· Private foundation
Cathys Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Mercy Mall of Virginia | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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 |
| Greater Richmond SCAN | $1,000 |
| ACTS | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +75% since the first grant, against +33% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- HAHOLY ANGELS RESIDENTIAL FACILITY Igraduatedone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +33%
- FAFostering Acadiagraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +297%
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 REAL LIFE ↗
- Who funds CHAMBLISS CENTER FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Bethel Bible Village ↗
- Who funds HOLY ANGELS RESIDENTIAL FACILITY I ↗
- Who funds Fostering Acadia ↗
- Who funds FORE CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds TAD'S KIDS ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cathys Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cathys Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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