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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.

$637k
Granted FY2025still arriving
45
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Environment$660kArts & Culture$538kHealth$511kHuman Services$510kEducation$507kRecreation & Sports$130kYouth Development$60kPhilanthropy$60kOther$0
02FY2025 · 45 grants

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
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$4.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

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.

show:

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.

area typical 7%MEDICAL HOME PLUS INC: $15k → 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%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: $5k → 9%FAMILY LIFELINE: $10k → 22%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $5k → 9%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

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.9M · 50 repeat orgs$120k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
2

Total granted

$2.9M
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+6%

Still filing today

76%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION AT SAINT FRANCIS
    5× · 2021–2025 · $215k · revenue +16%
  • VR
    VIRGINIA REPERTORY THEATRE
    4× · 2020–2023 · $200k · revenue +28%
  • CM
    CHILDSAVERS- MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $200k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • RT
    Richmond Tree Stewards
    one grant, 2024 · $35k · 33% of their budget
  • HA
    HIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM INC
    one 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.

04Your field

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.

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
Academy of Richmond County
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
The Richmond Symphony

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

Arts & Culture
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.

6
Richmond Academy of Medicine Inc

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

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
Riverviews

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

Arts & Culture
10
Richmond Waldorf School

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

11
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
12
Lead Virginia

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…

Public Benefit

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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyVirginia Advocacy & Trade A…Performing Arts Organizatio…Community Advocacy & Suppor…Healthcare Delivery SystemsIndependent K-12 SchoolsSupportive Housing ServicesYouth and Family Support Se…Professional & Advocacy Ass…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%7%<5yr16%2%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr18%15%20–35yr13%35%35–55yr12%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%3%<5yr16%1%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr18%19%20–35yr13%31%35–55yr12%36%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/46
the rest of the field
14%
2,522/18,386

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.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/45
Grantees still filing
30/45
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHILDSAVERS- MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC — $200,000 · OtherCHILDSAVERS- MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINICTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $174,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER — $115,000 · OtherSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTERJAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION (JRA) — $90,000 · OtherJAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION (JRA)HEALTH BRIGADE — $67,500 · OtherVIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS — $65,000 · OtherENRICHMOND FOUNDATION - RICHMOND TREE ST — $55,000 · OtherWOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $55,000 · OtherCARITAS — $50,000 · Other+18 more — $401,000 · Other+18 moreVIRGINIA REPERTORY THEATRE — $200,000 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA REPERTORY…MAYMONT FOUNDATION — $70,000 · Arts & CultureMAYMONT FOUNDATIONHISTORIC RICHMOND FOUNDATION — $65,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC RICHMOND …BOXERWOOD EDUCATION ASSOCIATION — $61,000 · Arts & CultureBOXERWOOD EDUCATIO…ART 180 Inc — $60,000 · Arts & CultureART 180 IncATLAS PARTNERSHIP — $25,000 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $20,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $15,000 · Arts & CultureANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL — $103,000 · EducationANNA JULIA COO…St Andrew's School — $95,000 · EducationSt Andrew's Sc…ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE — $60,000 · EducationALICE LLOYD CO…PARENT-CHILD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $60,000 · EducationPARENT-CHILD D…ST JAMES'S CHILDREN'S CENTER — $60,000 · EducationST JAMES'S CHI…JSARGEANT REYNOLDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · EducationJSARGEANT REYN…THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION AT SAINT FRANCIS — $215,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN…THE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC — $70,000 · HealthTHE CROSS-OV…ACCESS NOW INC — $40,000 · HealthACCESS NOW I…VIRGINIA LEAGUE FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD INCORPORATED — $35,000 · HealthVIRGINIA LEA…CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAK…JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION — $50,000 · EnvironmentJAMES RIV…Richmond Tree Stewards — $35,000 · EnvironmentRichmond …Southside ReLeaf — $23,000 · EnvironmentSouthside…NEXTUP RVA — $60,000 · Human ServicesNEXTUP RV…PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesPETER PAU…YWCA RICHMOND — $50,000 · Human ServicesYWCA RICH…AMARA — $45,000 · Human ServicesAMARAFAMILY LIFELINE — $30,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY LI…MEDICAL HOME PLUS — $20,000 · Human ServicesMEDICAL H…SHRINE MONT INCORPORATED — $60,000 · Recreation & SportsGREATER RICHMOND AQUATICS PARTNERSHIP — $40,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,272,500Arts & Culture$516,000Education$403,000Health$360,000Environment$258,000Human Services$255,000Recreation & Sports$100,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION AT SAINT FRANCIS — $215,000 over 5y, 8.1% of budgetVIRGINIA REPERTORY THEATRE — $200,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetCHILDSAVERS- MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC — $200,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $174,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER — $115,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL — $103,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSt Andrew's School — $95,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC — $70,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMAYMONT FOUNDATION — $70,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHEALTH BRIGADE — $67,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetHISTORIC RICHMOND FOUNDATION — $65,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetBOXERWOOD EDUCATION ASSOCIATION — $61,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetART 180 Inc — $60,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetALICE LLOYD COLLEGE — $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNEXTUP RVA — $60,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetSHRINE MONT INCORPORATED — $60,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetPARENT-CHILD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $60,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetST JAMES'S CHILDREN'S CENTER — $60,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetWOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $55,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCARITAS — $50,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetPETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $50,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetYWCA RICHMOND — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION — $50,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAMARA — $45,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetACCESS NOW INC — $40,000 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetGREATER RICHMOND AQUATICS PARTNERSHIP — $40,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetRichmond Tree Stewards — $35,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetGROUNDWORK RVA INC — $35,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetVIRGINIA LEAGUE FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD INCORPORATED — $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEW COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY LIFELINE — $30,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetATLAS PARTNERSHIP — $25,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetJSARGEANT REYNOLDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER RICHMOND SCAN - STOP CHILD ABUSE NOW INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSouthside ReLeaf — $23,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetMEDICAL HOME PLUS — $20,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetVIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $20,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOakwood Arts Inc — $17,500 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetTHE VALENTINE MUSEUM — $15,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetRISE RICHMOND INC — $11,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetREADING AND EDUCATION FOR ADULT DEVELOPMENT — $7,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetVENTURE RICHMOND INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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

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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 2%
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc2% 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, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 57 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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