How much does Christian Family Foundation give?

Christian Family Foundation reported 45 grants totaling $400,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 44 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Christian Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (34%), Community Improvement (16%), Arts & Culture (13%).

Who are Christian Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Medical College of Va Foundation ($375k), Virginia Opera Association Inc ($211k), Cape Henry Collegiate School Inc ($130k).

Does Christian Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Christian Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Christian Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation Inc, Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation, Wilbur Moreland Havens Charitable Foundation.

Where is Christian Family Foundation based?

Christian Family Foundation is based in VA.

Christian Family Foundation

Christian Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Christian 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.

$400k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$50k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$929kCommunity Improvement$442kArts & Culture$370kEducation$329kYouth Development$243kEnvironment$185kHuman Services$115kFood & Nutrition$56kOther$0

02FY2025 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k32 grants · $143k
$10k–50k12 grants · $207k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$4.0M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Individual grant recipient	$50,000
CAPE HENRY COLLEGIATE SCHOOL	$35,000
MCV FOUNDATION	$35,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF THE KING'S DAUGHTER	$21,000
INTERNATIONAL LYME AND ASSOC DISEASES SOCIETY	$20,000
JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION	$15,000
ROC SOLID FOUNDATION	$15,000
VIRGINIA BEACH RESCUE SQUAD FOUNDATION	$14,000
RICHMOND PERFORMING ARTS ALLIANCE	$12,000
UVA HEALTH FOUNDATION	$10,000
GIRL SCOUTS COMMONWEALTH COUNCIL OF VA	$10,000
ST ANDREWS SCHOOL	$10,000
HEART OF VIRGINIA COUNCIL SCOUTING AMERICA	$10,000
FEED MORE	$8,500
CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION	$8,250

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $93k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$3.1M · 50 repeat orgs$101k to everyone else

50 repeat relationships: 35 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.1M

$16k

Still filing today

70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEnvironmentEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesFood & NutritionOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION
8× · 2018–2025 · $375k · revenue +52%
CH
CAPE HENRY COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC
4× · 2022–2025 · $130k · revenue +4%
JR
JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION
8× · 2018–2025 · $103k · revenue +169%

Funded once

DG
DANIEL'S GRACE FOUNDATION
one grant, 2022 · $15k
SS
ST STEPHEN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH
one grant, 2023 · $1k

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Virginia Commonwealth University Intellectual Property Foundation

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…

Health

Edward Via Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine

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.

Education

Vpm Media Corporation

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…

Arts & Culture

Vcu Health Tappahannock Hospital

To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.

Health

University of Virginia Investment Management Company

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).

Education

Community Memorial Hospital

To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.

Health

Vcu Investment Management Company

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…

Education

Virginia Hospital and Healthcare Association

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.

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Bon Secours - Richmond Health System Inc

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.

Health

Virginia Association of Museums

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".

Arts & Culture

Vcu Health Childrens Services at Brook Road

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.

Health

Virginia Tech Applied Research Corporation

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.

Science & Tech

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Childsavers- Memorial Child Guidance Clinic; 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.

04the grantee network

36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 62 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

36/36

Grantees still filing

33/36

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,390,000Education$654,000Health$381,500Arts & Culture$356,500Environment$212,750Human Services$92,750Food & Nutrition$64,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

The Community Foundation IncVA31× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Christian Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Christian Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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