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Our Purpose Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $255k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WOLF TRAP ENCORE CIRCLE | $25,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR LAKE ANNA EMERGENCY SERVICES | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| FAIRWAYS FOR WARRIORS | $20,000 |
| SONGWRITING WITH SOLDIERS | $20,000 |
| CONNECT OUR KIDS | $20,000 |
| TEENS OPPOSING POVERTY (TOP) | $20,000 |
| SHARE INCORPORATED (OF MCLEAN) | $15,000 |
| SNOWSHOE FOUNDATION INC | $15,000 |
| MU HEXATON SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY - PROUD AND TRUE FUND | $10,000 |
| MCLEAN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $10,000 |
| JOURNEY HOME - MINERAL | $10,000 |
| CODE OF SUPPORT | $10,000 |
| FOR PETE'S SAKE CANCER RESPITE FOUNDATION | $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 (FY22–25, $300k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 40% 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 +1% since the first grant, against -9% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 10 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- FFFairways for Warriors Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $80k · revenue +35%
- TOTEENS OPPOSING POVERTY INC4× · 2022–2025 · $80k · revenue +8%
- FFFOUNDATION FOR LAKE ANNA EMERGENCY SERVICES4× · 2022–2025 · $70k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- TFTHE FOUNDATION FOR INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIAone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -9%
- EAEMPOWER APPALACHIA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $20k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $20k
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.
Pva research foundation inc., a non-profit organization founded in washington, dc in 1976, is controlled by the paralyzed veterans of america ("pva"), a national organization chartered by the u.s. congress on august 11, 1971. pva research…
Fundraising to support inova alexandria hospital, an acute care tax exempt hospital.
Families of the wounded fund, inc (fotwf) provides financial assistance to families of service members or us agents who were wounded in combat or injured in support of combat operations while the wounded receive treatment at various…
Conquer cancer funds research for every type of cancer to benefit every patient, everywhere. working in collaboration with a global network of top scientists and clinicians, and leading advocacy and research organizations, conquer cancer…
To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.
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…
To support and foster vcu health and vcu health sciences through philanthropy, stewardship, innovation, communication, and collaboration.
Our mission is to improve the health of the communities we serve through our commitment to a common purpose of better patient care, better community health, and lower cost.
Carry on charitable and educational programs for active duty military, reserve, national guard, retired, and former members of the uniformed services and their family members and surviving spouses.
The tragedy assistance program for survivors (taps) is america's national nonprofit organization that has cared for the loved ones of our nation's fallen heroes since 1994. taps ensures these living legacies of service and sacrifice do not…
The mission of the organization is to provide physicians and other healthcare professionals to support the needs of the community, as well as the academic mission of the vcu school of medicine.
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).
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for Others Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United 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 23 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) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 14% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 40 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 Fairways for Warriors Inc ↗
- Who funds TEENS OPPOSING POVERTY INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECT OUR KIDS ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR LAKE ANNA EMERGENCY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SONGWRITINGWITHINC ↗
- Who funds DOORWAYS FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds MCLEAN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC ↗
- Who funds Code of Support Foundation ↗
- Who funds SNOWSHOE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RAPPAHANNOCK UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds FOR PETE'S SAKE CANCER RESPITE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA (IUP) ↗
- Who funds WOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR OTHERS INC ↗
- Who funds SHARE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE EMERGENCY RELIEF & LEGAL DEFENSE FUND OF THE VA STATE POLICE ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THERE GOES MY HERO INC ↗
- Who funds ALZNER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Disabled American Veterans ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON GOLF AND COUNTRY CLUB SHIELD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
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 Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving 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 Our Purpose 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.
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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