· Private foundation
Potomac Health Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k15 grants · $441k
- $50k–250k34 grants · $3.7M
- $250k+6 grants · $1.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES | $500,000 |
| NORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICE | $252,843 |
| THE ARC OF GREATER PRINCE WILLIAM | $250,000 |
| PATHWAY HOMES | $250,000 |
| THE HOUSE STUDENT LEADERSHIP CENTER | $250,000 |
| ACTION IN COMMUNITY THROUGH SERVICE INC | $250,000 |
| YOUTH FOR TOMORROW | $247,280 |
| VIRGINIA POVERTY LAW CENTER | $192,135 |
| INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH INNOVATION | $178,574 |
| THE FENWICK FOUNDATION | $167,500 |
| GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF SPONSORED PROGRAMS | $150,000 |
| LEGAL AID JUSTICE CENTER | $150,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER WASHINGTON | $146,762 |
| SCAN OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA | $133,333 |
| YOUNG INVINCIBLES | $133,333 |
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 (FY17–24, $4.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 13% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
84 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2024, 40 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $391k 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
- GPGREATER PRINCE WILLIAM AREA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +113%
- NVNORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +17%
- YFYOUTH FOR TOMORROW-NEW LIFE CENTER INC7× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +130%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $162k
- MOMOTHER OF MERCYone grant, 2021 · $125k
- VFVOICES FOR VA'S CHILDRENone grant, 2021 · $78k
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 establish an effective, long-term and resilient political infrastructure that advocates for and delivers public policy victories which reflect the values held in common by our members.
Virginia community action partnership (vacap) is the statewide membership association for virginia's thirty-one non-profit and public community action agencies. vacaps mission is to build the capacity and competencies of virginias…
VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.
Facilitating statewide collaboration among Virginia's food banks, partners, and neighbors to improve nutrition security and empower strong, healthy communities.
VCDC delivers vital financial resources and support while collaborating with local organizations dedicated to social impact, ensuring the creation of affordable homes in vibrant neighborhoods where everyone can thrive.
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…
Provide Virginia health plans a voice in promoting quality and affordable healthcare through advocacy, communication, education, and research.
New Virginia Majority is a grassroots organization that works with low income people in local communities through leadership development, trainings and workshops, issue education and advocacy.
SeniorNavigator and its family of websites are national models for aging, disability and veteran information. By combining online assistance with a network of community-based centers, the websites bring over 26,000 community resources,…
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.
The voice for victims of crime and those who serve them
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Path Partnerships and the most unlike its peers is If Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
79 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. 79 of the 134 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 GREATER PRINCE WILLIAM AREA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH FOR TOMORROW-NEW LIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NOVA ScriptsCentral ↗
- Who funds PATHWAY HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds FREDERICKSBURG AREA REGIONAL HEALTH COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF GREATER PRINCE WILLIAM/INSIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds THE VIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG INVINCIBLES ↗
- Who funds INOVA HEALTH CARE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Prince William Area Free Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL KOREAN AMERICAN SERVICE AND EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC ↗
- Who funds SCAN OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds National Capital Poison Center ↗
- Who funds Workhouse Arts Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH INNOVATION ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COALITION OF 100 BLACK WOMEN ↗
- Who funds RX DRUG ACCESS PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN VIRGINIA FOOD RESCUE ↗
- Who funds PROJECT MEND-A-HOUSE INCORPORATION ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA CENTER FOR HEALTH INNOVATION ↗
- Who funds VOICES FOR VIRGINIA'S CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds BRAIN INJURY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds FENWICK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRINCE WILLIAM DROP IN CENTER DBA TRILLIUM DROP IN CENTER ↗
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: The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · Sentara Health · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Human Services Alliance of Greater Prince William Inc · Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · United Way of the National Capital Area · Community Foundation for Loudoun and Northern Fauquier Counties · Act for Alexandria · Uva Prince William Medical Center
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 Potomac Health Foundation 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.
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.