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Overton & Katharine Dennis Fd-Cust

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$644k
Granted FY2026still arriving
45
Grants FY2026still arriving
5
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Environment$660kArts & Culture$538kHealth$511kHuman Services$510kEducation$507kRecreation & Sports$130kYouth Development$60kPhilanthropy$60kOther$0
02FY2026 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k9 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k35 grants · $542k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$4.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YWCA OF RICHMOND$60,000
JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION (JRA)$25,000
ATLAS PARTNERSHIP$25,000
ST ANDREWS SCHOOL$25,000
CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION$25,000
ANNA JULIA COOPER EPISCOPAL SCHOOL$21,500
VIRGINIA LEAGUE FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD$20,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$20,000
LEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN$20,000
CROSSOVER MINISTRY$20,000
SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER$20,000
HEALTH BRIGADE$20,000
HISTORIC RICHMOND FOUNDATION$20,000
SCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION$20,000
MAYMONT FOUNDATION$15,000
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 (FY20–26, $355k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%MEDICAL HOME PLUS INC: $15k → 7%YWCA OF RICHMOND: $60k → 22%MEDICAL HOME PLUS INC: $10k → 7%YWCA OF RICHMOND: $50k → 22%MEDICAL HOME PLUS INC: $5k → 7%NEXTUP RVA: $10k → 9%NEXTUP RVA: $10k → 9%NEXTUP RVA: $10k → 9%NEXTUP RVA: $10k → 9%NEXTUP RVA: $10k → 9%AMARA: $10k → 9%NEXTUP RVA: $10k → 9%AMARA: $10k → 9%AMARA: $10k → 9%AMARA: $5k → 9%NEXTUP RVA: $10k → 9%AMARA: $5k → 9%AMARA: $5k → 9%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $10k → 9%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $10k → 9%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $10k → 9%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $10k → 9%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $10k → 9%FAMILY LIFELINE: $10k → 22%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $5k → 9%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $5k → 9%FAMILY LIFELINE: $10k → 22%FAMILY LIFELINE: $5k → 22%FAMILY LIFELINE: $5k → 22%FAMILY LIFELINE: $5k → 22%FAMILY LIFELINE: $3k → 22%FAMILY LIFELINE: $3k → 22%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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.5M · 54 repeat orgs$60k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

54 repeat relationships: 40 still active in FY2026, 14 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
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Total granted

$3.5M
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+6%

Still filing today

78%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentHealthRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION AT SAINT FRANCIS
    6× · 2021–2026 · $230k · revenue +16%
  • CM
    CHILDSAVERS- MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC
    7× · 2020–2026 · $215k · revenue +22%
  • VR
    VIRGINIA REPERTORY THEATRE
    4× · 2020–2023 · $200k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • HA
    HIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM INC
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +6%
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
Vpm Media Corporation

To use the power of media to educate, entertain and inspire, using public television and public radio to make a positive impact on the communities throughout central virginia, charlottesville, the shenandoah valley, the northern neck and…

Arts & Culture
2
The Richmond Symphony

The richmond symphony performs, teaches and champions music to inspire and unite our communities.

Arts & Culture
3
Capital Trees

Capital trees' mission is to create a greener, more beautiful richmond, virginia through the thoughtful planning and planting of trees and public gardens, mindful of the city's extraordinary heritage and location on the banks of the james…

Environment
4
Academy of Richmond County
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5
Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce

Chamberrva is the trusted voice for modern business in the richmond virginia region. we are change agents, rallying to do the hard things that will create a more connected, prosperous, health and equitable community.

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6
Riverviews

Creating spaces where contemporary art inspires connection, sparks creativity, and fosters innovation.

Arts & Culture
7
Renew Richmond

Renew Richmond strives to build healthier, more self-empowered communities by involving local youth in agriculture and environmental sustainability. We do this by partnering with local public schools.

Environment
8
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
9
Richmond Waldorf School

Our approach to a holistic Waldorf education lays the foundation for a life full of meaning and purpose. (See 4a)

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10
Richmond Academy of Medicine Inc

To create and sustain a dynamic and innovative physician community for the benefit of the greater richmond area.

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11
Virginia Living Museum Inc

The museum connects people to nature by delivering educational classes, programs, exhibits, events and demonstrations. staff and volunteers engage learners of all ages on a 23 acre campus setting. indoor and outdoor learning opportunities…

Arts & Culture
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Historic Richmond Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Southside ReLeaf. 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

48 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 48 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/48
Grantees still filing
32/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILDSAVERS- MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC: $215,000 · OtherCHILDSAVERS- MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINICTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $194,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $135,000 · OtherSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTERJAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION (JRA): $115,000 · OtherJAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION (JRA)HEALTH BRIGADE: $87,500 · OtherHEALTH BRIGADEVIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $80,000 · OtherVIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTSTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY IN WA: $55,000 · OtherENRICHMOND FOUNDATION - RICHMOND TREE ST: $55,000 · OtherWOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $65,000 · OtherCARITAS: $60,000 · Other+18 more: $418,500 · Other+18 moreVIRGINIA REPERTORY THEATRE: $200,000 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA REPERTORY…HISTORIC RICHMOND FOUNDATION: $85,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC RICHMOND …MAYMONT FOUNDATION: $85,000 · Arts & CultureMAYMONT FOUNDATIONBOXERWOOD EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $71,000 · Arts & CultureBOXERWOOD EDUCATIO…ART 180 Inc: $60,000 · Arts & CultureART 180 IncATLAS PARTNERSHIP: $50,000 · Arts & CultureATLAS PARTNERSHIPTHE VALENTINE MUSEUM: $25,000 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $25,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $20,000 · Arts & CultureANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL: $124,500 · EducationANNA JULIA COO…St Andrew's School: $120,000 · EducationSt Andrew's Sc…PARENT-CHILD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $70,000 · EducationPARENT-CHILD D…ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE: $70,000 · EducationALICE LLOYD CO…ST JAMES'S CHILDREN'S CENTER: $60,000 · EducationST JAMES'S CHI…JSARGEANT REYNOLDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · EducationJSARGEANT REYN…+1 more: $5,000 · EducationTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION AT SAINT FRANCIS: $230,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN…THE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC: $90,000 · HealthTHE CROSS-OV…VIRGINIA LEAGUE FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD INCORPORATED: $55,000 · HealthVIRGINIA LEA…ACCESS NOW INC: $55,000 · HealthACCESS NOW I…YWCA RICHMOND: $110,000 · Human ServicesYWCA RICHM…NEXTUP RVA: $70,000 · Human ServicesNEXTUP RVAPETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesPETER PAUL…AMARA: $45,000 · Human ServicesAMARAFAMILY LIFELINE: $40,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY LIF…MEDICAL HOME PLUS: $30,000 · Human ServicesMEDICAL HO…CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $175,000 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAK…JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION: $50,000 · EnvironmentJAMES RIV…Richmond Tree Stewards: $40,000 · EnvironmentRichmond …Southside ReLeaf: $28,000 · EnvironmentSouthside…LEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $20,000 · EnvironmentLEWIS GIN…SHRINE MONT INCORPORATED: $70,000 · Recreation & SportsGREATER RICHMOND AQUATICS PARTNERSHIP: $50,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,480,000Arts & Culture$621,000Education$489,500Health$430,000Human Services$355,000Environment$313,000Recreation & Sports$120,000

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 budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION AT SAINT FRANCIS: $230,000 over 6y, 8.1% of budgetCHILDSAVERS- MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC: $215,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetVIRGINIA REPERTORY THEATRE: $200,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $194,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $175,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $135,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL: $124,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetSt Andrew's School: $120,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetYWCA RICHMOND: $110,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC: $90,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTH BRIGADE: $87,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetHISTORIC RICHMOND FOUNDATION: $85,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetMAYMONT FOUNDATION: $85,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetBOXERWOOD EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $71,000 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetSHRINE MONT INCORPORATED: $70,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetPARENT-CHILD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $70,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetNEXTUP RVA: $70,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetALICE LLOYD COLLEGE: $70,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $65,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetST JAMES'S CHILDREN'S CENTER: $60,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetART 180 Inc: $60,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetPETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $60,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetCARITAS: $60,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetVIRGINIA LEAGUE FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD INCORPORATED: $55,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetACCESS NOW INC: $55,000 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetGREATER RICHMOND AQUATICS PARTNERSHIP: $50,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetATLAS PARTNERSHIP: $50,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetJAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION: $50,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAMARA: $45,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILY LIFELINE: $40,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetRichmond Tree Stewards: $40,000 over 2y, 33% of budgetGREATER RICHMOND SCAN - STOP CHILD ABUSE NOW INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGROUNDWORK RVA INC: $40,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetJSARGEANT REYNOLDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NEW COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMEDICAL HOME PLUS: $30,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetSouthside ReLeaf: $28,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetTHE VALENTINE MUSEUM: $25,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetVIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $25,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOakwood Arts Inc: $22,500 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetRISE RICHMOND INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetVENTURE RICHMOND INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREADING AND EDUCATION FOR ADULT DEVELOPMENT: $10,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 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 THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION AT SAINT FRANCIS ↗
  • Who funds CHILDSAVERS- MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds St Andrew's School ↗
  • Who funds YWCA RICHMOND ↗
  • Who funds THE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds HEALTH BRIGADE ↗
  • Who funds HISTORIC RICHMOND FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MAYMONT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BOXERWOOD EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds SHRINE MONT INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds PARENT-CHILD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds NEXTUP RVA ↗
  • Who funds ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds WOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds ST JAMES'S CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ART 180 Inc ↗
  • Who funds PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CARITAS ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA LEAGUE FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds ACCESS NOW INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER RICHMOND AQUATICS PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds ATLAS PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds AMARA ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY LIFELINE ↗
  • Who funds Richmond Tree Stewards ↗
  • Who funds GREATER RICHMOND SCAN - STOP CHILD ABUSE NOW INC ↗
  • Who funds GROUNDWORK RVA INC ↗
  • Who funds JSARGEANT REYNOLDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION 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.

Robins FoundationVA49.1× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Robins Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · The Pauley Family Foundation · Herndon Foundation · Richmond Memorial Health Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Tesco Foundation · Carmax Foundation · Estes Foundation Co Matthew Breidenbach Pitcairn · Shelton H Short Jr Trust · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation · Wilbur Moreland Havens Charitable 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 Overton & Katharine Dennis Fd-Cust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Overton & Katharine Dennis Fd-Cust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
18report 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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