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Major Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $99k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JMU FOUNDATION INC | $125,000 |
| CLAUDE MOORE OPPORTUNITIES | $50,000 |
| Comm Found for Loudoun & N Fauquier (CFLNC) | $32,000 |
| ALL AGES READ TOGETHER (AART) | $27,000 |
| ELEVATE EARLY EDUCATION | $25,000 |
| National Spine Health Foundation | $15,000 |
| LOUDOUN COMMUNITY MEDIA | $7,500 |
| National Capital Area Council(NCAC) | $5,000 |
| LOUDOUN LAURELS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| LOUDOUN YOUTH INC | $2,000 |
| ECHO | $2,000 |
| TREE OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC | $1,200 |
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 (FY19–24, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 5%. 31% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 10% of Major Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in VA; read by stated purpose it is 85% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
17 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k 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
- JMJAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC6× · 2019–2024 · $907k · revenue +60%
- IHINOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2022 · $50k · revenue +8%
- AAAll Ages Read Together2× · 2019–2020 · $41k · revenue +98%
Funded once
- CFCurry Foundationone grant, 2019 · $20k
- TUTHE UVA SCHOOL OF EDUCATION AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $19k · revenue -40%
- FOFoundation of Orthopedics and Complex Spine Incone grant, 2019 · $19k · revenue -87%
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.
Undertake and assist in the identification, cultivation, encouragement and solicitation of all types of gifts and the management of trust and endowment funds for the benefit of inova loudoun hospital
To grow community giving by fostering a community of grantmakers, promoting strategic local leadership, and investing in partnerships for the benefit of the community of loudoun and northern fauquier.
To provide excellent and affordable medical, dental, and behavioral healthcare to those who have limited or no health insurance by being compassionate, culturally competent and accessible to all.
The loudoun free clinic is a non-profit organization that provides free, quality medical care to low-income, uninsured residents of loudoun county.
Inova loudoun hospital's mission is to provide acute care and other appropriate hospital services dedicated to providing quality care and improving the health of the diverse communities it serves.
Discover, Conserve, Interpret and disseminate knowledge of Loudouns Culture and History.
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…
The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.
VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.
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).
To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…
Loudoun volunteer caregivers is a community of volunteers helping the frail, elderly and disabled adults in loudoun county, virginia, to maintain independence and quality of life.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc and the most unlike its peers is Westmoreland Davis Memorial Foundation. 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 34 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 41 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 JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE EARLY EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds CLAUDE MOORE OPPORTUNITIES ↗
- Who funds INOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds All Ages Read Together ↗
- Who funds THE UVA SCHOOL OF EDUCATION AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Foundation of Orthopedics and Complex Spine Inc ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds MORVEN PARK INC ↗
- Who funds LOUDOUN HUNGER RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds WESTMORELAND DAVIS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH FOR TOMORROW-NEW LIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ECHO INC ↗
- Who funds LOUDOUN COMMUNITY MEDIA ↗
- Who funds THE V FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOUDOUN CITIZENS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds THE HOSS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOUDOUN CARES ↗
- Who funds WINDY HILL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOUDOUN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOULDER CREST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOUDOUN YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds TOL Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds DON'T EVER GIVE UP INC ↗
- Who funds A PLACE TO BE ↗
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: Community Foundation for Loudoun and Northern Fauquier Counties · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · The Bank of Clarke County Foundation · The Claude Moore Charitable Foundation · Fredrick D & Karen G Schaufeld Family Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Van Metre Companies Foundation Inc · United Way of the National Capital Area · The McMunn Family Foundation · Virts Miller Foundation · The Van Metre Family Foundation Inc
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 Major Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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