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Praxis Foundation (The)
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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k31 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $21k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $57k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AFFORDABLE HOUSING OPPORTUNITY FUND | $56,502 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JAMES RIVER | $10,337 |
| CHARLOTTESVILLE FREE CLINIC | $10,205 |
| CHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION EMILY COURIC LEADERSHIP FORUM | $9,550 |
| NO KID HUNGRY | $5,000 |
| MADISON HOUSE | $3,000 |
| NORTHERN PIEDMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| VIRGINIA PUBLIC ACCESS PROJECT | $3,000 |
| NATIONAL MS SOCIETY | $2,400 |
| WOMEN'S INITIATIVE | $2,008 |
| RESILIENCE EDUCATION | $2,000 |
| COMMUNITY INVESTMENT COLLABORATIVE | $2,000 |
| ALS ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $1,000 |
| BAY AREA SCORES | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +38% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 5 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- TATHE AFFORDABLE HOUSING OPPORTUNITY FUND3× · 2020–2024 · $320k · revenue +45%
- CFCHARLOTTESVILLE FREE CLINIC5× · 2020–2024 · $35k · revenue +9%
- VPVIRGINIA PUBLIC ACCESS PROJECT5× · 2020–2024 · $26k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- MCMUSTIQUE CHARITABLE FUNDone grant, 2020 · $25k
- YSYMCA - SOUTH HAMPTON ROADSone grant, 2020 · $10k
- UMUVA - MARIAN CHAPMAN MOORE LEADERSHIP AWARDone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
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The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.
VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.
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.
To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.
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To secure financial support that enables college-bound students to access and graduate from outstanding virginia independent higher education institutions.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Charlottesville Free Clinic and the most unlike its peers is The Affordable Housing Opportunity Fund. 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 32 years old; the field is 16. 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 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
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 83 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 AFFORDABLE HOUSING OPPORTUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds The Mustique Charitable Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTESVILLE FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA PUBLIC ACCESS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds RESILIENCE EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN PIEDMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ALBEMARLE COUNTY POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Performing Arts Workshop Inc ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA21 ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY INVESTMENT COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNTAIN FUND ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTESVILLE TOMORROW ↗
- Who funds Madison House ↗
- Who funds READYKIDS INC ↗
- Who funds DR LORNA BREEN HEROES' FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMPUTERS4KIDS ↗
- Who funds SupportWorks Housing ↗
- Who funds BENZIE AREA CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS INC ↗
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: Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · Perry Foundation Inc · Manning Family Foundation · Oakwood Foundation Charitable Trust · The Charles Fund Inc · The Genan Foundation · The J & E Berkley Foundation · United Way of Greater Charlottesville · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation · Caplin Foundation · The Stultz Foundation · The Better Living 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 Praxis Foundation (The) 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.
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