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Charles G Thalhimer & Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$238k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
54
Grants FY2025
25
Organizations funded FY2024
24%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 25
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$2.7M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Charles G Thalhimer & Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving26$238k8%
FY202425$140k24%
FY202324$171k38%
FY202218$127k28%
FY202117$144k35%
FY202016$102k50%
FY20196$108k0%
FY20189$140k56%
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$443kPhilanthropy$297kHealth$97kScience & Tech$70kReligion$60kEducation$51kYouth Development$20kPublic Safety & Disaster$16kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 29 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($445k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Charles G Thalhimer & Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJewish Community Federation of Richmond: $255,250 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetThe Richmond Symphony Foundation: $130,150 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetThe Richmond Symphony: $127,100 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetMedical College of Va Foundation: $84,350 over 5y, 0.1% of budget1708 Gallery Inc: $52,500 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Richmond & Petersburg: $45,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBolling Haxall House Foundation: $32,250 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetStudio Two Three: $27,250 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Metro Richmond: $21,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetThe Collegiate School: $16,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCulture Works: $12,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetVirginia Historical Society: $12,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $7,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetART 180 Inc: $6,250 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCultureWorks Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJewish Community Center of Richmond: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Valentine Museum: $3,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe PAP Foundation Inc CO Cincinnati Childrens Hospital: $3,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetGibson Area Hospital Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRick Sharp Alz Foundation: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Richmond Ballet: $1,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Family Services Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLittle Hands Virginia Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFlorida Oceanographic Society Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Virginia Foundation for Community College Education Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProstate Cancer Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 29.

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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.

Herndon FoundationVA30.4× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Herndon Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · Commonwealth Foundations · Robins Foundation · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · The Pauley Family Foundation · Williams Mullen Foundation · Richmond Memorial Health Foundation · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · Carmax Foundation · Tesco Foundation

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.

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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.

About Charles G Thalhimer & Family Foundation

How much does Charles G Thalhimer & Family Foundation give?
Charles G Thalhimer & Family Foundation reported 54 grants totaling $238,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Charles G Thalhimer & Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (39%), Philanthropy (26%), Health (9%).
Who are Charles G Thalhimer & Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Jewish Community Federation of Richmond ($255k), The Richmond Symphony Foundation ($130k), The Richmond Symphony ($127k).
Does Charles G Thalhimer & Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Charles G Thalhimer & Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Charles G Thalhimer & Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Herndon Foundation, Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation, The Community Foundation Inc.
Where is Charles G Thalhimer & Family Foundation based?
Charles G Thalhimer & Family Foundation is based in VA.

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 50 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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