of portsmouth's city museums and related projects, in partnership with the city of portsmouth.
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…
The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.
The vims foundation advises and assists the william & mary batten school of coastal & marine sciences and the virginia institute of marine science, promotes philanthropy to and stewards the philanthropic resources of the vims foundation,…
The virginia discovery museum's mission is to operate a hands-on museum focusing on artistic, recreational, scientific, and educational programs and exhibits for the benefit of children who reside in the city of charlottesville and…
To connect people to the marine environment, inspiring a more sustainable future. we aspire to be a driver in conservation, education, tourism, and sustainability, leading the charge to save wildlife and their ecosystems.
The mission of washington heritage museums is to preserve, promote and maintain its five 18th century properties in fredericksburg, virginia and develop dynamic educational resources and programs to engage and inspire the intrest of…
To foster appreciation of delmarva's unique natural and cultural heritage through education, exploration and enjoyment.
The endowment's mission is to improve the quality of the environment by using its capital, expertise, and resources to fund projects and programs that encourage all sectors to work together to prevent pollution, improve water quality,…
To serve as the region's leading source of informational science education through interactive science demonstrations, hands-on education programs and outreach programs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Watermen's Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 73 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 THE FAISON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARINERS' MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA LIVING MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds JAMESTOWN-YORKTOWN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRI-RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA PENINSULA FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds COASTAL SHORES INC CO COASTAL TIDES LLC ↗
- Who funds VERSABILITY RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds BACON STREET YOUTH AND FAMILY SVCS ↗
- Who funds ST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN HAMPTON CHILD CARE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds FEAR 2 FREEDOM INC ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT FRANCIS SERVICE DOGS ↗
- Who funds Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities ↗
- Who funds JAMESTOWN REDISCOVERY FOUNDATION ↗
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: Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Langley for Families - the Foundation of Lfcu · Townebank Foundation · Sentara Health · The Isabel Duncan Hatchett Foundation · Jp Yancey Foundation · Petters Family Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · Peninsula Community Foundation of Virginia Inc · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Rouse-Bottom Foundation · Tidewater Jewish Foundation Inc
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 Abbitt Family Foundation 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.
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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