· Public charity
Noblis Inc
To engage in, assist and contribute to the support of scientific activities, and projects for, and to perform, engage in and procure research, development, engineering and advisory services to or for the united states government, state governments and local jurisdictions, and any department or agency of any of the foregoing, nonprofit…
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.
The 4 grants below total $45,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $106,307 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $61,307 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE WOMEN'S CENTER | $15,000 |
| CORNERSTONES INC | $10,000 |
| VIRGINIA TECH | $10,000 |
| FOOD FOR OTHERS INC | $10,000 |
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, $88k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 28% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- WTWOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS4× · 2017–2022 · $90k · revenue +54%
- COCIA OFFICERS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION5× · 2019–2023 · $71k · revenue +18%
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc2× · 2018–2019 · $50k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- WIWOMEN IN AEROSPACE INCone grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue -10%
- KSKENTUCKY STATE TREASURERone grant, 2022 · $25k
- IHINOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +8%
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.
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…
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).
The mission of vt-arc is to extend the impact of the virginia tech research and innovation enterprise, delivering superior analytic and technology solutions to government and non-government customers.
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.
Fundraising to support inova alexandria hospital, an acute care tax exempt hospital.
To provide food and other related products primarily to member agencies for distribution to those in need, and also for direct distribution.
To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
To provide at no cost legal assistance to veterans of the u.s. armed forces and current service members.
Accelerate the advancement of women leaders in the food industry. we believe in limitless opportunity for all women.
Facilitating statewide collaboration among Virginia's food banks, partners, and neighbors to improve nutrition security and empower strong, healthy communities.
American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association 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 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% 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.
25 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 28 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 WOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds CIA OFFICERS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds WOMEN IN AEROSPACE INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR OTHERS INC ↗
- Who funds INOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE ENGINEERING AND MEDICINE INC ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONES INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds DANVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Women's Center ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds JAMES MADISON HS ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA TECH INNOVATIONS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FORKIDS INC ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds Code of Support Foundation ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Shelter House Inc ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
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 Jv Schiro Zavela Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Stellar Solutions Foundation · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · Give Back Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Verizon Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Noblis 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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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