Virginia · Private foundation
Red Gates 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.
- $67M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 33
- Grants FY2024
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 76%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $400,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $20,840,729
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 25
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.5B
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 76% of the organizations Red Gates Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 89% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 32 | $57M | 34% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $59M | 76% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $3.3M | 71% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $60k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $360k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Commonwealth Foundation for Cancer Research | $68,067,581 | 2 | 83% |
| Anna Julia Cooper School | $10,387,500 | 2 | 52% |
| Northstar Academy Inc | $5,750,000 | 3 | 51% |
| Concordance | $5,000,000 | 1 | 30% |
| YWCA Richmond | $3,500,000 | 1 | 34% |
| Liberation Veteran Services Inc | $3,156,031 | 2 | 58% |
| Vanderbilt University Medical Center | $3,000,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Focused Ultrasound Foundation | $2,750,000 | 2 | 12% |
| The Cross-Over Ministry Inc | $2,000,000 | 2 | 10% |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities of Richmond | $1,350,000 | 1 | 21% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($8.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Red Gates Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 10 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 31 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation Inc · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Pauley Family Foundation · Herndon Foundation · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · Pga Tour Charities Inc · Carmax Foundation · The William H - John G - Emma Scott Foundation · Honey Foundation · Robins Foundation · Virginia Sargeant Reynolds Foundation
How this is measured
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About Red Gates Foundation
- How much does Red Gates Foundation give?
- Red Gates Foundation reported 33 grants totaling $67,338,685 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 25 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Red Gates Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (54%), Education (33%), Human Services (4%).
- Who are Red Gates Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Commonwealth Foundation for Cancer Research ($68M), Anna Julia Cooper School ($10M), Northstar Academy Inc ($5.8M).
- Does Red Gates Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 76% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Red Gates Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Red Gates Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation Inc, The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation, Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Red Gates Foundation based?
- Red Gates Foundation is based in VA.
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