· Private foundation
Kirk 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE | $600,000 |
| THE IRISH AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP | $500,000 |
| CARILION CLINIC FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| FUQUA SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| YMCA BLUE RIDGE ASSEMBLY | $25,000 |
| ADULT CARE CENTER OF ROANOKE VALLEY | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 22% of Kirk Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 3 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HCHAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE7× · 2017–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +76%
- CCCarilion Clinic Foundation4× · 2022–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +69%
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF VIRGINIA'S BLUE RIDGE INC5× · 2017–2024 · $775k · revenue +82%
Funded once
- LULARCHMONT UNITED METHODIST PRESCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $85k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $30k
- LRLIFE RING FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +162%
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.
Our mission is to put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all. our focus is on youth development, healthy living and social responsibility. we help kids succeed, prepare teens…
The Family YMCA of Emporia-Greensville's purpose is to advance our cause of strengthening community through youth development, healthy living and social responsibility. The YMCA is a powerful association of men, women, and children…
The greater wyoming valley area ymca (gwva ymca) is a volunteer led public charity that includes men, women and children of all ages, abilities, incomes, races and religions. our mission is to put christian principles into practice through…
Our mission is to improve the health of the communities we serve through our commitment to a common purpose of better patient care, better community health, and lower cost.
The mission of the edward via college of osteopathic medicine (vcom) is to prepare globally-minded, community-focused physicians to meet the needs of rural and medically underserved populations and promote research to improve human health.
We are an association of all ages, abilities, incomes, races and religions. we are committed to providing quality programs focused on youth development, healthy living and social responsibility. in youth development, we provide enriching…
To put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all.
Provide a structured, supportive, supervised and enrichment environment for the elderly at a low cost to the participants and their families.
Abilities richmond envisions a world where all individuals with developmental disabilities and other barriers will have the opportunity to participate in a full range of life activities. competitive employment in support of this vision.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
The mission of laurel ridge community college is to provide a positive, caring and dynamic learning environment that inspires student success, values diversity and promotes community vitality. in support of that mission, the laurel ridge…
Helping all people reach their God-given potential in spirit, mind and body. The Y strives to strengthen the foundations of the communities we serve through programs and services that promote youth development, healthy living, and social…
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 18 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 HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE IRISH AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds Carilion Clinic Foundation ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF VIRGINIA'S BLUE RIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds ASPHALT INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Addy Grace Foundation ↗
- Who funds YMCA BLUE RIDGE ASSEMBLY INC ↗
- Who funds ADULT CARE CENTER OF ROANOKE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE RING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAINT FRANCIS SERVICE DOGS ↗
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: Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia · The Ceres Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kirk Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kirk Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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