How much did POTOMAC HEALTH FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 63% of POTOMAC HEALTH FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

arc greatergalaprimary carebridgingnvfs pediatricpediatric primarygmu

2020

covidcountworkhouse artsarts militaryoral summitrepairsprimary care

2021

gen opsbehavioral hlthmental hlthrepairspwccovidawareness

2022

platformcrisisstabilizationcatholic arlingtonarlington diocesediocese mothermercy free

2023

emergency foodliteracylegalcrisisstabilizationgeorge masonmason office

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 55 grants

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

$84,100

Median grant

States reached

$110M

Total assets

Largest grants

PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES$500,000
NORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICE$252,843
PATHWAY HOMES$250,000
ACTION IN COMMUNITY THROUGH SERVICE INC$250,000
THE ARC OF GREATER PRINCE WILLIAM$250,000
THE HOUSE STUDENT LEADERSHIP CENTER$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

02The need

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 (FY18–24, $4.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 6% — the area typically sits at 6%. 9% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

$40M · 91 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

91 repeat relationships — 47 still active in FY2024, 44 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$40M

$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%

+22%

Still filing today

51%

31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $376k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementOther

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

NV
NORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICE
7× · 2018–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +18%
NS
NOVA SCRIPTSCENTRAL INC
7× · 2018–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +37%
PH
PATHWAY HOMES
7× · 2018–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +49%

Funded once

VP
VA POVERTY LAW CENTER
one grant, 2021 · $218k
NK
NATIONAL KOREAN AMERICAN SERVICE & EDUCATION CONSORTIUM
one grant, 2021 · $163k
MO
MOTHER OF MERCY
one grant, 2021 · $125k

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.

Virginia Center for Inclusive

VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.

Civil Rights

The Commonwealth Institute for

To use policy, research, and analysis to advance the well-being of Virginia communities, and improve the economic security and social opportunities of all Virginians.

Public Benefit

Federation of Virginia Food Banks

Facilitating statewide collaboration among virginia's food banks, partners, and neighbors to improve nutrition security and empower strong, healthy communities.

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Virginia Community Action

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…

Human Services

Northern Virginia Affordable Housing

Increase supply of and equitable access to affordable housing in Northern Virginia through education, advocacy, and community partnership.

Housing & Shelter

People Incorporated of Virginia

To provide opportunities for economically disadvantaged people to reach their goals in order to enhance their lives, their families, and their communities.

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Virginia Community Development Fund Inc

To Promote the development of affordable housing for Virginia and West Virginias poorest and most underserved residents.

Housing & Shelter

Virginia Commonwealth University

Virignia commonwealth university intellectual property foundation's mission is to foster a culture of innovation at virginia commonwealth university (vcu) and to protect and commercialize inventions created by the vcu research enterprise…

Health

Virginia Community Voice Inc

To equip neighbors in marginalized communities to realize their vision for their community and to prepare institutions to respond effectively.

Community Improvement

Virginia Health Catalyst

Vhc is an alliance of over 100 individual and organizational partners striving to integrate oral health into all aspects of health care through education, public awareness and advocacy to ensure all virginians have access to oral health…

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Virginia Legal Aid Society Inc

Virginia Legal Aid Society, Inc. is a non-profit organization organized to provide legal assistance in non-criminal proceedings or matters to persons financially unable to afford legal assistance.

Crime & Legal

Habitat for Humanity Virginia

Habitat for Humanity Virginia provides support to Virginia affiliates so that they can build or facilitate affordable housing by offering advocacy, organizational development, funding, and resource development

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Virginia Center for Health Innovation and the most unlike its peers is Nami National. 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 28 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) — 6% 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 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/64

the rest of the field

11%

3,108/28,969

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.

05the grantee network

62 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

59/62

Grantees still filing

46/62

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$27,636,054Health$4,289,829Human Services$4,006,344Food & Nutrition$1,640,258Civil Rights$1,350,833Crime & Legal$1,332,716Education$993,912

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.

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.

The Community Foundation for NorthernVA49.7× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Northern · Sentara Health · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Human Services Alliance of Greater Prince William Inc · United Way of the National Capital Area · Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation · Act for Alexandria · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of The · Community Foundation for Loudoun And · If 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 organisation 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: NORTHERN VIRGINIA FOOD RESCUE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~0 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 37.8× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 853050369 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on NORTHERN VIRGINIA FOOD RESCUE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 0 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 89% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Potomac Health Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Potomac Health Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

POTOMAC HEALTH FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

62 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Potomac Health Foundation?

More from the funding graph

POTOMAC HEALTH FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

62 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Potomac Health Foundation?

More from the funding graph