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Estes Foundation Co Matthew Breidenbach Pitcairn
Its FY2024 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: 46% of ESTES FOUNDATION CO MATTHEW BREIDENBACH PITCAIRN’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 · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $88k
- $10k–50k34 grants · $680k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $115k
- $250k+1 grant · $325k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YWCA | $325,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $65,000 |
| ST ANDREWS SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| CARITASTHE HEALING PLACE FOR WOMEN | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS | $30,000 |
| RE WORK RICHMOND | $25,000 |
| VCU CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $25,000 |
| BETTER HOUSING COALITION | $25,000 |
| FEEDMORE | $25,000 |
| UPRVA | $25,000 |
| HIGHER ACHIEVEMENT | $25,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF METRO RICHMOND | $25,000 |
| ANNA JULIA COOPER EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| SHALOM FARMS | $25,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $468k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +30% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
77 repeat relationships — 53 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMOND5× · 2020–2024 · $170k · revenue +56%
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS5× · 2020–2024 · $145k · revenue +305%- VLVIRGINIA LEAGUE FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD INCORPORATED3× · 2020–2022 · $133k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- CCCARITASTHE CARITAS CENTERone grant, 2020 · $50k
- IFILLUME FAMILY RECOVERY INCone grant, 2023 · $20k
- MOMUSEUM OF THE BIBLEgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +41%
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…
VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.
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…
To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.
Chamberrva is the trusted voice for modern business in the richmond virginia region. we are change agents, rallying to do the hard things that will create a more connected, prosperous, health and equitable community.
To use the power of media to educate, entertain and inspire, using public television and public radio to make a positive impact on the communities throughout central virginia, charlottesville, the shenandoah valley, the northern neck and…
New schools for virginia works with parents, students, educators and the community to improve educational outcomes by designing new schools and by supporting existing schools to improve outcomes.
To present powerful voices so richmond can learn. to empower local voices so richmond can lead.
To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.
To use policy, research, and analysis to advance the well-being of Virginia communities, and improve the economic security and social opportunities of all Virginians.
The organization's mission is to sustain a vibrant, healthy and strong community through affordable, culturally competent, quality primary health care.
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).
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Path Partnerships and the most unlike its peers is Museum of the Bible. 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 39 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
71 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. 71 of the 105 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA LEAGUE FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds St Andrew's School ↗
- Who funds SHALOM FARMSINC ↗
- Who funds PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ReWork Richmond Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ELK HILL FARM INC ↗
- Who funds ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds FEED MORE INC ↗
- Who funds UP RVA ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds RISE RICHMOND INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDSAVERS- MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds AREA CONGREGATIONS TOGETHER IN SERVICE ↗
- Who funds BETTER HOUSING COALITION ↗
- Who funds Cristo Rey Richmond High School Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER RICHMOND SCAN - STOP CHILD ABUSE NOW INC ↗
- Who funds Oakwood Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHSTAR ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds GoochlandCares ↗
- Who funds THE VALENTINE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds VOICES FOR VIRGINIA'S CHILDREN ↗
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: Herndon Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Robins Foundation · The Pauley Family Foundation · Wilbur Moreland Havens Charitable Foundation · Shelton H Short Jr Trust · Virginia Nonprofit Housing Coalition · Richmond Memorial Health Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell 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 Estes Foundation Co Matthew Breidenbach Pitcairn 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
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.
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