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Honey 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k31 grants · $77k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $263k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $525k
- $250k+1 grant · $2.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Richmond Christian Foundation | $2,200,000 |
| Greater Richmond Aquatics Partnership | $200,000 |
| RVA Sports Foundation | $175,000 |
| PGA Tour Charities | $100,000 |
| The Salvation Army Central Virginia | $50,000 |
| United Way of Greater Richmond & Petersbu | $45,000 |
| Scholarship America | $40,000 |
| Veritas School | $33,333 |
| Greater Richmond Partnership Inc | $30,000 |
| Sports Backers | $30,000 |
| First Tee of Greater Richmond | $22,500 |
| Central International College | $11,000 |
| Greater Richmond Fit4Kids | $11,000 |
| University of Mary Washington (Foundatio | $10,000 |
| Fatherhood Foundation of Virginia | $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, $303k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +32% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
73 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 5 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, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.2M 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
- GRGREATER RICHMOND AQUATICS PARTNERSHIP9× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +190%
- RSRVA SPORTS FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $560k · revenue +857% · 55% of their budget
- MRMETROPOLITAN RICHMOND SPORTS BACKERS9× · 2017–2025 · $510k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- VCVeritas Classical Christian Schoolgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $500k · revenue +77%
- EFEVERBLESS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $108k
- BABON AIR BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $100k
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.
VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.
Chamberrva is the trusted voice for modern business in the richmond virginia region. we are change agents, rallying to do the hard things that will create a more connected, prosperous, health and equitable community.
To present powerful voices so richmond can learn. to empower local voices so richmond can lead.
The mission of Good Shepherd Episcopal School is to inspire each child to achieve academic excellence within a diverse, nurturing community that builds character and fosters respect for one another and our shared environment, locally and…
New schools for virginia works with parents, students, educators and the community to improve educational outcomes by designing new schools and by supporting existing schools to improve outcomes.
Rise richmond's mission is to cultivate the god-given potential of students in richmond's east end through learning opportunities that equip them to flourish.
Lead virginia connects leaders to shape the commonwealth's future through an annual program of educational forums and regional session visits to six diverse regions of virginia. framed around social capital theory and curriculum themes of…
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…
To foster consideration and discussion of christianity
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…
Committed to providing a quality educational experience for each child, creating an environment that nurtures individual intellectual, emotional, creative, spiritual, and physical gifts within a community
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater Richmond & Petersburg and the most unlike its peers is The Faith Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
78 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. 78 of the 122 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 Richmond Christian Foundation ↗
- Who funds GREATER RICHMOND AQUATICS PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds RVA SPORTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN RICHMOND SPORTS BACKERS ↗
- Who funds Veritas Classical Christian School ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER RICHMOND & PETERSBURG ↗
- Who funds FATHERHOOD FOUNDATION OF VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds NEEDLE'S EYE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND KICKERS YOUTH SOCCER CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Greater Richmond Partnership Inc ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND FIRST TEE ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ELIJAH HOUSE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SPORTABLE RICHMOND ADAPTIVE SPORTS AND RECREATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHSTAR ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769) ↗
- Who funds FEED MORE INC ↗
- Who funds FURMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NEXTUP RVA ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR FAITHWALK LEADERSHIP ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL VA INC ↗
- Who funds EXPLORE GOD (FORMERLY KNOWN AS WE INC) ↗
- Who funds GREENBRIER VALLEY AQUATIC CENTER ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND REGION TOURISM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Davidson College ↗
- Who funds ForRichmond ↗
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 · Herndon Foundation · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Pauley Family Foundation · Tesco Foundation · Williams Mullen Foundation · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · Robins Foundation · Ukrops Homestyle Foods Foundation · The William H - John G - Emma Scott Foundation · Carmax Foundation
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 Honey Foundation 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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