· Private foundation
Irving and Jett Groves Charitable 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k50 grants · $122k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $20,000 |
| YMCA ENDOWMENT FUND | $14,500 |
| GRACE NETWORK | $8,000 |
| RANDOLPH MACON COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP | $6,000 |
| MARTINSVILLE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION | $6,000 |
| LONGWOOD UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIP | $6,000 |
| MHC ACADEMIC FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| PIEDMONT ARTS | $5,000 |
| DYERS STORE FIRE DEPARTMENT | $4,000 |
| CARLISLE SCHOOL ANNUAL FUND | $4,000 |
| FOCUS ON YOUTH | $4,000 |
| PATRICK HENRY COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $4,000 |
| CHARITY LEAGUE JETT GROVES SCHOLARSHIP | $4,000 |
| RANDOLPH MACON COLLEGE PRES CLUB | $3,500 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $3,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
62 repeat relationships — 47 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- JSJEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2025 · $8k · revenue +223%
- FOFOCUS ON YOUTH INC2× · 2023–2025 · $6k · revenue +8%
- MCMartinsville-Henry County Historical Society3× · 2020–2025 · $5k · revenue +336%
Funded once
- MCMARTINSVILLE-HENRY COUNTY RESCUE SQUADone grant, 2020 · $500
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 martinsville-henry county chamber of commerce, inc. is organized for the purpose of advancing the commercial, industrial, and civic inerests of the city of martinsville and henry county, virginia
The united way of henry county-martinsville unites and mobilizes the community in assessing and meeting the critical human service needs in henry county-martinsville, virginia.
Solicitation of public contributions on behalf of member colleges. provides foundations, businesses, and individuals a convenient way of supporting small colleges and universities in virginia.
To secure financial support that enables college-bound students to access and graduate from outstanding virginia independent higher education institutions.
Foster and promote the progress and general welfare of its member colleges, with special concern for the pluralistic nature of the system of higher education in virginia.
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 mission of wvicu is to advance collectively the interests of west virginia's independent colleges and universities and their students.
Promoting for the benefit of the general public, the preservation, protection and enjoyment of our natural resources, principally in the lower james, york, rappahannock and chowan rivers and surrounding watersheds.
VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.
To foster and promote the growth, progress and general welfare of the southside virginia community college and the virginia college system.
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".
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jefferson Scholars Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Axton Life Saving Crew Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 67 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 RANDOLPH-MACON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MARTINSVILLE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TheatreWorks Community Players Inc ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Axton Life Saving Crew Inc ↗
- Who funds MHC ACADEMIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOCUS ON YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds Martinsville-Henry County Historical Society ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA SHERIFFS' INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds SAFETYNET 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: Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia · Hooker Foundation · Marjorie Sutton Memorial Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Irving and Jett Groves Charitable 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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