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Graham Family 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $3,000 |
| ST STEPHEN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $2,450 |
| HAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $2,100 |
| SCHOOLED FOR SUCCESS INC | $2,000 |
| TRINITY EARLY LEARNING CENTER | $2,000 |
| DURHAM ACADEMY | $1,500 |
| THE VIRGINIA BEACH ART CENTER | $1,500 |
| ST JUDES CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| VIRGINIA BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE PLATEAU | $1,000 |
| GAILEE EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $800 |
| NC DISASTER RELIEF FUND | $600 |
| NORFOLK ACADEMY | $600 |
| ST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL | $500 |
| NC DISASTER RELIEF FUND | $500 |
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 (FY20–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 37% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +39% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- DADURHAM ACADEMY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $10k · revenue +16%
- VBVirginia Beach Art Center Inc3× · 2022–2025 · $5k · revenue +244%
- HFHopeWay Foundation6× · 2020–2025 · $4k · revenue +85%
Funded once
- TCTIDEWATER COUNCIL BSAone grant, 2020 · $1k
- BFBEDS FOR KIDS INCone grant, 2023 · $500 · revenue -6%
- VBVIRGINIA BEACH RESCUE SQUAD INCone grant, 2023 · $500 · revenue 0%
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.
To provide basic necessities for public school children as well as improving parenting skills in order for the children to be successful in school and to expand professional development opportunities for educators.
Community school of davidson believes that every student can and will succeed in ways that reflect his or her own aptitudes and interests. our mission is to use the principles of "the basis school" to provide an optimum environment for…
To make strategic, catalytic investments and provide expertise and technical assistance to educational organizations across south carolina.
The mission of the charlotte lab school is to redesign the school experience to better prepare students for success in college and career, and to serve, through community partnerships, as a model for innovative practices in teaching and…
The corporation's primary purpose include: (1) making scholarship grants to qualified residents of north carolina; (2) making funds available to any person or entity in order to educate the public regarding financial literacy, banking and…
The mission of north carolina business leaders for education (dba best nc) is to unite an engaged and informed business perspective to dramatically transform and improve north carolina's education system. our goal is for every student to…
The triangle charter educational association is a north carolina not-for-profit entity organized exclusively for educational purposes. the association is comprised of respected leaders within the state of north carolina who are committed…
Operation of a public charter school.
To change lives through challenge and discovery.
To inspire students to become innovative thinkers who communicate with intelligence and clarity, create with vision and purpose, and act with courage and compassion to confidently make a meaningful difference in the world.
Carolina collaborative prep (ccp) is a non-profit academic center that serves students in grades 3-12 with learning differences, empowering them to thrive in school and in life.
North carolina charter educational foundation is a north carolina not-for-profit entity organized exclusively for educational purposes. the foundation is comprised of respected leaders in the state of north carolina who are committed to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hampton Roads Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Extraordinary Ventures. 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 37 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 20% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 43 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 HAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DURHAM ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Virginia Beach Art Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CHATTOOGA CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of The Plateau Inc ↗
- Who funds HopeWay Foundation ↗
- Who funds HELPING MAMAS INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOOLED FOR SUCCESS INC ↗
- Who funds MDE SCHOOL OF EAST COBB INC ↗
- Who funds THOMPSON CHILD & FAMILY FOCUS INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds OPEN HAND ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds Charlotte Family Housing ↗
- Who funds THE NORFOLK ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE KENAN-FLAGLER BUSINESS SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD FELLOWS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds BEDS FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA BEACH RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTINE LITERACY PROJECT - TRIANGLE ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CHARLOTTE DOG RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS FOUNDATION OF THE CAROLINAS ↗
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: Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · Dowd Foundation Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · The Winston-Salem Foundation · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · United Way Worldwide · Ta Piedmont Club Foundation Pcf · Dalton-Brand Foundation Inc · The James Family Foundation Inc · Live Love Serve Foundation · The Marc & Mattye Silverman Family 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 Graham 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.
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