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Barrington Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $308k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CRISTO REY RICHMOND HIGH SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| HARLEM LACROSSE | $75,000 |
| SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND | $75,000 |
| NEXTUP | $50,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $40,000 |
| NORTH COUNTRY MINISTRY | $35,000 |
| COMMUNITY FDN FOR A GREATER RICHMON | $30,000 |
| RICHMOND PERFORMING ARTS ALLIANCE | $30,000 |
| VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS | $25,000 |
| HOUSTON REVISION | $25,000 |
| UNITED WAY | $25,000 |
| ALBANY LAW SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| FEEDMORE INC | $15,000 |
| KIDS MEALS INC | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS | $15,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $363k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +31% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k 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
- CRCristo Rey Richmond High School Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $400k · revenue +84%
- SFSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND4× · 2021–2024 · $215k · revenue +17%
- NRNEXTUP RVA4× · 2021–2024 · $190k · revenue +102%
Funded once
- CACombined Armsgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +51%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMONDgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $13k · revenue +51%
- SMST MARY'S AT THE LAKEone grant, 2021 · $12k
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.
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).
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.
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.
The organization's mission is to sustain a vibrant, healthy and strong community through affordable, culturally competent, quality primary health care.
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…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
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…
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…
To present powerful voices so richmond can learn. to empower local voices so richmond can lead.
To promote educational equity by removing barriers and creating pathways to ensure all students in richmond have access to high quality education, excel from high school to higher education, attain a postsecondary degree or certification,…
New schools for virginia works with parents, students, educators and the community to improve educational outcomes by designing new schools and by supporting existing schools to improve outcomes.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Commonwealth Catholic Charities and the most unlike its peers is State Fair of Texas. 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 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 50 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 Cristo Rey Richmond High School Inc ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds NEXTUP RVA ↗
- Who funds HARLEM LACROSSE AND LEADERSHIP CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND PERFORMING ARTS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Commonwealth Catholic Charities ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS' MEALS INC ↗
- Who funds FEED MORE INC ↗
- Who funds ALBANY LAW SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON REVISION ↗
- Who funds Emergency Shelter Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds PATHWAY TO PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds READING AND EDUCATION FOR ADULT DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds RE-ESTABLISH RICHMOND INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Combined Arms ↗
- Who funds GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds NORTH QUEENSBURY VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER RICHMOND AQUATICS PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN RICHMOND SPORTS BACKERS ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGE OF SAINT ROSE ↗
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 Pauley Family Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Herndon Foundation · Richmond Memorial Health Foundation · Robins Foundation · Carmax Foundation · The William H - John G - Emma Scott Foundation · Williams Mullen Foundation · Virginia Nonprofit Housing Coalition · Annabella R Jenkins Foundation · Commonwealth Foundations · Tr R & Ct Gwathmey Mem Uw Egj
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 Barrington 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% 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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