· Private foundation
Jamerson 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.
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 $10k12 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $38k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THOMAS JEFFERSONS POPLAR FOREST | $50,000 |
| YMCA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA | $27,500 |
| CENTRA HEALTH FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| GRACE HILLS BAPTIST CHURCH | $5,000 |
| PATRICK HENRY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| GREATER LYNCHBURG COMMUNITY FNDN | $2,500 |
| APPOMATTOX COUNTY LIBRARY ASSOC | $2,500 |
| REEDY SPRING BAPTIST CHURCH | $1,000 |
| ACADEMY CENTER OF THE ARTS INC | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| CARVER PRICE LEGACY MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| APPOMATTOX COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD INC | $1,000 |
| LYNCHBURG DAILY BREAD INC | $1,000 |
| PARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSION INC | $1,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF GREATER LYNCHBURG | $1,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
11 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 7 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, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k 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
- YOYMCA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA8× · 2018–2025 · $143k
- TATHE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR MUSEUM5× · 2018–2024 · $105k · revenue -58%
- ACACADEMY CENTER OF THE ARTS INC4× · 2018–2025 · $61k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $25k
- ACAPPOMATTOX COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCone grant, 2021 · $3k
- WVWYOMING VALLEY SCHOOL CULTURAL ARTSone grant, 2021 · $3k
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 mission of the american civil war museum collection is to serve as the preeminent world center for the display, study, interpretation, commemoration, and preservation of the history and artifacts of the confederate states of america.
The mission of the National Civil War Museum is to serve as a national center to inspire lifelong learning of the American Civil War through the preservation and balanced presentation of the American peoples struggles for survival and…
The Historical Society provides information to the public concerning the historical events in the area. The Society also helps with the restoration of historical
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".
The preservation of the heritage and history of Rockingham County, North Carolina
Provide a healthcare facility offering acure care, skilled care, outpatient services, and emergency medical services to residents of carroll county, kentucky and surrounding areas.
The mission of the organization is to provide physicians and other healthcare professionals to support the needs of the community, as well as the academic mission of the vcu school of medicine.
To actively promote an awareness of history for residents and visitors through education, interpretation, presentation and preservation.
To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.
Discover, Conserve, Interpret and disseminate knowledge of Loudouns Culture and History.
Educational
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Park View Community Mission Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 23 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 THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds GREATER LYNCHBURG COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY CENTER OF THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Campbell County Training School Complex ↗
- Who funds PATRICK HENRY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LYNCHBURG DAILY BREAD INC ↗
- Who funds APPOMATTOX COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds PARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Carver Price Legacy Museum ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY 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: Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation · Foster Foundation · The Al Stroobants Foundation · Walter Payne Foundation · Valtim Family Foundation Inc · The Harry D Forsyth Foundation · Wc English Foundation · Valentine Family Foundation · Schewel Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Jamerson Family 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.