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Leclairryan Foundation
Its FY2018 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 FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LGBT BAR ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NY | $5,000 |
| NEW HAVEN LEGAL ASSISTANCE | $5,000 |
| KIDS IN CRISIS | $5,000 |
| THE DOORWAYS | $5,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF GREATER SACRAMENTO CA | $3,500 |
| VIRGINIA POVERTY LAW CENTER | $2,500 |
| YMCA OF GREATER RICHMOND | $2,500 |
| JR LEAGUE OF NORFOLK - VA BEACH | $2,500 |
| HISTORIC RICHMOND FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| PATRICK HENRY HS OUTREACH COMMITTEE | $2,500 |
| GALGOS DEL SOL USA | $2,500 |
| LEGAL INFORMATION NETWORK FOR CANCER | $2,500 |
| PANS RESEARCH & ADVOCACY INITIATIVE | $2,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY (FAIRFAX CO) | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–18, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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 +83% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (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 FY2018, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k 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
- CHChildren's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +154%
- KIKIDS IN CRISIS INC2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +76%
- VPVIRGINIA POVERTY LAW CENTER INC2× · 2017–2018 · $5k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- RMRANDOLPH MACON COLLEGE - BUDDY & ANN ALLEN SCHOLOARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2017 · $5k
- FAFRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDRENgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +54%
- LHLIGHT HOUSE STUDIO INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +56%
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 legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.
The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.
The mission of Virginia Legal Aid Society is to resolve serious legal problems of low-income people, promote economic and family stability, reduce poverty through effective legal assistance, and to champion equal justice.
To advocate for domestic violence victims, at-risk children, and other vulnerable individuals by providing over $22.8m in pro bono legal services, social service referrals, and on-going support; to train and support a strong network of…
To cultivate & advance the science of jurisprudence, promote reform in the law & in judicial procedure, facilitate the administration of justice in virginia, and to uphold & elevate the standard of honor, integrity, and courtesy in the…
Virginia law foundation's mission is to promote through philanthropy the rule of law, access to justice and law related education.
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.
Virginia community action partnership (vacap) is the statewide membership association for virginia's thirty-one non-profit and public community action agencies. vacaps mission is to build the capacity and competencies of virginias…
Dlcv's mission is to advance independence, choice and self-determination; protect legal, human, and civil rights; and eliminate abuse, neglect and discrimination of people with disabilities through zealous and uncompromising legal advocacy…
Chamberrva is the trusted voice for modern business in the richmond virginia region. we are change agents, rallying to do the hard things that will create a more connected, prosperous, health and equitable community.
Vsa represents sheriffs and their staff on criminal justice issues on a state level and provides information about emerging law enforcement issues, corrections and crime prevention to sheriff's offices and the public.
To advocate for low-income, vulnerable west virginians seeking equal access to justice and create system change in order to improve client safety, health, housing, income, and access to resources.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769) and the most unlike its peers is Junior Achievement of Greater Hampton Roads Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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. 21 of the 35 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 Children's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN CRISIS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds LIGHT HOUSE STUDIO INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVEN LEGAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds UNBOUNDRVA ↗
- Who funds DESTINATION IMAGINATION INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC RICHMOND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769) ↗
- Who funds GALGOS DEL SOL USA ↗
- Who funds LEGAL INFORMATION NETWORK FOR CANCER ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER HAMPTON ROADS INC ↗
- Who funds PROTECTORS OF ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF ROANOKE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds New Haven County Bar Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY TAX LAW PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA ↗
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 · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Williams Mullen Foundation · Carmax Foundation · The Pauley Family Foundation · Robins Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Leclairryan 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Kids in Crisis Inc — 49% of income from government
- New Haven Legal Assistance Association Inc — 2% 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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