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M4k Richmond Inc

The mission of this organization is to raise money through fundraisers to donate to various children's charities through a mustache growing event.

$956k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$155k
Largest
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$584kCrime & Legal$325kHousing & Shelter$255kHuman Services$219kRecreation & Sports$185kYouth Development$107kFood & Nutrition$78kArts & Culture$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k9 grants · $218k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $725k
$40,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$17k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RICHMOND FRIENDS OF THE HOMELESS$155,000
ASK CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION$135,000
BEYOND BOUNDARIES RVA$100,000
HENRICO CASA$100,000
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF RICHMOND FOUNDATION$100,000
STOP CHILD ABUSE NOW$70,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITES OF RICHMOND$65,000
LAUNCH FOR LIFE$40,000
LITTLE HANDS VIRGINIA$35,000
BETTER 2 GETHER$35,000
SPORTABLE$25,000
FEEDMORE$20,000
FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN$20,000
OUR AMAZING FIGHTERS$15,000
CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY$15,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25, $598k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 57% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%THE CAMERON KGALLAGHER FOUNDATION: $1k → 6%RICHMOND FRIENDS OF THE HOMELESS: $155k → 7%RICHMOND FRIENDS OF THE HOMELESS: $100k → 7%BEYOND BOUNDARIES RVA: $100k → 22%BEYOND BOUNDARIES RVA: $85k → 22%LITTLE HANDS VIRGINIA: $40k → 22%LITTLE HANDS VIRGINIA: $35k → 9%SPORTABLE: $25k → 22%SPORTABLE: $20k → 22%FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN: $20k → 22%FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN: $12k → 22%FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 16 repeat orgs$293k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
7

Total granted

$1.9M
$46k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+20%

Still filing today

69%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $248k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’24’25
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionCivil RightsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • RF
    RICHMOND FRIENDS OF THE HOMELESS LTD
    2× · 2024–2025 · $255k · revenue +7%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation
    8× · 2017–2024 · $203k · revenue +154%
  • HC
    HENRICO COUNTY COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $200k · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • FA
    FRIENDS ASSOCIATION OF RICHMOND
    3× · 2022–2024 · $25k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    3× · 2018–2020 · $12k
  • NC
    NOAHS CHILDREN (ST MARY'S HOSPITAL)
    one grant, 2017 · $4k
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.

1
For Children's Sake of Virginia Inc

For children's sake is dedicated to promoting positive environments for children and families that develop trust, stability and independence.

Human Services
2
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
3
Abilities Richmond Inc

Abilities richmond envisions a world where all individuals with developmental disabilities and other barriers will have the opportunity to participate in a full range of life activities. competitive employment in support of this vision.

Human Services
4
Vermilion County Child Advocacy Center

Perform forensic interviews on minor children in response to calls from either the Department of Children and Family Services or law enforcement, regarding potential abuse of the child. The Center works as an advocate for the child with…

Crime & Legal
5
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.

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6
Warrior Kids Foundation
Health
7
Better2gether Rva

To support and equip families of children with medical complexity with tools to carefor their child and create community among like families.

Health
8
Camp Rise Above Inc

Camp rise above provides life-changing camp programs for children and adults with serious illnesses, disabilities, and life challenges.

Recreation & Sports
9
Connecting Champions

To ask kids and young adults with cancer, "what do you want to be when you grow up?" & pair them with a mentor in that field who can help achieve a brighter future.

Youth Development
10
Virginias One Church One Child Inc

Our mission is to reduce the numbers of children in the foster care system through adoption outreach education recruitment and support. We seek to increase permanency opportunities for Virginias waiting children. Additionally we aim to…

Human Services
11
Christopher Kids

Christopher Kids is a nonprofit corporation that serves children by fostering hope and imagination through specialized, accessible, and personalized spaces. We are dedicated to serving children ages two to twelve in the Southeast facing…

Health
12
Virginia Mentoring Partnership

Virginia mentoring partnership provides training and technical assistance to mentors and mentoring programs to increase the quality and quantity of mentoring for virginia's youth. the vision of vmp is that every child who needs a mentor…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Comfort Zone Camp Inc; the most unlike its peers is Oakwood Arts 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

17 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. 17 of the 26 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ASK FOUNDATION: $336,500 · OtherASK FOUNDATIONASK CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION: $135,000 · OtherASK CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATIONSTOP CHILD ABUSE NOW: $125,000 · OtherSTOP CHILD ABUSE NOWSCAN: $102,500 · OtherSCANCHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF RICHMOND FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherCHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF RICHMOND FOUNDATIONBETTER 2 GETHER: $70,000 · OtherBETTER 2 GETHER+8 more: $83,571 · Other+8 moreRICHMOND FRIENDS OF THE HOMELESS LTD: $255,000 · Human ServicesRICHMOND FRIENDS OF THE HOMELE…BEYOND BOUNDARIES: $185,000 · Human ServicesBEYOND BOUNDARIESLITTLE HANDS VIRGINIA INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesLITTLE HANDS VIRGINIA INCSPORTABLE RICHMOND ADAPTIVE SPORTS AND RECREATION INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesSPORTABLE RICHMOND ADAPTIVE SP…FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN: $36,500 · Human ServicesFRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDR…+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesChildren's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation: $202,500 · HealthChildren's Hospi…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF RICHMOND: $100,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD …OUR AMAZING FIGHTERS: $27,500 · HealthOUR AMAZING FIGH…HENRICO COUNTY COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC: $200,000 · Civil RightsHENRICO CO…FEED MORE INC: $77,500 · Food & NutritionLAUNCH FOR LIFE: $70,000 · Youth Development
Other$952,571Human Services$597,500Health$330,000Civil Rights$200,000Food & Nutrition$77,500Youth Development$70,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRICHMOND FRIENDS OF THE HOMELESS LTD: $255,000 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetChildren's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation: $202,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetHENRICO COUNTY COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC: $200,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetBEYOND BOUNDARIES: $185,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetASK CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION: $135,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF RICHMOND: $100,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFEED MORE INC: $77,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLITTLE HANDS VIRGINIA INC: $75,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetLAUNCH FOR LIFE: $70,000 over 3y, 33% of budgetSPORTABLE RICHMOND ADAPTIVE SPORTS AND RECREATION INC: $45,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetFRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN: $36,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetOUR AMAZING FIGHTERS: $27,500 over 2y, 16% of budgetSOAR 365: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Cameron K Gallagher Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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 RICHMOND FRIENDS OF THE HOMELESS LTD ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation ↗
  • Who funds HENRICO COUNTY COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC ↗
  • Who funds BEYOND BOUNDARIES ↗
  • Who funds ASK CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF RICHMOND ↗
  • Who funds FEED MORE INC ↗
  • Who funds LITTLE HANDS VIRGINIA INC ↗
  • Who funds LAUNCH FOR LIFE ↗
  • Who funds SPORTABLE RICHMOND ADAPTIVE SPORTS AND RECREATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds OUR AMAZING FIGHTERS ↗
  • Who funds SOAR 365 ↗
  • Who funds The Cameron K Gallagher Foundation ↗

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 IncVA29.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation Inc · Carmax Foundation · Herndon Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Altria Companies Employee Community Fund · Robins Foundation · Williams Mullen Foundation · Townebank Foundation · McKesson Foundation Inc · Townebank Richmond Foundation · Universal Leaf Foundation · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell 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 M4k Richmond Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from M4k Richmond Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to M4k Richmond Inc?

    Find your warmest path to M4k Richmond Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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