· Private foundation
Kva Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2026.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k37 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $21k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LYNCHBURG GROWS | $11,000 |
| HOLLINS UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| ST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $8,200 |
| JAMES RIVER DAY SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| RADIO IQ AND WVTF | $2,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF LYNCHBURG | $2,000 |
| MIRIAM'S HOUSE | $1,100 |
| LYNCHBURG DAILY BREAD | $1,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC | $1,000 |
| VA CTR FOR INCL COMM | $1,000 |
| LNTERFAITH OUTREACH ASSOC | $1,000 |
| PARKVIEW COMMUNITY MISSION | $1,000 |
| ST JAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $1,000 |
| WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF N ML | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–26, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +75% since the first grant, against +42% for the ones you funded once.
65 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2026, 35 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- LGLYNCHBURG GROWS10× · 2017–2026 · $159k · revenue +83%
- ACACADEMY CENTER OF THE ARTS INC3× · 2017–2024 · $33k · revenue +287%
CONVERSE UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- VCVIRGINIA CENTER FOR THE CREATIVE ARTSgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +42%
- TCTHE COLUMBUS MUSEUM INCone grant, 2025 · $5k · revenue 0%
- LILYNCHBURG IMAGINATION LIBRARYone grant, 2024 · $5k
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 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…
The mission of the University is to inspire independent thinkers who become trustworthy, effective leaders that shape caring communities. The vision of the University of Lynchburg is to cultivate a world that is innovative, authentic, and…
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 museum connects people to nature by delivering educational classes, programs, exhibits, events and demonstrations. staff and volunteers engage learners of all ages on a 23 acre campus setting. indoor and outdoor learning opportunities…
Promoting for the benefit of the general public, the preservation, protection and enjoyment of our natural resources, principally in the lower james, york, rappahannock and chowan rivers and surrounding watersheds.
The mission of the jenkins arboretum & gardens is to preserve natural, tranquil woodlands for community enjoyment, to showcase native plants and a world class collection of rhododendrons and azaleas, and to promote environmental…
The virginia association of museums is a statewide network serving the museum community. the association's mission statement is "the virginia association of museums helps our museum community succeed".
Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.
The jefferson scholars foundation (foundation) provides academic merit-based scholarship, fellowship and professorship support to students and faculty at the university of virginia (uva).
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).
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
To assist rural virginians in developing and advancing their agricultural, economic and social interests to enhance their quality of life.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Garden Conservancy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Children's Specialized Hospital. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 101 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 LYNCHBURG GROWS ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY CENTER OF THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CONVERSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds JAMES RIVER DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETH'S EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LYNCHBURG DAILY BREAD INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH OUTREACH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MIRIAM'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA CENTER FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE GARDEN CLUB OF VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds THE AWARENESS GARDEN FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE FAMILY DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Madeira School ↗
- Who funds Camp Kum-Ba-Yah Inc ↗
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: Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation · Easley Char Irr Tua 5019004715 · The Al Stroobants Foundation · Foster Foundation · The Harry D Forsyth Foundation · Schewel Charitable Foundation · Carrington Family Foundation · Centra Health Inc · M4k Lynchburg Inc · Valentine Family Foundation · Centra Health Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc
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 Kva Foundation 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.
- Xerces Society Inc — 22% of income from government
- Drew University — 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.