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Franklin Family Foundation
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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $3k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORFOLK COLLEGIATE SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| ODU | $40,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE BAY WINE CLASSIC FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| VIRGINIA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| TEENS WITH A PURPOSE | $2,000 |
| EMILY GREEN SHORES ASSISTED LIVING | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–23, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 13% of Franklin Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 97% of the giving stays in VA; read by stated purpose it is 94% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +41% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 2 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- NCNORFOLK COLLEGIATE SCHOOL7× · 2018–2024 · $538k · revenue +21%
- CBCHESAPEAKE BAY WINE CLASSIC FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $181k · revenue +359%
- VWVIRGINIA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY6× · 2018–2024 · $45k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- NCNORFOLK COLLEGIATE SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $125k
- CHChildren's Hospital of the King's Daughtersgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +29%
- ACACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $30k · 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 mission of the edward via college of osteopathic medicine (vcom) is to prepare globally-minded, community-focused physicians to meet the needs of rural and medically underserved populations and promote research to improve human health.
The evms academic physicians and surgeons health services foundation (the "foundation") exists to further the mission and goals of the eastern virginia medical school ("evms"), a school of medicine within the virginia health sciencces at…
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 brands and services that promote applied research and technological innovations that, in turn, contribute positively to the economic strength of the hampton roads region and the commonwealth of virginia.
The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.
As part of sentara health's integrated health care system, we improve health every day.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Youth sailing virginia's mission is to teach life skills to high school, middle school youth and their families in the commonwealth of virginia through safe, fun and competitive, recreational and educational community sailing programs with…
The Barry Robinson Center offers programs to improve the lives of children and their families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Access College Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Lynnhaven River Now. 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 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
45 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. 45 of the 91 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 NORFOLK COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY WINE CLASSIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters ↗
- Who funds OLD DOMINION ATHLETIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE BRETT BOYER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORFOLK SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds ACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA BEACH EVENTS UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA GENTLEMEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AN ACHIEVABLE DREAM INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Begin Again Foundation ↗
- Who funds C BARKER CHAMPIONS FOR CHARITY INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE HOUSE OF HAMPTON ROADS INC ↗
- Who funds NORFOLK CASA INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS HAMPTON ROADS INC ↗
- Who funds The Elizabeth River Project ↗
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: Hampton Roads Community Foundation · Tidewater Jewish Foundation Inc · Chesapeake Bay Wine Classic Foundation · Townebank Foundation · United Way of South Hampton Roads · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · C Barker Champions for Charity Inc · Patricia and Douglas Perry Foundation DBA The Perry Family Foundation · The Dalis Foundation · Suffolk Foundation · The Southeast Virginia Community Foundation · Sentara Health
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 Franklin Family 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.
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.