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Reco 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.

$4.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$4.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Education$4.3MPhilanthropy$1.3MFood & Nutrition$245kHealth$105kHuman Services$73kHousing & Shelter$72kArts & Culture$26kYouth Development$26kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$4,000,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CRISTO REY RICHMOND HIGH SCHOOL$4,000,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%GATOR WILDERNESS CAMP SCHOOL: $8k → 9%GATOR WILDERNESS CAMP SCHOOL: $8k → 9%COMMONWEALTH CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $4k → 9%GATOR WILDERNESS CAMP SCHOOL: $5k → 9%CHESTERFIELD-COLONIAL HEIGHTS CHRISTMAS MOTHER: $1k → 7%COMMONWEALTH CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $4k → 9%CHESTERFIELD-COLONIAL HGTS CHRISTMAS MOTHER: $1k → 7%COMMONWEALTH CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $3k → 9%CHESTERFIELD-COLONIAL HEIGHTS CHRISTMAS MOTHER: $1k → 7%FAMILIES OF THE WOUNDED FUND INC: $1k → 7%FAMILIES OF THE WOUNDED FUND INC: $1k → 7%FAMILIES OF THE WOUNDED FUND INC: $1k → 7%RELATIONSHIP FOUNDATION OF VIRGINIA: $1k → 9%RELATIONSHIP FOUNDATION OF VIRGINIA: $1k → 9%RELATIONSHIP FOUNDATION OF VIRGINIA: $1k → 9%SAFE HARBOR: $1k → 22%SAFE HARBOR: $1k → 22%HENRICO CHRISTMAS MOTHER: $1k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.8M · 72 repeat orgs$352k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.

72 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 71 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

72
34

Total granted

$5.8M
$352k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+35%

Still filing today

69%
24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionInternationalOther

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

  • CR
    Cristo Rey Richmond High School Inc
    4× · 2020–2024 · $4.2M · revenue +44% · 43% of their budget
  • FM
    FEED MORE INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $238k · revenue +29%
  • AJ
    ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL
    3× · 2020–2022 · $73k · revenue +276%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY GREATER RICHMOND - PETERSBURG
    one grant, 2020 · $292k
  • HB
    HEALTH BRIGADE
    one grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue -9%
  • AA
    ALZHEIMER ASSOCIATION - GREATER RICHMOND
    one grant, 2021 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Bon Secours - Richmond Health System Inc

The mission is to bring compassion to health care and to be good to those in need, especially those who are poor and dying. as a system of caregivers, we commit ourselves to help bring people and communities to health and wholeness.

Health
2
Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities

VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.

Civil Rights
3
Vmrc Foundation Inc

We are a christ-centered community cultivating compassion, integrity and respect for aging well and living fully.

Human Services
4
Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce

Chamberrva is the trusted voice for modern business in the richmond virginia region. we are change agents, rallying to do the hard things that will create a more connected, prosperous, health and equitable community.

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5
Community Memorial Hospital

To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.

Health
6
Voices for Virginia's Children

The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.

Civil Rights
7
Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy

Working within the faith community to educate and mobilize citizen to create systemic social change for low income Virginians.

—
8
Vcu Investment Management Company

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…

Education
9
Virginia Lutheran Homes Inc

Providing life-enriching services that promote well-being and build community.

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10
New Schools for Virginia

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.

Education
11
Community Health Center of Richmond Inc

The organization's mission is to sustain a vibrant, healthy and strong community through affordable, culturally competent, quality primary health care.

Health
12
Vpm Media Corporation

To use the power of media to educate, entertain and inspire, using public television and public radio to make a positive impact on the communities throughout central virginia, charlottesville, the shenandoah valley, the northern neck and…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Commonwealth Catholic Charities and the most unlike its peers is Elizabeth Kates 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.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyIndependent K-12 SchoolsDiverse Community Service O…Youth & Community Empowerme…Richmond Community Developm…Civic Service ClubsFaith-Based Recovery & Empo…Virginia Education & Workfo…Youth Sports ProgramsRichmond Arts & Culture Org…Military Heritage & Veteran…Faith-Based Human ServicesRichmond Community Developm…Senior Housing & Supportive…Community Health & Social S…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%0%<5yr16%5%5–10yr17%7%10–20yr15%26%20–35yr15%33%35–55yr13%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%0%<5yr16%1%5–10yr17%74%10–20yr15%1%20–35yr15%6%35–55yr13%18%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/61
the rest of the field
14%
841/5,957

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.

04the grantee network

59 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 59 of the 106 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/59
Grantees still filing
48/59
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Cristo Rey Richmond High School Inc — $4,190,000 · EducationCristo Rey Richmond High School Inc+6 more — $83,000 · EducationUNITED WAY OF GREATER RICHMOND & PETERSBURG — $1,005,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF GREATER RICHM…UNITED WAY GREATER RICHMOND - PETERSBURG — $292,000 · OtherUNITED WAY GREATER RICHMOND…+69 more — $182,850 · Other+69 moreFEED MORE INC — $237,500 · Food & Nutrition+2 more — $5,500 · Food & NutritionCARITAS — $70,000 · Housing & ShelterRESILIENT RETREAT INC — $20,500 · HealthGoochlandCares — $14,500 · HealthTHE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC — $11,500 · HealthThe Virginia Home — $7,500 · Health+4 more — $7,000 · HealthGATOR WILDERNESS CAMP SCHOOL INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesCommonwealth Catholic Charities — $10,500 · Human ServicesFATHERHOOD FOUNDATION OF VIRGINIA — $3,000 · Human ServicesCHESTERFIELD-COLONIAL HEIGHTS CHRISTMAS MOTHER INC — $3,000 · Human ServicesFAMILIES OF THE WOUNDED FUND INC — $3,000 · Human ServicesSAFE HARBOR — $2,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT 180 SARASOTA INC — $1,500 · Human Services+1 more — $1,000 · Human ServicesMAYMONT FOUNDATION — $6,000 · Arts & CultureART 180 Inc — $2,000 · Arts & CultureSCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $2,000 · Arts & CultureTHE RICHMOND SYMPHONY — $2,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC RICHMOND FOUNDATION — $2,000 · Arts & CultureChildren's Museum of Richmond — $2,000 · Arts & CultureTHE VALENTINE MUSEUM — $2,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$4,273,000Other$1,479,850Food & Nutrition$243,000Housing & Shelter$70,000Health$61,000Human Services$44,000Arts & Culture$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCristo Rey Richmond High School Inc — $4,190,000 over 4y, 43% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER RICHMOND & PETERSBURG — $1,005,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetFEED MORE INC — $237,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL — $72,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCARITAS — $70,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetRESILIENT RETREAT INC — $20,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGATOR WILDERNESS CAMP SCHOOL INC — $20,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGoochlandCares — $14,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC — $11,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCommonwealth Catholic Charities — $10,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD PEDIATRICS — $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JOHN MARSHALL FOUNDATION — $8,500 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetThe Virginia Home — $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAYMONT FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTH BRIGADE — $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH LIFE FOUNDATION OF RICHMOND — $4,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetELIZABETH KATES FOUNDATION INC — $3,500 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFATHERHOOD FOUNDATION OF VIRGINIA — $3,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCHESTERFIELD-COLONIAL HEIGHTS CHRISTMAS MOTHER INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCENTRAL VIRGINIA LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILIES OF THE WOUNDED FUND INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetRICHMOND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHANOVER CHRISTMAS MOTHER INC — $3,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetSOAR 365 — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJames River Horse Foundation — $2,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJSARGEANT REYNOLDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOAZ AND RUTH INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetART 180 Inc — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW LIFE FOR YOUTH INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERSIDE SCHOOL INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VIRGINIA COLLEGE FUND — $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RICHMOND SYMPHONY — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONNORS HEROES FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYELLOW RIBBON FUND INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRICHMOND HILL INCORPORATED — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAFE HARBOR — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHISTORIC RICHMOND FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetELK HILL FARM INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRI-RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $2,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetChildren's Museum of Richmond — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VALENTINE MUSEUM — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMercy Medical Angels — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Olympics Virginia Inc — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Community Foundat…Herndon FoundationDominion Energy Chari…Shelton H Short Jr Tr…The Pauley Family Fou…The Mary Morton Parso…Carmax FoundationRichard S Reynolds Fo…Virginia Nonprofit Ho…The William H - John …Robins FoundationTesco Foundation
The Community Foundation IncVA64.9× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation Inc · Herndon Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Shelton H Short Jr Trust · The Pauley Family Foundation · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Carmax Foundation · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · Virginia Nonprofit Housing Coalition · The William H - John G - Emma Scott Foundation · Robins Foundation · Tesco 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 Reco 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • All Faiths Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Yellow Ribbon Fund Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Resilient Retreat Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
20report 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

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Reco Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Reco Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 106 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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