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Elizabeth Ireland Graves Charitable Trust

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.

$117k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
32
Grants FY2025
29
Organizations funded FY2024
7%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$34,000
Organizations funded a year
29 to 34
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
8
Total assets, FY2025
$3.7M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 7% of the organizations Elizabeth Ireland Graves Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationReligionFood & NutritionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving31$112k3%
FY202429$68k7%
FY202330$90k7%
FY202232$98k3%
FY202134$168k3%
FY202033$134kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$236kReligion$80kCivil Rights$50kHealth$40kAnimals$30kHuman Services$30kFood & Nutrition$28kEducation$20kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
OH
CA
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($157k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Elizabeth Ireland Graves Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVirginia Center for the Creative Arts: $140,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetAbbeville Institute Ltd: $60,500 over 6y, 4.2% of budgetThe Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies: $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBlue Ridge Area Food Bank Inc: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRichmond Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFluvanna County Habitat for Humanit: $18,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetGood Samaritan Ministries: $18,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFluvanna County Historical Society: $15,000 over 5y, 7.0% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHospice of the Piedmont Inc: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLewis Ginter Botanical Garden Inc: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Street Playhouse Inc: $6,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetSenior Center Inc: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetRoss County Historical Society Inc: $6,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetFranklin County Historical Association: $6,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetThe Piedmont Environmental Council: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Wildlife Center of Virginia: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Menokin Foundation: $5,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetThe Independent Institute: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFluvanna Meals on Wheels: $4,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetThe Aopa Foundation Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Light Academy Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVirginia Historical Society: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWikimedia Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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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.

Charlottesville Area Community FoundationVA19.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · Caplin Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About Elizabeth Ireland Graves Charitable Trust

How much does Elizabeth Ireland Graves Charitable Trust give?
Elizabeth Ireland Graves Charitable Trust reported 32 grants totaling $117,111 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 34 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Elizabeth Ireland Graves Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (41%), Religion (14%), Civil Rights (9%).
Who are Elizabeth Ireland Graves Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Virginia Center for the Creative Arts ($140k), Abbeville Institute Ltd ($61k), The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies ($60k).
Does Elizabeth Ireland Graves Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Elizabeth Ireland Graves Charitable Trust 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 Elizabeth Ireland Graves Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Charlottesville Area Community Foundation, The Community Foundation Inc, Caplin Foundation.
Where is Elizabeth Ireland Graves Charitable Trust based?
Elizabeth Ireland Graves Charitable Trust 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 41 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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