· Private foundation
John a Cable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k28 grants · $82k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TIMELINE THEATRE CO | $10,000 |
| RICHMOND BALLET INC | $6,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION | $5,400 |
| RICHMOND SYMPHONY | $5,000 |
| KENYON COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| THE ADLER PLANETARIUM | $5,000 |
| CHICAGO COUNCIL ON SCIENCE AND | $5,000 |
| GILMOUR ACADEMY INC | $5,000 |
| KENT STATE UNIVERSITY | $4,000 |
| OBERLIN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC | $3,500 |
| CABINET OF CURIOSITY | $3,150 |
| METROPOLITAN OPERA | $3,000 |
| EQUINE RESCUE LEAGUE FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| VIRGINIA OPERA ASSOCIATION INC | $3,000 |
| GENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.
29 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TRTHE RICHMOND BALLET6× · 2019–2025 · $30k · revenue +4%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC7× · 2019–2025 · $30k · revenue +43%- TRTHE RICHMOND SYMPHONY7× · 2019–2025 · $27k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- YMYoung Mens Christian Assoc McGaw Incone grant, 2019 · $400 · revenue +12%
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.
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.
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How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 35 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 THE RICHMOND BALLET ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE RICHMOND SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds THE ADLER PLANETARIUM ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA OPERA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EQUINE RESCUE LEAGUE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KENYON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND ANIMAL LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds GENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY LTD ↗
- Who funds TININA Q CADE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DEPAUL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769) ↗
- Who funds YMCA of Central Stark County ↗
- Who funds Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry ↗
- Who funds Cabinet of Curiosity Inc NFP ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds 137 Films NFP ↗
- Who funds ARTS IGNITE INC ↗
- Who funds Young Mens Christian Assoc McGaw 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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John a Cable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John a Cable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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