· Private foundation
Awa 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k45 grants · $71k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| CITIZENS FOR FAUQUIER COUNTY | $14,500 |
| MUSEUM OF THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY | $5,000 |
| DE CENTER FOR HORTICULTURE | $5,000 |
| THE NATIONAL THEATRE | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR LOUDOUN | $5,000 |
| POTOMAC SCHOOL | $3,750 |
| GREAT MEADOW OUTDOORS FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| WHIRLWIND JOHNSON FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| PROJECT BLACKBIRD | $3,000 |
| BOWDOIN COLLEGE | $3,000 |
| FOXCROFT SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| FAITHFUL FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| WINDY HILL FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| DELAWARE NATURE SOCIETY | $2,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 59% 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.
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.
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 +19% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
75 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- TPThe Potomac School9× · 2017–2025 · $66k · revenue +31%
- SAST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL INC3× · 2023–2025 · $45k · revenue +18%
- DCDELAWARE CENTER FOR HORTICULTURE INC7× · 2017–2025 · $27k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- ZAZERO ABUSE PROJECTone grant, 2024 · $12k · revenue 0%
- TLTHE LAB SCHOOL OF WASHINGTONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +29%
- TNTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY IN VIRGINIAone grant, 2018 · $5k
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
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).
The mission of the school is to provide outstanding legal education in a collegial and supportive environment with attention to newly emerging areas of law, particularly those related to technological development, globalization and the…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
The jefferson scholars foundation (foundation) provides academic merit-based scholarship, fellowship and professorship support to students and faculty at the university of virginia (uva).
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Mission statement of washington and lee university: washington and lee university provides a liberal arts education that develops students' capacity to think freely, critically, and humanely and to conduct themselves with honor, integrity,…
To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts and the most unlike its peers is Whirlwind Johnson Foundation. 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 44 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.
83 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. 83 of the 136 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 Potomac School ↗
- Who funds THE GLASS-GLEN BURNIE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds ST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE CENTER FOR HORTICULTURE INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS FOR FAUQUIER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Foxcroft School ↗
- Who funds Bowdoin College ↗
- Who funds MARINE RAIDER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE NATURE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ZERO ABUSE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Conservation Nation ↗
- Who funds WINDY HILL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHORAL ARTS SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds THE LAB SCHOOL OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds GREAT MEADOW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE GOLDEN LION TAMARIN ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JK COMMUNITY FARM ↗
- Who funds FAITHFUL FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds WHIRLWIND JOHNSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds MARINE CORPS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL SPORTING LIBRARY AND MUSEUM ↗
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: Dun Foundation · The Luminescence Foundation Inc · Wise Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · William M Backer Foundation Inc · The Van Metre Family Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Loudoun and Northern Fauquier Counties · Fauquier Health Foundation Dba the Path Foundation · The Hall Family Foundation Inc · The Principato Family Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · McGraw 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 Awa 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Italian Home for Children Inc — 29% of income from government
- Faithful Friends Inc — 15% of income from government
- Delaware Nature Society Inc — 13% of income from government
- Delaware Center for Horticulture Inc — 4% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Global Empowerment Mission Inc — 0% of income from government
- Capital Hospice — 0% 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.