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Brent Family Foundation
Its FY2020 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 FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k31 grants · $39k
- $250k+1 grant · $625k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RIVER COUNTIES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $625,299 |
| WICOMICO PARISH CHURCH | $8,000 |
| THE STEWARD SCHOOL | $4,500 |
| THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL | $3,700 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA FUND | $2,350 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,250 |
| LOAVES AND FISHES FOOD PANTRY | $1,250 |
| SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE | $1,250 |
| CHESAPEAKE ACADEMY | $1,200 |
| WORLD PEDIATRIC PROJECT | $1,200 |
| VIRGINIA OPERA | $1,200 |
| CARROLL-MADISON PUBLIC LIBRARY | $1,000 |
| NORTHUMBERLAND FAMILY YMCA | $1,000 |
| NORTHERN NECK LAND CONSERVANCY | $1,000 |
| UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF EUREKA SPRINGS | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–20, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +47% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2020, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- TSTHE STEWARD SCHOOL4× · 2017–2020 · $17k · revenue +56%
- TCTHE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL4× · 2017–2020 · $13k · revenue +28%
- AHABILITY HOUSING INC3× · 2017–2020 · $6k · revenue +246%
Funded once
- TCTHE COLLEGE FOUNDATIONUVAone grant, 2018 · $2k
- YMYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769)graduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +32%
- KMKAINGA MUSICone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +1%
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).
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 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…
Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.
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…
The university of virginia law school foundation's primary purpose is to receive, manage and expend funds for the benefit of the university of virginia school of law.
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…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The jefferson scholars foundation (foundation) provides academic merit-based scholarship, fellowship and professorship support to students and faculty at the university of virginia (uva).
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
To educate a diverse body of students to thrive in a college setting and beyond.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769) and the most unlike its peers is A Cup of Love Ministries. 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 42 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 65 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 STEWARD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ABILITY HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD PEDIATRICS ↗
- Who funds University of Maryland Medical System Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHUMBERLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN NECK LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds EUREKA CHRISTIAN HEALTH OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds A CUP OF LOVE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE BOLLES SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Chesapeake Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds RICE'S HOTELHUGHLETT'S TAVERN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769) ↗
- Who funds GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KAINGA MUSIC ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Court Understanding through Sharing Inc ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA OPERA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds RANDOLPH-MACON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE RICHMOND BALLET ↗
- Who funds Washington and Lee University ↗
- Who funds LINK INCORPORATED ↗
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 · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Estes Foundation Co Matthew Breidenbach Pitcairn · Louise B Cochrane Charitable Founda · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation · Herndon Foundation · Robins Foundation · Carmax Foundation · McKesson Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Mg Mezzanotte 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 Brent 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.
- The Coral Restoration Foundation Inc — 16% of income from government
- Ability Housing Inc — 14% 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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