Virginia · Public charity
Project Discovery of Virginia Inc
To increase access to and prepare elementary through high school students for success in post-secondary education.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.1M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $73,541
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $123,961
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 20
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $119k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Project Discovery of Virginia Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 16 | $1.1M | 0% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $650k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $604k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $389k | 7% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $612k | 6% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $724k | 5% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $736k | 5% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $464k | 16% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| People Incorporated of Virginia | $568,782 | 9 | 1% |
| Total Action Against Poverty in the Roanoke Valley | $555,098 | 9 | 0% |
| Hampton Roads Community Action Program Inc | $511,258 | 9 | 0% |
| Capital Area Partnership Upliftingpeople Inc | $465,759 | 9 | 4% |
| Clinch Valley Community Action Inc | $372,147 | 9 | 1% |
| Monticello Area Community Action Agency | $349,202 | 8 | 9% |
| Quin Rivers Incorporated | $285,659 | 8 | 2% |
| The Improvement Association Inc | $281,171 | 8 | 2% |
| Stop Inc | $271,487 | 9 | 1% |
| Williamsburg James City County Community Action Agency Inc | $251,638 | 9 | 3% |
Show all 25 grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($106k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Project Discovery of Virginia Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Virginia Community Action Partnership Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Project Discovery of Virginia Inc
- How much does Project Discovery of Virginia Inc give?
- Project Discovery of Virginia Inc reported 16 itemized grants totaling $1,085,046, out of $1,171,480 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Project Discovery of Virginia Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (70%), Community Improvement (15%), Housing & Shelter (7%).
- Who are Project Discovery of Virginia Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: People Incorporated of Virginia ($569k), Total Action Against Poverty in the Roanoke Valley ($555k), Hampton Roads Community Action Program Inc ($511k).
- Does Project Discovery of Virginia Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Project Discovery of Virginia Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Virginia Community Action Partnership Inc, Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
- Where is Project Discovery of Virginia Inc based?
- Project Discovery of Virginia Inc is based in VA.
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