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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…

$130k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 12 grants below total $125,448, the rows itemized in this filing. The $130,448 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $5,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $110k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY$15,000
BLUE RIDGE AREA FOODBANK$15,000
CITY OF PROMISE$10,000
STEPPING STONE CHARLOTTESVILLE$10,000
ALBEMARLE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION$10,000
CHARLOTTESVILLE COMMUNITY BIKES$10,000
COMPUTERS 4 KIDS$10,000
CAMP HOLIDAY TRAILS$10,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS$10,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$10,000
THE YELLOW DOOR FOUNDATION INC$9,948
HER SPORTS$5,500
02The need
02

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%CITY OF PROMISE: $10k → 8%STEPPING STONE CHARLOTTESVILLE: $10k → 8%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.
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.
03Its 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
Capital Area Food Bank Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
2
Alliance Center for Education Inc

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.…

Education
3
Cultivate Charlottesville

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…

Youth Development
4
City of Refuge - South Hill Inc

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…

Human Services
5
Center for Early Success

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.

Human Services
6
Heal Charlotte

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…

Human Services
7
United Way of Greater Charlottesville

The united way of greater charlottesville connects our community, enabling individuals and families to achieve their potential.

Philanthropy
8
Village School

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…

Education
9
Charlottesville Day School Inc

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.

Education
10
Communities in Schools of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Inc

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.

Education
11
Charlotte Preparatory School Inc

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.

Education
12
Renew Richmond

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.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is City of Promise Inc; 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.
03the grantee network

12 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
4/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC: $15,000 · OtherBLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INCBIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF THE CENTRAL BLUE RIDGE INC: $10,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF…GREATER CHARLOTTESVILLE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $10,000 · OtherGREATER CHARLOTTESVILLE HABITAT…CAMP HOLIDAY TRAILS: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsCAMP HOLIDAY TRAILSCHARLOTTESVILLE COMMUNITY BIKES: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsCHARLOTTESVILLE COMMUNI…HER SPORTS: $5,500 · Recreation & SportsHER SPORTSSTEPPING STONE CHARLOTTESVILLE: $10,000 · Human ServicesSTEPPING STONE CHA…CITY OF PROMISE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesCITY OF PROMISE IN…LOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY INC: $15,000 · Food & NutritionLOAVES & FISH…COMPUTERS4KIDS: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOMPUTERS…Albemarle Foundation For Education: $10,000 · EducationAlbemarle…The Yellow Door Foundation Inc: $9,948 · Housing & Shelter
Other$35,000Recreation & Sports$25,500Human Services$20,000Food & Nutrition$15,000Youth Development$10,000Education$10,000Housing & Shelter$9,948

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF THE CENTRAL BLUE RIDGE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSTEPPING STONE CHARLOTTESVILLE: $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetCOMPUTERS4KIDS: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetAlbemarle Foundation For Education: $10,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetCAMP HOLIDAY TRAILS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCITY OF PROMISE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCHARLOTTESVILLE COMMUNITY BIKES: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetGREATER CHARLOTTESVILLE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Yellow Door Foundation Inc: $9,948 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHER SPORTS: $5,500 over 1y, 4.5% 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.

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.

Charlottesville Area Community FoundationVA25.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
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no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely 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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Cav Futures Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Cav Futures Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    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.

    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 12 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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