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Our Purpose Foundation at a glance

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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.

$262k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Human Services$240kArts & Culture$136kPublic Safety & Disaster$130kEducation$108kHealth$92kRecreation & Sports$82kYouth Development$80kPhilanthropy$65kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $255k
$10,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WOLF TRAP ENCORE CIRCLE$25,000
FOUNDATION FOR LAKE ANNA EMERGENCY SERVICES$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
CONNECT OUR KIDS$20,000
FAIRWAYS FOR WARRIORS$20,000
TEENS OPPOSING POVERTY (TOP)$20,000
SONGWRITING WITH SOLDIERS$20,000
SHARE INCORPORATED (OF MCLEAN)$15,000
SNOWSHOE FOUNDATION INC$15,000
MU HEXATON SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION$10,000
CODE OF SUPPORT$10,000
FOR PETE'S SAKE CANCER RESPITE FOUNDATION$10,000
MCLEAN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$10,000
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL CORP (CALLENS CAUSE)$10,000
JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY - PROUD AND TRUE FUND$10,000
02The need
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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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%FAIRWAYS FOR WARRIORS: $20k → 13%CONNECT OUR KIDS: $20k → 4%TEENS OPPOSING POVERTY (TOP): $20k → 7%CODE OF SUPPORT: $10k → 9%FAIRWAYS FOR WARRIORS: $20k → 13%CONNECT OUR KIDS: $20k → 4%TEENS OPPOSING POVERTY (TOP): $20k → 7%CODE OF SUPPORT: $10k → 9%FAIRWAYS FOR WARRIORS: $20k → 13%CONNECT OUR KIDS: $20k → 4%TEENS OPPOSING POVERTY (TOP): $20k → 7%CODE OF SUPPORT: $10k → 9%FAIRWAYS FOR WARRIORS: $20k → 13%CONNECT OUR KIDS: $20k → 4%TEENS OPPOSING POVERTY (TOP): $20k → 7%CODE OF SUPPORT: $10k → 9%FOOD FOR OTHERS: $10k → 6%FOOD FOR OTHERS: $10k → 6%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NY
MA
PA
KY
WV
VA
MD
TN
GA
FL
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$943k · 28 repeat orgs$112k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +1% since the first grant, against -9% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
11

Total granted

$943k
$111k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
-9%

Still filing today

68%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • FF
    Fairways for Warriors Inc
    4× · 2022–2025 · $80k · revenue +13%
  • TO
    TEENS OPPOSING POVERTY INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $80k · revenue +8%
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR LAKE ANNA EMERGENCY SERVICES
    4× · 2022–2025 · $70k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • TF
    THE FOUNDATION FOR INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -9%
  • EA
    EMPOWER APPALACHIA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
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
Paralyzed Veterans of America Spinal Cord Research Foundation

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…

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2
The Alexandria Hospital Foundation

Fundraising to support inova alexandria hospital, an acute care tax exempt hospital.

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3
Families of the Wounded Fund Inc

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…

Human Services
4
Conquer Cancer Foundation of the American Society of Clinical Oncology

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…

Health
5
Vcu Health Tappahannock Hospital

To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.

Health
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
Medical College of Va Foundation

To support and foster vcu health and vcu health sciences through philanthropy, stewardship, innovation, communication, and collaboration.

Education
8
Carilion Services Inc

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.

Health
9
The Moaa Foundation

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.

Public Benefit
10
Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors Inc

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…

Health
11
Mcv Associated Physicians

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.

Health
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for Others Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 40 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
11/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WOLF TRAP ENCORE CIRCLE: $50,000 · OtherWOLF TRAP ENCORE CIRCLEIndividual grant recipient: $45,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDOORWAYS FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC: $40,000 · OtherDOORWAYS FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INCRAPPAHANNOCK UNITED WAY INC: $30,000 · OtherRAPPAHANNOCK UNITED WAY INCIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSHARE INCORPORATED (OF MCLEAN): $25,000 · OtherSHARE INCORPORATED (OF MCLEAN)JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY - PROUD AND TRUE FUND: $20,000 · OtherMU HEXATON SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherEMPOWER APPALACHIA FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherJOURNEY HOME - MINERAL: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherSHARE INCORPORATED: $20,000 · OtherCALLEN S CAUSE INC: $20,000 · OtherCHILDRENS HOSPITAL CORP (CALLENS CAUSE): $15,000 · Other+7 more: $55,000 · Other+7 moreCONNECT OUR KIDS: $80,000 · Human ServicesCONNECT OUR KIDSFairways for Warriors Inc: $80,000 · Human ServicesFairways for Warriors IncTEENS OPPOSING POVERTY INC: $80,000 · Human ServicesTEENS OPPOSING POVERTY INCCode of Support Foundation: $40,000 · Human ServicesCode of Support FoundationFOOD FOR OTHERS INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesFOOD FOR OTHERS INCFOUNDATION FOR LAKE ANNA EMERGENCY SERVICES: $70,000 · HealthFOUNDATION F…FOR PETE'S SAKE CANCER RESPITE FOUNDATION: $29,000 · HealthFOR PETE'S S…NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $8,000 · HealthNATIONAL MUL…THERE GOES MY HERO INC: $6,000 · Health+3 more: $2,500 · HealthSONGWRITINGWITHINC: $55,000 · Arts & CultureSONGWRITI…WOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $25,000 · Arts & CultureWOLF TRAP…ALZNER FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · Arts & CultureALZNER FO…THE FOUNDATION FOR INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA (IUP): $25,000 · EducationJAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $23,000 · EducationMCLEAN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC: $40,000 · Public Safety & DisasterSNOWSHOE FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · Philanthropy
Other$430,000Human Services$300,000Health$115,500Arts & Culture$86,000Education$48,000Public Safety & Disaster$40,000Philanthropy$35,000

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 budgetCONNECT OUR KIDS: $80,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetFairways for Warriors Inc: $80,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetTEENS OPPOSING POVERTY INC: $80,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR LAKE ANNA EMERGENCY SERVICES: $70,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetSONGWRITINGWITHINC: $55,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCode of Support Foundation: $40,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetDOORWAYS FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMCLEAN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC: $40,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetSNOWSHOE FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetRAPPAHANNOCK UNITED WAY INC: $30,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFOR PETE'S SAKE CANCER RESPITE FOUNDATION: $29,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA (IUP): $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $23,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD FOR OTHERS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSHARE INCORPORATED: $20,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTHE KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE EMERGENCY RELIEF & LEGAL DEFENSE FUND OF THE VA STATE POLICE ASSOC INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHERE GOES MY HERO INC: $6,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetALZNER FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetDisabled American Veterans: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON GOLF AND COUNTRY CLUB SHIELD FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $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.

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.

The Community Foundat…Aetna Foundation IncEnterprise Holdings F…Charities Aid Foundat…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Blackbaud Giving …Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…
The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia IncVA13.3× affinity4 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 · 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

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 Our Purpose Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Our Purpose Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Our Purpose Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Our Purpose 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 40 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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