How much did CARMAX FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

Philanthropy$19MRecreation & Sports$9.8MHuman Services$2.7MYouth Development$1.4MEducation$1.2MHealth$1.2MFood & Nutrition$1.0MAnimals$635kCrime & Legal$503kOther$14M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

assoicate hoursteam-builders drivesvolunteer team-buildersassociate dollarsboys girlsboardoffice giving

2020

builder volunteerteam builderdollarsrichmond officeoffice fullfull proposalcares

2021

team-builders driveassociate hoursassociate dollarsvolunteer team-buildersoffice givingboys girlsboard

2022

office givingrecognition awardskmx brdbrd recognitionpilotsteam-builders drivescybergrants spv

2023

richmond givingvolunteer teamteam builderrecognition awardsbuilder boardboard dollarsdollars hours

2024

volunteer kits

2025

education workforceveterans

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k2 grants · $11k
$10k–50k4 grants · $65k
$50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$250k+3 grants · $6.5M

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$6.6M

Total assets

Largest grants

AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION$4,150,813
KABOOM$1,351,470
POINTS OF LIGHT$1,000,000
THE MISSION CONTINUES$50,000
EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION$50,000
FOSTER LOVE (TOGETHER WE RISE)$20,000
GOOCHLAND EDUCATION FOUNDATION$15,000
HENRICO EDUCATION FOUNDATION$15,000
HAPPY HOPE FOUNDATION$15,000
NEXTUP RVA$6,000
NATIONAL VETERANS FOUNDATION$5,000

02The need

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:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 9%. 60% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

Where the work is directed

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

About 9% of CARMAX FOUNDATION’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 25% of the giving stays in VA; read by stated purpose it is 30% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

CARMAX FOUNDATIONlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$49M · 1346 repeat orgs$2.8M to everyone else

1346 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 1338 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1346

651

Total granted

$49M

$2.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%

+52%

Still filing today

62%

47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthEducationAnimalsYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther

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

AO
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC
3× · 2023–2025 · $12M · revenue +100%
CA
CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA
3× · 2021–2023 · $6.8M · revenue +449%
PH
PROJECT HELPING
3× · 2022–2024 · $498k · revenue +1929%

Funded once

CA
CARMAX ASSOCIATE DISASTER RELIEF FUND CO EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION I
one grant, 2018 · $77k
TC
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING RI
one grant, 2021 · $76k
JA
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GEORGIA DISCO
one grant, 2022 · $50k

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.

Petconnect Rescue Inc

Petconnect rescue is a foster-based animal welfare organization dedicated to saving at-risk dogs and cats, providing them with high quality care, and adopting them to loving homes. we are committed to ensuring a highly positive rescue…

Animals

Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals... feeding san diego is on a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community…

Food & Nutrition

United Food Bank

Uniting communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition

Dogs Playing for Life Inc

Dogs playing for life is redefining the meaning and importance of quality of life for all sheltered dogs by improving their experience through playgroups and individualized training, resulting in urgent and responsible livesaving.

Animals

Marin Humane Society

Improving the lives of animals and people through advocacy, education, and support.

Animals

Suncoast Humane Societyinc

Our mission is to encourage, honor and support the human-animal bond in the suncoastregion of florida. our vision is to celebrate a community whose pets are safe andloved. suncoast humane society provides sheltering, prevention and…

Animals

United Children's Services of

Children's services

Human Services

Animal Care Sanctuary

The humane compassionate treatment of all animals.

Animals

Global Fund for Children

To advance the rights and opportunities of children and youth worldwide.

Arts & Culture

Loving All Animals Inc

To maximize programs intended to stop killing of adoptable animals.

Philanthropy

Humane Animal Partners

Sheltering homeless animals, facilitating adoption, providing low-cost spay/neuter services, and foster care for dogs and cats.

Animals

The Humane Society for Seattleking

Animal welfare organization

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Joint Opportunities and the most unlike its peers is The Tech Interactive. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 30 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%33/2,455

the rest of the field

11%

206,131/1,817,110

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.

06the grantee network

1184 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

370

Early backer (in before they grew)

1145/1184

Grantees still filing

914/1184

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Philanthropy$19,193,842Other$16,410,236Recreation & Sports$9,751,896Human Services$2,673,538Youth Development$1,438,099Education$1,240,711Health$1,227,343

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.

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.

Herndon FoundationVA74.1× affinity54 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Herndon Foundation · The Pauley Family Foundation · Robins Foundation · Virginia Nonprofit Housing Coalition · Richmond Memorial Health Foundation · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Tesco Foundation · Shelton H Short Jr Trust · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan · Bon Secours - Richmond Health System Inc · Annabella R Jenkins Foundation · United Way of Greater Richmond

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 organisation CARMAX 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: KIDS ASPIRING TO DREAM.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 5.1× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 452437088 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on KIDS ASPIRING TO DREAM, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 78% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Carmax Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Carmax Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

More from the funding graph

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

Strange bedfellows

the named clusters of US funding

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines