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Grateful Funds Inc at a glance

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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.

$66k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Health$57kEducation$32kInternational$11kPhilanthropy$10kFood & Nutrition$10kRecreation & Sports$6kReligion$4kAnimals$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
$1,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$783k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OPERATION ROCK THE TROOPS$10,000
FROSTIG SCHOOL$10,000
PATH$10,000
HAMPTON UNIVERSITY PROTON CANCER INSTITUTE$10,000
FRESH SUPPLY INC$10,000
OMS FOUNDATION$6,294
ALS ASSOCIATION$2,500
EAST COAST SURFING HALL OF FAME$1,000
MECHANICSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL$1,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$1,000
MIDLOTHIAN BAPTIST CHURCH$1,000
DENTAL FOUNDATION OF NORTH CAROLINA$750
DIVERSITY RICHMOND$500
RICHARDSONS RESCUE$500
RICHMOND ANIMAL LEAGUE$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 (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 56% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FROSTIG SCHOOL: $10k → 14%OPERATION ROCK THE TROOPS: $10k → 5%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $1k → 14%PATH: $10k → 14%NCAADR-UNC ADAMS SCHOOL OF DENISTRY: $1k → 13%OMS FOUNDATION: $8k → 14%EAST COAST SURFING HALL OF FAME: $5k → 6%MECHANICSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL: $1k → 5%ALS ASSOCIATION: $10k → 7%MIDLOTHIAN BAPTIST CHURCH: $3k → 7%CHARLOTTESVILLE FREE CLINIC: $3k → 8%FORE FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%HAMPTON UNIVERSITY PROTON CANCER INSTITUTE: $10k → 14%VCU MASSEY COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER: $5k → 22%FRESH SUPPLY INC: $10k → 19%OPERATION ROCK THE TROOPS: $10k → 5%DENTAL FOUNDATION OF NORTH CAROLINA: $750 → 13%OMS FOUNDATION: $6k → 14%EAST COAST SURFING HALL OF FAME: $1k → 6%RICHARDSONS RESCUE: $500 → 5%ALS ASSOCIATION: $10k → 7%MIDLOTHIAN BAPTIST CHURCH: $1k → 7%THE ENDOWMENT PROJECT FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%DIVERSITY RICHMOND: $500 → 22%ALS ASSOCIATION: $3k → 7%RICHMOND ANIMAL LEAGUE: $500 → 7%HIGHLAND SUPPORT PROJECT: $500 → 22%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

IL
NJ
CA
VA
NC
DC
LA
TX
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 89% of Grateful Funds Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 44% of the giving stays in VA; by stated purpose, 10%.

Grateful Funds Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

51%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$67k · 5 repeat orgs$64k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
5

Total granted

$67k
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+3%

Still filing today

40%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationInternationalAnimalsRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • AL
    AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN
    3× · 2023–2025 · $23k · revenue +23%
  • OR
    Operation Rock the Troops Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $20k · revenue 0%
  • OF
    OMS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $14k

Funded once

  • TE
    THE ENDOWMENT PROJECT FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • VM
    VCU MASSEY COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • CF
    CHARLOTTESVILLE FREE CLINIC
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +3%
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
Richmond Memorial Health Foundation
Health
2
Northern Virginia Health Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Rocco's Heartland Rescue Inc

To rescue dogs and cats from southern kill shelters, vet them, and transport them to rescues for adoption (primarily in virginia and further north).

Animals
4
Carolina Neurosurgery & Spine Education and Research Foundation
Health
5
Anterior Cruciate Ligament Study

Research surgical techniques to treat ACLS

Health
6
The Virginia and Alfred Harrell Foundation
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7
Animal Rescue League of Boston

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...…

Animals
8
Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence Found ation
Health
9
Edward Via Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine

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.

Education
10
Richmond Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

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.

Animals
11
Richmond Animal Welfare Foundation

Dedicated to providing emergency medical careto our city shelter to helpsave as many lives as possible, and supporting animal lives in the community

Animals
12
Raleigh School of Nurse Anesthesia
Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Diversity Richmond Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
3/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OMS FOUNDATION: $14,368 · OtherOMS FOUNDATIONFRESH SUPPLY INC: $10,000 · OtherFRESH SUPPLY INCHAMPTON UNIVERSITY PROTON CANCER INSTITUTE: $10,000 · OtherHAMPTON UNIVERSITY PROTON CANCER INSTITUTEFROSTIG SCHOOL: $10,000 · OtherFROSTIG SCHOOLTHE ENDOWMENT PROJECT FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherTHE ENDOWMENT PROJECT FOUNDATIONVCU MASSEY COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER: $5,000 · OtherVCU MASSEY COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTERMIDLOTHIAN BAPTIST CHURCH: $4,300 · OtherMIDLOTHIAN BAPTIST CHURCH+3 more: $3,000 · OtherAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $22,500 · HealthAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SC…CHARLOTTESVILLE FREE CLINIC: $2,500 · HealthCHARLOTTESVILLE FREE C…American Heart Association Inc: $1,000 · HealthOperation Rock the Troops Inc: $20,000 · EducationOperation Rock the…DENTAL FOUNDATION OF NORTH CAROLINA INC: $750 · Education+1 more: $500 · EducationPATH: $10,000 · InternationalPATHHIGHLAND SUPPORT PROJECT: $500 · InternationalEast Coast Surfing Hall of Fame Inc: $6,000 · Recreation & SportsRICHMOND ANIMAL LEAGUE INC: $500 · AnimalsRICHARDSONS RESCUE: $500 · Animals
Other$66,668Health$26,000Education$21,250International$10,500Recreation & Sports$6,000Animals$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOperation Rock the Troops Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetCHARLOTTESVILLE FREE CLINIC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENTAL FOUNDATION OF NORTH CAROLINA INC: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRICHMOND ANIMAL LEAGUE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRICHARDSONS RESCUE: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHIGHLAND SUPPORT PROJECT: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Grateful Funds Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Grateful Funds Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.

    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 21 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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