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· Public charity

Richmond Eye and Ear Foundation

To operate exclusively for the benefit of richmond eye and ear healthcare alliance (reeha).

$1k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$675kScience & Tech$633kHuman Services$455kEducation$38kRecreation & Sports$35kArts & Culture$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$105k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$1,000
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 (FY17–19, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%VIRGINIA VOICE FOR THE PRINT HANDICAPPED: $40k → 9%VIRGINIA VOICE FOR THE PRINT HANDICAPPED: $35k → 9%VIRGINIA VOICE FOR THE PRINT HANDICAPPED: $25k → 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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 9 repeat orgs$108k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
5

Total granted

$1.7M
$108k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+74%

Still filing today

56%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementArts & 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

  • G
    GoochlandCares
    2× · 2018–2019 · $450k · revenue +84%
  • TC
    THE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $243k · revenue +140%
  • MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION
    3× · 2018–2020 · $129k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • RV
    RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
  • BC
    BRIGHTPOINT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $38k · revenue +17%
  • CM
    Children's Museum of Richmondgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +126%
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 Center for Inclusive Communities

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

Civil Rights
2
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
3
Virginia B Andes Volunteer Community Clinic Inc

Provide no-cost volunteer medical, pharmacy and wellness services to the under-served in charlotte county

Health
4
Mcv Associated Physicians

The mission of the organization is to provide physicians and other healthcare professionals to support the needs of the community, as well as the academic mission of the vcu school of medicine.

Health
5
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
6
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
7
Dentistry Vcu

Delivery of oral healthcare. the corporation operates principally for the benefit of the school of dentistry of vcu by supporting the education, research, service and care mission of vcu.

—
8
The Commonwealth Institute for

To use policy, research, and analysis to advance the well-being of Virginia communities, and improve the economic security and social opportunities of all Virginians.

Public Benefit
9
Community Memorial Hospital

To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.

Health
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
Free Clinic of Central Virginia Inc

The primary exempt purpose of the free clinic of central virginia, inc. is to provide free medical, dental, and pharmaceutical care to indigent persons.

Health
12
Virginia Association of Health Plans

Provide Virginia health plans a voice in promoting quality and affordable healthcare through advocacy, communication, education, and research.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medical College of Va Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Virginia Society of Otolaryngology- Head and Neck Surgery. 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

9 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. 9 of the 14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
9/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VCUVCU HEALTH CAMPUS: $583,296 · OtherVCUVCU HEALTH CAMPUSCHALLENGE DISCOVERY PROJECTS INC: $126,000 · OtherCHALLENGE DISCOVERY PROJECTS INCEASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL: $72,000 · OtherEASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOLRECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $50,000 · OtherRECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIASPECIAL OLYMPICS OF VIRGINIA: $35,000 · Other+2 more: $16,000 · OtherGoochlandCares: $450,000 · HealthGoochlandCaresTHE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC: $243,001 · HealthTHE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INCMEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION: $128,700 · EducationMEDICAL CO…BRIGHTPOINT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $38,300 · EducationBRIGHTPOIN…Virginia Voice Inc: $100,000 · Human ServicesChildren's Museum of Richmond: $10,000 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA SOCIETY OF OTOLARYNGOLOGY- HEAD AND NECK SURGERY: $5,000 · Community Improvement
Other$882,296Health$693,001Education$167,000Human Services$100,000Arts & Culture$10,000Community Improvement$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGoochlandCares: $450,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetTHE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC: $243,001 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetMEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION: $128,700 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCHALLENGE DISCOVERY PROJECTS INC: $126,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetVirginia Voice Inc: $100,000 over 3y, 9.8% of budgetBRIGHTPOINT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $38,300 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetChildren's Museum of Richmond: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVIRGINIA SOCIETY OF OTOLARYNGOLOGY- HEAD AND NECK SURGERY: $5,000 over 1y, 5.6% 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…Shelton H Short Jr Tr…Herndon FoundationThe Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Community Foundation IncVA15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation Inc · Shelton H Short Jr Trust · Herndon Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Richmond Eye and Ear Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richmond Eye and Ear Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 Richmond Eye and Ear Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Richmond Eye and Ear 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 14 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 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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