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Christian Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k27 grants · $123k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $237k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| MCV FOUNDATION | $41,500 |
| CAPE HENRY COLLEGIATE SCHOOL | $35,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF THE KING'S DAUGHTER | $21,000 |
| LYME AND ASSOC DISEASES SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION | $16,000 |
| ROC SOLID FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| VIRGINIA BEACH RESCUE SQUAD | $14,000 |
| NORTH STAR ACADEMY | $12,500 |
| RICHMOND PERFORMING ARTS ALLIANCE | $12,000 |
| ST ANDREWS SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA OF CENTRAL VA | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VA HEALTH SYSTEM | $10,000 |
| VIRGINIA OPERA | $10,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF VA | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $79k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +43% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
49 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $340k · revenue +52%- CHCAPE HENRY COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC3× · 2022–2024 · $95k · revenue +4%
- JRJAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION7× · 2018–2024 · $88k · revenue +169%
Funded once
- DGDANIEL'S GRACE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $15k
- CHChildren's Home Society of Virginiaone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +15%
- SSST STEPHEN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $1k
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 the edward via college of osteopathic medicine (vcom) is to prepare globally-minded, community-focused physicians to meet the needs of rural and medically underserved populations and promote research to improve human health.
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 use the power of media to educate, entertain and inspire, using public television and public radio to make a positive impact on the communities throughout central virginia, charlottesville, the shenandoah valley, the northern neck and…
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 excellence in the delivery of healthcare.
To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.
Collaborating with our members and stakeholders, vhha works to ensure the sustainability of virginia's health care system and improve the health of all virginians.
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 is to bring compassion to health care and to be good to those in need, especially those who are poor and dying. as a system of caregivers, we commit ourselves to help bring people and communities to health and wholeness.
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".
Vcu health children's services at brook road (csbr), fka crippled children's hospital, is a resource and provider of specialized medical services customized to meet the specific needs of children and their families.
Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Childsavers- Memorial Child Guidance Clinic and the most unlike its peers is National Wildlife Federation. 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 45 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% 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.
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 MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA OPERA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE HENRY COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND PERFORMING ARTS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds St Andrew's School ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH'S VILLA ↗
- Who funds FEED MORE INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds ROC SOLID FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Eastern Mennonite University ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA BEACH RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE FAISON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RX DRUG ACCESS PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds NEEDLE'S EYE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD PEDIATRICS ↗
- Who funds THE RICHMOND SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds NORTHSTAR ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds EHLERS-DANLOS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CHILDSAVERS- MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds DYSAUTONOMIA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE ↗
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 · Wilbur Moreland Havens Charitable Foundation · Herndon Foundation · Carmax Foundation · Windsor Fdn Trust Uw Quincy Cole · Shelton H Short Jr Trust · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · McKesson Foundation Inc · Massey Family 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 Christian 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.
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% 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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