· Community foundation
Charlottesville Area Community Foundation
Create equitable, sustainable, life-improving opportunities in charlottesville and counties of albemarle, buckingham, fluvanna, greene, louisa, nelson, and orange.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 437 grants below total $27,857,641 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $29,585,426 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,727,785 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 $10k98 grants · $685k
- $10k–50k219 grants · $4.8M
- $50k–250k93 grants · $9.0M
- $250k+27 grants · $13M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $1,217,019 |
| STATUE OF LIBERTY ELLIS ISLAND FOUNDATION | $1,025,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $1,000,000 |
| NEW HILL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $874,000 |
| PIEDMONT HOUSING ALLIANCE | $791,827 |
| HAYGROUND SCHOOL INC | $760,000 |
| THE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE | $688,664 |
| ST AUGUSTINE WILD RESERVE | $540,000 |
| BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FUND | $500,181 |
| HAMPTONS ART CAMP INC | $500,000 |
| UNIVERSITY COOPERATIVE SCHOOL | $500,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION | $425,600 |
| ATTA IMPACT CAPITAL INC | $375,000 |
| OLA OF EASTERN LONG ISLAND INC | $359,215 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA | $357,471 |
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 (FY17–24, $7.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 22% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 10% of Charlottesville Area Community 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, 69% of the giving stays in VA; read by stated purpose it is 66% — 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 +48% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
555 repeat relationships — 321 still active in FY2024, 234 since wound down; 108 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.2M 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
- PHPIEDMONT HOUSING ALLIANCE7× · 2017–2024 · $9.5M · revenue +200% · 94% of their budget
- UWUNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTESVILLE8× · 2017–2024 · $4.8M · revenue +341%
- OOOLA OF EASTERN LONG ISLAND INC7× · 2018–2024 · $3.9M · revenue +437% · 74% of their budget
Funded once
THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1.0M · revenue +48%- NWNORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL CENTER FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $250k · revenue +84%
CAPITA SOCIAL INCone grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue +9%
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 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 mission of vt-arc is to extend the impact of the virginia tech research and innovation enterprise, delivering superior analytic and technology solutions to government and non-government customers.
To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.
To assist rural virginians in developing and advancing their agricultural, economic and social interests to enhance their quality of life.
The uva licensing and ventures group is dedicated to growing and guiding university innovations while improving lives on grounds and around the world.
To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.
Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.
Provides seminary, under-graduate, graduate, doctoral, and other continuing education programs
To secure financial support that enables college-bound students to access and graduate from outstanding virginia independent higher education institutions.
Virginia community action partnership (vacap) is the statewide membership association for virginia's thirty-one non-profit and public community action agencies. vacaps mission is to build the capacity and competencies of virginias…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Conservation Music. 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 27 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
751 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. 751 of the 1,015 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 PIEDMONT HOUSING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTESVILLE ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds OLA OF EASTERN LONG ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING OPPORTUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds FOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds STATUE OF LIBERTY ELLIS ISLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds READYKIDS INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTESVILLE FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Cultivate Charlottesville ↗
- Who funds NEW HILL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CLIMATE COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds PRIME COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONNECTIONS MENTOR INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY COOPERATIVE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE HAVEN AT FIRST AND MARKET INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD HUDSON PECONIC INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MOMENTUM BIKE CLUBS ↗
- Who funds HAYGROUND SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CITY OF PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE WASHINGTON GIRLS MIDDLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD HEALTH PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds NELSON COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA HORSE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
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: Perry Foundation Inc · The J & E Berkley Foundation · The Genan Foundation · Caplin Foundation · Manning Family Foundation · The Oak Hill Fund · The Charles Fund Inc · Oakwood Foundation Charitable Trust · United Way of Greater Charlottesville · The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation · Sentara Health · Whitney and Anne Stone 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 Charlottesville Area Community 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.
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Ceres 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.