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Hjc Family Foundation

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.

$37k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it funds
0175% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$78kEnvironment$29kArts & Culture$24kHuman Services$19kReligion$11kAnimals$6kPhilanthropy$5kHealth$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$635k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA$10,000
DUCKS UNLIMITED$5,000
GOOCHLAND CARES$4,500
FOCUS$4,000
VMFA$2,500
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE$2,500
SHELTERING ARMS$2,500
WATER MISSION$1,000
MAYMONT$1,000
TUNNELS TO TOWERS$1,000
LIGHTHOUSE RVA$1,000
EAST BEACH ASSOC$700
ST MARY'S CHURCH$500
RICHMOND ANIMAL LEAGUE$500
CVFRA$250
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:

Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%LIGHTHOUSE RVA: $1k → 7%LIGHT HOUSE RVA: $250 → 6%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

NY
MA
PA
NJ
RI
CA
VA
MD
DE
TN
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$184k · 15 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against -21% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
20

Total granted

$184k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
-21%

Still filing today

53%
15%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthEnvironmentPhilanthropyHuman 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

  • FO
    Friends of the Court Understanding through Sharing Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $19k · revenue +20%
  • G
    GoochlandCares
    6× · 2020–2025 · $17k · revenue +42%
  • TC
    THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL
    2× · 2021–2023 · $14k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • TM
    THE MICHAEL WASSMER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -58%
  • VM
    VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
    one grant, 2020 · $4k
  • TD
    THETA DELTA CHI EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $1k
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
Virginia Beach City Public Schools Entrepreneurship and Business
Education
2
The Virginia and Alfred Harrell Foundation
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3
The West Virginia Chamber Foundation
Public Benefit
4
Washington and Lee University

Mission statement of washington and lee university: washington and lee university provides a liberal arts education that develops students' capacity to think freely, critically, and humanely and to conduct themselves with honor, integrity,…

Education
5
Keep Virginia Beautiful

To engage and unite virginians to improve our natural and scenic environment

Environment
6
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
7
Williamsburg Community Health Foundation
Philanthropy
8
University of Virginia Law School Alumni Association

The university of virginia law school alumni association's primary exempt purpose is to provide alumni with access to the university of virginia school of law, its facilities, resources, and people and to foster an interest in its…

Education
9
Virginia Wesleyan University

Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.

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10
Washington University of Virginia

Provides seminary, under-graduate, graduate, doctoral, and other continuing education programs

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11
Wilmington University Inc

Wilmington university is committed to excellence in teaching, relevancy of the curriculum, and individual attention to students. as an institution with admissions policies that provide access for all, it offers opportunity for higher…

Education
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sheltering Arms Corporation; the most unlike its peers is The Michael Wassmer Foundation. 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

14 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. 14 of the 46 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $52,352 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIAHAGLEY MUSEUM: $20,000 · OtherHAGLEY MUSEUMFriends of the Court Understanding through Sharing Inc: $19,000 · OtherFriends of the Court Understanding through Sharing IncELKTON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $10,250 · OtherELKTON UNITED METHODIST CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $7,500 · OtherDUCKS UNLIMITED: $5,000 · Other+28 more: $19,575 · Other+28 moreCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE BA…GoochlandCares: $17,200 · HealthGoochlandC…SHELTERING ARMS CORPORATION: $2,700 · HealthSHELTERING…THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $13,500 · EducationUP RVA: $1,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Education+2 more: $600 · EducationTHE MICHAEL WASSMER FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyTHE LIGHTHOUSERVA: $1,250 · Human ServicesRICHMOND ANIMAL LEAGUE INC: $500 · Animals
Other$143,677Environment$25,000Health$19,900Education$16,100Philanthropy$5,000Human Services$1,250Animals$500

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 budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Court Understanding through Sharing Inc: $19,000 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetGoochlandCares: $17,200 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $13,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL WASSMER FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSHELTERING ARMS CORPORATION: $2,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LIGHTHOUSERVA: $1,250 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUP RVA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRICHMOND ANIMAL LEAGUE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREEHOLD TOWNSHIP EDUCATION FDN: $400 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetURBAN BIKE PROJECT OF WILMINGTON INC: $200 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.

  • Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Friends of the Court Understanding through Sharing Inc ↗
  • Who funds GoochlandCares ↗
  • Who funds THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
  • Who funds THE MICHAEL WASSMER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SHELTERING ARMS CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds THE LIGHTHOUSERVA ↗
  • Who funds UP RVA ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds East Beach Association ↗
  • Who funds RICHMOND ANIMAL LEAGUE INC ↗
  • Who funds FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP EDUCATION FDN ↗
  • Who funds URBAN BIKE PROJECT OF WILMINGTON INC ↗

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 IncVA15.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation Inc · The Charles M Caravati Foundation Fund · Estes Foundation Co Matthew Breidenbach Pitcairn · Townebank Richmond Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Carmax Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Hjc Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hjc Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • University of Delaware: 30% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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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How do I get to Hjc Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Hjc Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 46 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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