Who are Elbert H Evelyn J & Karen H Waldron Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Young Men's Christian Association of Virginia's Blue Ridge Inc ($2.3M), Plan International USA Inc ($630k), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($240k).

Does Elbert H Evelyn J & Karen H Waldron Charitable 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.

Which funders back the same organizations as Elbert H Evelyn J & Karen H Waldron Charitable Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia, Robertson Family Foundation Inc, Ge Aerospace Foundation.

Elbert H Evelyn J & Karen H Waldron Charitable Foundation

Elbert H Evelyn J & Karen H Waldron Charitable Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Elbert H Evelyn J & Karen H Waldron Charitable Foundation

Q: How much does Elbert H Evelyn J & Karen H Waldron Charitable Foundation give?

Elbert H Evelyn J & Karen H Waldron Charitable Foundation reported 41 grants totaling $929,050 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 48 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

Q: What does Elbert H Evelyn J & Karen H Waldron Charitable Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (30%), International (20%), Animals (17%).

Q: Does Elbert H Evelyn J & Karen H Waldron Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 2% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Q: Where is Elbert H Evelyn J & Karen H Waldron Charitable Foundation based?

Elbert H Evelyn J & Karen H Waldron Charitable Foundation is based in VA.

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.

$929k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$250k

Largest

01What it funds

0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$2.4MInternational$1.6MAnimals$1.4MRecreation & Sports$376kPhilanthropy$165kEnvironment$153kArts & Culture$129kCrime & Legal$120kOther$0

02FY2025 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k25 grants · $81k
$10k–50k10 grants · $148k
$50k–250k5 grants · $450k
$250k+1 grant · $250k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.5M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
YMCA OF VIRGINIA'S BLUE RIDGE	$250,000
Individual grant recipient	$200,000
PLAN INTERNATIONAL USA	$100,000
MOUNTAIN VIEW HUMANE SPAYNEUTER CLI	$50,000
US FUND FOR UNICEF	$50,000
LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF ROANOKE VALLEY	$50,000
EASTMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$30,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS	$25,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY	$20,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY	$13,300
JEFFERSON CENTER	$10,000
BLACKSBURG REFUGEE PARTNERSHIP	$10,000
WEST END CENTER	$10,000
VIRGINIA HORSE CENTER FOUNDATION	$10,000
FEEDING AMERICA SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA	$10,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$7.9M · 53 repeat orgs$49k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$7.9M

$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%

+44%

Still filing today

64%

77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsInternationalEnvironmentHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

YM
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF VIRGINIA'S BLUE RIDGE INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +82%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $240k · revenue +98%
VH
VIRGINIA HORSE CENTER FOUNDATION
7× · 2017–2025 · $175k · revenue +50%

Funded once

GI
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE VALLEYS INC
one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +24%
HH
Humane Horse Handling
one grant, 2020 · $10k
TR
THE RESCUE MISSION OF ROANOKE INC
one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +2%

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.

04Its field

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.

American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign

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…

Animals

Alliance for the Shenandoah Valley

Alliance for the shenandoah valley informs and engages people to protect the natural resources, cultural heritages, and rural character of our region.

Community Improvement

Animal Wellness Action

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.

Human Services

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

International Animal Rescue Us Inc

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…

Animals

The Wildlife Center of Virginia

Treatment and rehabilitation of ill or injured wild animals and educational programs for various environmental issues.

Animals

Global Animal Partnership

Animals

Mountain View Humane

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.

Animals

Veterinarians Without Borders Usa

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…

International

The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

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…

Animals

World Vets

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…

Animals

Humane World for Animals International

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…

Animals

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sierra Club Foundation; 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.

04the grantee network

46 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. 46 of the 69 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

46/46

Grantees still filing

31/46

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$6,548,850International$914,500Human Services$215,000Animals$178,500Recreation & Sports$175,000Environment$89,000Health$61,000

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.

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation Serving Western VirginiaVA36.3× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Elbert H Evelyn J & Karen H Waldron Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elbert H Evelyn J & Karen H Waldron Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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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

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home