How much did Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation grant in FY2024?

Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation reported 773 grants totaling $16,415,801 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation based?

Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation is based in VA.

Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation

Foundation Dossiers Also receives grants — funding profile →

· Private foundation

Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$16M

Granted FY2024still arriving

773

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$1.0M

Largest

01What you fund

01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Education$20MArts & Culture$14MPhilanthropy$8.6MInternational$7.5MEnvironment$7.2MHuman Services$7.0MHealth$6.8MCommunity Improvement$4.7MOther$0

02FY2024 · 773 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k507 grants · $2.1M
$10k–50k204 grants · $3.3M
$50k–250k49 grants · $4.8M
$250k+13 grants · $6.2M

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.3M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
VIRGINIA UNION UNIVERSITY	$1,000,000
SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY 01-65	$700,270
UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA	$679,868
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION	$550,352
UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY	$510,977
WESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY	$469,048
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH	$408,842
WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY	$406,481
RICHMOND PERFORMING ARTS ALLIANCE	$345,425
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION	$319,666
CENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$300,000
BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY	$294,662
VIRGINIA COMMEMORATIONS INC	$250,000
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION	$203,538
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION	$203,315

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $4.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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 19% of Dominion Energy Charitable 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.

Dominion Energy Charitable Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 2.1% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$70M · 1125 repeat orgs$15M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

1125 repeat relationships — 433 still active in FY2024, 692 since wound down; 151 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1125

709

Total granted

$70M

$12M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%

+17%

Still filing today

87%

66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.6M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentOther

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

RP
RICHMOND PERFORMING ARTS ALLIANCE
5× · 2020–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +21%
MR
METROPOLITAN RICHMOND SPORTS BACKERS
4× · 2020–2023 · $1.4M · revenue +118%
VM
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation
4× · 2020–2024 · $970k · revenue +46%

Funded once

CM
CYBERGRANTS MATCHING GIFTS
one grant, 2020 · $2.2M
OD
OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +60%
MF
MUSC FOUNDATION
one grant, 2023 · $250k

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

04Your field

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.

United Way of Central Virginia Inc

To mobilize the compassionate power of our community to improve the quality of lives in central virginia.

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West Virginia Community Action Partnersh

West virginia community action partnership is an alliance of community action agencies that supports and strengthens our members, advocates for low-income and families and promotes partnerships.

Community Improvement

Virginia Community Food Connections

To create healthy, food-secure communities and strong, equitable regional food systems by ensuring fresh and local produce is accessible and affordable for all.

Food & Nutrition

Virginia Association of Community Banks

To provide undiluted advocacy, targeted education and quality collaboration for virginia's community banks.

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Virginia Conservation Network

Support conservation in Virginia through public policy research, advocacy, education and capacity building for its member organizations.

Environment

People Incorporated of Virginia

To provide opportunities for economically disadvantaged people to reach their goals in order to enhance their lives, their families, and their communities.

—

The Commonwealth Institute for

To use policy, research, and analysis to advance the well-being of Virginia communities, and improve the economic security and social opportunities of all Virginians.

Public Benefit

Virginia Peninsula Chamber of Comme

Chamber mission: we are a catalyst for business growth on the virginia peninsula, and a collaborative partner for economic development within the region.

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Virginia Commonwealth University

Virignia commonwealth university intellectual property foundation's mission is to foster a culture of innovation at virginia commonwealth university (vcu) and to protect and commercialize inventions created by the vcu research enterprise…

Health

Greater Charlottesville Habitat

Bring people together to build homes and communities to provide safe, decent, affordable housing

—

Central Virginia Housing Coalition

Central virginia housing coalition improves the regional quality of life by providing affordable housing opportunities to low income families through coalition, education, counseling and financial assistance.

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Virginia Association of Museums

The virginia association of museums is a statewide network serving the museum community. the association's missions statement is "the virginia association of museums helps our museum community succeed".

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater Charlottesville and the most unlike its peers is Westminster University. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 28 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.8%20/2,374

the rest of the field

13%

6,432/48,094

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.

05the grantee network

1606 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. 1606 of the 2,000 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

487

Early backer (in before they grew)

1580/1606

Grantees still filing

1123/1606

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$22,609,781Philanthropy$12,015,268Education$10,780,396Arts & Culture$10,441,549Human Services$3,837,000Environment$3,180,250Health$1,928,500

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.

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.

Herndon FoundationVA112.9× affinity91 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Herndon Foundation · Robins Foundation · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · The Pauley Family Foundation · Townebank Foundation · Virginia Nonprofit Housing Coalition · Langley for Families - the Foundation of Lfcu · Richmond Memorial Health Foundation · Tr R & Ct Gwathmey Mem Uw Egj · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation · Tesco Foundation · Sentara Health

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 Dominion Energy Charitable 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

87report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines