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H7 Foundation FKA Commonwealth Foundation II at a glance

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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.

$2.6M
Granted FY2022
33
Grants FY2022
5
States reached
$860k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$6.2MRecreation & Sports$2.4MEducation$1.1MArts & Culture$790kHealth$552kHousing & Shelter$200kEnvironment$157kPublic Benefit$110kOther$0
02FY2022 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 33 grants below total $2,334,180, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,647,180 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $313,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k6 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $244k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+1 grant · $860k
$20,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$53M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Virginia Athletics Foundation$860,000
Affordable Housing Opportunity Fund$200,000
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
Roanoke Catholic School$50,000
Roanoke Catholic School$50,000
Miller Center Foundation$50,000
Virginia Athletics Foundation$48,870
Thomas Jefferson Foundation$25,000
Dartmouth College$25,000
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 36% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%See Attached List: $2.2M → 8%The Commonwealth Foundations: $6.2M → 22%See Attached: $5.7M → 8%See Attached: $3.2M → 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.
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.

36%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.3M · 20 repeat orgs$7.8M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
14

Total granted

$4.3M
$7.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+87%

Still filing today

60%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $433k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’21’22
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyHealthOther
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

  • VIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $2.3M · revenue +10%
  • TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL
    2× · 2021–2022 · $110k · revenue +1%
  • SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER
    2× · 2021–2022 · $75k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • CF
    COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATIONS
    one grant, 2017 · $6.2M · revenue -58%
  • TM
    THE MILLER SCHOOL OF ALBEMARLEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $700k · revenue +57%
  • UH
    UVA Health
    one grant, 2021 · $166k
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
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
2
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
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 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
5
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
6
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
7
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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8
William & Mary Foundation

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…

Education
9
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
10
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
11
Wilson College

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

Education
12
University of Virginia Patent Foundation

The uva licensing and ventures group is dedicated to growing and guiding university innovations while improving lives on grounds and around the world.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Virginia Student Aid Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 40 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
16/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATIONS: $6,232,674 · PhilanthropyCOMMONWEALTH FOUNDATIONS+1 more: $2,500 · PhilanthropyVIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INC: $2,330,230 · EducationVIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATI…THE MILLER SCHOOL OF ALBEMARLE: $700,000 · EducationTHE MILLER SCHOOL OF ALBEMARL…TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL: $110,000 · Education+3 more: $60,000 · EducationHistoric Capital Corridor Foundation: $461,000 · OtherHistoric Capital Cor…Affordable Housing Opportunity Fund: $400,000 · OtherAffordable Housing O…UVA Student Health and Wellness: $286,000 · OtherUVA Student Health a…Dartmouth College Women's Leadership: $280,000 · OtherDartmouth College Wo…UVA Health: $166,000 · OtherUVA HealthDartmouth College: $125,000 · OtherDartmouth CollegeROANOKE CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $125,000 · OtherROANOKE CATHOLIC SCH…SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $75,000 · Other+14 more: $232,500 · Other+14 moreTHOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · Arts & CultureMONTPELIER FOUNDATION: $29,250 · Arts & CultureLIGHT HOUSE STUDIO INC: $15,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $10,000 · Arts & CultureFOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION: $100,000 · HealthTHE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $50,000 · EnvironmentNANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · EnvironmentPRESIDENTIAL PRECINCT: $20,000 · InternationalBENNETT'S VILLAGE INC: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsLITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC: $3,000 · Recreation & Sports
Philanthropy$6,235,174Education$3,200,230Other$2,150,500Arts & Culture$304,250Health$100,000Environment$70,000International$20,000Recreation & Sports$13,000

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 budgetVIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INC: $2,330,230 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetTHE MILLER SCHOOL OF ALBEMARLE: $700,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL: $110,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MILLER CENTER FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMONTPELIER FOUNDATION: $29,250 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPRESIDENTIAL PRECINCT: $20,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetPEABODY SCHOOL: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLIGHT HOUSE STUDIO INC: $15,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHE PARAMOUNT THEATER FOUNDATION IN F/K/A THE PARAMOUNT THEATER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetBENNETT'S VILLAGE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetTHE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC: $3,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetCHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Charlottesville Area …Noland FoundationThe Joseph and Robert…Perry Foundation IncJanet Stone Jones Fou…Oakwood Foundation Ch…Manning Family Founda…The Genan FoundationCaplin FoundationThe Community Foundat…Dominion Energy Chari…National Philanthropi…
Charlottesville Area Community FoundationVA21.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 H7 Foundation FKA Commonwealth Foundation II funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from H7 Foundation FKA Commonwealth Foundation II. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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 40 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $5.7M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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