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Carmax Foundation at a glance

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Carmax Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5.4M
Granted FY2021
1,132
Grants FY2021
43
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

70% of Carmax Foundation’s FY2026 grant dollars went to American Online Giving Foundation Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2026 names 5 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Carmax Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 718 organizations, $5M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

975
’17
1146
’18
1549
’19
1464
’20
718
’21
73
’22
65
’23
4
’24
10
’25
5
’26

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

01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2026.

Philanthropy$19MRecreation & Sports$15MInternational$7.3MHuman Services$5.1MYouth Development$4.9MEducation$3.8MHealth$3.5MFood & Nutrition$2.4MOther$0
02FY2021 · 1132 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k957 grants · $799k
  • $10k–50k165 grants · $2.0M
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $793k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.8M
$500
Median grant
43
States reached
$6.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KABOOM$1,046,666
CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA$429,675
CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA$357,547
CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA$242,001
EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC$210,000
CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA$131,000
FEED MORE INC$60,000
PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER$50,000
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF RICHMOND$50,000
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING RI$50,000
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION O$35,000
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING RI$25,500
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMON$25,000
GREATER RICHMOND SCAN (STOP CHILD A$25,000
SIDE BY SIDE VA INC$25,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–26, $2.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 62% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%OLD COLONY Y: $10k → 8%DANVERS COMMUNITY YMCA: $10k → 10%LOVE MOVES US INC: $15k → 7%EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%CHILDRENS FRIEND AND SERVICE: $20k → 14%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER RICHMOND: $25k → 22%EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%CHILDRENS FRIEND AND SERVICE: $20k → 14%CHILDRENS FRIEND AND SERVICE: $20k → 14%COMFORT ZONE CAMP INC: $25k → 9%COMFORT ZONE CAMP INC: $25k → 9%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $34k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $22k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $14k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $11k → 14%COMFORT ZONE CAMP INC: $25k → 9%YWCA RICHMOND: $25k → 22%COMFORT ZONE CAMP INC: $25k → 9%COMFORT ZONE CAMP INC: $25k → 9%YWCA RICHMOND: $25k → 22%YWCA RICHMOND: $25k → 22%COMFORT ZONE CAMP INC: $15k → 9%YWCA RICHMOND: $24k → 22%YWCA RICHMOND: $15k → 22%YWCA RICHMOND: $15k → 22%YWCA RICHMOND: $15k → 22%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER RICHMOND: $25k → 22%SPORTABLE RICHMOND ADAPTIVE SPORTS AND RECREATION INC: $25k → 22%FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN: $25k → 22%FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN: $25k → 22%VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS: $25k → 9%VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS: $25k → 9%VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS: $25k → 9%VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS: $25k → 9%SPORTABLE RICHMOND ADAPTIVE SPORTS AND RECREATION INC: $15k → 22%FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN: $15k → 22%VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS: $15k → 9%FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN: $15k → 22%VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS: $15k → 9%FAMILY LIFELINE: $15k → 22%FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN: $15k → 22%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $60k → 9%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $50k → 9%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $50k → 9%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $50k → 9%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $50k → 9%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $50k → 9%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $50k → 9%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

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NC
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HI
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LA
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AL
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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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 36% of Carmax Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 22% of the giving stays in VA; by stated purpose, 27%.

Carmax 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.
$40M · 1498 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +39% for those funded once.

1498 repeat relationships: 579 still active in FY2021, 919 since wound down; 63 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, 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

1498
428

Total granted

$40M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+39%

Still filing today

74%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
Human ServicesHealthEducationAnimalsYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • PO
    POINTS OF LIGHT FOUNDATION
    4× · 2023–2026 · $3.1M · revenue +9%
  • PH
    Project Helping
    3× · 2022–2024 · $498k · revenue +8%
  • CI
    COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF RICHMOND INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $396k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • PF
    PARTNERSHIP FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE
    one grant, 2017 · $27k
  • TC
    THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING RICHMOND AND CENTRAL VIRGINIA
    one grant, 2017 · $26k
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF RICHMOND VA INC
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
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
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
2
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
3
United Food Bank

Uniting communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
4
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
5
Marin Humane Society

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

Animals
6
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
7
United Children's Services of

Children's services

Human Services
8
Animal Care Sanctuary

The humane compassionate treatment of all animals.

Animals
9
Global Fund for Children

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

Arts & Culture
10
Loving All Animals Inc

To maximize programs intended to stop killing of adoptable animals.

Philanthropy
11
Humane Animal Partners

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

Animals
12
The Humane Society for Seattleking

Animal welfare organization

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Joint Opportunities; 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.
05the grantee network

1443 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1443 of the 2,000 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.

8
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
449
Early backer (in before they grew)
1384/1443
Grantees still filing
1118/1443
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC: $15,298,414 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INCCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $6,813,051 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICAPOINTS OF LIGHT FOUNDATION: $3,142,700 · PhilanthropyPOINTS OF LIGHT FOUNDATION+4 more: $515,582 · PhilanthropyKABOOM INC: $12,703,650 · Recreation & SportsKABOOM INC+11 more: $463,211 · Recreation & SportsENRICHMOND FOUNDATION: $368,855 · OtherENRICHMOND FOU…COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF RICHMOND INC: $396,168 · OtherCOMMUNITIES IN…+101 more: $6,032,649 · Other+101 morePETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $389,150 · Human ServicesEMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC: $325,379 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $214,499 · Human ServicesCOMFORT ZONE CAMP INC: $166,422 · Human ServicesYWCA RICHMOND: $151,150 · Human ServicesVIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS: $134,550 · Human ServicesFRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN: $113,150 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769): $108,973 · Human Services+21 more: $881,109 · Human ServicesBLUE SKY FUND: $209,819 · Youth DevelopmentSIDE BY SIDE VA INC: $167,140 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMOND: $140,500 · Youth DevelopmentBULLARD QUARTERBACK CLUB: $94,880 · Youth DevelopmentBoys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc: $61,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $60,175 · Youth DevelopmentBoys & Girls Clubs of Fresno Inc: $53,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MIAMI INC: $53,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CAMDEN COUNTY INC: $51,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE DEGOOD FOUNDATION: $47,625 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF FREDERICK CO: $46,000 · Youth Development+9 more: $328,195 · Youth DevelopmentProject Helping: $497,666 · HealthGoochlandCares: $109,411 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $103,187 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $56,474 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $53,356 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $50,225 · HealthRanch Hope Inc: $48,100 · HealthMcKenna Farms Therapy Services: $45,250 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INC: $40,249 · HealthTWIN CEDARS YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $40,000 · Health+4 more: $144,494 · HealthFEED MORE INC: $316,793 · Food & NutritionFeeding America: $151,600 · Food & NutritionENCOMPASS MINISTRIES INC fka PAPAS PANTRY INC: $93,600 · Food & NutritionVIRGINIA PENINSULA FOODBANK: $56,500 · Food & NutritionEL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER: $56,000 · Food & NutritionHARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $55,500 · Food & NutritionFOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE: $52,000 · Food & NutritionFEEDING AMERICA RIVERSIDE SAN BERNARDINO COUNTIES: $47,650 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY HARVEST PROJECT INC: $43,700 · Food & NutritionKIDS' FOOD BASKET INC: $43,000 · Food & NutritionFREDERICKSBURG REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $41,100 · Food & NutritionCOMPASSION PLANET: $39,000 · Food & NutritionTHREE SQUARE: $38,550 · Food & NutritionREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA INC: $37,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $33,000 · Food & Nutrition
Philanthropy$25,769,747Recreation & Sports$13,166,861Other$6,797,672Human Services$2,484,382Youth Development$1,313,834Health$1,188,412Food & Nutrition$1,104,993

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC: $15,298,414 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetKABOOM INC: $12,703,650 over 10y, 13% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $6,813,051 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPOINTS OF LIGHT FOUNDATION: $3,142,700 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetProject Helping: $497,666 over 3y, 9.4% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF RICHMOND INC: $396,168 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetPETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $389,150 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetENRICHMOND FOUNDATION: $368,855 over 6y, 11% of budgetEMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC: $325,379 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFEED MORE INC: $316,793 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $214,499 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE SKY FUND: $209,819 over 7y, 5.0% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR THE FUTURE: $204,130 over 7y, 3.7% of budgetGREATER RICHMOND SCAN - STOP CHILD ABUSE NOW INC: $195,835 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetGREATER RICHMOND FIT4KIDS INC: $194,650 over 7y, 5.2% of budgetELK HILL FARM INC: $190,025 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetSIDE BY SIDE VA INC: $167,140 over 7y, 6.6% of budgetCOMFORT ZONE CAMP INC: $166,422 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetJunior Achievement of Georgia: $153,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM INC: $153,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MISSION CONTINUES: $152,736 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetFeeding America: $151,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA RICHMOND: $151,150 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetGOOCHLAND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $142,000 over 7y, 11% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMOND: $140,500 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetVIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS: $134,550 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN: $113,150 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetGoochlandCares: $109,411 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769): $108,973 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Museum of Richmond: $104,745 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetHENRICO EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $104,705 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $103,187 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBULLARD QUARTERBACK CLUB: $94,880 over 5y, 77% of budgetENCOMPASS MINISTRIES INC fka PAPAS PANTRY INC: $93,600 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetJAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $88,788 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF COLLIN COUNTY INC: $86,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCHILDRENS RESOURCE FUND INC: $83,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS HAVEN INC: $82,000 over 6y, 4.7% of budgetThe Arc of Greensboro Inc: $80,710 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetStandUp for Kids: $80,500 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHESTERFIELD: $78,573 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetSafePath Children's Advocacy Center Inc: $74,185 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetART 180 Inc: $72,300 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetCHESTERFIELD PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $70,302 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S FRIEND AND SERVICE: $69,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD'S PATH INC: $68,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetTrinity Rescue Inc: $67,900 over 6y, 21% of budgetPATTYS PARROT PALACE INC: $66,660 over 5y, 4.4% 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.

  • Who funds AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds KABOOM INC ↗
  • Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds POINTS OF LIGHT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Project Helping ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF RICHMOND INC ↗
  • Who funds PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ENRICHMOND FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FEED MORE INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds BLUE SKY FUND ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR THE FUTURE ↗
  • Who funds GREATER RICHMOND SCAN - STOP CHILD ABUSE NOW INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER RICHMOND FIT4KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds ELK HILL FARM INC ↗
  • Who funds SIDE BY SIDE VA INC ↗
  • Who funds COMFORT ZONE CAMP INC ↗
  • Who funds Junior Achievement of Georgia ↗
  • Who funds HIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MISSION CONTINUES ↗
  • Who funds Feeding America ↗
  • Who funds YWCA RICHMOND ↗
  • Who funds GOOCHLAND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMOND ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds GoochlandCares ↗
  • Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769) ↗
  • Who funds Children's Museum of Richmond ↗
  • Who funds HENRICO EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds BULLARD QUARTERBACK CLUB ↗
  • Who funds ENCOMPASS MINISTRIES INC fka PAPAS PANTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF COLLIN COUNTY INC ↗

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.

Herndon FoundationThe Pauley Family Fou…Virginia Nonprofit Ho…Robins FoundationThe Mary Morton Parso…Shelton H Short Jr Tr…Richmond Memorial Hea…Tesco FoundationUniversal Leaf Founda…Robert G Cabell III a…The William H - John …United Way of Greater…
Herndon FoundationVA81.2× affinity68 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 · Virginia Nonprofit Housing Coalition · Robins Foundation · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Shelton H Short Jr Trust · Richmond Memorial Health Foundation · Tesco Foundation · Universal Leaf Foundation · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation · The William H - John G - Emma Scott Foundation · United Way of Greater Richmond & Petersburg

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Druid Heights Community Development Corporation: 100% of income from government
  • The Boys and Girls Clubs of Hartford: 20% of income from government
  • Community Harvest Project Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Pact Helping Children With Special Needs Inc: 16% of income from government
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Oregon Museum of Science and Industry: 4% of income from government
  • Easter Seals South Florida Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Ann Storck Center Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Place of Hope Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
103report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 2000 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home