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Graham Foundation Inc

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.

$893k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$690k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$2.0MHealth$271kEducation$249kHousing & Shelter$129kArts & Culture$65kFood & Nutrition$50kRecreation & Sports$38kEnvironment$23kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
  • $250k+1 grant · $690k
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$6.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC$690,000
NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC$50,000
UVA HEALTH FOUNDATION$50,000
THE HILL SCHOOL OF MIDDLEBURG$50,000
A PLACE TO BE$30,000
OUR CHILDREN FOUNDATION$20,000
UVA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $3k → 8%OUR SISTERS SCHOOL INC: $3k → 11%NATURE BRIDGE: $3k → 8%HARLEM GROWN: $3k → 17%WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN: $10k → 14%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 22%MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC: $690k → 16%THE HILL SCHOOL OF MIDDLEBURG: $50k → 4%GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $20k → 6%OUR CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $20k → 6%BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK: $10k → 8%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER CHARLOTTESVILLE: $35k → 8%VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ART: $5k → 22%Next Generation Choices Foundation: $5k → 5%TABOR ACADEMY: $25k → 8%NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC: $50k → 17%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 22%MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC: $600k → 16%FOXCROFT SCHOOL: $20k → 4%GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $13k → 6%OUR CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $20k → 6%BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK: $10k → 8%Next Generation Choices Foundation: $5k → 5%TABOR ACADEMY: $10k → 8%Habitat for Humanity: $10k → 22%MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC: $600k → 16%The Hill School: $5k → 4%George Mason University Foundation: $10k → 6%OUR CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $15k → 6%BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK: $10k → 8%UVA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $50k → 8%Next Generation Choices Foundation: $5k → 5%Habitat: $10k → 22%FOXCROFT SCHOOL: $5k → 4%George Mason University Foundation: $10k → 6%NEXT GENERATION CHOICES FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 6%UVA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $15k → 8%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $10k → 22%The Hill School: $5k → 4%NEXT GENERATION CHOICES FOUNDATION INC: $7k → 6%UVA HEALTH SYSTEM: $10k → 8%The Hill School: $5k → 4%OUR CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $5k → 6%UVA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $5k → 8%UVA HEALTH SYSTEM: $10k → 8%VIRGINIA ATHLETICS FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%Virginia Athletics Foundation: $10k → 8%Virginia Athletics Foundation: $10k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
NY
MA
IA
IN
CT
CA
VA
AR
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 44 repeat orgs$222k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

44 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 39 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
29

Total granted

$2.6M
$122k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+8%

Still filing today

64%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentInternationalArts & CultureRecreation & SportsCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AP
    A PLACE TO BE
    8× · 2017–2025 · $135k · revenue +70%
  • TH
    THE HILL SCHOOL CORPORATION OF MIDDLEBURG
    5× · 2017–2025 · $70k · revenue +68%
  • OC
    OUR CHILDREN FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $60k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • GC
    GREATER CHARLOTTESVILLE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue -17%
  • Save The Children Federation Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -13%
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -40%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
2
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

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).

Education
3
University of Virginia Foundation

To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…

Education
4
University of Virginia Law School Foundation

The university of virginia law school foundation's primary purpose is to receive, manage and expend funds for the benefit of the university of virginia school of law.

Education
5
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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6
The Waldorf School Inc

The waldorf school of lexington nurtures each child's curiosity, ingenuity, and love of learning so that they can meet the future with wonder, confidence, and resilience.

Education
7
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
8
The Miller School of Albemarle

We create opportunities for discovery and reflection by engaging the minds, hands, and hearts of our students.

Education
9
Habitat for Humanity of Northern Va

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…

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10
Virginia Commonwealth University Intellectual Property Foundation

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…

Health
11
Hampden-Sydney College

Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.

Education
12
Hampshire Country School

Hampshire country school is a place of possibilities for high-ability, neurodiverse students enrolling in later elementary or middle school who have not found success in traditional educational environments. hampshire country school offers…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Our Sisters School; the most unlike its peers is Our Children Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

46 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. 46 of the 76 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/46
Grantees still filing
33/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC: $1,890,000 · OtherMORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INCA PLACE TO BE: $134,500 · OtherA PLACE TO BE+46 more: $352,500 · Other+46 moreTHE HILL SCHOOL CORPORATION OF MIDDLEBURG: $70,000 · EducationTHE HILL SC…GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $53,500 · EducationGEORGE MASO…TABOR ACADEMY: $35,250 · EducationTABOR ACADE…Foxcroft School: $35,000 · EducationFoxcroft Sc…NEXT GENERATION CHOICES FOUNDATION: $32,000 · EducationNEXT GENERA…VIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INC: $24,950 · EducationVIRGINIA ST…UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $22,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY …+3 more: $9,500 · EducationOUR CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $60,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR LOUDOUN AND NORTHERN FAUQUIER COUNTIES: $25,000 · PhilanthropyNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureAlexandria Seaport Foundation: $17,500 · Arts & CultureSHENANDOAH VALLEY DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC: $4,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $20,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc: $10,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,000 · InternationalPROJECT KNAPSACK INC: $4,500 · InternationalHEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL: $3,000 · InternationalNATUREBRIDGE: $5,500 · EnvironmentTHE DOWNSTREAM PROJECT: $4,000 · EnvironmentDARTMOUTH NATURAL RESOURCES TRUST INC: $4,000 · EnvironmentLLOYD CENTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC: $4,000 · EnvironmentHARLEM GROWN INC: $2,500 · EnvironmentWARRENTON HORSE SHOW FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsTEAM ASHBURN SYNCHRONIZED SKATING INC: $3,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$2,377,000Education$282,700Philanthropy$85,000Arts & Culture$72,500International$47,500Environment$20,000Recreation & Sports$8,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetA PLACE TO BE: $134,500 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetTHE HILL SCHOOL CORPORATION OF MIDDLEBURG: $70,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetOUR CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $53,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTABOR ACADEMY: $35,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER CHARLOTTESVILLE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFoxcroft School: $35,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetWINDY HILL FOUNDATION INC: $34,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetNEXT GENERATION CHOICES FOUNDATION: $32,000 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetBLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR LOUDOUN AND NORTHERN FAUQUIER COUNTIES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetVIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INC: $24,950 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAlexandria Seaport Foundation: $17,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUR SISTERS SCHOOL: $5,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNATUREBRIDGE: $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEVERY ORPHANS HOPE: $5,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWARRENTON HORSE SHOW FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetFAUQUIER FREE CLINIC INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT KNAPSACK INC: $4,500 over 2y, 13% of budgetCOMMUNITY BOATING CENTER INC: $4,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PLAINS COMMUNITY LEAGUE: $4,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetTHE DOWNSTREAM PROJECT: $4,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetMIDDLEBURG COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSHENANDOAH VALLEY DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDARTMOUTH NATURAL RESOURCES TRUST INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHCOAST HOSPITALS GROUP INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLLOYD CENTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTEAM ASHBURN SYNCHRONIZED SKATING INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARLEM GROWN INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKENT SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL OF THE PIEDMONT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFAUQUIER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LOVELAND FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIDDLEBURG ACADEMY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW BEDFORD YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 1.7% of budget
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.

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.

Wise FoundationThe Anna McWane Chari…The Luminescence Foun…The Van Metre Family …Dun FoundationWilliam M Backer Foun…The Bank of Clarke Co…Fauquier Health Found…James Lessing Kleebla…MRC Full Circle Found…Alexander Brady Found…McGraw Foundation
Wise FoundationVA22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wise Foundation · The Anna McWane Charitable Foundation · The Luminescence Foundation Inc · The Van Metre Family Foundation Inc · Dun Foundation · William M Backer Foundation Inc · The Bank of Clarke County Foundation · Fauquier Health Foundation Dba the Path Foundation · James Lessing Kleeblatt Memorial Foundation Inc · MRC Full Circle Foundation · Alexander Brady Foundation · McGraw Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Graham Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Graham Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Southcoast Hospitals Group Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Lloyd Center for the Environment Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Community Boating Center Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Our Sisters School: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Graham Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Graham Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 76 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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