· Private foundation
Michaels Family Foundation of Va Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAINT SOPHIA GREEK ORTHODOX CATH | $44,500 |
| FLORIDA GRAND OPERA | $17,512 |
| CHILDRENS RESOURCE CENTER | $15,000 |
| MIAMI CITY BALLET | $15,000 |
| DAVIS AND ELKINS COLLEGE | $13,000 |
| TAUBMAN MUSEUM | $4,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING | $3,000 |
| WORLD WILDLIFE FUND | $3,000 |
| CENTER FOR GREAT APES | $3,000 |
| PHILIP AND PATRICIA FROST MUSEUM | $3,000 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION | $3,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIORS | $3,000 |
| ST JUDES RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against -41% for those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MCMIAMI CITY BALLET INC7× · 2017–2024 · $86k · revenue +46%
- DEDAVIS & ELKINS COLLEGE6× · 2019–2024 · $59k · revenue +13%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC6× · 2017–2024 · $21k · revenue +145%
Funded once
- DEDAVIS ELKINS COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $5k
- SJST JUDES CHILDRENS HOSPITALone grant, 2023 · $3k
- PAPhillip and Patricia Frost Museum oone grant, 2022 · $3k
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.
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.
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Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.
At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…
American college of occupational and environmental medicine (acoem) provides leadership to promote optimal health and safety of workers, workplaces and environments by: educating health professionals and the public; stimulating research;…
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How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 32 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 FLORIDA GRAND OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS RESOURCE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MIAMI CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds DAVIS & ELKINS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TAUBMAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PHILLIP AND PATRICIA FROST MUSEUM OF SCIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds KENYA EDUCATION FUND ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Michaels Family Foundation of Va Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Michaels Family Foundation of Va Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science Inc: 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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