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Reco Foundation

Its FY2025 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 FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$4.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$4.3MPhilanthropy$1.3MFood & Nutrition$245kHealth$105kHuman Services$73kHousing & Shelter$72kArts & Culture$26kYouth Development$26kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$4,000,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAINT FRANCIS MANCHESTER$4,000,000
02The need
03

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%GATOR WILDERNESS CAMP SCHOOL: $8k → 9%CHESTERFIELD-COLONIAL HEIGHTS CHRISTMAS MOTHER: $1k → 7%GATOR WILDERNESS CAMP SCHOOL: $8k → 9%COMMONWEALTH CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $4k → 9%GATOR WILDERNESS CAMP SCHOOL: $5k → 9%CHESTERFIELD-COLONIAL HGTS CHRISTMAS MOTHER: $1k → 7%COMMONWEALTH CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $4k → 9%CHESTERFIELD-COLONIAL HEIGHTS CHRISTMAS MOTHER: $1k → 7%COMMONWEALTH CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $3k → 9%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
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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.8M · 72 repeat orgs$4.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.

72 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 72 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

72
34

Total granted

$5.8M
$352k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+35%

Still filing today

69%
24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionInternationalOther
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

  • 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
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.

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
Virginia Lutheran Homes Inc

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

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5
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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6
Community Memorial Hospital

To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.

Health
7
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
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 Interfaith Center for Public Policy

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

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10
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
11
SeniorNavigatorcom

SeniorNavigator and its family of websites are national models for aging, disability and veteran information. By combining online assistance with a network of community-based centers, the websites bring over 26,000 community resources,…

Community Improvement
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Commonwealth Catholic Charities; 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.
04the grantee network

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

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 60 of the 107 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/60
Grantees still filing
48/60
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAINT FRANCIS HOME INC: $4,000,000 · OtherSAINT FRANCIS HOME INCUNITED WAY OF GREATER RICHMOND & PETERSBURG: $1,005,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF GREATER RICHMOND & PETERSBURGUNITED WAY GREATER RICHMOND - PETERSBURG: $292,000 · Other+69 more: $182,850 · OtherCristo Rey Richmond High School Inc: $4,190,000 · EducationCristo Rey Richmond High School Inc+6 more: $83,000 · EducationFEED 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 & CultureHISTORIC RICHMOND FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $2,000 · Arts & CultureChildren's Museum of Richmond: $2,000 · Arts & CultureSCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureTHE RICHMOND SYMPHONY: $2,000 · Arts & CultureTHE VALENTINE MUSEUM: $2,000 · Arts & CultureART 180 Inc: $2,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$5,479,850Education$4,273,000Food & Nutrition$243,000Housing & Shelter$70,000Health$61,000Human Services$44,000Arts & Culture$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCristo Rey Richmond High School Inc: $4,190,000 over 4y, 43% of budgetSAINT FRANCIS HOME INC: $4,000,000 over 1y, 79% 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 budgetCENTRAL VIRGINIA LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOAR 365: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHANOVER CHRISTMAS MOTHER INC: $3,000 over 3y, 1.2% 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 budgetRICHMOND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILIES OF THE WOUNDED FUND INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetJames River Horse Foundation: $2,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHENRICO POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW LIFE FOR YOUTH INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSpecial Olympics Virginia Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VIRGINIA COLLEGE FUND: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCONNORS HEROES FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHISTORIC RICHMOND FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetELK HILL FARM INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJSARGEANT REYNOLDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYELLOW RIBBON FUND INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE HARBOR: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Museum of Richmond: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREADING AND EDUCATION FOR ADULT DEVELOPMENT: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRIVERSIDE SCHOOL INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRICHMOND HILL INCORPORATED: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RICHMOND SYMPHONY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRI-RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $2,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budget
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.

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

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 Reco Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Reco Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%13%28%50%funder's 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
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.
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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 107 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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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