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Arenstein Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$39k
Granted FY2020
30
Grants FY2020
8
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

98% of Arenstein Foundation’s FY2021 grant dollars went to The Community Foundation Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Arenstein Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 22 organizations, $39k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Philanthropy$595kArts & Culture$105kHealth$21kReligion$11kEducation$5kPublic Benefit$5kCivil Rights$5kInternational$2kOther$0
02FY2020 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k28 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
$250
Median grant
8
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$12,500
VIRGINIA REPERTORY THEATRE$10,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF RICHMOND$6,000
VIRGINIA CAPITAL FOUNDATION$2,000
VISUAL ARTS CENTER OF RICHMOND$1,290
TEMPLE BETH EL$500
VIRGINIA CENTER FOR ADDICTION MEDICINE$500
HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES MADE EQUAL OF VIRGINIA INC$500
HELP HOPE LIVE$500
RICHMOND SYMPHONY$500
HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS FOUNDATION USA INC$500
WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL$360
YWCA OF RICHMOND$300
HANOVER ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION$250
JONES INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE$250
02The need
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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 (FY17–20, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%YWCA OF RICHMOND: $800 → 22%YWCA OF RICHMOND: $300 → 22%YWCA Of Richmond: $250 → 22%FAMILY LIFELINE: $250 → 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

WI
NY
PA
CA
VA
MD
DC
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of Arenstein Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Arenstein Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$289k · 29 repeat orgs$17k to everyone else

29 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2020, 12 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
14

Total granted

$289k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+46%

Still filing today

69%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21
Arts & CultureEducationHealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesCivil RightsOther
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

  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF RICHMOND
    4× · 2017–2020 · $35k · revenue +19%
  • TV
    THE VISUAL ARTS CENTER OF RICHMOND
    4× · 2017–2020 · $24k · revenue +165%
  • MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $15k · revenue +131%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • AC
    American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Virginiagraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +530%
  • MF
    MONTICELLO FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +52%
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
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
3
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
4
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
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
Edward Via Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine

The mission of the edward via college of osteopathic medicine (vcom) is to prepare globally-minded, community-focused physicians to meet the needs of rural and medically underserved populations and promote research to improve human health.

Education
7
Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation

Vipc grows and diversifies virginia's economy by investing in and accelerating innovation commercialization and entrepreneurship.

Science & Tech
8
Virginia Center for Public Press

Vcpp operates wrir 97.3 lpfm, a community low power fm radio station serving citizens of the city of richmond, virginia, and surrounding counties. the station covers a listening area of approximately 5-7 miles. wrir broadcasts news, views…

Arts & Culture
9
Virginia Center for Health Innovation

The mission of the virginia center for health innovation (vchi) is to facilitate innovation by convening key stakeholders and securing the resources to accelerate value-driven models of wellness and health care throughout virginia.

Health
10
Lead Virginia

Lead virginia connects leaders to shape the commonwealth's future through an annual program of educational forums and regional session visits to six diverse regions of virginia. framed around social capital theory and curriculum themes of…

Public Benefit
11
Virginia Press Foundation Virginia Local News Project
Civil Rights
12
Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce

Chamberrva is the trusted voice for modern business in the richmond virginia region. we are change agents, rallying to do the hard things that will create a more connected, prosperous, health and equitable community.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Virginia Repertory Theatre; the most unlike its peers is Monticello Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

41 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. 41 of the 59 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/41
Grantees still filing
33/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $552,572 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INCJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF RICHMOND: $34,850 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF RICHMOND+4 more: $23,400 · PhilanthropyIndividual grant recipient: $104,200 · OtherIndividual grant r…TEMPLE BETH EL: $9,653 · OtherTEMPLE BETH ELIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · Other+29 more: $20,640 · Other+29 moreVIRGINIA REPERTORY THEATRE: $48,000 · Arts & CultureTHE RICHMOND SYMPHONY: $4,750 · Arts & CultureVPM MEDIA CORPORATION: $3,000 · Arts & CultureCADENCE THEATRE COMPANY INC: $2,250 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $3,400 · Arts & CultureTHE VISUAL ARTS CENTER OF RICHMOND: $23,990 · EducationMEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationRichmond Hebrew Day School: $2,525 · Education+3 more: $1,750 · EducationVIRGINIA PUBLIC ACCESS PROJECT: $4,750 · Public BenefitAmerican Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Virginia: $2,500 · Civil RightsVOICES FOR VIRGINIA'S CHILDREN: $2,000 · Civil RightsVirginia Health Care Foundation: $1,000 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $720 · HealthHELPHOPELIVE INC: $500 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $250 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $100 · Health
Philanthropy$610,822Other$139,493Arts & Culture$61,400Education$43,265Public Benefit$4,750Civil Rights$4,500Health$2,570

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $552,572 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVIRGINIA REPERTORY THEATRE: $48,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF RICHMOND: $34,850 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE VISUAL ARTS CENTER OF RICHMOND: $23,990 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetVirginia Capitol Foundation: $15,100 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetMEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RICHMOND SYMPHONY: $4,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA PUBLIC ACCESS PROJECT: $4,750 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $4,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRICHMOND JEWISH FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVPM MEDIA CORPORATION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRichmond Hebrew Day School: $2,525 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Virginia: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVOICES FOR VIRGINIA'S CHILDREN: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYWCA RICHMOND: $1,350 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VALENTINE MUSEUM: $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMONTICELLO FOUNDATION INC: $1,200 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetLIVE ARTS INC: $1,150 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHANOVER ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetThe Virginia Holocaust Museum: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVirginia Health Care Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTANDEM FRIENDS SCHOOL OF CHARLOTTESVILLE: $900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $720 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDC ABORTION FUND: $680 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSING OPPORTUNITIES MADE EQUAL OF VIRGINIA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELPHOPELIVE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREE UNION COUNTRY SCHOOL: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANACOSTIA WATERSHED SOCIETY INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWashington Area Bicyclist Association: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL TREES: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY LIFELINE: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBon Secours Richmond Healthcare Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI - VIRGINIA: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTUCKAHOE VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The Community Foundat…Robins FoundationDominion Energy Chari…Carmax FoundationVirginia Nonprofit Ho…The Mary Morton Parso…The Reinhart Foundati…Herndon FoundationRichmond Memorial Hea…Pga Tour Charities IncCharlottesville Area …Kathryn & W H Schwarz…
The Community Foundation IncVA30.1× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation Inc · Robins Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Carmax Foundation · Virginia Nonprofit Housing Coalition · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · The Reinhart Foundation · Herndon Foundation · Richmond Memorial Health Foundation · Pga Tour Charities Inc · Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · Kathryn & W H Schwarzschild Fund

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 Arenstein Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arenstein Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • Anacostia Watershed Society Inc: 15% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get 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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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 59 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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