· Private foundation
Richard S Reynolds Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $478k
- $50k–250k31 grants · $2.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC | $150,000 |
| TRINITY EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $130,000 |
| WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL | $130,000 |
| VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $125,000 |
| VIRGINIA COMMEMORATIONS INC | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND | $100,000 |
| SAINT GERTRUDE HIGH SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| BELLARMINE UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| THE JEMICY SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| ST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL | $80,000 |
| REYNOLDS HOMESTEAD | $80,000 |
| ST CHRISTOPHER'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $70,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $65,000 |
| UP RVA | $55,000 |
| JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $659k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 30% 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 5% of Richard S Reynolds 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, 86% of the giving stays in VA; read by stated purpose it is 82% — 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 +26% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
146 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2025, 108 since wound down; 21 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $685k 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
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2025 · $953k · revenue +20%- WFWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL6× · 2020–2025 · $670k · revenue +52%
- TRTHE RICHMOND BALLET9× · 2017–2025 · $608k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- CMCROSSROADS MEDICAL MISSIONone grant, 2024 · $125k · revenue -13%
- UEUSOOperation Enduring Careone grant, 2017 · $100k
- NDNATIONAL D-DAY MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +53%
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.
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…
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…
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).
The university of virginia law school foundation's primary purpose is to receive, manage and expend funds for the benefit of the university of virginia school of law.
To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.
To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…
To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.
The William & Mary Foundation advances the university's highest aspirations by securing private support, guiding a multi-asset investment portfolio, and offering strategic leadership. In this work, we propel the university toward national…
Virginia tech foundation, inc. (vtf) is a virginia nonstock corporation established in 1948 for the sole purpose of managing virginia tech's endowment to advance virginia tech's mission and its strategic priorities.
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.
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.
To secure financial support that enables college-bound students to access and graduate from outstanding virginia independent higher education institutions.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Southampton County Historical Society. 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 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
211 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. 211 of the 293 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE RICHMOND BALLET ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds SHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Patrick County Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds GoochlandCares ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA COMMEMORATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds BELLARMINE UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LIBERATION VETERAN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NORTHSTAR ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH'S VILLA ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Foxcroft School ↗
- Who funds JAMESTOWN-YORKTOWN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE RICHMOND SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds MAYMONT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST CHRISTOPHER'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds LEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Clifton Forge Company ↗
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 Community Foundation Inc · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Herndon Foundation · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation · Robins Foundation · Shelton H Short Jr Trust · The Pauley Family Foundation · Tesco Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Virginia Sargeant Reynolds Foundation · Virginia Nonprofit Housing Coalition · The William H - John G - Emma Scott 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 Richard S Reynolds 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.
- Maxville Heritage Interpretive Center — 100% of income from government
- Paul's Place Inc — 29% of income from government
- Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Baseball Inc — 1% of income from government
- Greater Baltimore Medical Center Inc — 0% 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.
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