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Quantitative Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
55% of Quantitative Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Charlottesville Area Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 19 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Quantitative Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 25 organizations, $6M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $467k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $590k
- $250k+2 grants · $4.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UVA | $3,636,000 |
| AFFORDABLE HOUSING OPPORTUNITY FUND | $1,000,000 |
| CHARLOTTESVILLE DAY SCHOOL | $225,000 |
| CHARLOTTESVILLE BIOHUB | $100,000 |
| WAKEFIELD COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $80,000 |
| VENTURE CENTRAL INC | $75,000 |
| WOMEN'S INITIATIVE | $60,000 |
| NETWORK2WORK USA | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITY INVESTMENT COLLABORATIVE | $40,000 |
| FRIENDS OF CHARLOTTESVILLE DOWNTOWN | $35,000 |
| YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA | $30,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA | $25,000 |
| MADISON HOUSE | $25,000 |
| THE FRONT PORCH | $25,000 |
| MUSIC RESOURCE CENTER | $25,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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 +7% for the ones you funded once.
49 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2023, 21 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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
- CDCHARLOTTESVILLE DAY SCHOOL INC3× · 2022–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +18%
- GMGRYMES MEMORIAL SCHOOL INC2× · 2022–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +1%
- TUTHE UVA SCHOOL OF EDUCATION AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC2× · 2019–2020 · $550k · revenue +329% · 28% of their budget
Funded once
- UOUniversity of Virginia Financial Engineering Centerone grant, 2019 · $60M
- USUVA SCHOOL OF DATA SCIENCEone grant, 2022 · $17M
- USUVA SCHOOL OF EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENTone grant, 2022 · $1.5M
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.
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…
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
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…
New schools for virginia works with parents, students, educators and the community to improve educational outcomes by designing new schools and by supporting existing schools to improve outcomes.
To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…
The mission of the northern virginia technology council (nvtc) is to accelerate tech innovation and promote a world class workforce. nvtc connects, educates, advocates and celebrates the region's thriving tech ecosystem.
To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.
The mission of vt-arc is to extend the impact of the virginia tech research and innovation enterprise, delivering superior analytic and technology solutions to government and non-government customers.
The university of virginia law school foundation's primary purpose is to receive, manage and expend funds for the benefit of the university of virginia school of law.
Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.
Startup virginia is a non-profit, high-growth-business incubator, dedicated to building a long-term, sustainable economy for virginia. we connect our startup community to exceptional mentors and extensive programs in a dynamic workspace.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Uva School of Education and Human Development Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Geismar Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 76 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 CHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTESVILLE DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds GRYMES MEMORIAL SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING OPPORTUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds ST ANNE'S-BELFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds THE UVA SCHOOL OF EDUCATION AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY INVESTMENT COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTESVILLE BIOHUB ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds VENTURE CENTRAL INC ↗
- Who funds CVILLEBIOHUB ↗
- Who funds THE 30 DAY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WAKEFIELD COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FORGE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF AUTISM INC ↗
- Who funds CONCORD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Special Olympics Virginia Inc ↗
- Who funds SHADY HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTESVILLE COMMUNITY BIKES ↗
- Who funds Madison House ↗
- Who funds SQUASH AND EDUCATION ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds TOM TOM FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Manning Family Foundation · Caplin Foundation · Perry Foundation Inc · The Genan Foundation · The J & E Berkley Foundation · The Rimora Foundation · Praxis Foundation (The) · The Charles Fund Inc · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · Whitney and Anne Stone 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 Quantitative Foundation 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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