· Private foundation
Goode Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $4k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $95k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.0M
- $250k+3 grants · $750k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NAUTICUS FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| CHRYSLER MUSEUM OF ART | $250,000 |
| UNITED WAY | $250,000 |
| ELIZABETH RIVER PROJECT | $200,000 |
| VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF HISTORY & CULTURE | $130,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| CHKD | $100,000 |
| THE HERMITAGE MUSEUM | $100,000 |
| THOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| VIRGINIA STAGE COMPANY | $50,000 |
| YWCA | $50,000 |
| TAUBMAN MUSEUM OF ART | $50,000 |
| VIRGINIA OPERA | $50,000 |
| KEY WEST LITERARY SEMINAR | $50,000 |
| YMCA OF SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS | $50,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $352k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% 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.
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 +32% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 3 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; $102k 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
- CHChildren's Hospital of the King's Daughters5× · 2017–2024 · $525k · revenue +106%
- NFNAUTICUS FOUNDATION3× · 2018–2024 · $525k · revenue +335%
- TJTHOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $500k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- VWVIRGINIA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +51%
- OIOLD ISLAND RESTORATION FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +174% · 39% of their budget
- HRHAMPTON ROADS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +19%
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 virginia association of museums is a statewide network serving the museum community. the association's mission statement is "the virginia association of museums helps our museum community succeed".
The Roanoke Symphony Orchestra provides a professional symphony orchestra of artistic excellence and integrity to enrich lives, to educate, and to entertain diverse audiences in western Virginia with the highest quality instrumental and…
The richmond symphony performs, teaches and champions music to inspire and unite our communities.
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…
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).
To serve as the region's leading source of informational science education through interactive science demonstrations, hands-on education programs and outreach programs.
Virginia repertory theatre is a nonprofit professional theater based in richmond, virginia. virginia rep's mission is to entertain, challenge, and uplift our communities through the power of live theatre.
The museum connects people to nature by delivering educational classes, programs, exhibits, events and demonstrations. staff and volunteers engage learners of all ages on a 23 acre campus setting. indoor and outdoor learning opportunities…
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…
To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.
Vcca's mission is to provide time and space for national and international writers, visual artists, and composers of talent and promise to bring forth their finest works, because the arts are vital, diversity is a strength, and creativity…
To present the highest-quality performances of great music, bringing national and international distinction to the orchestra and its community; to delight and educate audiences of all ages and backgrounds, and enhance the cultural vitality…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Virginia Stage Company and the most unlike its peers is Spotlight Documentaries Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 50 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 54 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 The Elizabeth River Project ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters ↗
- Who funds NAUTICUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA STAGE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF EASTERN VA INC D/B/A THE UP CENTER ↗
- Who funds NORFOLK BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA AQUARIUM & MARINE SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Samaritan House Inc ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA OPERA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
- Who funds TAUBMAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds ROANOKE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE WILLIAMS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds OLD ISLAND RESTORATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE STUDIOS OF KEY WEST ↗
- Who funds HAMPTON ROADS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of South Hampton Roads ↗
- Who funds KEY WEST LITERARY SEMINAR INC ↗
- Who funds SPOTLIGHT DOCUMENTARIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT STAGE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds MILITARY AVIATION MUSEUM ↗
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: Townebank Foundation · Hampton Roads Community Foundation · Patricia and Douglas Perry Foundation DBA The Perry Family Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Tidewater Jewish Foundation Inc · The Helen G Gifford Foundation · United Way of South Hampton Roads · Sentara Health · The Richard S Glasser Family Foundation · Birdsong Charitable Foundation · Beazley Foundation Incorporated · The Dalis 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 Goode 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.
- Vermont Stage Company — 4% 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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