· Private foundation
Charles G Thalhimer & Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k42 grants · $90k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF RICHMOND | $10,000 |
| VMFA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| RICHMOND SYMPHONY | $10,000 |
| VCU FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| RICHMOND SYMPHONY | $10,000 |
| RICHMOND SYMPHONY | $6,000 |
| CHILD DEVELOPMENT RESOURCES (WILLIAMSBURG) | $5,000 |
| 1708 GALLERY | $5,000 |
| STUDIO TWO THREE | $5,000 |
| STUDIO TWO THREE | $5,000 |
| MCV FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| RICHMOND SYMPHONY | $5,000 |
| RICHMOND SYMPHONY | $5,000 |
| COLLEGIATE SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| VCU FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
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 (FY20–23, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 50% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of Charles G Thalhimer & Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 97% of the giving stays in VA; read by stated purpose it is 95% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +23% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF RICHMOND8× · 2017–2024 · $185k · revenue +19%
- TRTHE RICHMOND SYMPHONY4× · 2017–2024 · $106k · revenue +44%
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $81k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- VCVIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $47k
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -40%- UWUNITED WAYone grant, 2017 · $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 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…
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
To be a catalyst in Richmond for learning and living through art.
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 Richmond Jewish Foundation is a primary, trusted and expert resource for planned giving and endowments. We engage, educate and inspire generations of donors to create ongoing resources for charitable, religious, and educational needs.…
To present powerful voices so richmond can learn. to empower local voices so richmond can lead.
Chamberrva is the trusted voice for modern business in the richmond virginia region. we are change agents, rallying to do the hard things that will create a more connected, prosperous, health and equitable community.
Virginia tech foundation, inc. (vtf) is a virginia nonstock corporation established in 1948 for the sole purpose of managing virginia tech's endowment to advance virginia tech's mission and its strategic priorities.
To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.
To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…
The university of virginia law school foundation's primary purpose is to receive, manage and expend funds for the benefit of the university of virginia school of law.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater Richmond & Petersburg and the most unlike its peers is The Pap Foundation Inc Co Cincinnati Childrens Hospital. 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 54 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 48 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 JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds THE RICHMOND SYMPHONY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE RICHMOND SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER RICHMOND & PETERSBURG ↗
- Who funds 1708 Gallery Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds STUDIO TWO THREE ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CULTURE WORKS ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds CultureWorks Inc ↗
- Who funds ART 180 Inc ↗
- Who funds BOLLING HAXALL HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Gibson Area Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds The PAP Foundation Inc CO Cincinnati Childrens Hospital ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds RICK SHARP ALZ FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds THE VALENTINE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE RICHMOND BALLET ↗
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: 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
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 Charles G Thalhimer & 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.
- Florida Oceanographic Society Inc — 0% of income from government
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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