· Private foundation
Dill 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE PODIUM FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| RICHMOND SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL | $10,000 |
| CITY CARE | $10,000 |
| EASTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY ED FDN | $7,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE - RICHMOND WEST | $3,400 |
| SMILE TRAIN | $819 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 63% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +5% since the first grant, against -95% for those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 1 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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CCCITY CARE7× · 2017–2025 · $110k · revenue +5%
- RSRichmond Shakespeare FKA Quill Theatre5× · 2017–2023 · $36k · revenue +39%
SMILE TRAIN INC6× · 2017–2025 · $6k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- CLCHRISTIAN LIFE ACADEMYone grant, 2017 · $9k · revenue -97%
- TVTHE VIRGINIA COLLEGE FUNDone grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue -95%
- YLYOUNG LIFE - RICHMOND WEST ENDone grant, 2020 · $2k
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.
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.
To elevate the art of dance through wellness, performance, education, and community outreach
The richmond symphony performs, teaches and champions music to inspire and unite our communities.
We make memories together, building community through the extraordinary power of sharing a story.
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 provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.
Virginia repertory theatre is a nonprofit professional theater based in richmond, virginia. virginia rep's mission is to entertain, challenge, and uplift our communities through the power of live theatre.
Creating live community theatre experiences that engage, entertain, educate, and enlighten.
How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 12 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds CITY CARE ↗
- Who funds Podium RVA ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Richmond Shakespeare FKA Quill Theatre ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN LIFE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds THE VIRGINIA COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds MCLEOD HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Dill Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dill Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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