Skip to content
Praxis Foundation (The) at a glance

· Private foundation

Praxis Foundation (The)

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$123k
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$57k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$322kHealth$78kInternational$70kPublic Benefit$62kYouth Development$42kPhilanthropy$41kFood & Nutrition$25kCrime & Legal$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k31 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $21k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $57k
$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
VIRGINIA PUBLIC ACCESS PROJECT$3,000
MADISON HOUSE$3,000
NORTHERN PIEDMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$3,000
NATIONAL MS SOCIETY$2,400
WOMEN'S INITIATIVE$2,008
RESILIENCE EDUCATION$2,000
COMMUNITY INVESTMENT COLLABORATIVE$2,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$1,000
THE CHRIS LONG FOUNDATION$1,000
STEPPING STONE - READY KIDS$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%STEPPING STONE - READY KIDS: $1k → 8%STEPPING STONE - READY KIDS: $1k → 8%STEPPING STONE - READY KIDS: $1k → 8%GEORGIA'S FRIENDS: $500 → 8%SHELTER FOR HELP IN EMERGENCY: $250 → 8%SHELTER FOR HELP IN EMERGENCY: $250 → 8%MADISON HOUSE: $3k → 8%SHELTER FOR HELP IN EMERGENCY: $500 → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
NY
IA
PA
CA
VA
NM
NC
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$614k · 45 repeat orgs$113k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
31

Total granted

$614k
$97k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+10%

Still filing today

67%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesCrime & LegalPublic Safety & DisasterInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TA
    THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING OPPORTUNITY FUND
    3× · 2020–2024 · $320k · revenue +45%
  • CF
    CHARLOTTESVILLE FREE CLINIC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $35k · revenue +9%
  • VP
    VIRGINIA PUBLIC ACCESS PROJECT
    5× · 2020–2024 · $26k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • MC
    MUSTIQUE CHARITABLE FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • YS
    YMCA - SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CHARLOTTESVILLE
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Virginia Community Action Partnership Inc

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
2
Virginia Commonwealth University Intellectual Property Foundation

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…

Health
3
Vcu Investment Management Company

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…

Education
4
Voices for Virginia's Children

The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.

Civil Rights
5
Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities

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

Civil Rights
6
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
7
Community Memorial Hospital

To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.

Health
8
Virginia Early Childhood Foundation

Vecf is the non-partisan steward of virginia's promise for early childhood success.

Education
9
Virginia Community Food Connections

Our mission is to ensure the availability, access, and affordability of locally produced food by connecting local farmers and all members of the community through programs, awareness, and advocacy.

Food & Nutrition
10
The Virginia College Fund

Solicitation of public contributions on behalf of member colleges. provides foundations, businesses, and individuals a convenient way of supporting small colleges and universities in virginia.

Education
11
Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy

Working within the faith community to educate and mobilize citizen to create systemic social change for low income Virginians.

—
12
Va Foundation for Independent Colleges

To secure financial support that enables college-bound students to access and graduate from outstanding virginia independent higher education institutions.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Charlottesville Free Clinic; 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.
04the grantee network

45 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. 45 of the 83 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/45
Grantees still filing
31/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING OPPORTUNITY FUND: $320,127 · PhilanthropyTHE AFFORDABLE HOUSING OPPORTUNITY FUNDThe Mustique Charitable Foundation: $60,000 · PhilanthropyThe Mustique Charitable Foundation+4 more: $15,500 · PhilanthropyMUSTIQUE CHARITABLE FUND: $24,979 · OtherMUSTIQUE CHARITABLE FUNDCHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION EMILY COURIC LEADERSHIP FORUM: $23,992 · OtherCHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY…NO KID HUNGRY: $20,000 · OtherNO KID HUNGRYBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JAMES RIVER: $10,337 · OtherYMCA - SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS: $10,022 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CHARLOTTESVILLE: $10,000 · OtherUVA - MARIAN CHAPMAN MOORE LEADERSHIP AWARD: $10,000 · OtherNATIONAL MS SOCIETY: $9,400 · OtherPerforming Arts Workshop Inc: $7,000 · Other+52 more: $73,650 · Other+52 moreCHARLOTTESVILLE FREE CLINIC: $35,205 · HealthCHARLOTTE…THE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE: $17,728 · HealthTHE WOMEN…AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $3,000 · HealthDR LORNA BREEN HEROES' FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Health+4 more: $4,300 · Health+4 moreRESILIENCE EDUCATION: $19,000 · Crime & LegalTHE ALBEMARLE COUNTY POLICE FOUNDATION: $7,500 · Crime & LegalTHE FOUNTAIN FUND: $5,000 · Crime & LegalVIRGINIA PUBLIC ACCESS PROJECT: $26,000 · Public BenefitBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOMPUTERS4KIDS: $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMUNITY INVESTMENT COLLABORATIVE: $5,500 · Community ImprovementCHARLOTTESVILLE TOMORROW: $3,000 · Community Improvement
Philanthropy$395,627Other$199,380Health$63,233Crime & Legal$31,500Public Benefit$26,000Youth Development$17,000Community Improvement$8,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE AFFORDABLE HOUSING OPPORTUNITY FUND: $320,127 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetThe Mustique Charitable Foundation: $60,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetCHARLOTTESVILLE FREE CLINIC: $35,205 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetVIRGINIA PUBLIC ACCESS PROJECT: $26,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetRESILIENCE EDUCATION: $19,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE: $17,728 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHERN PIEDMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ALBEMARLE COUNTY POLICE FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetPerforming Arts Workshop Inc: $7,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVIRGINIA21: $6,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY INVESTMENT COLLABORATIVE: $5,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOUNTAIN FUND: $5,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMadison House: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetREADYKIDS INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDR LORNA BREEN HEROES' FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHARLOTTESVILLE TOMORROW: $3,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBENZIE AREA CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSupportWorks Housing: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRIDGE MINISTRY INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMPUTERS4KIDS: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSCOTTSVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $1,950 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC: $1,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVirginia Health Care Foundation: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHAMPTON FIRE & RESCUE INC: $1,250 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCHRIS LONG FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBUILDING GOODNESS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUPCHIEVE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPIEDMONT CASA INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MITFORD MUSEUM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBAY AREA SCORES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTER FOR HELP IN EMERGENCY INC: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPERUVIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHARLOTTESVILLE-ALBEMARLE RESCUE SQUAD: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA'S FRIENDS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEASTVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPA: $500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA HORSE CENTER FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBENZIE COUNTY COMMUNITY CHEST: $500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetVIRGINIA HUNTERS WHO CARE INC: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLEGAL PREP CHARTER ACADEMIES: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAUL OLIVER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
  • Who funds Madison House ↗
  • Who funds READYKIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds DR LORNA BREEN HEROES' FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHARLOTTESVILLE TOMORROW ↗
  • Who funds BENZIE AREA CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS INC ↗
  • Who funds CHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SupportWorks Housing ↗

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.

Charlottesville Area …Perry Foundation IncManning Family Founda…Oakwood Foundation Ch…The Charles Fund IncThe Genan FoundationThe J & E Berkley Fou…United Way of Greater…S&P Global Foundation…Caplin FoundationThe Stultz FoundationThe Better Living Fou…
Charlottesville Area Community FoundationVA56.4× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Praxis Foundation (The) funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Praxis Foundation (The). Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Praxis Foundation (The)?

    Find your warmest path to Praxis Foundation (The) through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 83 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

    Play a game based on Praxis Foundation (The)’s filings →

    More from the funding graph

    The unnamed billions
    grants reported with no recipient in the public record
    The regranting layer
    51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
    The DAF merry-go-round
    $9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
    The endowment market
    who holds foundation money, and what just moved
    The camps
    funders cluster by geography, not ideology
    By state
    where grant money is based, and what stays home