Virginia · Private foundation
Evelyn F James Foundation
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.
- $9k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $8,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 39
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $302k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Evelyn F James Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 3 | $9k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $30k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $13k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $29k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 33 | $29k | 12% |
| FY2020 | 38 | $23k | 16% |
| FY2019 | 39 | $23k | 51% |
| FY2018 | 31 | $28k | 39% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Cross School | $13,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation of the D of C | $7,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Woodberry Forest School | $6,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Thomas Jefferson Foundation Inc | $5,100 | 9 | 0% |
| United Way of Virginia's Blue Ridge Inc | $3,250 | 6 | 0% |
| Opera Roanoke | $2,700 | 6 | 0% |
| University of Virginia Alumni Association | $2,700 | 5 | 0% |
| The Corporation for Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest | $2,350 | 4 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood South Atlantic Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Apple Ridge Farm Inc | $1,425 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 41 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($146k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Evelyn F James Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia · Cartledge Charitable Foundation Inc · Muse Family Foundation Co Elizabeth Muse · The Newbern Foundation · Robertson Family Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Farrell Foundation · The Beirne Carter Foundation · Carilion Medical Center · The Ceres Foundation Inc · Gordon C Willis Charitable Trust · Sam & Marion Golden Helping Hand Foundation
How this is measured
About Evelyn F James Foundation
- How much does Evelyn F James Foundation give?
- Evelyn F James Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $9,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 39 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Evelyn F James Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (54%), Education (18%), Arts & Culture (8%).
- Who are Evelyn F James Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: North Cross School ($13k), Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation of the D of C ($7k), Woodberry Forest School ($7k).
- Does Evelyn F James Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Evelyn F James 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 Evelyn F James Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia, Cartledge Charitable Foundation Inc, Muse Family Foundation Co Elizabeth Muse.
- Where is Evelyn F James Foundation based?
- Evelyn F James Foundation is based in VA.
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