· Private foundation
Elis Olsson Memorial Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k59 grants · $189k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $211k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST MARGARET'S SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| MELVIN ROSSON VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS POST 8356 | $20,000 |
| ARTS ALIVE INC | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| CURE ALZHEIMERS FUND | $15,000 |
| WEST POINT VOLUNTER FIRE DEPT & RESCUE SQUAD | $15,000 |
| THE NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| GREATER WEST POINT FAMILY YMCA | $15,000 |
| JAMESTOWN YORKTOWN FOUNDATION | $11,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS FOR CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES | $10,000 |
| ST ANDREWS SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE INC | $10,000 |
| SCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NORTHERN NECK-MIDDLESEX FREE HEALTH CLINIC | $10,000 |
| DIRECT RELIEF FOR HURRICANE MELISSA | $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 (FY20–25, $121k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against -37% for the ones you funded once.
79 repeat relationships — 59 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 14 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k 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
- AAARTS ALIVE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $120k · revenue +17%
- HSHistorical Society of West Point Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $98k · revenue +2% · 25% of their budget
- BABAY AGING5× · 2020–2025 · $63k · revenue +297%
Funded once
- DNDAF - NEW TRINITY CHARITABLE FUND ( SCHWAB CHARITABLE)one grant, 2020 · $3.4M
- DQDAF - QUERCUS CHARITABLE FUND ( SCHWAB CHARITABLE)one grant, 2020 · $3.4M
- SCSCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND INGA O ROGERS DAFone grant, 2020 · $75k
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 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.
To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…
The mission of the organization is to provide physicians and other healthcare professionals to support the needs of the community, as well as the academic mission of the vcu school of medicine.
To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.
To support and foster vcu health and vcu health sciences through philanthropy, stewardship, innovation, communication, and collaboration.
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
Delivery of oral healthcare. the corporation operates principally for the benefit of the school of dentistry of vcu by supporting the education, research, service and care mission of vcu.
To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…
The William & Mary Foundation advances the university's highest aspirations by securing private support, guiding a multi-asset investment portfolio, and offering strategic leadership. In this work, we propel the university toward national…
The mission is to bring compassion to health care and to be good to those in need, especially those who are poor and dying. as a system of caregivers, we commit ourselves to help bring people and communities to health and wholeness.
The virginia association of museums is a statewide network serving the museum community. the association's mission statement is "the virginia association of museums helps our museum community succeed".
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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 34 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
67 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. 67 of the 119 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 ARTS ALIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Historical Society of West Point Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL KING & QUEEN VOL FIRE DEPT ↗
- Who funds BAY AGING ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds St Andrew's School ↗
- Who funds THE NORTHERN NECK-MIDDLESEX FREE HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S FISHING ASSOC SCHOLARSHIP FUND C/O JOAN VERNON ↗
- Who funds WALKERTON COMMUNITY FIRE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE FDN ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARGARET'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S FISHING ASSOC ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CORNERSTONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE MENOKIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC OF DARE ↗
- Who funds VICTORY JUNCTION GANG CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds BOYKIN SPANIEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BEACH FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds FEED MORE INC ↗
- Who funds REMOTE AREA MEDICAL ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA UNION UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
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: Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation · J Edwin Treakle Foundation Inc · Townebank Foundation · Herndon Foundation · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · Pga Tour Charities Inc · Hampton Roads Community Foundation · Rouse-Bottom Foundation · The Roller-Bottimore Foundation
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 Elis Olsson Memorial 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.
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- International Game Fish Association Inc — 2% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 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.