· Private foundation
Grateful Funds 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HAMPTON UNIVERSITY PROTON CANCER INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| FRESH SUPPLY INC | $10,000 |
| OPERATION ROCK THE TROOPS | $10,000 |
| PATH | $10,000 |
| FROSTIG SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| OMS FOUNDATION | $6,294 |
| ALS ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| MIDLOTHIAN BAPTIST CHURCH | $1,000 |
| EAST COAST SURFING HALL OF FAME | $1,000 |
| MECHANICSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| DENTAL FOUNDATION OF NORTH CAROLINA | $750 |
| HIGHLAND SUPPORT PROJECT | $500 |
| DIVERSITY RICHMOND | $500 |
| RICHARDSONS RESCUE | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 56% of your 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 89% of Grateful Funds Inc’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, 44% of the giving stays in VA; read by stated purpose it is 10% — 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.
5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 11 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, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
- ALAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN3× · 2023–2025 · $23k · revenue +23%
- OROperation Rock the Troops Inc2× · 2024–2025 · $20k · revenue 0%
- OFOMS FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $14k
Funded once
- TETHE ENDOWMENT PROJECT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $10k
- VMVCU MASSEY COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTERone grant, 2024 · $5k
- CFCHARLOTTESVILLE FREE CLINICone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +3%
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 rescue dogs and cats from southern kill shelters, vet them, and transport them to rescues for adoption (primarily in virginia and further north).
Research surgical techniques to treat ACLS
The animal rescue league of boston's vision is to confront animal cruelty and neglect at its root causes. through programs, services, and facilities focused on accessible animal care, public advocacy, and sustained anti-cruelty efforts...…
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 richmond spca is cultivating a community committed to saving, protecting and enriching animal lives with a mission to provide education and resources to achieve and sustain a no-kill community.
Dedicated to providing emergency medical careto our city shelter to helpsave as many lives as possible, and supporting animal lives in the community
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Diversity Richmond Inc and the most unlike its peers is East Coast Surfing Hall of Fame Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 21 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 AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
- Who funds Operation Rock the Troops Inc ↗
- Who funds PATH ↗
- Who funds East Coast Surfing Hall of Fame Inc ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTESVILLE FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds DENTAL FOUNDATION OF NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds DIVERSITY RICHMOND INC ↗
- Who funds RICHARDSONS RESCUE ↗
- Who funds HIGHLAND SUPPORT PROJECT ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND ANIMAL LEAGUE INC ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile 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 Grateful Funds Inc 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.