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Adiuvans Foundation at a glance

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Adiuvans Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$448k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$143k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Environment$1.9MCivil Rights$465kHuman Services$440kEducation$300kCrime & Legal$190kHealth$150kArts & Culture$50kPhilanthropy$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $180k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $268k
$45,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PHA BLACK MOTHERS BLOOMING$143,000
VIRGINIA ENERGY EFFICIENCY COUNCIL$75,000
READYKIDS$50,000
APPALACHIAN VOICES$45,000
MOTHERS OUT FRONT$45,000
CERES$45,000
SOLAR UNITED NEIGHBORS$45,000
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 (FY20–24, $440k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%READYKIDS: $125k → 8%READYKIDS: $115k → 8%READYKIDS: $50k → 8%READYKIDS: $50k → 8%READYKIDS: $50k → 8%CITY OF PROMISE: $50k → 8%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.
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 16 repeat orgs$545k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
10

Total granted

$3.1M
$545k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+24%

Still filing today

81%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsCrime & LegalArts & CultureOther
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

  • CC
    COMMUNITY CLIMATE COLLABORATIVE
    4× · 2020–2023 · $690k · revenue +75% · 29% of their budget
  • RI
    READYKIDS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $390k · revenue +0%
  • VP
    VIRGINIA POVERTY LAW CENTER INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $190k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • PE
    PHA EARLY LEARNING CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $250k
  • NC
    NEW CITY ARTS INITIATIVE
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +24%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
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
Virginia Coalition for Progressive Values

To establish an effective, long-term and resilient political infrastructure that advocates for and delivers public policy victories which reflect the values held in common by our members.

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2
Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy

Working within the faith community to educate and mobilize citizen to create systemic social change for low income Virginians.

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3
Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities

VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.

Civil Rights
4
Virginia Afl-Cio

The Virginia AFL-CIO monitors all legislation affecting the working people of Virginia. To keep the state's labor standards on a progressive track for all working people, we work to win the fight against passage of laws that would have a…

Employment
5
Virginia Community Action Partnership Inc

Virginia community action partnership (vacap) is the statewide membership association for virginia's thirty-one non-profit and public community action agencies. vacaps mission is to build the capacity and competencies of virginias…

Human Services
6
Virginia Renewable Energy Alliance

The virginia renewable energy alliance (va-rea) promotes the development, use, and commercialization of renewable energy to increase business opportunities for industry to help achieve the commonwealth's growing energy demands while also…

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7
The Commonwealth Institute for

To use policy, research, and analysis to advance the well-being of Virginia communities, and improve the economic security and social opportunities of all Virginians.

Public Benefit
8
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
9
National Caucus of Environmental Legislators

The national caucus of environmental legislators empowers a nonpartisan network of legislative champions to protect, conserve, and improve the natural and human environment.

Education
10
American Council of Engineering Companies of Virginia

Acec virginia brings together engineering firms of all sizes to provide business support and advocacy.

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11
Vermont Energy Investment Corporation

Veic is a sustainable energy company on a mission to generate the energy solutions the world needs (continues in schedule o). (continued), working to combat the climate crisis, boost community resilience, and lower energy costs. for nearly…

Environment
12
Virginia Clean Cities

Advance air quality improvement, economic opportunity, and energy security through deployment of alternative fuel vehicles and infrastructure, education programs and other petroleum reduction activities. a volunteer board with staff as…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Voices for Virginia's Children; the most unlike its peers is Child Health Partnership 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

18 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. 18 of the 26 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
16/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY CLIMATE COLLABORATIVE: $690,000 · EnvironmentCOMMUNITY CLIMATE COLLABORATIVEMOTHERS OUT FRONT INC: $147,500 · EnvironmentMOTHERS OUT FRONT INCVIRGINIA ENERGY EFFICIENCY COUNCIL: $120,000 · EnvironmentVIRGINIA ENERGY EFFICIENCY COUNCILVIRGINIA INTERFAITH POWER & LIGHT: $108,469 · EnvironmentVIRGINIA INTERFAITH POWER & LIGHTAPPALACHIAN VOICES: $100,000 · EnvironmentAPPALACHIAN VOICESCONSERVATIVES FOR CLEAN ENERGY INC: $95,000 · EnvironmentCONSERVATIVES FOR CLEAN ENERGY INCCERES INC: $90,000 · EnvironmentCERES INCSolar United Neighbors Inc: $90,000 · EnvironmentSolar United Neighbors Inc+1 more: $45,000 · EnvironmentPHA BLACK MOTHERS BLOOMING: $295,610 · OtherPHA BLACK MOTHERS BLOOMINGPHA EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $250,000 · OtherPHA EARLY LEARNING CENTERVIRGINIA CLINICIANS FOR CLIMATE ACTION: $193,750 · OtherVIRGINIA CLINICIANS FOR CLIMATE ACTIONSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $153,500 · OtherSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTERCHILD HEALTH PARTNERSHIP INC: $150,000 · OtherCHILD HEALTH PARTNERSHIP INCADVANCED ENERGY ECONOMY NETWORK: $90,000 · OtherADVANCED ENERGY ECONOMY NETWORKIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherTHE FOUNDATION FUND: $50,000 · Other+2 more: $15,000 · OtherREADYKIDS INC: $390,000 · Human ServicesREADYKIDS INCCITY OF PROMISE INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesCITY OF PROMI…VIRGINIA POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $189,800 · Crime & LegalVOICES FOR VIRGINIA'S CHILDREN: $159,133 · Civil RightsNEW CITY ARTS INITIATIVE: $50,000 · Arts & CultureCHARLOTTESVILLE TOMORROW: $25,000 · Community ImprovementVIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC: $10,000 · Community Improvement
Environment$1,485,969Other$1,247,860Human Services$440,000Crime & Legal$189,800Civil Rights$159,133Arts & Culture$50,000Community Improvement$35,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY CLIMATE COLLABORATIVE: $690,000 over 4y, 29% of budgetREADYKIDS INC: $390,000 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetVIRGINIA POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $189,800 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetVOICES FOR VIRGINIA'S CHILDREN: $159,133 over 3y, 11% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $153,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD HEALTH PARTNERSHIP INC: $150,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetMOTHERS OUT FRONT INC: $147,500 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetVIRGINIA ENERGY EFFICIENCY COUNCIL: $120,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetVIRGINIA INTERFAITH POWER & LIGHT: $108,469 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetAPPALACHIAN VOICES: $100,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCONSERVATIVES FOR CLEAN ENERGY INC: $95,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetCERES INC: $90,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSolar United Neighbors Inc: $90,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNEW CITY ARTS INITIATIVE: $50,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetCITY OF PROMISE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetCHESAPEAKE CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK INC: $45,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCHARLOTTESVILLE TOMORROW: $25,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetVIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Charlottesville Area …United States Energy …The Oak Hill FundThe Energy FoundationWestwind FoundationThe Genan FoundationCaplin FoundationNew Venture FundThe J & E Berkley Fou…Mertz Gilmore Foundat…Sentara HealthThe Hilltop Foundation
Charlottesville Area Community FoundationVA34× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · United States Energy Foundation · The Oak Hill Fund · The Energy Foundation · Westwind Foundation · The Genan Foundation · Caplin Foundation · New Venture Fund · The J & E Berkley Foundation · Mertz Gilmore Foundation · Sentara Health · The Hilltop 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 Adiuvans Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Adiuvans Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Ceres Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.

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 26 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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