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Dennis Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HEALTH BRIGADE | $10,000 |
| ST JOSEPHS VILLA | $10,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC | $10,000 |
| VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS | $10,000 |
| VIRGINIA HOME | $7,500 |
| CENTRAL VIRGINIA LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC | $5,000 |
| MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF VIRGINIA | $5,000 |
| CARITAS | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| SHELTERING ARMS HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $175k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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 +41% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- JFJewish Family Services Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +62%
- TVThe Virginia Home6× · 2020–2025 · $48k · revenue +80%
- VHVIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS5× · 2020–2025 · $38k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- BTBOYS TO MEN MENTORING NETWORK OF VAone grant, 2020 · $5k
- OOOAR of Richmond Incone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +4%
- GHGATEWAY HOMES INCone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
Providing life-enriching services that promote well-being and build community.
We end homelessness by providing permanent housing and supportive services.
Abilities richmond envisions a world where all individuals with developmental disabilities and other barriers will have the opportunity to participate in a full range of life activities. competitive employment in support of this vision.
Samaritan House is committed to fostering personal safety, growth, and self-sufficiency in adults and their children through freedom from domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking and removing their risks of homelessness.
SeniorNavigator and its family of websites are national models for aging, disability and veteran information. By combining online assistance with a network of community-based centers, the websites bring over 26,000 community resources,…
The Barry Robinson Center offers programs to improve the lives of children and their families.
Habitat for Humanity Virginia provides support to Virginia affiliates so that they can build or facilitate affordable housing by offering advocacy, organizational development, funding, and resource development
VCDC delivers vital financial resources and support while collaborating with local organizations dedicated to social impact, ensuring the creation of affordable homes in vibrant neighborhoods where everyone can thrive.
VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.
We provide housing for individuals with intellectual disabilities.
The mission of transitions family violence services (tfvs) is to build safe and healthy families on the virginia peninsula by providing services to adult and child victims of domestic violence and human trafficking. we work to increase…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Childsavers- Memorial Child Guidance Clinic and the most unlike its peers is Circle Center Adult Day Services. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 48 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.
23 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. 23 of the 26 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 Family Services Inc ↗
- Who funds The Virginia Home ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS ↗
- Who funds SHELTERING ARMS HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH'S VILLA ↗
- Who funds GREATER RICHMOND SCAN - STOP CHILD ABUSE NOW INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT FRANCIS HOME INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH BRIGADE ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds CARITAS ↗
- Who funds ST JAMES'S CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHILDSAVERS- MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds BETTER HOUSING COALITION ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds OAR of Richmond Inc ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL VIRGINIA LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Home Society of Virginia ↗
- Who funds Circle Center Adult Day Services ↗
- Who funds SOUTH RICHMOND ADULT DAY CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CADENCE THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
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 · Shelton H Short Jr Trust · Herndon Foundation · Annabella R Jenkins Foundation · The Pauley Family Foundation · Richmond Memorial Health Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation · United Way of Greater Richmond & Petersburg · Virginia Nonprofit Housing Coalition · Carmax Foundation · Estes Foundation Co Matthew Breidenbach Pitcairn
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 Dennis 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.
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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