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Oakwood Foundation Charitable Trust
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 $10k14 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $290k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $500k
- $250k+8 grants · $6.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNC CHAPEL HILL | $1,260,000 |
| VIRGINIA ATHLETIC FOUNDATION | $1,100,000 |
| SHARE OUR STRENGTH | $1,000,000 |
| LEGAL AID JUSTICE CENTER | $625,000 |
| THOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION | $525,000 |
| AFFORDABLE HOUSING | $500,000 |
| UVA HEALTH CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $500,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $500,000 |
| EQUAL JUSTICE AMERICA | $200,000 |
| CENTURION MINISTRIES | $100,000 |
| INNOCENCE PROJECT | $100,000 |
| HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH | $50,000 |
| COVE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $50,000 |
| THE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE | $30,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% 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 +53% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.
88 repeat relationships: 36 still active in FY2024, 52 since wound down; 10 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $840k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
SHARE OUR STRENGTH8× · 2017–2024 · $13M · revenue +60%- BGBUILDING GOODNESS FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2022 · $2.2M · revenue +16% · 52% of their budget
- LALEGAL AID JUSTICE CENTER6× · 2018–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +277%
Funded once
- CFCAV FUTURES FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $1.0M
- GCGREATER CHARLOTTESVILLE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCone grant, 2020 · $560k · revenue +11%
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITALone grant, 2021 · $500k
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 foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…
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).
To assist rural virginians in developing and advancing their agricultural, economic and social interests to enhance their quality of life.
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.
Vipc grows and diversifies virginia's economy by investing in and accelerating innovation commercialization and entrepreneurship.
To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.
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…
To preserve, promote and serve as an advocate for virginia's irreplaceable historic places for cultural, economic and educational benefits for everyone.
To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.
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.
To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…
How this is measured
99 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. 99 of the 157 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 SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds BUILDING GOODNESS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Affordable Housing Corporation ↗
- Who funds THE AUTHORS GUILD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CAV FUTURES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COVE CREEK PARK ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds VITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHARLOTTESVILLE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds CENTURION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE WASHINGTON LEGAL CLINIC FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENTIAL PRECINCT ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds MONTPELIER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILDLIFE CENTER OF VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR THE HORSE FKA THE AAEP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SupportWorks Housing ↗
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: Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · The J & E Berkley Foundation · Perry Foundation Inc · The Genan Foundation · Caplin Foundation · Manning Family Foundation · The Charles Fund Inc · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation · The Oak Hill Fund · United Way of Greater Charlottesville · Sentara Health · Whitney and Anne Stone Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Oakwood Foundation Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Oakwood Foundation Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Mark Twain Memorial: 22% of income from government
How this is measured
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