· Private foundation
Overton & Katharine Dennis Fd-Cust
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k35 grants · $547k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YWCA OF RICHMOND | $50,000 |
| ST ANDREWS SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION (JRA) | $25,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ATLAS PARTNERSHIP | $25,000 |
| ANNA JULIA COOPER EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $21,500 |
| CHILDSAVERS | $20,000 |
| HISTORIC RICHMOND FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| YWCA RICHMOND SPROUT SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| HEALTH BRIGADE | $20,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY IN WA | $20,000 |
| VIRGINIA LEAGUE FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $20,000 |
| CROSSOVER MINISTRY | $20,000 |
| SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER | $20,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $20,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $255k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +30% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
50 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION AT SAINT FRANCIS5× · 2021–2025 · $215k · revenue +16%
- VRVIRGINIA REPERTORY THEATRE4× · 2020–2023 · $200k · revenue +28%
- CMCHILDSAVERS- MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC6× · 2020–2025 · $200k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- RTRichmond Tree Stewardsone grant, 2024 · $35k · 33% of their budget
- HAHIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM INCone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +6%
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.
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…
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…
The richmond symphony performs, teaches and champions music to inspire and unite our communities.
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.
To create and sustain a dynamic and innovative physician community for the benefit of the greater richmond area.
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.
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.
Creating spaces where contemporary art inspires connection, sparks creativity, and fosters innovation.
Our approach to a holistic Waldorf education lays the foundation for a life full of meaning and purpose. (See 4a)
To preserve, promote and serve as an advocate for virginia's irreplaceable historic places for cultural, economic and educational benefits for everyone.
Lead virginia connects leaders to shape the commonwealth's future through an annual program of educational forums and regional session visits to six diverse regions of virginia. framed around social capital theory and curriculum themes of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Historic Richmond Foundation and 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.
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 45 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
45 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. 45 of the 57 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 THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION AT SAINT FRANCIS ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds CHILDSAVERS- MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC ↗
- 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 THE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds MAYMONT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEALTH BRIGADE ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC RICHMOND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOXERWOOD EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ART 180 Inc ↗
- Who funds ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NEXTUP RVA ↗
- Who funds SHRINE MONT INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds PARENT-CHILD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ST JAMES'S CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds WOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CARITAS ↗
- Who funds PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AMARA ↗
- Who funds ACCESS NOW INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER RICHMOND AQUATICS PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds Richmond Tree Stewards ↗
- Who funds GROUNDWORK RVA INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA LEAGUE FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE NEW COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY LIFELINE ↗
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: 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
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 Overton & Katharine Dennis Fd-Cust 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.
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
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.