· Private foundation
H7 Foundation FKA Commonwealth Foundation II
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 31 grants below total $2,084,180 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,647,180 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $563,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k6 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $244k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $950k
- $250k+1 grant · $860k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Virginia Athletics Foundation | $860,000 |
| Affordable Housing Opportunity Fund | $200,000 |
| Virginia Athletics Foundation | $150,000 |
| UVA Student Health and Wellness | $143,000 |
| Dartmouth College Women's Leadership | $140,000 |
| Thomas Jefferson Foundation | $100,000 |
| Historic Capital Corridor Foundation | $61,000 |
| Virginia Athletics Foundation | $56,000 |
| Miller Center Foundation | $50,000 |
| Roanoke Catholic School | $50,000 |
| Virginia Athletics Foundation | $48,870 |
| Thomas Jefferson Foundation | $25,000 |
| Southern Environmental Law Center | $25,000 |
| Dartmouth College | $25,000 |
| UVA Alumni Association | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 36% of your 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.
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.
20 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2022, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $233k 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
VIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INC2× · 2021–2022 · $2.3M · revenue +10%
TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL2× · 2021–2022 · $110k · revenue +1%
SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER2× · 2021–2022 · $75k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- CFCOMMONWEALTH FOUNDATIONSone grant, 2017 · $6.2M · revenue -58%
- TMTHE MILLER SCHOOL OF ALBEMARLEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $450k · revenue +57%
- UHUVA Healthone grant, 2021 · $166k
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.
The jefferson scholars foundation (foundation) provides academic merit-based scholarship, fellowship and professorship support to students and faculty at the university of virginia (uva).
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.
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…
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).
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.
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…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The William & Mary Foundation advances the university's highest aspirations by securing private support, guiding a multi-asset investment portfolio, and offering strategic leadership. In this work, we propel the university toward national…
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.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The uva licensing and ventures group is dedicated to growing and guiding university innovations while improving lives on grounds and around the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Virginia Student Aid Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Commonwealth Foundations. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 40 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 COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATIONS ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MILLER SCHOOL OF ALBEMARLE ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE MILLER CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENTIAL PRECINCT ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PEABODY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MONTPELIER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIGHT HOUSE STUDIO INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE PARAMOUNT THEATER FOUNDATION IN F/K/A THE PARAMOUNT THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BENNETT'S VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
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: Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · Noland Foundation · The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation · Perry Foundation Inc · Janet Stone Jones Foundation · Oakwood Foundation Charitable Trust · Manning Family Foundation · The Genan Foundation · Caplin Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust
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 H7 Foundation FKA Commonwealth Foundation II 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.