How much does Louise B Cochrane Charitable Founda give?

Louise B Cochrane Charitable Founda reported 106 grants totaling $1,045,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 112 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Louise B Cochrane Charitable Founda fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (23%), Human Services (11%), Health (9%).

Who are Louise B Cochrane Charitable Founda's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts ($440k), GoochlandCares ($200k), The Richmond Ballet ($175k).

Does Louise B Cochrane Charitable Founda fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Louise B Cochrane Charitable Founda accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Louise B Cochrane Charitable Founda?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation Inc, Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation, Richard S Reynolds Foundation.

Where is Louise B Cochrane Charitable Founda based?

Louise B Cochrane Charitable Founda is based in VA.

Louise B Cochrane Charitable Founda

Louise B Cochrane Charitable Founda at a glance

· Private foundation

Louise B Cochrane Charitable Founda

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.0M

Granted FY2025still arriving

106

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$200k

Largest

01What it funds

0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.4MHuman Services$628kHealth$531kEducation$474kHousing & Shelter$408kReligion$360kPublic Safety & Disaster$349kEnvironment$308kOther$0

02FY2025 · 106 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k68 grants · $316k
$10k–50k37 grants · $530k
$50k–250k1 grant · $200k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$23M

Total assets

Anchored by a single position: about 100% of reported assets are held in Commonwealth Financial.

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS	$200,000
KANUGA EPISCOPAL CONFERENCE CENTER	$40,000
Individual grant recipient	$40,000
GOOCHLAND CARES	$30,000
Individual grant recipient	$25,000
COLLEGIATE SCHOOL	$25,000
EIGHT DAYS OF HOPE	$20,000
SCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA	$20,000
RICHMOND BALLET	$20,000
LAND TRUST OF VIRGINIA	$15,000
VIRGINIA OPERA	$15,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS	$15,000
VISITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION	$15,000
ROOM IN THE INN CAMPUS FOR HUM DEV	$10,000
CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION	$10,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$5.5M · 124 repeat orgs$334k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

124

Total granted

$5.5M

$281k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%

+12%

Still filing today

56%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesInternationalEducationHousing & ShelterOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

G
GoochlandCares
7× · 2019–2025 · $200k · revenue +79%
TR
THE RICHMOND BALLET
9× · 2017–2025 · $175k · revenue +4%
AN
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
7× · 2017–2025 · $165k · revenue +46%

Funded once

TS
THE SALVATION ARMY- DISASTER RELIEF
one grant, 2021 · $25k
TW
TEAM WESTERN KENTUCKY TORNADO RELIE
one grant, 2021 · $25k
DR
DRESDEN ROTARY CLUB TORNADO RELIEF
one grant, 2021 · $20k

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.

04Its field

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.

Vpm Media Corporation

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…

Arts & Culture

Roanoke Symphony Orchestra

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…

Arts & Culture

Community Memorial Hospital

To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.

Health

Vcu Health Tappahannock Hospital

To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.

Health

Virginia Commonwealth University Intellectual Property Foundation

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…

Health

Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce

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.

—

Voices for Virginia's Children

The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.

Civil Rights

Bon Secours - Richmond Health System Inc

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.

Health

The Williams School

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.

—

University of Virginia Investment Management Company

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).

Education

Childsavers- Memorial Child Guidance Clinic

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

Alliance for the shenandoah valley informs and engages people to protect the natural resources, cultural heritages, and rural character of our region.

Community Improvement

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

91 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. 91 of the 176 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

90/91

Grantees still filing

57/91

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$3,557,450Arts & Culture$590,000Health$483,500Human Services$384,200Education$317,500Housing & Shelter$235,000International$235,000

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.

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.

The Community Foundation IncVA53.8× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Louise B Cochrane Charitable Founda funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Louise B Cochrane Charitable Founda. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

32report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home