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Altria Companies Employee Community Fund
Acecf enhances the lives of people in our communities by effectively stewarding employees' contributions and empowering employees through philanthropy.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Altria Companies Employee Community Fund’s FY2018 grant dollars went to American Online Giving Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2018 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2017, the last year Altria Companies Employee Community Fund named its own grantees at scale: 185 organizations, $3M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k27 grants · $162k
- $10k–50k162 grants · $3.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ELK HILL FARM INC | $30,000 |
| PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $30,000 |
| HOUSING FAMILIES FIRST | $30,000 |
| SOUTH HILL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $30,000 |
| CENTRAL VIRGINIA HEALTH SERVICES INC | $30,000 |
| CARITAS | $30,000 |
| HOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF RICHMOND INC | $30,000 |
| VIRGINIA VOICE INC | $30,000 |
| UNITED METHODIST URBAN MINISTRIES OF RICHMOND INC | $30,000 |
| BACKPACKS OF LOVE INC | $30,000 |
| CIRCLE CENTER ADULT DAY SERVICES | $30,000 |
| FEED MORE INC | $30,000 |
| YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF RICHMOND | $30,000 |
| HAVEN SHELTER & SERVICES INC | $30,000 |
| THE CHILD AND FAMILY NETWORK CENTERS | $30,000 |
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 (FY17–17, $698k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 49% 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.
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 mission of transitions family violence services (tfvs) is to build safe and healthy families on the virginia peninsula by providing services to adult and child victims of domestic violence and human trafficking. we work to increase…
The ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, dignity, and freedom for all.
Richmond residential services strives to provide person-centered care for individuals with diverse abilities and support needs, facilitating choice, growth and community participation
Samaritan House is committed to fostering personal safety, growth, and self-sufficiency in adults and their children through freedom from domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking and removing their risks of homelessness.
SeniorNavigator and its family of websites are national models for aging, disability and veteran information. By combining online assistance with a network of community-based centers, the websites bring over 26,000 community resources,…
Cornerstones housing corporation (chc) operates as the affordable housing arm of cornerstones, inc. together, cornerstones and its subsidiary chc have served fairfax county low- to moderate-income residents for over 50 years. working in…
Shelter House's mission is to prevent and end homelessness and domestic violence by engaging the community, building effective relationships and providing crisis intervention, safe housing and supportive services.
Bethany house's mission is to empower women and children escaping domestic violence by providing safe, short-term housing and comprehensive, trauma-informed services.
Providing life-enriching services that promote well-being and build community.
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…
The mission of northern virginia family service (nvfs) is "to empower individuals and families to improve their quality of life, and to promote community cooperation and support in responding to family needs." nvfs was established in 1924…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Commonwealth Catholic Charities and the most unlike its peers is Latin Ballet of Virginia. 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 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
180 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. 180 of the 186 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 AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SupportWorks Housing ↗
- Who funds USA CARES INC ↗
- Who funds CARITAS ↗
- Who funds Virginia Voice Inc ↗
- Who funds HOUSING FAMILIES FIRST ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL VIRGINIA HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CHESTERFLD COLONL HGHTS ALLIANCE FOR SOC MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds ELK HILL FARM INC ↗
- Who funds Circle Center Adult Day Services ↗
- Who funds YWCA RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds BLAIRS FIRE & RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds THE SOCIETY OF ST ANDREW INC ↗
- Who funds CARES INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SHALOM FARMSINC ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR ↗
- Who funds POSITIVE VIBE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HEALING PLACE ↗
- Who funds BACKPACKS OF LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND FRIENDS OF THE HOMELESS LTD ↗
- Who funds HOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF RICHMOND INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH HILL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC ↗
- Who funds ASK CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ELDERHOMES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHILD AND FAMILY NETWORK CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER RICHMOND FIT4KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND HILL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BOYDTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC ↗
- Who funds FEED MORE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HAVEN SHELTER AND SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN RICHMOND SPORTS BACKERS ↗
- Who funds COLONIAL HEIGHTS FIRE & EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds BOYDTON LIFE STATION INC ↗
- Who funds HENRICO COUNTY COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds The Legal Aid Society of Roanoke Valley ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD RESOURCE CENTER ↗
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 Pauley Family Foundation · Richmond Memorial Health Foundation · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Robins Foundation · United Way of Greater Richmond & Petersburg · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The William H - John G - Emma Scott Foundation · Bon Secours - Richmond Health System Inc · Virginia Nonprofit Housing Coalition · Shelton H Short Jr Trust
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 Altria Companies Employee Community Fund 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.
- Learning Ally Inc — 4% 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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