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Northern Virginia Health Foundation

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.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$245k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$8.5MHuman Services$1.2MFood & Nutrition$768kEducation$665kCommunity Improvement$608kCrime & Legal$137kHousing & Shelter$113kPhilanthropy$91kOther$0
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $262k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.5M
$21,600
Median grant
3
States reached
$34M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH$245,000
NORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICE$145,000
NORTHERN VIRGINIA DENTAL CLINIC$145,000
NOVA SCRIPTSCENTRAL INC$145,000
ARLINGTON FREE CLINIC$145,000
GR PRINCE WILLIAM COMM HEALTH CTR$145,000
HEALTHWORKS FOR NORTHERN VIRGINIA$145,000
ARLINGTON FREE CLINIC$100,000
GEORGE MASON FOUNDATION$100,000
ARCADIA FOOD INC$100,000
UNITED COMMUNITY INC$100,000
GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$25,000
ARLINGTON FREE CLINIC$25,000
THE CHRIS ATWOOD FOUNDATION$23,000
LOUDOUN FREE CLINIC$21,600
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 (FY17–24, $2.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%NORTHERN VIRGINIA VETERANS ASSOCIATION: $15k → 7%UNITED COMMUNITY: $170k → 6%CAMPAGNA CENTER: $30k → 9%UNITED COMMUNITY INC: $100k → 6%UNITED COMMUNITY: $100k → 6%UNITED COMMUNITY INC: $100k → 6%UNITED COMMUNITY INC: $100k → 6%UNITED COMMUNITY: $30k → 6%NOVA SCRIPTSCENTRAL INC: $145k → 6%NOVA SCRIPTSCENTRAL INC: $140k → 6%NOVA SCRIPTSCENTRAL INC: $112k → 6%NOVA SCRIPTSCENTRAL INC: $100k → 6%NOVA SCRIPTSCENTRAL INC: $100k → 6%NOVA SCRIPTSCENTRAL INC: $100k → 6%NOVA SCRIPTSCENTRAL INC: $100k → 6%NOVA SCRIPTSCENTRAL INC: $100k → 6%NORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICE: $200k → 6%NORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICE: $180k → 6%NORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICES: $175k → 6%NORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICES: $150k → 6%NORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICE: $145k → 6%NORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICES: $112k → 6%NORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICES: $100k → 6%NORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICES: $100k → 6%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$12M · 16 repeat orgs$429k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +60% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
6

Total granted

$12M
$236k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+30%

Still filing today

81%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $193k 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 ServicesEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureReligionOther

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

  • AF
    ARLINGTON FREE CLINIC INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +43%
  • NH
    NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +289%
  • NV
    NORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICES INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • VH
    VIRGINIA HOSPITAL CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $150k
  • TC
    THE CAMPAGNA CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue +29%
  • VH
    VIRGINIA HEALTH CATALYSTgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $26k · revenue +60%

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
Arlington Food Assistance Center

To provide dignified access to free groceries for qualified families in Arlington, VA and surrounding counties.

Food & Nutrition
2
Northern Virginia Health Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Adventist Healthcare Inc

We extend god's care through the ministry of physical, mental and spiritual healing.

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4
New Virginia Majority

New Virginia Majority is a grassroots organization that works with low income people in local communities through leadership development, trainings and workshops, issue education and advocacy.

Civil Rights
5
Virginia Community Development Corp

VCDC delivers vital financial resources and support while collaborating with local organizations dedicated to social impact, ensuring the creation of affordable homes in vibrant neighborhoods where everyone can thrive.

Housing & Shelter
6
Uva Community Health Inc

Our mission: transforming health and inspiring hope for all virginians and beyond. our vision: to be the nation's leading public academic health system and a best place to work - while transforming patient care, research, education, and…

Health
7
Augusta Medical Group

to strengthen the health and well-being of all people in our communities.

Health
8
Virginia Press Foundation Virginia Local News Project
Civil Rights
9
Virginia Community Action Partnership Inc

Virginia community action partnership (vacap) is the statewide membership association for virginia's thirty-one non-profit and public community action agencies. vacaps mission is to build the capacity and competencies of virginias…

Human Services
10
Legal Aid Justice Center

The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.

Crime & Legal
11
Visiting Nurse & Community Health Inc

We are committed to providing the highest quality, compassionate home care to the patients entrusted to us. We are also steadfast in our pledge to be a responsive and innovative advocate for the communities we serve, focusing on health…

—
12
Inova Health Care Services

IHCS was specifically chartered for the purpose of serving the health care needs of the community by establishing, maintaining, and operating hospital facilities, programs, and other shared service arrangements; carrying on health-related…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Washington Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is If Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%4%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr16%43%20–35yr16%14%35–55yr14%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr16%59%20–35yr16%3%35–55yr14%18%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/32
the rest of the field
12%
3,273/26,747

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.

04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 38 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
23/32
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ARLINGTON FREE CLINIC INC — $1,810,350 · OtherARLINGTON FREE CLINIC INCGR PRINCE WILLIAM COMM HEALTH CTR — $1,127,000 · OtherGR PRINCE WILLIAM COMM HEALTH CTRVIRGINIA HOSPITAL CENTER PEDIATRICS — $555,000 · OtherVIRGINIA HOSPITAL CENTER PEDIATRICSArlington Pediatric Center Inc — $335,350 · OtherArlington Pediatric Center IncVIRGINIA HOSPITAL CENTER — $150,000 · Other+15 more — $380,400 · Other+15 moreNEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH — $1,227,000 · HealthNEIGHBORHOOD HEALTHLOUDOUN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER HEALTHWORKS FOR NORTHERN VIRGINIA — $1,111,362 · HealthLOUDOUN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER H…NORTHERN VIRGINIA DENTAL CLINIC INC — $1,062,000 · HealthNORTHERN VIRGINIA DENTAL CLINIC I…+5 more — $139,700 · HealthNORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICES INC — $1,162,000 · Human ServicesNORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY …NOVA ScriptsCentral — $897,000 · Human ServicesNOVA ScriptsCentralUNITED COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC — $600,000 · Human ServicesUNITED COMMUNITY MINISTRI…+2 more — $45,000 · Human ServicesGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $665,000 · Education+1 more — $20,000 · EducationARCADIA FOOD INC — $648,000 · Food & NutritionReal Food for Kids — $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentIF FOUNDATION — $95,000 · Science & Tech
Other$4,358,100Health$3,540,062Human Services$2,704,000Education$685,000Food & Nutrition$648,000Youth Development$100,000Science & Tech$95,000

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 budgetARLINGTON FREE CLINIC INC — $1,810,350 over 8y, 5.1% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH — $1,227,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetNORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICES INC — $1,162,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetLOUDOUN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER HEALTHWORKS FOR NORTHERN VIRGINIA — $1,111,362 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetNORTHERN VIRGINIA DENTAL CLINIC INC — $1,062,000 over 8y, 14% of budgetNOVA ScriptsCentral — $897,000 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $665,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetARCADIA FOOD INC — $648,000 over 7y, 9.7% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC — $600,000 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetArlington Pediatric Center Inc — $335,350 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetReal Food for Kids — $100,000 over 2y, 57% of budgetIF FOUNDATION — $95,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $80,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPATHWAY HOMES INC — $73,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CAMPAGNA CENTER INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVIRGINIA HEALTH CATALYST — $25,500 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetTHE CHRIS ATWOOD FOUNDATION INC — $23,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE CATOCTIN FOUNDATION dba LOUDOUN FREE CLINIC — $21,600 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTENANTS AND WORKERS UNITED — $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetLOUDOUN HUNGER RELIEF INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVIRGINIA NEW MAJORITY EDUCATION FUND — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPathForward Inc — $17,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVirginia Health Care Foundation — $15,600 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLAZERA MINISTRIES INC — $15,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetNORTHERN VIRGINIA VETERANS ASSOCIATION — $15,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetENTERPRISE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPITFIRE CLUB — $10,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetTHE LAMB CENTER — $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWASHINGTON REGIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GRANTMAKERS — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCASA CHILDRENS INTERVENTION SERVICES INC — $6,900 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPREVENTION OF BLINDNESS SOCIETY OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON INC — $6,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCORNERSTONE CRAFTSMAN INC — $3,000 over 1y, 2.5% 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.

The Community Foundat…Dominion Energy Chari…Philip L Graham Fund …Greater Washington Co…The Morris and Gwendo…Act for AlexandriaPotomac Health Founda…United Way of the Nat…Kaiser Foundation Hea…Clark-Winchcole Found…The Human Services Al…Washington Forrest Fo…
The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia IncVA39.9× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Act for Alexandria · Potomac Health Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Mid-Atlantic States Inc · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · The Human Services Alliance of Greater Prince William Inc · Washington Forrest 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 Northern Virginia Health Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Enterprise Community Development Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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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How do I get to Northern Virginia Health Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Northern Virginia Health Foundation 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 38 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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