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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 FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$21M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$78MEducation$47MHuman Services$5.1MCrime & Legal$5.0MHousing & Shelter$3.2MReligion$1.8MRecreation & Sports$1.4MEmployment$400kOther$0
02FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $725k
  • $250k+24 grants · $67M
$400,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.5B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH$20,840,729
ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL$10,200,000
VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC$10,000,000
CONCORDANCE$5,000,000
YWCA RICHMOND$3,500,000
LIBERATION VETERAN SERVICES$2,372,100
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER$2,000,000
DARDEN SCHOOL$1,964,000
FOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION$1,960,629
RONALD MCDONAOLD HOUSE CHARITIES OF RICHMOND$1,350,000
RICHMOND FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION$1,100,000
NORTHSTAR ACADEMY$1,000,000
CROSSOVER HEALTHCARE MINISTRY$1,000,000
NEW SCHOOLS FOR VIRGINIA CORPORATION$850,000
CRISTO REY$600,000
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 (FY23–24, $4.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AMERICAN CORPORATE PARTNERS: $400k → 17%ST JOSEPH'S VILLA: $250k → 9%YWCA RICHMOND: $3.5M → 22%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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$107M · 22 repeat orgs$14M to everyone else

22 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
5

Total granted

$107M
$595k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-2%
+35%

Still filing today

82%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13M 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
HealthEducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterArts & CultureOther
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

  • AJ
    ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL
    2× · 2023–2024 · $10M · revenue +253% · 52% of their budget
  • VU
    Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    2× · 2023–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +25%
  • FU
    FOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +97%

Funded once

  • RF
    RICHMOND FIRST TEE
    one grant, 2020 · $300k · revenue -45%
  • SJ
    ST JOSEPH'S VILLAgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +35%
  • VE
    VIRGINIA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +25%
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
Virginia Commonwealth University Intellectual Property Foundation

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…

Health
2
Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities

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

Civil Rights
3
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
4
Virginia Tech Applied Research Corporation

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.

Science & Tech
5
Vcu Health Tappahannock Hospital

To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.

Health
6
Va Foundation for Independent Colleges

To secure financial support that enables college-bound students to access and graduate from outstanding virginia independent higher education institutions.

Education
7
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

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).

Education
8
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.

—
9
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
10
Community Memorial Hospital

To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.

Health
11
Startup Virginia Inc

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.

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 Sheltering Arms Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Cirque Lodge Foundation. 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

33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 39 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.

10
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
17/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $68,067,581 · HealthCOMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCHVanderbilt University Medical Center: $3,000,000 · HealthFOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION: $2,750,000 · Health+6 more: $4,015,000 · HealthVIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $22,500,000 · EducationVIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INCANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL: $10,387,500 · EducationANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOLNORTHSTAR ACADEMY INC: $5,750,000 · EducationNORTHSTAR ACADEMY INC+7 more: $2,670,000 · Education+7 moreDARDEN SCHOOL: $5,000,000 · OtherCRISTO REY: $1,800,000 · OtherFIRST TEE GREATER RICHMOND: $1,000,000 · OtherELIJAH HOUSE ACADEMY: $650,000 · Other+8 more: $1,488,000 · OtherYWCA RICHMOND: $3,500,000 · Human ServicesRICHMOND FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION: $1,100,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN CORPORATE PARTNERS: $400,000 · Human ServicesST JOSEPH'S VILLA: $250,000 · Human ServicesCONCORDANCE: $5,000,000 · Crime & LegalLIBERATION VETERAN SERVICES INC: $3,156,031 · Housing & ShelterMETROPOLITAN RICHMOND SPORTS BACKERS: $325,000 · Recreation & SportsGREATER RICHMOND AQUATICS PARTNERSHIP: $100,000 · Recreation & Sports
Health$77,832,581Education$41,307,500Other$9,938,000Human Services$5,250,000Crime & Legal$5,000,000Housing & Shelter$3,156,031Recreation & Sports$425,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $68,067,581 over 2y, 83% of budgetVIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $22,500,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL: $10,387,500 over 2y, 52% of budgetNORTHSTAR ACADEMY INC: $5,750,000 over 3y, 51% of budgetCONCORDANCE: $5,000,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetYWCA RICHMOND: $3,500,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetLIBERATION VETERAN SERVICES INC: $3,156,031 over 2y, 58% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $3,000,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION: $2,750,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetTHE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC: $2,000,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF RICHMOND: $1,350,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetNEW SCHOOLS FOR VIRGINIA: $1,350,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetRICHMOND FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION: $1,100,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetELIJAH HOUSE ACADEMY: $650,000 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetUP RVA: $500,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetAMERICAN CORPORATE PARTNERS: $400,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetTHE AUTISM PROGRAM OF VIRGINIA: $375,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetMETROPOLITAN RICHMOND SPORTS BACKERS: $325,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetRICHMOND FIRST TEE: $300,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetCommunity Coalition of Sussex: $300,000 over 3y, 41% of budgetGoochlandCares: $250,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetVIRGINIA LITERACY FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetST JOSEPH'S VILLA: $250,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetOPERATION PATRIOTS FOB INC: $250,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetSt Andrew's School: $200,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetVIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $200,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetGREATER RICHMOND AQUATICS PARTNERSHIP: $100,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCIRQUE LODGE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetJAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION: $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVIRGINIA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTERING ARMS CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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…The Mary Morton Parso…Dominion Energy Chari…The Pauley Family Fou…Herndon FoundationRichard S Reynolds Fo…Pga Tour Charities IncCarmax FoundationThe William H - John …Honey FoundationRobins FoundationVirginia Sargeant Rey…
The Community Foundation IncVA44.3× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report 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

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    How do I get to Red Gates Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Red Gates 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 39 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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