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McLeskey Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$110k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$1.2MHealth$200kEnvironment$100kArts & Culture$30kRecreation & Sports$11kYouth Development$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$769k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SENTARA FOUNDATION$50,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF THE KING'S DAUGHTERS$20,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
CAPE HENRY COLLEGIATE$20,000
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 (FY17–23, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ACHIEVABLE DREAM: $20k → 17%ACHIEVABLE DREAM: $20k → 17%Achievable Dream: $20k → 17%ACHIEVABLE DREAM: $20k → 17%ACHIEVABLE DREAM: $20k → 17%ACHIEVABLE DREAM: $20k → 17%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.

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 9 repeat orgs$73k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
4

Total granted

$1.5M
$73k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+135%

Still filing today

67%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationOther

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

  • RU
    REGENT UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2018–2022 · $1.0M · revenue +32%
  • AA
    AN ACHIEVABLE DREAM INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $120k · revenue +234%
  • CH
    CAPE HENRY COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $40k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • VG
    VIRGINIA GENTLEMEN FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $40k · revenue -61%
  • VG
    VA GENTLEMAN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
  • BA
    Boys and Girls Club of Southeast Virginiagraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +135%

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 Center for Inclusive Communities

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

Civil Rights
2
Good Shepherd Episcopal School

The mission of Good Shepherd Episcopal School is to inspire each child to achieve academic excellence within a diverse, nurturing community that builds character and fosters respect for one another and our shared environment, locally and…

Education
3
Virginia Beach City Public Schools Entrepreneurship and Business
Education
4
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
5
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
6
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
7
Va Foundation for Independent Colleges

To secure financial support that enables college-bound students to access and graduate from outstanding virginia independent higher education institutions.

Education
8
Virginia Association of Science Teachers Inc

The organization's purpose is to promote excellence in teaching science and to provide communication amoung science teachers in Virginia.

Education
9
The Virginia Air & Space Center

To serve as the region's leading source of informational science education through interactive science demonstrations, hands-on education programs and outreach programs.

Arts & Culture
10
Vcu Health Tappahannock Hospital

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

Health
11
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
12
The Commonwealth Institute for

To use policy, research, and analysis to advance the well-being of Virginia communities, and improve the economic security and social opportunities of all Virginians.

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Club of Southeast Virginia and the most unlike its peers is Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters. 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

8 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. 8 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

REGENT UNIVERSITY — $1,000,000 · OtherREGENT UNIVERSITYVIRGINIA AQUARIUM & MARINE SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · OtherVIRGINIA AQUARIUM & MARINE SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION INCSENTARA FOUNDATION — $100,000 · OtherSENTARA FOUNDATION+5 more — $83,500 · Other+5 moreAN ACHIEVABLE DREAM INC — $120,000 · Human ServicesVIRGINIA GENTLEMEN FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital of the King's Daughters — $40,000 · HealthCAPE HENRY COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC — $40,000 · EducationPUBLIC ART VIRGINIA BEACH FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,283,500Human Services$120,000Health$80,000Education$40,000Arts & Culture$30,000

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 budgetREGENT UNIVERSITY — $1,000,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAN ACHIEVABLE DREAM INC — $120,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetVIRGINIA AQUARIUM & MARINE SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetVIRGINIA GENTLEMEN FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetCAPE HENRY COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital of the King's Daughters — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC ART VIRGINIA BEACH FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Southeast Virginia — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

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.

Hampton Roads Community FoundationVA15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hampton Roads Community Foundation · Townebank Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 McLeskey Family Foundation Inc 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.

2025
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your 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
    2report 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, 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 McLeskey Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to McLeskey Family Foundation Inc 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 13 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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