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.

Where is Project Discovery of Virginia Inc based?

Project Discovery of Virginia Inc is based in VA.

Project Discovery of Virginia Inc

Project Discovery of Virginia Inc at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$124k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$4.0MCommunity Improvement$854kHousing & Shelter$410kInternational$237kEducation$98kEnvironment$53kEmployment$21kFood & Nutrition$19kOther$0

02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 16 grants below total $1,085,046, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,171,480 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $86,434 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k1 grant · $10k
$10k–50k4 grants · $145k
$50k–250k11 grants · $931k

$73,541

Median grant

States reached

$119k

Total assets

Largest grants
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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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.

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$5.5M · 22 repeat orgs$146k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$5.5M

$146k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%

Still filing today

77%

38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterEducationYouth DevelopmentOther

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

PI
PEOPLE INCORPORATED OF VIRGINIA
9× · 2017–2025 · $569k · revenue +70%
TA
TOTAL ACTION AGAINST POVERTY IN THE ROANOKE VALLEY
9× · 2017–2025 · $555k · revenue +29%
HR
HAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $511k · revenue +36%

Funded once

ER
EMERGE RESOURCE LLC
one grant, 2023 · $53k
E
EMERGE
one grant, 2022 · $22k
SI
STEPS INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $21k · revenue +47%

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.

Rooftop of Virginia Cap

Combat poverty by focusing on increasing self-sufficiency of low-income citizens.

Community Improvement

Community Action of Southern Kentucky Inc

We team with Community partners to provide human services with dignity and respect, empowering people in Southern Kentucky to achieve stability and economic security.

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Bell-Whitley Community Action Agency Inc

The agency provides health education, utilities assistance, and other social servics to low income families and senior citizens of bell & whitley counties, kentucky.

Human Services

Tri-County Community Action Agency Tri-County Community Action Agency

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…

Human Services

Community Action Council of Howard County Maryland Inc

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,…

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Community Action for Improvement Inc

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…

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Community Action of Northeast Indiana Inc

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…

Community Improvement

Jackson-Vinton Community Action Inc

Established to do all things necessary or proper to aid in eliminating poverty in jackson and vinton counties, ohio, directly or through other organizations

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Mountain Cap of West Virginia Inc

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.

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Nicholas Community Action Partnership Inc

Invest in the community by offering services and sharing resources to empower individuals and families.

Human Services

Fauquier Community Action Committee Inc

The organization seeks to reduce poverty, revitalize low income communities and empower low income individuals and families to become self-sufficient.

Human Services

Southeastern Community Action Partnership Inc

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…

Human Services

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hampton Roads Community Action Program Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 30 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

20/21

Grantees still filing

15/21

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Human Services$2,396,443Other$2,104,421Community Improvement$748,287Housing & Shelter$368,438Education$68,883Youth Development$6,644

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

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.

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.

Virginia Community Action Partnership IncVA28.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Project Discovery of Virginia Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Project Discovery of Virginia Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

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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