· Private foundation
Revada 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $67k
- $10k–50k31 grants · $696k
- $50k–250k36 grants · $2.6M
- $250k+2 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $250,000 |
| NORTHLIGHT THEATRE | $250,000 |
| THE IN SERIES INC | $200,000 |
| MOSIAC THEATER COMPANY OF DC | $125,000 |
| LIBRARY OF CONGRESS | $115,000 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| KNOX COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| THE PRAXIS PROJECT | $100,000 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $100,000 |
| SIGNATURE THEATRE | $100,000 |
| CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK | $100,000 |
| THE ART LEAGUE | $100,000 |
| NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS | $100,000 |
| LIBRARY OF CONGRESS | $85,000 |
| SIXTH AND I SYNAGOGUE | $85,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $517k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 30% of Revada Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 15% of the giving stays in VA; read by stated purpose it is 13% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +19% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
106 repeat relationships — 67 still active in FY2025, 39 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $224k 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
- STSIGNATURE THEATRE INC7× · 2019–2025 · $3.8M · revenue +70%
- BBBUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER INC2× · 2022–2023 · $3.0M · revenue +9%
University of Chicago3× · 2023–2025 · $2.8M · revenue +21%
Funded once
- BFBURGUNDY FARMone grant, 2022 · $1.0M
- PWPLANET WORDone grant, 2020 · $699k
- CFCapital Fringe Incone grant, 2019 · $503k · revenue -90% · 52% of their budget
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.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
See schedule o.inspired by our home city, baltimore center stage acts as a cultural catalyst for all communities to access theater in every form and engage in compelling conversations. programming: capture the collective imagination and…
The District of Columbia Arts Center serves the Washington DC area by presenting high caliber and challenging works. It encourages professionalism among artists by providing a forum for educational and cultural exchange. DCAC was founded…
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
Washington performing arts champions the arts as a unifying force. through collaborations with artists, educators, community leaders, and institutional partners, we bring wide-ranging artistic programs to stages, schools, and neighborhoods…
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
To invest in america's finest artists and illuminate the value of artists to society.
Stages makes plays and tells stories that invite everyone to live more deeply and love more boldly.
To produce bold theatre experiences that reach across artistic, physical and social boundries. We aim to increase empathy and open-mindedness by illuminating nuanced perspectives and unspoken truths behind the salient issues of our time.…
The chicago theatre group is committed to producing both classic and contemporary works giving full voice to a wide range of artists and visions. by dedicating itself to three guiding principles - quality, equity, and community - the…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts and the most unlike its peers is Rural Dog Rescue. 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.
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 32 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
109 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. 109 of the 157 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 THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds SIGNATURE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds BUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds THE STUDIO ACTING CONSERVATORY INC ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds KNOX COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE CODEX FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BUSHWICK STARR INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PRAXIS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds MOSAIC THEATER COMPANY OF DC ↗
- Who funds SIXTH & I SYNAGOGUE INC ↗
- Who funds Capital Fringe Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHLIGHT THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds IN SERIES INC ↗
- Who funds Live It Learn It ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds The Ohio University Foundation ↗
- Who funds THEATREWASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds EDLAVITCH JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF WASHINGTON DC INC ↗
- Who funds Critical Exposure Inc ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds ALIVE Inc ↗
- Who funds 1ST STAGE INC ↗
- Who funds Search Inc ↗
- Who funds MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM ↗
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: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Nora Roberts Foundation · Humanities Council of Washington DC · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · Latino Economic Development Corporation · Weissberg 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 Revada 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.
- The American Visionary Art Museum Inc — 6% 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.