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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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
57
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$325k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.1MHuman Services$943kHealth$484kYouth Development$363kArts & Culture$314kFood & Nutrition$285kReligion$170kEnvironment$158kOther$0
02FY2024 · 57 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k20 grants · $88k
  • $10k–50k34 grants · $680k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $115k
  • $250k+1 grant · $325k
$15,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YWCA$325,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$65,000
ST ANDREWS SCHOOL$50,000
Individual grant recipient$30,000
CARITASTHE HEALING PLACE FOR WOMEN$30,000
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS$30,000
RE WORK RICHMOND$25,000
BETTER HOUSING COALITION$25,000
ELK HILL FARM$25,000
ANNA JULIA COOPER EPISCOPAL SCHOOL$25,000
VCU CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER$25,000
UPRVA$25,000
PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER$25,000
FEEDMORE$25,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF METRO RICHMOND$25,000
02The need
03

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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SHALOM FARMS: $25k → 7%SHALOM FARMS: $25k → 7%CAMERON K GALLAGHER FOUNDATION: $15k → 9%AREA CONGREGATIONS TOGETHER IN SERVICE: $30k → 22%HOMEWARDVA: $15k → 7%NEXTUP RVA: $8k → 9%AREA CONGREGATIONS TOGETHER IN SERVICE: $15k → 22%AREA CONGREGATIONS TOGETHER IN SERVICE: $15k → 22%SHALOM FARMS: $35k → 9%SHALOM FARMS: $30k → 9%ST JOSEPH'S VILLA: $8k → 9%ST JOSEPH'S VILLA: $8k → 9%ST JOSEPH'S VILLA: $8k → 9%WESTMINSTER CANTERBURY: $500 → 9%VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS & GIRLS: $8k → 9%VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS & GIRLS: $8k → 9%VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS & GIRLS: $8k → 9%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $25k → 9%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $25k → 9%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $25k → 9%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $25k → 9%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $15k → 9%FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN: $25k → 22%FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN: $20k → 22%FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN: $20k → 22%FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN: $15k → 22%FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN: $15k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.0M · 77 repeat orgs$311k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

77
24

Total granted

$4.0M
$251k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+39%

Still filing today

69%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMOND
    5× · 2020–2024 · $170k · revenue +56%
  • COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS
    5× · 2020–2024 · $145k · revenue +305%
  • VL
    VIRGINIA LEAGUE FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD INCORPORATED
    3× · 2020–2022 · $133k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • CC
    CARITASTHE CARITAS CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • IF
    ILLUME FAMILY RECOVERY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • MO
    MUSEUM OF THE BIBLEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +41%
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.

1
Virginia Commonwealth University Intellectual Property Foundation

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…

Health
2
Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities

VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.

Civil Rights
3
Vcu Investment Management Company

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…

Education
4
Community Memorial Hospital

To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.

Health
5
Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce

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.

—
6
Vpm Media Corporation

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…

Arts & Culture
7
New Schools for Virginia

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.

Education
8
The Richmond Forum

To present powerful voices so richmond can learn. to empower local voices so richmond can lead.

—
9
Vcu Health Tappahannock Hospital

To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.

Health
10
The Commonwealth Institute for

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.

Public Benefit
11
Community Health Center of Richmond Inc

The organization's mission is to sustain a vibrant, healthy and strong community through affordable, culturally competent, quality primary health care.

Health
12
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

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).

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Path Partnerships; 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.
04the grantee network

71 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
69/71
Grantees still filing
56/71
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YWCA: $405,000 · OtherYWCAJAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY: $115,000 · OtherYMCA: $105,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $100,000 · OtherELK HILL FARM INC: $80,000 · OtherHIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM INC: $80,000 · OtherReWork Richmond Inc: $107,500 · OtherFEED MORE INC: $80,000 · Other+53 more: $1,252,000 · Other+53 moreCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS: $145,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN S…St Andrew's School: $130,000 · EducationSt Andrew's Scho…ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL: $80,000 · EducationANNA JULIA COOPE…THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $75,000 · EducationTHE COLLEGIATE S…UP RVA: $75,000 · EducationUP RVACristo Rey Richmond High School Inc: $50,000 · EducationCristo Rey Richm…NORTHSTAR ACADEMY INC: $42,500 · EducationNORTHSTAR ACADEM…+4 more: $30,500 · EducationSHALOM FARMSINC: $115,000 · Human ServicesSHALOM FARMS…PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $115,000 · Human ServicesPETER PAUL D…FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN: $95,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS ASSO…AREA CONGREGATIONS TOGETHER IN SERVICE: $60,000 · Human ServicesAREA CONGREG…ST JOSEPH'S VILLA: $22,500 · Human ServicesVIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS: $22,500 · Human Services+4 more: $38,000 · Human Services+4 moreVIRGINIA LEAGUE FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD INCORPORATED: $133,000 · HealthVIRGINIA …CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $80,000 · HealthCHILDREN'…THE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC: $40,000 · HealthTHE CROSS…GoochlandCares: $40,000 · HealthGoochland…ILLUME FAMILY RECOVERY INC: $20,000 · HealthILLUME FA…GATEWAY HOMES INC: $15,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Health+4 more: $22,500 · Health+4 moreTHE RICHMOND BALLET: $37,500 · Arts & CultureTHE RICHMOND SYMPHONY: $37,500 · Arts & CultureTHE VALENTINE MUSEUM: $37,500 · Arts & CultureART 180 Inc: $25,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC RICHMOND FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Arts & CultureMAYMONT FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA REPERTORY THEATRE: $20,000 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $12,500 · Arts & CultureBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMOND: $170,000 · Youth DevelopmentJAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION: $80,000 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · EnvironmentCAPITAL TREES: $37,500 · Environment
Other$2,324,500Education$628,000Human Services$468,000Health$365,500Arts & Culture$220,000Youth Development$170,000Environment$157,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMOND: $170,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS: $145,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVIRGINIA LEAGUE FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD INCORPORATED: $133,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSt Andrew's School: $130,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetSHALOM FARMSINC: $115,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetPETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $115,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetReWork Richmond Inc: $107,500 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetFRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN: $95,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL: $80,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetELK HILL FARM INC: $80,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFEED MORE INC: $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM INC: $80,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetJAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION: $80,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $75,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUP RVA: $75,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetRISE RICHMOND INC: $70,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCHILDSAVERS- MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC: $65,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAREA CONGREGATIONS TOGETHER IN SERVICE: $60,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetCristo Rey Richmond High School Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBETTER HOUSING COALITION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER RICHMOND SCAN - STOP CHILD ABUSE NOW INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetOakwood Arts Inc: $42,500 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetNORTHSTAR ACADEMY INC: $42,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGoochlandCares: $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCAPITAL TREES: $37,500 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetTHE RICHMOND BALLET: $37,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RICHMOND SYMPHONY: $37,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE VALENTINE MUSEUM: $37,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetVOICES FOR VIRGINIA'S CHILDREN: $37,500 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetHEALTH BRIGADE: $35,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR THE FUTURE: $30,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetDAILY PLANET INCORPORATED: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetART 180 Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetHISTORIC RICHMOND FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetMAYMONT FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetST JOSEPH'S VILLA: $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS: $22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSOAR 365: $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSupportWorks Housing: $22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVIRGINIA REPERTORY THEATRE: $20,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetILLUME FAMILY RECOVERY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetCAMP HOLIDAY TRAILS: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE BIBLE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Cameron K Gallagher Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetSACRED HEART CENTER INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budget
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.

  • 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 ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds ELK HILL FARM INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FEED MORE INC ↗
  • Who funds HIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds UP RVA ↗
  • Who funds RISE RICHMOND INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDSAVERS- MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds AREA CONGREGATIONS TOGETHER IN SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds Cristo Rey Richmond High School Inc ↗
  • Who funds BETTER HOUSING COALITION ↗
  • Who funds GREATER RICHMOND SCAN - STOP CHILD ABUSE NOW INC ↗
  • Who funds Oakwood Arts Inc ↗
  • Who funds NORTHSTAR ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GoochlandCares ↗
  • Who funds CAPITAL TREES ↗
  • Who funds THE RICHMOND BALLET ↗

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.

Herndon FoundationThe Community Foundat…The Mary Morton Parso…Robins FoundationThe Pauley Family Fou…Wilbur Moreland Haven…Shelton H Short Jr Tr…Virginia Nonprofit Ho…Richmond Memorial Hea…Dominion Energy Chari…Richard S Reynolds Fo…Robert G Cabell III a…
Herndon FoundationVA86.4× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Estes Foundation Co Matthew Breidenbach Pitcairn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Estes Foundation Co Matthew Breidenbach Pitcairn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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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Find your warmest path to Estes Foundation Co Matthew Breidenbach Pitcairn through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 105 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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