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Margaret & Frank Stinchfield 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.

$55k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$260kHealth$80kMembership Benefit$50kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kCrime & Legal$21kInternational$11kArts & Culture$6kFood & Nutrition$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $51k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$445k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL$15,000
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA$15,000
MARTHA JEFFERSON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$11,000
QUAKER HILL BURIAL GROUND ASSOCIATION INC$10,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$1,000
PIEDMONT CASA$1,000
KENTS STORE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$1,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 7% of Margaret & Frank Stinchfield 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.

Margaret & Frank Stinchfield Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$454k · 12 repeat orgs$2k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
3

Total granted

$454k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+83%

Still filing today

58%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesInternationalArts & CultureEnvironmentOther

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

  • RC
    RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $99k · revenue +37%
  • PC
    PIEDMONT CASA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $21k · revenue +114%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    9× · 2017–2025 · $17k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • PV
    PIEDMONT VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue -30%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $500
  • RC
    RIVANNA CONSERVATION ALLIANCEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue +83%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Virginia Mason Health System

Advance and support the healthcare and research missions of virginia mason medical center and benaroya research institute at virginia mason through governance oversight of both organizations.

Health
2
The Virginia College Fund

Solicitation of public contributions on behalf of member colleges. provides foundations, businesses, and individuals a convenient way of supporting small colleges and universities in virginia.

Education
3
Medical College of Va Foundation

To support and foster vcu health and vcu health sciences through philanthropy, stewardship, innovation, communication, and collaboration.

Education
4
Virginia Hospital and Healthcare Association

Collaborating with our members and stakeholders, vhha works to ensure the sustainability of virginia's health care system and improve the health of all virginians.

5
Ridgecrest Regional Hospital Foundation

To support ridgecrest regional hospital

Health
6
Community Memorial Hospital

To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.

Health
7
Riverside Healthcare Association Inc

To care for others as we would care for those we love - to enhance their well-being and improve their health.

Health
8
Mjh Foundation

Mjh foundation provides investment and management services for martha jefferson hospital, a non-profit organization which provides healthcare to the community.

Health
9
The University of Virginia Medical School Foundation

The university of virginia medical alumni association and medical school foundation is dedicated to enhancing the experience of students, housestaff, alumni and faculty of the uva school of medicine by creating opportunities for mentoring,…

Education
10
Rappahannock General Hospital Foundation Inc

The rappahannock general hospital foundation is a not for profit corporation established for the benefit and support of rappahannock general hospital. its purpose is to assist the hospital in accomplishing its mission through the…

11
Rivers Health Foundation

The organization raises funds for the development of health care services at pleasant valley hospital and surrounding areas.

Health
12
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Riverdale Country School Inc and the most unlike its peers is Martha Jefferson Hospital 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

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA — $122,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIAQuaker Hill Burial Ground Association Inc — $50,000 · OtherQuaker Hill Burial Ground Association IncChairScholars Foundation Inc — $32,000 · OtherChairScholars Foundation IncPIEDMONT CASA INC — $21,000 · OtherPIEDMONT CASA INC+4 more — $17,500 · Other+4 moreRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC — $98,500 · EducationRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL…+1 more — $1,000 · EducationMARTHA JEFFERSON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $80,000 · HealthMARTHA JEFFERSON HO…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $16,500 · Human ServicesMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $11,000 · InternationalAKIN HALL ASSOCIATION — $6,000 · Arts & CultureRIVANNA CONSERVATION ALLIANCE — $500 · Environment
Other$242,500Education$99,500Health$80,000Human Services$16,500International$11,000Arts & Culture$6,000Environment$500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC — $98,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetQuaker Hill Burial Ground Association Inc — $50,000 over 9y, 13% of budgetChairScholars Foundation Inc — $32,000 over 6y, 7.4% of budgetPIEDMONT CASA INC — $21,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $16,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $11,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAKIN HALL ASSOCIATION — $6,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetBLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPIEDMONT VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIVANNA CONSERVATION ALLIANCE — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds Quaker Hill Burial Ground Association Inc
  • Who funds ChairScholars Foundation Inc
  • Who funds PIEDMONT CASA INC
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
  • Who funds AKIN HALL ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC
  • Who funds PIEDMONT VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds RIVANNA CONSERVATION ALLIANCE

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Charlottesville Area Community FoundationVA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charlottesville Area Community 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 Margaret & Frank Stinchfield 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Margaret & Frank Stinchfield Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Margaret & Frank Stinchfield 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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