· Public charity
Project Discovery of Virginia Inc
To increase access to and prepare elementary through high school students for success in post-secondary education.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 16 grants below total $1,085,046 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,171,480 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $86,434 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $10k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $145k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $931k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PEOPLE INCORPORATE OF SWVA | $123,961 |
| THE STOP ORGANIZATION | $108,129 |
| MONTICELLO AREA COMMUNITY ACTION AG | $106,956 |
| HAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY ACTION GROU | $97,001 |
| TOTAL ACTION FOR PROGRESS | $95,660 |
| THE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION | $85,619 |
| WILLIAMSBURG JAMES CITY COUNCIL COM | $76,864 |
| CLINCH VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION AGEN | $73,541 |
| SUPPORT TO ELIMINATE POVERTY | $57,008 |
| CAPUP - RICHMOND | $55,727 |
| SKYLINE CAP | $50,126 |
| PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTIO | $47,563 |
| QUIN RIVERS DBA THRIVE VIRGINIA | $41,022 |
| THE MOORE LEGACY FOUNDATION | $32,583 |
| ARLINGTON HOUSING CORPORATION | $23,569 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- PIPEOPLE INCORPORATED OF VIRGINIA9× · 2017–2025 · $569k · revenue +70%
- TATOTAL ACTION AGAINST POVERTY IN THE ROANOKE VALLEY9× · 2017–2025 · $555k · revenue +29%
- HRHAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC9× · 2017–2025 · $511k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- EREMERGE RESOURCE LLCone grant, 2023 · $53k
- EEMERGEone grant, 2022 · $22k
- SISTEPS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $21k · revenue +47%
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.
Combat poverty by focusing on increasing self-sufficiency of low-income citizens.
We team with Community partners to provide human services with dignity and respect, empowering people in Southern Kentucky to achieve stability and economic security.
The agency provides health education, utilities assistance, and other social servics to low income families and senior citizens of bell & whitley counties, kentucky.
Tri-county community action (tccaa) is rooted in the community and is utilized by its citizens as a central repository for resources and services which address the needs of the community. tccaa has been a staple in the community for…
The community action council of howard county (cac) seeks to diminish poverty and enable self-sufficiency for all howard county individuals, families, and children in need through housing assistance, food assistance, energy assistance,…
The mission of community action for improvement, inc. is to build sustainable communities with partners by providing services and resources utilizing the whole family approach with low-income households to help reduce the burdens of…
Community action of northeast indiana, inc. helps communities, families, and individuals remove the causes and conditions of poverty.the organization achieves their purpose through the: provision of a range of services and activities…
Established to do all things necessary or proper to aid in eliminating poverty in jackson and vinton counties, ohio, directly or through other organizations
Mountain cap of west virginia, inc. provides services to the low income, underpriveleged and elderly citizens of west virginia through weatherization, medicaid waiver, low income housing, child services and other programs.
Invest in the community by offering services and sharing resources to empower individuals and families.
The organization seeks to reduce poverty, revitalize low income communities and empower low income individuals and families to become self-sufficient.
To improve and empower the lives of the people that we serve. to accomplish our mission, we help people help themselves by providing services which enables them to develop marketable skills, reduce barriers to employment, teach living…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hampton Roads Community Action Program Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Moore Legacy Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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. 21 of the 30 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 PEOPLE INCORPORATED OF VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds TOTAL ACTION AGAINST POVERTY IN THE ROANOKE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds HAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA PARTNERSHIP UPLIFTINGPEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds CLINCH VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds MONTICELLO AREA COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY ↗
- Who funds Quin Rivers Incorporated ↗
- Who funds THE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds STOP INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMSBURG JAMES CITY COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds SOLUTIONS THAT EMPOWER PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds AHC INC ↗
- Who funds SKYLINE CAP ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds EASTERN SHORE AREA AGENCY ON AGING COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY ↗
- Who funds THE MOORE LEGACY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LYNCHBURG COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP I GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds STEPS INC ↗
- Who funds RADFORD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANVILLE AREA 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: 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
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 Project Discovery of Virginia Inc 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.