· Private foundation
Lafayette River 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
- $50k–250k5 grants · $607k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL | $975,000 |
| VIRGINIA OPERA | $350,000 |
| OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY MUSEUM | $200,000 |
| ARTS ALLIANCE | $105,000 |
| VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART | $101,705 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| VIRGINIA SYMPHONY | $100,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TVTHE VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $5.1M · revenue +113%
- VSVIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA7× · 2017–2025 · $588k · revenue +18%
- TCTHE CHRYSLER MUSEUM INCORPORATED2× · 2017–2018 · $300k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- CSCHRIST & ST LUKE'S EPISC CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $175k
- SPST PATRICK CATHOLIC SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $35k
- VSVIRGINIA STAGE COMPANYone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -41%
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.
Vcca's mission is to provide time and space for national and international writers, visual artists, and composers of talent and promise to bring forth their finest works, because the arts are vital, diversity is a strength, and creativity…
The Roanoke Symphony Orchestra provides a professional symphony orchestra of artistic excellence and integrity to enrich lives, to educate, and to entertain diverse audiences in western Virginia with the highest quality instrumental and…
The richmond symphony performs, teaches and champions music to inspire and unite our communities.
Virginia repertory theatre is a nonprofit professional theater based in richmond, virginia. virginia rep's mission is to entertain, challenge, and uplift our communities through the power of live theatre.
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".
to support the performance and understanding of the vocal art song repertoire through presenting a season of vocal recitals, commissioning new repertoire and performances in schools and other local venues.
Provide financial support to virginia symphony orchestra by administering funds and property, engaging in other activities as qualify for an exempt organization, solicit and receive funds and property by gift, transfer, devise or bequest…
We produce vital works of classical and contemporary theatre, with Shakespeare as our foundation. We approach this work boldly with a resolve to ignite spirits, educate minds and defy expectation.
Virginia theatre association is organized and operated as a non-stock corporation, exclusively for non-profit educational, artistic, and charitable purposes. the mission of the virginia theatre association is to connect, develop, nurture…
Opera production, appreciation and outreach
The virginia museum of transportation preserves and interprets the heritage of all modes o across the commonwealth of va for the benefit of present and future generations, while supplementing its collections with significant national and…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 15 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 THE VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA OPERA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds THE CHRYSLER MUSEUM INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
- Who funds BUSINESS CONSORTIUM FOR ARTS SUPPORT ↗
- Who funds OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA STAGE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE INHEIRITANCE PROJECT LTD ↗
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: Tidewater Jewish Foundation Inc · The Helen G Gifford Foundation · Hampton Roads Community Foundation · Business Consortium for Arts Support · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Goode Family Foundation · Patricia and Douglas Perry Foundation DBA The Perry Family Foundation · Townebank Foundation · Sentara Health · Rouse-Bottom Foundation · Curtis Family Foundation · The Barr Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lafayette River Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lafayette River Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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