· Private foundation
Elbert H Evelyn J & Karen H Waldron Charitable 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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 78% of ELBERT H EVELYN J & KAREN H WALDRON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $81k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $148k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $450k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA OF VIRGINIA'S BLUE RIDGE | $250,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $200,000 |
| PLAN INTERNATIONAL USA | $100,000 |
| LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF ROANOKE VALLEY | $50,000 |
| MOUNTAIN VIEW HUMANE SPAYNEUTER CLI | $50,000 |
| US FUND FOR UNICEF | $50,000 |
| EASTMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $13,300 |
| BLACKSBURG REFUGEE PARTNERSHIP | $10,000 |
| VIRGINIA HORSE CENTER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| JEFFERSON CENTER | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $105k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 70% 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.
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.
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.
53 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2025, 15 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF VIRGINIA'S BLUE RIDGE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +82%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $240k · revenue +98%- VHVIRGINIA HORSE CENTER FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2025 · $175k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- GIGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE VALLEYS INCone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +24%
- HHHumane Horse Handlingone grant, 2020 · $10k
- TRTHE RESCUE MISSION OF ROANOKE INCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +2%
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.
The american wild horse campaign is the nation's leading conservation organization dedicated to preserving the freedom and habitat of wild horses and burros. through its initiatives in advocacy, conservation, land preservation, and legal…
Alliance for the shenandoah valley informs and engages people to protect the natural resources, cultural heritages, and rural character of our region.
To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
The organization's vision is a world where humans and animals coexist in sustainable ecosystems. the organization focuses on conservation; habitat protection; promoting biodiversity and rescue, rehabilitation release and monitoring of…
Treatment and rehabilitation of ill or injured wild animals and educational programs for various environmental issues.
The mission of mountain view humane is to end pet overpopulation in southwest virginia and southern west virginia by providing safe, affordable spay/neuter services and vaccine clinics for the community.
Our mission is to strengthen animal health and welfare to build more resilient communities. we do this by enhancing veterinary care, bolstering community disaster response and recovery, championing sustainable livelihoods, and improving…
The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…
To improve the health & well-being of animals through veterinary aid, response, training, research & local capacity building worldwide. We provide services to companion animals, horses, street dogs, livestock and marine animals including…
HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sierra Club Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Blacksburg Refugee Partnership Inc. 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.
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 37 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.
46 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. 46 of the 69 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 YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF VIRGINIA'S BLUE RIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds PLAN INTERNATIONAL USA INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA HORSE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Eastmont Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds The Legal Aid Society of Roanoke Valley ↗
- Who funds Blacksburg Refugee Partnership Inc ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds West End Center Inc ↗
- Who funds TOTAL ACTION AGAINST POVERTY IN THE ROANOKE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Floyd County Humane Society Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Roanoke Valley Horse Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Montgomery County ↗
- Who funds MISTY MEADOWS MITEY RIDERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR THE HORSE FKA THE AAEP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Assisi Animal Clinics Of Virginia Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN HACKNEY HORSE SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE VALLEYS INC ↗
- Who funds BRADLEY FREE CLINIC OF ROANOKE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds LAND SAVERS UNITED ↗
- Who funds CARRIAGE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE PUBLIC TELEVISION 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: Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia · Robertson Family Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Muse Family Foundation Co Elizabeth Muse · The Newbern Foundation · Cartledge Charitable Foundation Inc · Carilion Medical Center · The Ceres Foundation Inc · Friendship Apartment Village Corporation · Farrell Foundation · Edgar a Thurman Fdn Children Nect · United Way of Virginia's Blue Ridge Inc
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 Elbert H Evelyn J & Karen H Waldron 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.
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
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.