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Drake Family Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$608k
Granted FY2021
2
Grants FY2021
1
Organizations funded FY2021
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96% of Drake Family Foundation’s FY2021 grant dollars went to Greater Williamsburg Community Trust, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Median grant, FY2021
$582,984
Largest grant, FY2021
$582,984
States reached, FY2021
1
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation$25,00010%

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About Drake Family Foundation

How much does Drake Family Foundation give?
Drake Family Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $607,984 in its FY2021 IRS filing.
What does Drake Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2021, its largest causes are Philanthropy (96%), Arts & Culture (4%).
Who are Drake Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2021: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ($25k).
Does Drake 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.
Where is Drake Family Foundation based?
Drake Family Foundation is based in VA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 2 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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