· Private foundation
Rathburn Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $194k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $44,000 |
| VIRGINIA ATHLETICS FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION - THE REAL MINISTRIES UGANDA FUND | $25,000 |
| THE ROCK CHURCH | $20,000 |
| UVA RECTORS AND VISITORS | $20,000 |
| CHILD HEALTH PARTNERSHIP | $10,000 |
| VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF AUTISM | $10,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESPONSE TO IMPROVE SIGHT | $10,000 |
| CHURCH OF THE INCARNATION - HAITI MINISTRY | $10,000 |
| FOOTHILLS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER | $10,000 |
| THOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION | $6,500 |
| MARTHA JEFFERSON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| HOSPICE OF THE PIEDMONT | $5,000 |
| THE ALS ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| FIRST TEE VIRGINIA BLUE RIDGE | $1,226 |
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 (FY17–23, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 50% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +68% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k 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
- GCGROVE CITY COLLEGE7× · 2017–2023 · $670k · revenue +68%
- VIVIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF AUTISM INC8× · 2017–2024 · $420k · revenue +297%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $51k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- LCLIFEPOINT COMMUNITY CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $25k
- NCNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue ×103 · 44% of their budget
- HNHADEN NURSING INSTITUTEone grant, 2017 · $20k
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.
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
Our mission is to heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value, supported by education and research.
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
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Our mission is to expand scientific knowledge and improve public health by designing and conducting world-class clinical trials and epidemiologic research.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
The corporation is organized and is operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes. all children's research institute supports, encourages, and engages in and conducts medical research and other research in…
We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.
Provides the community necessary medical care through specialty physicians.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Museum of Manhattan and the most unlike its peers is Entrega. 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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 45 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 GROVE CITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF AUTISM INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds Entrega ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT FAMILY YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds THERE WITH CARE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOOTHILLS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHILD HEALTH PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds TRUTH FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds THE GETTY MUSIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY INVESTMENT COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE BALLET 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: Perry Foundation Inc · Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · Manning Family Foundation · Whitney and Anne Stone Foundation · United Way of Greater Charlottesville · The Genan Foundation · Caplin Foundation · The Better Living Foundation · The Rimora Foundation · The J & E Berkley Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The Blackbaud Giving 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 Rathburn Family 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.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
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.