· Private foundation
Nelson J & Katherine Friant Post Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEXTSTOP THEATRE COMPANY | $20,000 |
| ALL AGES READ TOGETHER | $10,000 |
| HERNDON-RESTON FISH INC | $10,000 |
| FOOD FOR NEIGHBORS | $7,000 |
| HERNDON VILLAGE NETWORK | $6,000 |
| ST JOSEPH'S CATHOLIC CHURCH | $6,000 |
| FAIRFAX SYMPHONY ORCHRESTRA | $3,000 |
| THE FAIRFAX BALLET COMPANY | $2,500 |
| HERNDON WOMAN'S CLUB | $2,500 |
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 (FY20–25, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 5%. 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
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 17% of Nelson J & Katherine Friant Post Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HFHerndon-Reston FISH Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $55k · revenue +16%
- AAAll Ages Read Together6× · 2020–2025 · $46k · revenue +84%
- FFFOOD FOR NEIGHBORS6× · 2020–2025 · $41k · revenue +305%
Funded once
- HSHERNDON SENIOR CENTER COUNCIL INCORPORATEDone grant, 2020 · $1k
- AOAssociates of St John Bosco Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +354%
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.
The Roanoke Symphony Orchestra provides a professional symphony orchestra of artistic excellence and integrity to enrich lives, to educate, and to entertain diverse audiences in western Virginia with the highest quality instrumental and…
The District of Columbia Arts Center serves the Washington DC area by presenting high caliber and challenging works. It encourages professionalism among artists by providing a forum for educational and cultural exchange. DCAC was founded…
Educators and families work in partnership to provide a joyful environment where children are encouraged to explore and interact with the world around them.
Bringing people and The Arts together.
To nuture a life-long love of music through imaginative and inspiring experiences for the listeners of today and tomorrow.
To stage the finest professional opera productions in Southeastern New England. To excite and build audiences for the enjoyment of a grand art form. To offer educational programs and creative community outreach events that expand the opera…
Create outstanding events and experiences in the performing arts as a prime dynamic of connection within our community. Recognize and encourage youth participation in the arts as an investment in our long term cultural vitality. Strengthen…
Enrich cultural life of the community
To foster and support the performing arts in the upper valley and lakes region of new hampshire
The mission of maryland opera, inc is (1) the promotion, production and performance in a variety of venues, of live opera experiences to audiences of all ages and backgrounds, (11) the creation and continuation of opera education and…
The Asheville Symphony Orchestra performs and promotes symphonic music for the benefit, enjoyment and education of the people of Western North Carolina.
None
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 15 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 Herndon-Reston FISH Inc ↗
- Who funds All Ages Read Together ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR NEIGHBORS ↗
- Who funds Fairfax Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds ARTS HERNDON INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAIRFAX BALLET COMPANY ↗
- Who funds HOPE IN NORTHERN VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds INSIGHT MEMORY CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds WOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds Associates of St John Bosco 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.
Open a dossier: The Closet of the Greater Herndon Area Inc · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Latino Economic Development Corporation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Nelson J & Katherine Friant Post Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nelson J & Katherine Friant Post Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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