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Noland Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$174k
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$940kYouth Development$523kArts & Culture$473kFood & Nutrition$250kHealth$210kHuman Services$185kRecreation & Sports$146kInternational$100kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k22 grants · $82k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $93k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$6.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL$17,500
BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC$15,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA$10,000
THOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION$10,000
UVA HEALTH FOUNDATION$10,000
BUILDING GOODNESS FOUNDATION$10,000
CAMP HOLIDAY TRAILS$10,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER CHARLOTTESVILLE$10,000
ST ANNE'S-BELFIELD SCHOOL$7,500
THE MILLER CENTER FOUNDATION UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA$5,000
HOSPICE OF THE PIEDMONT$5,000
COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG FOUNDATION$5,000
WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL$5,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS VIRGINIA INC$5,000
THE SALVATION ARMY - CHARLOTTESVILLE CHAPTER$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $105k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%ST JOSEPH'S VILLA: $3k → 9%ST JOSEPH'S VILLA: $3k → 9%ST JOSEPH'S VILLA: $3k → 9%ST JOSEPH'S VILLA: $3k → 9%READYKIDS INC: $30k → 8%ST JOSEPH'S VILLA: $3k → 9%READYKIDS INC: $25k → 8%ST JOSEPH'S VILLA: $3k → 9%ST JOSEPH'S VILLA: $2k → 9%ST JOSEPH'S VILLA: $2k → 9%ST JOSEPH'S VILLA: $2k → 9%VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS & GIRLS: $2k → 9%SERVICE DOGS OF VIRGINIA: $10k → 8%READYKIDS INC: $3k → 8%READYKIDS INC: $3k → 8%READYKIDS INC: $3k → 8%READYKIDS INC: $3k → 8%READYKIDS INC: $3k → 8%READYKIDS INC: $3k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 43 repeat orgs$501k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

43 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
14

Total granted

$2.5M
$491k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+13%

Still filing today

79%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesInternationalRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TM
    THE MARINERS' MUSEUM
    2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +51%
  • BR
    BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $175k · revenue +54%
  • CH
    CAMP HOLIDAY TRAILS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +189%

Funded once

  • WF
    WOODBERRY FOREST ANNUAL FUND
    one grant, 2018 · $405k
  • SD
    SERVICE DOGS OF VIRGINIA INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +13%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The Miller School of Albemarle

We create opportunities for discovery and reflection by engaging the minds, hands, and hearts of our students.

Education
2
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

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).

Education
3
Association for the Preservation of Va Antiquities

To preserve, promote and serve as an advocate for virginia's irreplaceable historic places for cultural, economic and educational benefits for everyone.

Arts & Culture
4
William & Mary Foundation

The William & Mary Foundation advances the university's highest aspirations by securing private support, guiding a multi-asset investment portfolio, and offering strategic leadership. In this work, we propel the university toward national…

Education
5
Virginia Wesleyan University

Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.

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6
University of Virginia Foundation

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…

Education
7
University of Virginia Law School Foundation

The university of virginia law school foundation's primary purpose is to receive, manage and expend funds for the benefit of the university of virginia school of law.

Education
8
Jefferson Scholars Foundation

The jefferson scholars foundation (foundation) provides academic merit-based scholarship, fellowship and professorship support to students and faculty at the university of virginia (uva).

Philanthropy
9
Virginia Tech Foundation Inc

Virginia tech foundation, inc. (vtf) is a virginia nonstock corporation established in 1948 for the sole purpose of managing virginia tech's endowment to advance virginia tech's mission and its strategic priorities.

Education
10
Edward Via Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine

The mission of the edward via college of osteopathic medicine (vcom) is to prepare globally-minded, community-focused physicians to meet the needs of rural and medically underserved populations and promote research to improve human health.

Education
11
Washington & Jefferson College

To graduate people of uncommon integrity, competence, and maturity, who are effective lifelong learners and responsible citizens, and who are prepared to contribute substantially to the world in which they live.

Education
12
University of Virginia Alumni Association

The mission of the alumni association is to build the strongest bond among alumni and between alumni and the university by serving all alumni and students; being the center for engaging and connecting the global uva community; acting as a…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Allied Extract. 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

46 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. 46 of the 61 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/46
Grantees still filing
37/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WOODBERRY FOREST ANNUAL FUND: $405,000 · OtherWOODBERRY FOREST ANNUAL FUNDWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL - AMICI FUND: $305,000 · OtherWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL - AMICI FUNDBLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC: $175,000 · OtherBLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INCDREAM CATCHERS: $70,000 · OtherUVA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $70,000 · OtherHOSPICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC: $60,000 · OtherLOCAL FOOD HUB INC: $60,000 · OtherDelta Waterfowl Foundation: $55,000 · Other+22 more: $323,500 · Other+22 moreBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA: $402,750 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS …BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VIRGINIA PENINSULA INC: $120,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS …THE MARINERS' MUSEUM: $200,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MARINERS' MU…THOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 · Arts & CultureTHOMAS JEFFERSON…JAMESTOWN-YORKTOWN FOUNDATION INC: $47,500 · Arts & CultureJAMESTOWN-YORKTO…Colonial Williamsburg Foundation: $47,500 · Arts & CultureColonial William…THE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION: $20,000 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $17,500 · Arts & CultureTHE PARAMOUNT THEATER OF CHARLOTTESVILLE INC: $17,500 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $7,500 · Arts & CultureANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL: $71,000 · EducationWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $30,000 · EducationTHE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $27,050 · EducationST ANNE'S-BELFIELD INC: $13,500 · EducationVA FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT COLLEGES: $12,500 · EducationPEABODY SCHOOL: $11,775 · EducationBucknell University: $8,050 · Education+2 more: $10,000 · EducationCAMP HOLIDAY TRAILS: $90,000 · Recreation & SportsSpecial Olympics Virginia Inc: $35,000 · Recreation & SportsLITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC: $8,500 · Recreation & SportsREADYKIDS INC: $70,000 · Human ServicesST JOSEPH'S VILLA: $23,550 · Human ServicesSERVICE DOGS OF VIRGINIA INC: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,500 · Human ServicesBUILDING GOODNESS FOUNDATION: $75,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $10,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $10,000 · InternationalAllied Extract: $5,000 · International
Other$1,523,500Youth Development$522,750Arts & Culture$447,500Education$183,875Recreation & Sports$133,500Human Services$105,050International$100,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA: $402,750 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetTHE MARINERS' MUSEUM: $200,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetBLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC: $175,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VIRGINIA PENINSULA INC: $120,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetCAMP HOLIDAY TRAILS: $90,000 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBUILDING GOODNESS FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL: $71,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetDREAM CATCHERS: $70,000 over 9y, 2.3% of budgetREADYKIDS INC: $70,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC: $60,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetLOCAL FOOD HUB INC: $60,000 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetDelta Waterfowl Foundation: $55,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER CHARLOTTESVILLE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $50,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJAMESTOWN-YORKTOWN FOUNDATION INC: $47,500 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetColonial Williamsburg Foundation: $47,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Olympics Virginia Inc: $35,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN MINISTRIES: $30,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $27,050 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetST JOSEPH'S VILLA: $23,550 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION: $20,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $17,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PARAMOUNT THEATER OF CHARLOTTESVILLE INC: $17,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetST ANNE'S-BELFIELD INC: $13,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED INC: $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVA FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT COLLEGES: $12,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPEABODY SCHOOL: $11,775 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSERVICE DOGS OF VIRGINIA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MILLER CENTER FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC: $8,500 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetBucknell University: $8,050 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PARAMOUNT THEATER FOUNDATION IN F/K/A THE PARAMOUNT THEATER INC: $5,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetAllied Extract: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYELLOW RIBBON FUND INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFORSYTH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALBEMARLE HOUSING IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWashington and Lee University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA ↗
  • Who funds THE MARINERS' MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VIRGINIA PENINSULA INC ↗
  • Who funds CAMP HOLIDAY TRAILS ↗
  • Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BUILDING GOODNESS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds DREAM CATCHERS ↗
  • Who funds READYKIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC ↗
  • Who funds LOCAL FOOD HUB INC ↗
  • Who funds Delta Waterfowl Foundation ↗
  • Who funds GREATER CHARLOTTESVILLE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
  • Who funds JAMESTOWN-YORKTOWN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Special Olympics Virginia Inc ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds ST JOSEPH'S VILLA ↗
  • Who funds THE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds THE PARAMOUNT THEATER OF CHARLOTTESVILLE INC ↗
  • Who funds ST ANNE'S-BELFIELD INC ↗
  • Who funds TROUT UNLIMITED INC ↗
  • Who funds VA FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT COLLEGES ↗
  • Who funds PEABODY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds SERVICE DOGS OF VIRGINIA INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA 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.

Charlottesville Area …Oakwood Foundation Ch…Dominion Energy Chari…The Community Foundat…The Genan FoundationThe Rimora FoundationCaplin FoundationSentara HealthS&P Global Foundation…The Charles Fund IncBrown Advisory Charit…Whitney and Anne Ston…
Charlottesville Area Community FoundationVA39.5× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · Oakwood Foundation Charitable Trust · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · The Genan Foundation · The Rimora Foundation · Caplin Foundation · Sentara Health · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation · The Charles Fund Inc · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · Whitney and Anne Stone Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Noland Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Noland Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Yellow Ribbon Fund Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
16report 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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 61 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home