· Private foundation
Gordon R Larson Charitable 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $21k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $192k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LITTLE FALLS COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL | $191,692 |
| MARYKNOLL FATHERS AND BROTHERS | $5,857 |
| UNION MISSION MINISTRIES | $5,325 |
| ST MARY'S CATHOLIC CHURCH | $2,662 |
| JUDEO CHRISTIAN OUTREACH CENTER | $2,132 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $1,065 |
| ST MARY'S HOME FOR DISABLED CHILDREN | $1,065 |
| SAMARITAN HOUSE | $1,065 |
| FOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA | $532 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA | $532 |
| Individual grant recipient | $532 |
| NATIONAL WILDLIFE ASSOCIATION | $532 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SHSamaritan House Inc5× · 2019–2025 · $19k · revenue +42%
- JOJUDEO-CHRISTIAN OUTREACH CENTERINC3× · 2018–2025 · $13k · revenue +67%
- SMST MARY'S HOME FOR DISABLED CHILDREN INC7× · 2019–2025 · $13k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- SMST MARYS CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $3k
- SMST MARY'S INFANT HOMEone grant, 2018 · $1k
- MMMOBILE MEALS ON WHEELSone grant, 2018 · $1k
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.
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.
To distribute food effectively through collaborative efforts that minimize hunger, promote nutrition and encourage self-reliance through education.
Facilitating statewide collaboration among Virginia's food banks, partners, and neighbors to improve nutrition security and empower strong, healthy communities.
Home of va ensures equal access to housing opportunities by building individual capacity, ensuring compliance with fair housing laws, and promoting effective public policy to advance housing justice.
Low-income housing.
VCDC delivers vital financial resources and support while collaborating with local organizations dedicated to social impact, ensuring the creation of affordable homes in vibrant neighborhoods where everyone can thrive.
Habitat for humanity of northern virginia brings our community together to build decent, affordable houses - and hope - for people in need. habitat provides a "hand up" to home ownership through sweat equity, donor generosity, volunteer…
We deliver healthy delicious meals to our home-bound neighbors. With a vision of creating a more interconnected resilient and compassionate community our program supports entire family systems. In 2024 236 volunteers delivered 55,642 meals…
To provide food and other related products primarily to member agencies for distribution to those in need, and also for direct distribution.
The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.
To provide housing and supportive services to the veterans of the united states military
Providing life-enriching services that promote well-being and build community.
Retirement housing
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 20 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Samaritan House Inc ↗
- Who funds JUDEO-CHRISTIAN OUTREACH CENTERINC ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S HOME FOR DISABLED CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds FOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FORKIDS INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA BEACH SPCA ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
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: The Townsend Family Foundation · United Way of South Hampton Roads · Hampton Roads Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gordon R Larson Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gordon R Larson Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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