How much does Guilford Foundation give?

Guilford Foundation reported 42 grants totaling $811,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 48 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Guilford Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (29%), Arts & Culture (13%), Health (12%).

Who are Guilford Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Hampden-Sydney College ($1.0M), Media Research Center ($315k), Breakthrough T1d ($255k).

Does Guilford Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Guilford Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Guilford Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation Inc, Richard S Reynolds Foundation, The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation.

Where is Guilford Foundation based?

Guilford Foundation is based in VA.

Guilford Foundation

Guilford Foundation at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Private foundation

Guilford Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$811k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$200k

Largest

01What it funds

0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.7MArts & Culture$770kHealth$681kHousing & Shelter$521kHuman Services$495kEnvironment$380kPublic Benefit$238kAnimals$201kOther$0

02FY2024 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k22 grants · $94k
$10k–50k16 grants · $342k
$50k–250k4 grants · $375k

$9,000

Median grant

States reached

$13M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE	$200,000
FAIRFIELD FOUNDATION	$75,000
TURNING POINT USA	$50,000
PRAGER UNIVERSITY	$50,000
STAND FOUNDATION	$40,000
RITCHIE MEMORIAL EPISCOPAL CHURCH	$32,000
MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER	$30,000
SEAL VETERAN'S FOUNDATION	$30,000
BACK TO THE BIBLE	$25,000
NATIONAL SPORTING LIBRARY AND MUSEUM	$25,000
JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION	$25,000
AMERICAN CIVIL WAR MUSEUM	$25,000
ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL	$20,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE	$20,000
FAIR	$20,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $239k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 56% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$5.1M · 61 repeat orgs$712k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

61 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$5.1M

$541k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%

+19%

Still filing today

77%

49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $171k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsOther

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

HC
HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE
7× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +76%
MR
MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER
8× · 2017–2024 · $315k · revenue +7%
BT
BREAKTHROUGH T1D
8× · 2017–2024 · $255k · revenue +49%

Funded once

MS
MARIAN SUTHERLAND KIRBY LIBRARYgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +65%
BG
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMONDgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue +33%
YA
Young America's Foundationgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue +67%

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.

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

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

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

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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Vcu Investment Management Company

To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…

Education

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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Jefferson Scholars Foundation

The jefferson scholars foundation (foundation) provides academic merit-based scholarship, fellowship and professorship support to students and faculty at the university of virginia (uva).

Philanthropy

Thomas Jefferson School of Law

The mission of the school is to provide outstanding legal education in a collegial and supportive environment with attention to newly emerging areas of law, particularly those related to technological development, globalization and the…

Education

Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education

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

Virginia Tech Foundation Inc

Virginia tech foundation, inc. (vtf) is a virginia nonstock corporation established in 1948 for the sole purpose of managing virginia tech's endowment to advance virginia tech's mission and its strategic priorities.

Education

Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Richmond Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; the most unlike its peers is The Agecroft Association. 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

91 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. 91 of the 144 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

90/91

Grantees still filing

63/91

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,307,000Education$1,448,000Arts & Culture$723,750Health$566,500Environment$381,500Human Services$239,000Animals$183,750

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.

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.

The Community Foundation IncVA41.6× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation Inc · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Herndon Foundation · Fm Kirby Foundation Inc · Wilbur Moreland Havens Charitable Foundation · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation · Robins Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Virginia Sargeant Reynolds Foundation · Shelton H Short Jr Trust · Tesco 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 Guilford Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Guilford Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

9get no government money at all

25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely 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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By state

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