· Private foundation
Hamilton Family Foundation Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $205k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ANNA JULIA COOPER EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| LEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN | $25,000 |
| WESTMINSTER CANTERBURY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| VCU MASSEY CANCER CENTER | $20,000 |
| SCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MAYMONT FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UP RVA | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| ST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| FEEDMORE | $10,000 |
| ST MARY'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $10,000 |
| VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF HISTORY & CULTURE | $10,000 |
| PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $118k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +103% since the first grant, against +44% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 1 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- VMVirginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $140k · revenue +234%
- MFMAYMONT FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $123k · revenue +122%
- AJANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $115k · revenue +469%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIAone grant, 2022 · $50k
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION COVID-19 RESPONSE FUNDone grant, 2020 · $20k
- NSNORTHSTAR SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $5k
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 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…
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…
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).
The virginia association of museums is a statewide network serving the museum community. the association's mission statement is "the virginia association of museums helps our museum community succeed".
To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.
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.
To use the power of media to educate, entertain and inspire, using public television and public radio to make a positive impact on the communities throughout central virginia, charlottesville, the shenandoah valley, the northern neck and…
Advance and support the healthcare and research missions of virginia mason medical center and benaroya research institute at virginia mason through governance oversight of both organizations.
To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.
Vcn is a facilitator of strategic action, a resource for network partners statewide, and a constant preservation presence in richmond. playing a unique role in virginia's conservation community, vcn helps the community speak with one…
The mission is to bring compassion to health care and to be good to those in need, especially those who are poor and dying. as a system of caregivers, we commit ourselves to help bring people and communities to health and wholeness.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Historic Richmond Foundation and the most unlike its peers is St Joseph's Villa. 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 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 5% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 42 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 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation ↗
- Who funds MAYMONT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation ↗
- Who funds UP RVA ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER CANTERBURY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Cristo Rey Richmond High School Inc ↗
- Who funds FEED MORE INC ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD CEMETERY ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE RICHMOND BALLET ↗
- Who funds THE VALENTINE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CARITAS ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH'S VILLA ↗
- Who funds The Virginia Home ↗
- Who funds BETTER HOUSING COALITION ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC RICHMOND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLUE SKY FUND ↗
- Who funds THE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE CYCLE INC ↗
- Who funds ART 180 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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation Inc · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Herndon Foundation · Tesco Foundation · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation · Carmax Foundation · Wilbur Moreland Havens Charitable Foundation · Virginia Sargeant Reynolds Foundation · Shelton H Short Jr Trust · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Commonwealth Foundations
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 Hamilton Family Foundation Charitable Trust 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.
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