· Public charity
Cav Futures Foundation
To conduct charitable and educational activities, including, without limitation, providing grants and other support to nonprofit organizations in and beyond the virginia, maryland, and dc metropolitan areas, specifically including charlottesville, va; educating and empowering collegiate athletes to use their personal brands in support of…
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $125,448 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $130,448 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BLUE RIDGE AREA FOODBANK | $15,000 |
| LOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY | $15,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $10,000 |
| CAMP HOLIDAY TRAILS | $10,000 |
| COMPUTERS 4 KIDS | $10,000 |
| ALBEMARLE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION | $10,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $10,000 |
| STEPPING STONE CHARLOTTESVILLE | $10,000 |
| CHARLOTTESVILLE COMMUNITY BIKES | $10,000 |
| CITY OF PROMISE | $10,000 |
| THE YELLOW DOOR FOUNDATION INC | $9,948 |
| HER SPORTS | $5,500 |
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 (FY24–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% 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.
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.
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 mission of the capital area food bank (the food bank or cafb) is to help our neighbors thrive by creating more equitable access to food and opportunity through community partnerships.
Our mission is to provide high-quality education and support for children in need through partnership with their families. our vision is to positively affect the future of children at risk by improving economic mobility through education.…
Cultivate Charlottesville engages youth and community in building an equitable, sustainable food system through garden-based experiental learning, growing and sharing healthy food, amplifying community leaders, and advocating for food…
Our program is designed to help give back to the Southern Virginia community. We have weekly programs in place geared towards youth, young adults, families and senior citizens. We reach these individuals through feeding and group meetings…
The mission of the center for early success is to strengthen the system of individuals and organizations caring for and educating children age birth to five.
Heal Charlotte is a community based organization that provides youth development programming (in-school, after school, and summer camps), adult training workshops (financial literacy, job training), rental assistance and eviction…
The united way of greater charlottesville connects our community, enabling individuals and families to achieve their potential.
Village school is a warm and welcoming place for girls to discover their strengths, find their own voices, and grow into confident, self-reliant, and intellectually curious learners. by providing the skills and support necessary to engage…
To educate preschool through middle school age children by educating and nurturing the whole child, with emphasis on music, art, physical education, differentiation, small class sizes, and other best practices in education.
The mission of Communities In Schools is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.
Charlotte Preparatory School fosters lifelong learning and provides an exemplary educational experience founded on academic excellence, positive character, and leadership development in a diverse, inclusive community.
Renew Richmond strives to build healthier, more self-empowered communities by involving local youth in agriculture and environmental sustainability. We do this by partnering with local public schools.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is City of Promise Inc and the most unlike its peers is Her Sports. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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.
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 LOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Albemarle Foundation For Education ↗
- Who funds STEPPING STONE CHARLOTTESVILLE ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHARLOTTESVILLE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP HOLIDAY TRAILS ↗
- Who funds COMPUTERS4KIDS ↗
- Who funds CITY OF PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTESVILLE COMMUNITY BIKES ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF THE CENTRAL BLUE RIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds The Yellow Door Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HER SPORTS ↗
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: Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · Manning Family Foundation · The Genan Foundation · The J & E Berkley Foundation · Caplin Foundation · The Rimora Foundation · Perry Foundation Inc · Sentara Health · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation · The Charles Fund Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Cav Futures 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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Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.