· Private foundation
Louise B Cochrane Charitable Founda
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k68 grants · $316k
- $10k–50k37 grants · $530k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
Anchored by a single position — about 100% of reported assets are held in Commonwealth Financial.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS | $200,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| KANUGA EPISCOPAL CONFERENCE CENTER | $40,000 |
| GOOCHLAND CARES | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| COLLEGIATE SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| RICHMOND BALLET | $20,000 |
| SCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA | $20,000 |
| EIGHT DAYS OF HOPE | $20,000 |
| VIRGINIA OPERA | $15,000 |
| VISITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $15,000 |
| LAND TRUST OF VIRGINIA | $15,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HANOVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $161k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +15% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
124 repeat relationships — 94 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 11 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; $53k 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
- GGoochlandCares7× · 2019–2025 · $200k · revenue +91%
- TRTHE RICHMOND BALLET9× · 2017–2025 · $175k · revenue +4%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches7× · 2017–2025 · $165k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- TWTEAM WESTERN KENTUCKY TORNADO RELIEone grant, 2021 · $25k
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMY- DISASTER RELIEFone grant, 2021 · $25k
- DRDRESDEN ROTARY CLUB TORNADO RELIEFone grant, 2021 · $20k
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.
To use the power of media to educate, entertain and inspire, using public television and public radio to make a positive impact on the communities throughout central virginia, charlottesville, the shenandoah valley, the northern neck and…
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…
To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.
To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.
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…
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.
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 is to bring compassion to health care and to be good to those in need, especially those who are poor and dying. as a system of caregivers, we commit ourselves to help bring people and communities to health and wholeness.
The williams school builds with each child the foundation for academic, moral and social success. a williams school student embodies confidence, integrity and a love of learning.
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).
The organization guides the community's children through life's critical moments with trauma-informed mental health and child development services. it believes that all children can be safe, happy, healthy and ready to learn.
Alliance for the shenandoah valley informs and engages people to protect the natural resources, cultural heritages, and rural character of our region.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The District Inc. 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 41 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
91 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. 91 of the 176 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 GoochlandCares ↗
- Who funds THE RICHMOND BALLET ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds EIGHT DAYS OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA OPERA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE RICHMOND SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds VISITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WINDY HILL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE LAND TRUST OF VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds A PLACE TO BE ↗
- Who funds HANOVER AND KING WILLIAM HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds FEED MORE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds THE FAISON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COORDINATORS 2 INC ↗
- Who funds Hanover County Support Services ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation ↗
- Who funds Children's Museum of Richmond ↗
- Who funds WAKEFIELD SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MIDDLEBURG FISH ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY HARVEST FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER RICHMOND SCAN - STOP CHILD ABUSE NOW INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee 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: The Community Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Herndon Foundation · Shelton H Short Jr Trust · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation · Commonwealth Foundations · Virginia Nonprofit Housing Coalition · Carmax Foundation · Robins Foundation · Townebank Foundation
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 Louise B Cochrane Charitable Founda 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation 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.