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Massey Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k57 grants · $1.7M
- $50k–250k23 grants · $1.6M
- $250k+2 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MASSEY CANCER CENTER | $1,000,000 |
| ACTIVE SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA | $350,000 |
| NEW COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $160,000 |
| LEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN | $100,000 |
| VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| CHILD SAVERS | $100,000 |
| UVA ENGINEERING FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| FEEDMORE | $75,000 |
| UVA MCINTIRE SCHOOL OF COMMERCE | $75,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS -VIRGINIA CAPITAL CHAPTER | $70,000 |
| VIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT COLLEGES | $65,000 |
| THE VIRGINIA HOME | $55,000 |
| CANCER RETREAT CENTER | $55,000 |
| CARITAS MEMO THE HEALING PLACE | $50,000 |
| WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY TECH | $50,000 |
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 (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. 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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $620k 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
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +131%- ASACTIVE SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +190% · 50% of their budget
- TNTHE NEW COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +30%
Funded once
- MMMORGAN MEMORIALS MEDICINES 4 ALL VCU ENGone grant, 2022 · $515k
- MMMORGAN MEMORIALS VA TECH MINERALS LABone grant, 2022 · $265k
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.
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…
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…
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).
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.
VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.
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…
Provides seminary, under-graduate, graduate, doctoral, and other continuing education programs
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…
To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.
The jefferson scholars foundation (foundation) provides academic merit-based scholarship, fellowship and professorship support to students and faculty at the university of virginia (uva).
Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.
To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Virginia University Foundation Inc and 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.
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 54 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
65 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, 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; 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 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 THE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds HEART OF VIRGINIA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds MAYMONT FOUNDATION ↗
- 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 NEW LIFE FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds NEEDLE'S EYE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Virginia Home ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PIKEVILLE ↗
- Who funds THE BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN WV INC ↗
- Who funds BECKLEY AREA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ELK HILL FARM INC ↗
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: 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
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 Massey 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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