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Major Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$332k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$1.3MHealth$110kPhilanthropy$62kCivil Rights$54kEmployment$50kHuman Services$49kArts & Culture$23kRecreation & Sports$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $136k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JMU FOUNDATION INC$125,000
CLAUDE MOORE OPPORTUNITIES$50,000
Hospital for Special Surgery$25,000
ALL AGES READ TOGETHER (AART)$24,500
Comm Found for Loudoun & N Fauquier (CFLNC)$21,000
ELEVATE EARLY EDUCATION$20,000
Foundation of Orthopedics and Complex Spine$20,000
National Spine Health Foundation$15,000
LOUDOUN COMMUNITY MEDIA$10,000
LOUDOUN LAURELS FOUNDATION$5,000
Boy Scouts of America National Capital Area Counc$5,000
JK Community Farm$5,000
Morven Park$2,500
James Madison University$1,939
Community Foundation for Northern Virginia$1,000
02The need
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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, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 4%, against an area that typically sits at 5%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 5%Boulder Crest Foundation: $3k → 7%LOUDOUN CARES: $3k → 4%Morven Park: $10k → 4%ECHO: $5k → 6%LOUDOUN ABUSED WOMEN'S SHELTER: $5k → 4%ECHO: $2k → 6%ECHO: $2k → 6%Morven Park: $5k → 4%Morven Park: $3k → 4%TREE OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC: $1k → 4%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 10% of Major Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in VA; by stated purpose, 85%.

Major Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 20 repeat orgs$159k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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20

Total granted

$1.9M
$123k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+27%

Still filing today

55%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • JM
    JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +60%
  • EE
    ELEVATE EARLY EDUCATION INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $170k · revenue +35%
  • IH
    INOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2022 · $50k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • CF
    Curry Foundation
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
  • TU
    THE UVA SCHOOL OF EDUCATION AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $19k · revenue -40%
  • F
    FOCOS
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
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
Community Foundation for Loudoun and Northern Fauquier Counties

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.

Philanthropy
2
Loudoun Healthcare Foundation

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

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3
Loudoun Community Health Center Healthworks for Northern Virginia

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.

Health
4
The Catoctin Foundation dba Loudoun Free Clinic

The loudoun free clinic is a non-profit organization that provides free, quality medical care to low-income, uninsured residents of loudoun county.

Health
5
Loudoun Hospital Center Dba Inova Loudoun Hospital

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.

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6
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
7
Loudoun Museum Inc

Discover, Conserve, Interpret and disseminate knowledge of Loudouns Culture and History.

Arts & Culture
8
Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities

VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.

Civil Rights
9
Central Virginia Foundation for Economic Education&Improvement Inc

Furtherance of economic growth, education, training and development

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10
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
11
Vcu Investment Management Company

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…

Education
12
Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy

Working within the faith community to educate and mobilize citizen to create systemic social change for low income Virginians.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 45 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
18/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,032,000 · EducationJAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCELEVATE EARLY EDUCATION INC: $170,200 · EducationELEVATE EARLY EDUCATION INC+1 more: $40,750 · EducationALL AGES READ TOGETHER (AART): $138,484 · OtherALL AGES READ TOGETHER (AART)Comm Found for Loudoun & N Fauquier (CFLNC): $92,000 · OtherComm Found for Loudoun & N Fa…National Spine Health Foundation: $40,000 · OtherNational Spine Health Foundat…The Duke of Edinburghs International Award USA: $35,000 · OtherThe Duke of Edinburghs Intern…Hospital for Special Surgery: $25,000 · OtherLOUDOUN LAURELS FOUNDATION: $20,500 · OtherCurry Foundation: $20,000 · Other100 Women Strong: $20,000 · OtherTHE UVA SCHOOL OF EDUCATION AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $19,300 · Other+16 more: $113,689 · Other+16 moreCLAUDE MOORE OPPORTUNITIES: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH FOR TOMORROW-NEW LIFE CENTER INC: $8,500 · Youth Development+1 more: $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentINOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $50,000 · HealthFoundation of Orthopedics and Complex Spine Inc: $38,500 · HealthTHE V FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Health+1 more: $1,100 · HealthMORVEN PARK INC: $17,500 · Human ServicesECHO INC: $8,500 · Human ServicesLOUDOUN CITIZENS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: $5,000 · Human ServicesLOUDOUN CARES: $3,000 · Human ServicesBOULDER CREST FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Human Services+1 more: $1,200 · Human ServicesTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC: $16,026 · PhilanthropyLOUDOUN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · PhilanthropyLOUDOUN COMMUNITY MEDIA: $17,500 · Arts & CultureLeadership Fairfax Inc: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$1,242,950Other$523,973Youth Development$110,500Health$94,600Human Services$37,700Philanthropy$18,526Arts & Culture$18,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,032,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetELEVATE EARLY EDUCATION INC: $170,200 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetCLAUDE MOORE OPPORTUNITIES: $100,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetINOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAll Ages Read Together: $40,750 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetFoundation of Orthopedics and Complex Spine Inc: $38,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE UVA SCHOOL OF EDUCATION AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $19,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOUDOUN COMMUNITY MEDIA: $17,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetMORVEN PARK INC: $17,500 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC: $16,026 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLOUDOUN HUNGER RELIEF INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWESTMORELAND DAVIS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYOUTH FOR TOMORROW-NEW LIFE CENTER INC: $8,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetECHO INC: $8,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE V FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOUDOUN CITIZENS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLOUDOUN CARES: $3,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetWINDY HILL FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLOUDOUN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBOULDER CREST FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOUDOUN YOUTH INC: $2,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTOL Ministries Inc: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDON'T EVER GIVE UP INC: $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Fairfax Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetA PLACE TO BE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOUDOUN LITERACY COUNCIL INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Community Foundation …The Community Foundat…The Bank of Clarke Co…The Claude Moore Char…Fredrick D & Karen G …Dominion Energy Chari…Philip L Graham Fund …Van Metre Companies F…United Way of the Nat…The McMunn Family Fou…Virts Miller Foundati…The Van Metre Family …
Community Foundation for Loudoun and Northern Fauquier CountiesVA36.7× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Major Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Major Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Major Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Major Family Foundation 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 45 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-PF 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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