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Joseph Fund at a glance

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Joseph Fund

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.

$654
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$654
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$26kEducation$10kRecreation & Sports$1kHealth$550International$200Environment$200Crime & Legal$100Civil Rights$100Other$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$654
Median grant
1
States reached
$75k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COOK FOUNDATION$654
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 2% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $100 → 17%USA FOR UNHCR: $100 → 14%YORK COUNTY LITTLE LEAGUE: $500 → 5%HERE FOR THE GIRLS INC: $300 → 7%COOK FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%TIDEWATER UKRANIAN SCHOOL: $10k → 10%PORT WARWICK FOUNDATION: $250 → 17%VIRGINIA SHERIFF'S INSTITUTE: $75 → 22%ACLU FOUNDATION: $100 → 17%GEORGETOWN LAW: $100 → 14%YORK COUNTY LITTLE LEAGUE: $500 → 5%HERE FOR THE GIRLS INC: $250 → 7%COOK FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%VIRGINIA SHERIFF'S INSTITUTE: $25 → 22%ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND: $100 → 14%COOK FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%COOK FOUNDATION: $4k → 9%COOK FOUNDATION: $4k → 9%COOK FOUNDATION: $654 → 9%GLOUCESTER COUNTY SHERIFF: $100 → 9%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.
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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$25k · 4 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
12

Total granted

$25k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+28%

Still filing today

75%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEnvironmentHealthInternationalCrime & LegalEducationOther
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

  • CF
    COOK FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue ×12
  • HF
    HERE FOR THE GIRLS INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $550 · revenue +48%
  • VS
    VIRGINIA SHERIFFS' INSTITUTE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $100 · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • TU
    TIDEWATER UKRANIAN SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • JF
    JAMESTOWN-YORKTOWN FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +43%
  • PW
    Port Warwick Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $250 · revenue +28%
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
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
2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
3
Washington Federal Foundation
Philanthropy
4
William & Mary Foundation

The William & Mary Foundation advances the university's highest aspirations by securing private support, guiding a multi-asset investment portfolio, and offering strategic leadership. In this work, we propel the university toward national…

Education
5
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
6
George Washington Foundation
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7
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
8
Jefferson Scholars Foundation

The jefferson scholars foundation (foundation) provides academic merit-based scholarship, fellowship and professorship support to students and faculty at the university of virginia (uva).

Philanthropy
9
Council On Foreign Relations Inc

The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…

International
10
Virginia Commonwealth University Intellectual Property Foundation

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…

Health
11
Virginia Tech Foundation Inc

Virginia tech foundation, inc. (vtf) is a virginia nonstock corporation established in 1948 for the sole purpose of managing virginia tech's endowment to advance virginia tech's mission and its strategic priorities.

Education
12
University of Virginia Foundation

To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Cook 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

12 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. 12 of the 16 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COOK FOUNDATION: $23,367 · Arts & CultureCOOK FOUNDATIONJAMESTOWN-YORKTOWN FOUNDATION INC: $1,607 · Arts & CultureJAMESTOWN-YORKTOWN FOUNDATION INC+3 more: $550 · Arts & CultureTIDEWATER UKRANIAN SCHOOL: $10,000 · OtherTIDEWATER UKRANIAN SCHOOLYORK COUNTY LITTLE LEAGUE: $1,000 · OtherYORK COUNTY LITTLE LEAGUE+2 more: $200 · OtherHERE FOR THE GIRLS INC: $550 · HealthFRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $100 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $100 · EnvironmentGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $100 · EducationUnited States Association for UNHCR: $100 · InternationalVIRGINIA SHERIFFS' INSTITUTE INC: $100 · Crime & LegalAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $100 · Civil Rights
Arts & Culture$25,524Other$11,200Health$550Environment$200Education$100International$100Crime & Legal$100Civil Rights$100

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 budgetCOOK FOUNDATION: $23,367 over 6y, 4.7% of budgetJAMESTOWN-YORKTOWN FOUNDATION INC: $1,607 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHERE FOR THE GIRLS INC: $550 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPort Warwick Foundation: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetColonial Williamsburg Foundation: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA SHERIFFS' INSTITUTE INC: $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Joseph Family Foundat…
Joseph Family FoundationVA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Joseph Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joseph Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 Joseph Fund?

    Find your warmest path to Joseph Fund 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 16 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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