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Cathys Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Mercy Mall of Virginia | $1,500 |
| Richmond Animl Care Control Fdn | $1,500 |
| St Jude Children's Research Hosp | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Richmond SPCA | $1,500 |
| ACTS | $1,000 |
| Greater Richmond SCAN | $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 (FY20–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 22% 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 +75% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- GRGREATER RICHMOND SCAN - STOP CHILD ABUSE NOW INC8× · 2017–2025 · $28k · revenue +99%
- RARICHMOND ANIMAL LEAGUE INC7× · 2017–2023 · $20k · revenue +57%
- CRCHATTANOOGA ROOM IN THE INN INC6× · 2017–2023 · $20k · revenue +84%
Funded once
- HFHenrico Foundationone grant, 2023 · $5k
- SJSt James Episcopal Churchone grant, 2019 · $3k
- FAFostering Acadiagraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +297%
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.
Richmond County Partnership for Children advances a high-quality, accountable system of care and early education for each child beginning with a healthy birth, and supports families to improve early childhood health and development to…
For children's sake is dedicated to promoting positive environments for children and families that develop trust, stability and independence.
Cat's Cradle of Greater Richmond rescues cats and kittens from the streets, area kill shelters and situations of abuse, abandonment or neglect. We also take owner-surrender felines on case-by-case basis. We ensure that the cats in our…
Dedicated to providing emergency medical careto our city shelter to helpsave as many lives as possible, and supporting animal lives in the community
Shineforth Child & Family Services is the unwavering champion that every child deserves, and our vision is to strengthen humanity, one child at a time. Shineforth operates eight offices across Virginia and offers more than a dozen…
The Barry Robinson Center offers programs to improve the lives of children and their families.
Sfc virginia is a foster-based animal rescue group in fredericksburg, va. founded in june 2019 with a focus on saving dogs and cats from rural and otherwise underserved shelters in the state, we strive to provide quality medical care…
RappCats Adoption Center, a cage-less, no kill facility is the only Virginia approved cat shelter in Rappahannock County. We work closely with the community to reduce cat overpopulation through our spay and neuter program, which provides…
Offering an integrated education program for the growing community of young children in the richmond metropolitan area who might be considered at-risk. providing an enriching and academically competitive preschool and after- school…
Cats cradles mission is to ensure and maintain and safe, compassionate community for cats in the shenandoah valley. we do this by facilitating and promoting spay/neuter and trap, neuter and return (tnr), conducting foster-based rescue and…
To provide quality, compassionate human services to all people, especially the most vulnerable, regardless of faith, by empowering individuals, streghening families and building community through faith and service.
St. Anns Center helps mothers and children overcome crisis and achieve lasting independence and stability by providing a safe and supportive home, child care, education and employment assistance, and clinical social work services within a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Richmond Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the most unlike its peers is Goochland Pet Lovers. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 26 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 GREATER RICHMOND SCAN - STOP CHILD ABUSE NOW INC ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND ANIMAL LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGA ROOM IN THE INN INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOOCHLAND PET LOVERS ↗
- Who funds THE SHEPHERDS CENTER OF RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY MALL OF VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds CHAMBLISS CENTER FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Bethel Bible Village ↗
- Who funds REAL LIFE ↗
- Who funds Fostering Acadia ↗
- Who funds HOLY ANGELS RESIDENTIAL FACILITY I ↗
- Who funds FORE CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds TAD'S KIDS ↗
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 Mraz Charitable Trust · The Community Foundation Inc · Carmax Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Cathys 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.
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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