· Private foundation
Peter and Cara Goodwin 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k2 grants · $3k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UP RVA | $90,000 |
| VIRGINIA ATHLETICS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| BOTANICAL GARDEN OF PIEDMONT | $10,000 |
| THE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE | $10,000 |
| CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $10,000 |
| SHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| READYKIDS | $2,000 |
| CHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- URUP RVA2× · 2022–2023 · $157k · revenue +20%
VIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INC2× · 2022–2023 · $40k · revenue +11%- CECHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH2× · 2022–2023 · $20k
Funded once
- UKUNC KENAN FLAGLER BUSINESS SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $50k
- SAST ANNE'S BELLFIELD SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $40k
- PBPebble Beach Company Foundationone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +22%
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.
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.
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 the educational, scientific and charitable activities of virginia commonwealth university and related organizations.
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).
To secure financial support that enables college-bound students to access and graduate from outstanding virginia independent higher education institutions.
The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…
Virginia tech foundation, inc. (vtf) is a virginia nonstock corporation established in 1948 for the sole purpose of managing virginia tech's endowment to advance virginia tech's mission and its strategic priorities.
The jefferson scholars foundation (foundation) provides academic merit-based scholarship, fellowship and professorship support to students and faculty at the university of virginia (uva).
The mission of the alumni association is to build the strongest bond among alumni and between alumni and the university by serving all alumni and students; being the center for engaging and connecting the global uva community; acting as a…
To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…
The foundation supports the mission of the university of virginia school of engineering and applied science by leading efforts to build and sustain beneficial relationships and by raising, investing, managing and providing external private…
The mission of the foundation is to assist, support and foster the activities and mission of the school of business at virginia commonwealth university. it solicits, manages and distributes assets to benefit programs in the school of…
The William & Mary Foundation advances the university's highest aspirations by securing private support, guiding a multi-asset investment portfolio, and offering strategic leadership. In this work, we propel the university toward national…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 12 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 UP RVA ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds Pebble Beach Company Foundation ↗
- Who funds BOTANICAL GARDEN OF THE PIEDMONT ↗
- Who funds READYKIDS INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Oakwood Foundation Charitable Trust · Commonwealth Foundations · The Genan Foundation · The Oak Hill Fund · Caplin Foundation · Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Peter and Cara Goodwin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Peter and Cara Goodwin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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