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Cecil R & Edna S Hopkins Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $101k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PGA TOUR CHARITIES INC | $100,500 |
| MCV FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| HANOVER COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE FDN | $15,000 |
| WESTMINSTER CHOIR COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN BATTLEFIELD TRUST | $5,000 |
| KASSUNGA MISSION INITIATIVE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| RICHMOND ANIMAL LEAGUE | $5,000 |
| ST FRANCIS HOME INC | $3,050 |
| RECREATION ARTS INC | $2,500 |
| COMMONWEALTH CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $2,500 |
| CHICKAHOMINY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT | $1,000 |
| WHITE STONE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT | $1,000 |
| LAKESIDE VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD | $1,000 |
| KILMARNOCK LANCASTER VOL RES SQUAD | $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 (FY17–25, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +78% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 19 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- TRTHE RICHMOND SYMPHONY3× · 2017–2019 · $150k · revenue +44%
- HCHANOVER COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $115k · revenue +93%
- VHVIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY2× · 2017–2018 · $40k · revenue +103%
Funded once
- VIVA INST PYSCHIATRIC BEHAVIOR HLTone grant, 2023 · $20k
- HTHANOVER TAVERN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -27%
- WCWESTMINISTER CHOIR COLLEGEone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
The mission of washington heritage museums is to preserve, promote and maintain its five 18th century properties in fredericksburg, virginia and develop dynamic educational resources and programs to engage and inspire the intrest of…
Promoting for the benefit of the general public, the preservation, protection and enjoyment of our natural resources, principally in the lower james, york, rappahannock and chowan rivers and surrounding watersheds.
The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…
To preserve Virginias history and craft the most prosperous future for all of its citizens.
We produce vital works of classical and contemporary theatre, with Shakespeare as our foundation. We approach this work boldly with a resolve to ignite spirits, educate minds and defy expectation.
The virginia association of museums is a statewide network serving the museum community. the association's mission statement is "the virginia association of museums helps our museum community succeed".
To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…
The Roanoke Symphony Orchestra provides a professional symphony orchestra of artistic excellence and integrity to enrich lives, to educate, and to entertain diverse audiences in western Virginia with the highest quality instrumental and…
We make memories together, building community through the extraordinary power of sharing a story.
Solicitation of public contributions on behalf of member colleges. provides foundations, businesses, and individuals a convenient way of supporting small colleges and universities in virginia.
The mission of the henricus foundation is to provide educational, cultural and recreactional opportunities through the preservation, reconstruction and interpretation of the citie of henricus, a virginia historical site first settled in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Virginia Repertory Theatre and the most unlike its peers is Recreational Arts Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
35 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. 35 of the 52 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 PGA TOUR CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE RICHMOND SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds HANOVER COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND ANIMAL LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds KASSUNGA MISSION INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF VA ANTIQUITIES ↗
- Who funds HANOVER EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Commonwealth Catholic Charities ↗
- Who funds American Battlefield Trust ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HELP CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds ST CHRISTOPHER'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE VALENTINE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HANOVER TAVERN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAKESIDE VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds Cristo Rey Richmond High School Inc ↗
- Who funds RECREATIONAL ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Richmond Triangle Players Inc ↗
- Who funds KILMARNOCK LANCASTER COUNTY VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds MAYMONT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HANOVER CHRISTMAS MOTHER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD CEMETERY ↗
- Who funds THE MENOKIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC POLEGREEN CHURCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MCSHIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MONTPELIER CENTER FOR ARTS AND EDUCATION ↗
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 Community Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · Carmax Foundation · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · The Rock Foundation · The Anne C Robins & Walter R Robins Jr Foundation · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation · Peachtree House Foundation · Tesco Foundation · The Jane and Arthur Flippo Foundation · Shelton H Short Jr Trust
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 Cecil R & Edna S Hopkins Family 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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