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Kathryn & W H Schwarzschild Fund
Its FY2024 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RICHMOND SYMPHONY | $4,000 |
| PAULEY HEART CENTER | $3,000 |
| CONGREGATION BETH AHABAH | $2,750 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS RICHMOND CHAPTER | $2,500 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $2,500 |
| MASSEY CANCER CENTER | $2,500 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF RICHMOND | $2,250 |
| UNITED WAY SERVICES | $2,250 |
| NYJTL - CARY LEEDS TENNIS CENTER | $2,000 |
| SMITH COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| BON SECOURS RICHMOND HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| BRUCE MUSEUM OF ARTS AND SCIENCE | $1,920 |
| YMCA OF NORTH RICHMOND | $1,500 |
| VIRGINIA REPERTORY THEATER | $1,500 |
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 (FY19–24, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 77% 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.
76 repeat relationships — 64 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- TRTHE RICHMOND SYMPHONY6× · 2019–2024 · $38k · revenue +36%
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF RICHMOND6× · 2019–2024 · $18k · revenue +105%
- BMBRUCE MUSEUM INC6× · 2019–2024 · $12k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- VPVCU PAULEY HEART CENTERone grant, 2021 · $3k
- MFMCV FOUNDATION VCU PAULY HEARTone grant, 2023 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $2k
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 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).
To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.
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 is to bring compassion to health care and to be good to those in need, especially those who are poor and dying. as a system of caregivers, we commit ourselves to help bring people and communities to health and wholeness.
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 deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.
Advance and support the healthcare and research missions of virginia mason medical center and benaroya research institute at virginia mason through governance oversight of both organizations.
Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.
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.
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.
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…
Virginia mason medical center's (the medical center) mission is to improve the health and well-being of the patients it services through the delivery of high quality, cost-effective care. the medical center provides integrated health…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Historic Richmond Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Alfred Harcourt Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 60 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
54 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. 54 of the 102 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.
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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 · Carmax Foundation · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · Robins Foundation · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation · Virginia Nonprofit Housing Coalition · Estes Foundation Co Matthew Breidenbach Pitcairn · Shelton H Short Jr Trust · The Pauley Family 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 Kathryn & W H Schwarzschild Fund 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.
- Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation — 2% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
- Bruce Museum Inc — 0% of income from government
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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