· Public charity
Kovar Corporation
To provide financial assistance through grants and loans to charitable organizations that provide training and assistance to citizens with intellectual disabilities in the commonwealth of virginia
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k31 grants · $547k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS VIRGINIA | $25,000 |
| HOPE HOUSE FOUNDATION INC | $20,000 |
| MEDICAL HOME PLUS | $20,000 |
| CAMP EASTERSEALS UCP | $20,000 |
| ALLEGHANY HIGHLANDS COMMUNITY SVCS | $20,000 |
| LEGACY FARMS | $20,000 |
| VIEW OF HEAVEN FARM | $20,000 |
| MARC OF VIRGINIA INC | $20,000 |
| SOAR365 | $20,000 |
| ENCIRCLE | $20,000 |
| BIZNET INC DBA HEARTS & HOMES | $20,000 |
| COLE'S HORSE AUTISM THERAPY STATION | $20,000 |
| VIRGINIA DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| AUTISM SANCTUARY INC | $19,848 |
| HEATHER EMPFIELD DAY SCHOOL & | $19,762 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 61% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
68 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 45 since wound down; 9 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $143k 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
- SOSpecial Olympics Virginia Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $320k · revenue +62%
- MHMEDICAL HOME PLUS6× · 2017–2025 · $105k · revenue +93%
- VDVIRGINIA DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION6× · 2017–2025 · $103k · revenue +110%
Funded once
- CHChildren's Hospital of the King's Daughtersgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +27%
- SJST JOHN'S COMMUNITY SERVICES - VIRGINIAone grant, 2024 · $22k · revenue 0%
- HOHousing Options Incone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +14%
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.
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.
To provide training and independent living skills to individuals with development disabilities so they may become as self-reliant as possible and lead more meaningful lives in the community.
Viability's mission is to build a world in which individuals with disabilities and other disadvantages realize acceptance, inclusion, and access.
To form relationships which support people to achieve their life goals in the areas of residential, employment, meaningful community engagement and personal services.
Job discovery inc. (jdi), is a nonprofit, tax-exempt human services organization. we provide reliable, high quality of life, job skills training, employment and day support opportunities, and residential support services for adults with…
Our mission is to provide services of the highest quality for people with cognitive and developmental disabilities and related disorders including autism that optimize each individual's independence and capabilities, ensure…
The virginia institute of autism is dedicated to helping people overcome the challenges of autism through innovative, evidence-based programs in education, outreach and adult services.
Watkins Vital Care Program is an adult day program for adults with autism and other disabilities that seeks to ensure that each day is filled with joy, purpose, and dignity. Watkins Vital Care Program provides life skills training,…
The organization provides opportunities for growth, independence, and fulfillment for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities by offering a loving, nurturing, and affordable residential community, along with structured…
None
To empower individuals to lead fulfilling and productive lives at home and in the community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope House Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters. 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 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
99 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. 99 of the 122 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 Special Olympics Virginia Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL HOME PLUS ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds SOAR 365 ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN BRETHREN ST PHILLIPS ↗
- Who funds DANVILLE-PITTSYLVANIA COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF HARRISONBURG & ROCKINGHAM INC ↗
- Who funds Heart Havens Inc ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF VIRGINIA INC DBA ENCIRCLE ↗
- Who funds VERSABILITY RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHSTAR ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds HOLIDAY HOUSE OF PORTSMOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds SHENANDOAH VALLEY COMMUNITY RESIDENCES INC ↗
- Who funds PLEASANT VIEW INC ↗
- Who funds NEXT MOVE PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds NW WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF THE PIEDMONT INC ↗
- Who funds Central Fairfax Services Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Best Buddies International Inc ↗
- Who funds EVERY CITIZEN HAS OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAISON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VIEW OF HEAVEN FARM ↗
- Who funds LANGLEY RESIDENTIAL SUPPORT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF GREATER WILLIAMSBURG ↗
- Who funds STILL MEADOWS ENRICHMENT CENTER AND CAMP ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL PERSONS MAILING SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE VALLEYS INC ↗
- Who funds BIZNET INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Blue Ridge Opportunity Services Inc DBA Blue Ridge Opportunities ↗
- Who funds PORTCO INC ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS UCP NORTH CAROLINA & VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds MVLE INC ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHANY COMMUNITY SERVICES BOARD FOUNDATION ↗
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: Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Sentara Health · Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia · Foundation for Children With Intell Ectual & Developmental Disabilities · The Community Foundation Inc · Virginia Crisis Intervention Team Coalition · Hampton Roads Community Foundation · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Robins Foundation · Townebank Foundation · Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · Shelton H Short Jr Trust
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 Kovar Corporation 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.
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% 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.