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Ann K Kirby Foundation

To support a wide range of charitable purposes including health, education, environmental causes, fine and performing arts, historical preservation and faith-based ministries in communities where there are strong family ties, including richmond, va.

$653k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$3.6MPhilanthropy$2.5MHuman Services$1.6MEnvironment$996kHealth$800kArts & Culture$600kPublic Benefit$500kYouth Development$250kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 5 grants below total $610,628 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $653,225 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $42,597 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$100,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$51M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE$200,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR A GREATER RICHMOND$171,117
JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION$100,000
AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL$89,511
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE$50,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 91% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FRED M & JESSICA A KIRBY EPISCOPAL HOUSE INC: $1.5M → 15%AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL: $1.0M → 11%THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $50k → 14%FOUNDATION FOR MORRISTOWN MEDICAL CENTER: $250k → 4%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY INC: $346k → 7%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY INC: $350k → 8%THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $1.5M → 9%GARTH NEWELL MUSIC CENTER: $350k → 13%HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE: $1.2M → 20%JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION: $100k → 22%KIRBY EPISCOPAL HOUSE: $75k → 15%AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL: $90k → 11%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR A GREATER RICHMOND: $171k → 9%GARTH NEWELL MUSIC CENTER: $250k → 13%HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE: $800k → 20%ST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $350k → 22%THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $163k → 9%HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE: $200k → 20%ST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $150k → 22%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR A GREATER RICHMOND: $149k → 9%THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $59k → 22%THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $137k → 9%THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $131k → 9%THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $117k → 9%JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION: $200k → 9%CHILDSAVERS: $50k → 9%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMOND: $150k → 9%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF METRO RICHMOND: $100k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.5M · 7 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
4

Total granted

$6.5M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+30%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther

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

  • HC
    HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE
    3× · 2021–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +25%
  • FM
    FRED M AND JESSIE A KIRBY EPISCOPAL HOUSE INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $1.6M · revenue +180%
  • AO
    AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC
    2× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • BT
    BREAKTHROUGH T1Dgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue +35%
  • CO
    CITY OF WILKES-BARRE
    one grant, 2022 · $500k
  • FF
    Foundation for Morristown Medical Centergraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +30%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
2
Jefferson Scholars Foundation

The jefferson scholars foundation (foundation) provides academic merit-based scholarship, fellowship and professorship support to students and faculty at the university of virginia (uva).

Philanthropy
3
Williams College

Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.

Education
4
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
5
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
6
Westminster College

The mission of westminster college is to help students develop competencies, commitments, and characteristics which have distinguished human beings at their best. see continuation on schedule o.the liberal arts tradition is the foundation…

Education
7
Regents of the Mercersburg College

At mercersburg academy we embrace the values of hard work, character, and community while learning to balance independence with interdependence and individual humility with collective pride. our students commit to a life of learning, seek…

Education
8
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
9
Virginia Tech Foundation Inc

Virginia tech foundation, inc. (vtf) is a virginia nonstock corporation established in 1948 for the sole purpose of managing virginia tech's endowment to advance virginia tech's mission and its strategic priorities.

Education
10
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
11
Community Memorial Hospital

To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.

Health
12
William & Mary Foundation

The William & Mary Foundation advances the university's highest aspirations by securing private support, guiding a multi-asset investment portfolio, and offering strategic leadership. In this work, we propel the university toward national…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fred M and Jessie a Kirby Episcopal House 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

13 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 14 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE — $2,200,000 · EducationHAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGEAVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC — $1,089,511 · EducationAVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INCST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $500,000 · EducationST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATIONFRED M AND JESSIE A KIRBY EPISCOPAL HOUSE INC — $1,575,000 · OtherFRED M AND JESSIE A KIRBY EP…THE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $696,339 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYCITY OF WILKES-BARRE — $500,000 · OtherCITY OF WILKES-BARRE+1 more — $50,000 · OtherTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $2,474,704 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION …+1 more — $50,000 · PhilanthropyBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $500,000 · HealthFoundation for Morristown Medical Center — $250,000 · HealthGARTH NEWEL MUSIC CENTER FOUNDATION — $600,000 · Arts & CultureJAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION — $300,000 · EnvironmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMOND — $250,000 · Youth Development
Education$3,789,511Other$2,821,339Philanthropy$2,524,704Health$750,000Arts & Culture$600,000Environment$300,000Youth Development$250,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $2,474,704 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetHAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE — $2,200,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetAVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC — $1,089,511 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $696,339 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGARTH NEWEL MUSIC CENTER FOUNDATION — $600,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $500,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $500,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetJAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION — $300,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMOND — $250,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetFoundation for Morristown Medical Center — $250,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCHILDSAVERS- MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Pauley Family FoundationVA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pauley Family Foundation · Robins Foundation · Franklin P and Arthur W Perdue Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Ann K Kirby 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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 · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Ann K Kirby Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Ann K Kirby Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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