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Massey Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
82
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$11MEducation$9.9MHuman Services$2.4MScience & Tech$2.3MArts & Culture$1.9MRecreation & Sports$1.6MEnvironment$1.0MFood & Nutrition$797kOther$0
02FY2025 · 82 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k57 grants · $1.7M
  • $50k–250k23 grants · $1.6M
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.4M
$30,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$74M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MASSEY CANCER CENTER$1,000,000
ACTIVE SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA$350,000
NEW COMMUNITY SCHOOL$160,000
VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE FOUNDATION$100,000
CHILD SAVERS$100,000
UVA ENGINEERING FOUNDATION$100,000
LEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN$100,000
UVA MCINTIRE SCHOOL OF COMMERCE$75,000
FEEDMORE$75,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS -VIRGINIA CAPITAL CHAPTER$70,000
VIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT COLLEGES$65,000
CANCER RETREAT CENTER$55,000
THE VIRGINIA HOME$55,000
UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND$50,000
VIRGINA TECH FOUNDATION$50,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $767k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 20% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%RICHMOND FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION - MCGUIRE VETERANS HOSPITAL: $25k → 9%RICHMOND FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION - MCGUIRE VETERANS HOSPITAL: $25k → 9%RICHMOND FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION - MCGUIRE VETERANS HOSPITAL: $25k → 9%RICHMOND FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION - MCGUIRE VETERANS HOSPITAL: $25k → 9%SHALOM FARMS: $30k → 9%SHALOM FARMS: $22k → 9%SHALOM FARMS: $20k → 9%SHALOM FARMS: $20k → 9%VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS & GIRLS: $30k → 9%VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS & GIRLS: $25k → 9%VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS & GIRLS: $25k → 9%VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS & GIRLS: $25k → 9%VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS & GIRLS: $25k → 9%VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS & GIRLS: $25k → 9%VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS & GIRLS: $25k → 9%VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS & GIRLS: $25k → 9%VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS & GIRLS: $25k → 9%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $40k → 9%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $40k → 9%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $40k → 9%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $40k → 9%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $20k → 9%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $10k → 9%YWCA OF RICHMOND: $30k → 22%YWCA OF RICHMOND: $25k → 22%YWCA OF RICHMOND: $25k → 22%YWCA OF RICHMOND: $25k → 22%YWCA OF RICHMOND: $20k → 22%YWCA OF RICHMOND: $10k → 22%SPORTABLE: $20k → 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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$32M · 89 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

89 repeat relationships: 61 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

89
2

Total granted

$32M
$780k

Still filing today

62%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $620k 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
EducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +131%
  • AS
    ACTIVE SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +190% · 50% of their budget
  • TN
    THE NEW COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • MM
    MORGAN MEMORIALS MEDICINES 4 ALL VCU ENG
    one grant, 2022 · $515k
  • MM
    MORGAN MEMORIALS VA TECH MINERALS LAB
    one grant, 2022 · $265k
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
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
2
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
3
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
4
New Schools for Virginia

New schools for virginia works with parents, students, educators and the community to improve educational outcomes by designing new schools and by supporting existing schools to improve outcomes.

Education
5
Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities

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

Civil Rights
6
University of Virginia Foundation

To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…

Education
7
Washington University of Virginia

Provides seminary, under-graduate, graduate, doctoral, and other continuing education programs

—
8
University of Lynchburg

The mission of the University is to inspire independent thinkers who become trustworthy, effective leaders that shape caring communities. The vision of the University of Lynchburg is to cultivate a world that is innovative, authentic, and…

Education
9
Community Memorial Hospital

To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.

Health
10
Jefferson Scholars Foundation

The jefferson scholars foundation (foundation) provides academic merit-based scholarship, fellowship and professorship support to students and faculty at the university of virginia (uva).

Philanthropy
11
Virginia Wesleyan University

Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.

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12
Vcu Health Tappahannock Hospital

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

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Virginia University Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is New Life for Youth 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

65 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 65 of the 111 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
65/65
Grantees still filing
48/65
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MASSEY CANCER CENTER: $5,500,000 · OtherMASSEY CANCER CENTERTHE NEW COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $1,445,000 · OtherTHE NEW COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOUNDATIONUVA ENGINEERING FOUNDATION: $1,385,000 · OtherUVA ENGINEERING FOUNDATIONUVA MCINTIRE SCHOOL OF COMMERCE: $675,000 · Other+59 more: $10,651,000 · Other+59 moreMEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION: $3,200,000 · EducationMEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOU…VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $685,000 · EducationVIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION …UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND: $450,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF RICHMONDVA FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT COLLEGES: $385,000 · EducationVIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE FDN: $300,000 · Education+19 more: $2,565,000 · Education+19 moreACTIVE SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA INC: $1,600,000 · HealthACTIVE SOU…THE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC: $450,000 · HealthTHE CROSS-…THE HEALING PLACE: $320,000 · HealthTHE HEALIN…Children's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation: $265,000 · HealthChildren's…The Virginia Home: $255,000 · HealthThe Virgin…GoochlandCares: $142,000 · HealthLEGAL INFORMATION NETWORK FOR CANCER: $142,000 · Health+2 more: $95,000 · HealthMAYMONT FOUNDATION: $450,000 · Arts & CultureTHE RICHMOND BALLET: $295,000 · Arts & CultureSCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION INC: $275,000 · Arts & CultureTHE VALENTINE MUSEUM: $152,000 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $152,000 · Arts & CultureTHE RICHMOND SYMPHONY: $152,000 · Arts & CultureLEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $900,000 · EnvironmentVIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS: $230,000 · Human ServicesPETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $190,000 · Human ServicesYWCA RICHMOND: $135,000 · Human ServicesRICHMOND FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Human ServicesSHALOM FARMSINC: $92,000 · Human Services+1 more: $20,000 · Human ServicesHEART OF VIRGINIA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $450,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMOND: $152,000 · Youth Development
Other$19,656,000Education$7,585,000Health$3,269,000Arts & Culture$1,476,000Environment$900,000Human Services$767,000Youth Development$602,000

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 budgetMEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION: $3,200,000 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetACTIVE SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA INC: $1,600,000 over 9y, 50% of budgetTHE NEW COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $1,445,000 over 9y, 2.2% of budgetLEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $900,000 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetVIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $685,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDSAVERS- MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC: $560,000 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetFEED MORE INC: $475,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND: $450,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMAYMONT FOUNDATION: $450,000 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetHEART OF VIRGINIA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $450,000 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetTHE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC: $450,000 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetVA FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT COLLEGES: $385,000 over 9y, 2.7% of budgetELIJAH HOUSE ACADEMY: $360,000 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetTHE HEALING PLACE: $320,000 over 8y, 8.4% of budgetVIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE FDN: $300,000 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetTHE RICHMOND BALLET: $295,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetSCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION INC: $275,000 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetNEEDLE'S EYE MINISTRIES INC: $270,000 over 9y, 5.9% of budgetNEW LIFE FOR YOUTH INC: $270,000 over 9y, 4.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation: $265,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetThe Virginia Home: $255,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL INC: $230,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetTHE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $230,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN WV INC: $230,000 over 9y, 4.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PIKEVILLE: $230,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBECKLEY AREA FOUNDATION INC: $230,000 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetSt Andrew's School: $230,000 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetVIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS: $230,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetELK HILL FARM INC: $230,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $190,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetVIRGINIA UNION UNIVERSITY: $190,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF RICHMOND INC: $175,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC: $172,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBLUEFIELD UNIVERSITY: $172,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBEREA COLLEGE: $172,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VIRGINIA COLLEGE FUND: $172,000 over 9y, 16% of budgetTHE VALENTINE MUSEUM: $152,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMOND: $152,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetVIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $152,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetTHE RICHMOND SYMPHONY: $152,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetSTARTUP VIRGINIA INC: $142,000 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetGoochlandCares: $142,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetLEGAL INFORMATION NETWORK FOR CANCER: $142,000 over 8y, 6.9% of budgetRICHMOND MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC: $137,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetRIVERSIDE SCHOOL INC: $137,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetYWCA RICHMOND: $135,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetPatrick County Education Foundation: $130,000 over 5y, 63% 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 MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ACTIVE SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NEW COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDSAVERS- MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds FEED MORE INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND ↗
  • Who funds MAYMONT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HEART OF VIRGINIA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds THE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds VA FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT COLLEGES ↗
  • Who funds ELIJAH HOUSE ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds THE HEALING PLACE ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE FDN ↗
  • Who funds THE RICHMOND BALLET ↗
  • Who funds SCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NEEDLE'S EYE MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW LIFE FOR YOUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation ↗
  • Who funds The Virginia Home ↗
  • Who funds THE BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN WV INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PIKEVILLE ↗
  • Who funds BECKLEY AREA FOUNDATION INC ↗

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 Foundat…Shelton H Short Jr Tr…Herndon FoundationRichard S Reynolds Fo…The Mary Morton Parso…Dominion Energy Chari…Robins FoundationRobert G Cabell III a…Carmax FoundationUniversal Leaf Founda…The Pauley Family Fou…Townebank Foundation
The Community Foundation IncVA66× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation Inc · Shelton H Short Jr Trust · Herndon Foundation · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Robins Foundation · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation · Carmax Foundation · Universal Leaf Foundation · The Pauley Family 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 Massey Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Massey Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    21report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Massey Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Massey 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 111 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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