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Rising Phoenix Charitable 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 27 grants below total $493,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $538,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $45,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $380k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Wakefield School | $210,000 |
| Land Trust of Virginia | $90,000 |
| Blue Ridge School | $80,000 |
| Earth University Foundation | $20,000 |
| Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | $20,000 |
| WILD Foundation | $10,000 |
| Great Meadow Foundation | $10,000 |
| Downstream Foundation | $5,000 |
| GETF | $5,000 |
| Old Friends Inc | $5,000 |
| Americas in Wartime Experience | $5,000 |
| The Trevor Project | $5,000 |
| Marshall Fire and Rescue | $3,000 |
| Northern Piedmont Youth Center | $3,000 |
| Fauquier Community Food Bank | $3,000 |
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 +9% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- WSWAKEFIELD SCHOOL INC4× · 2021–2024 · $870k · revenue +7%
- TBTHE BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL INC4× · 2021–2024 · $270k · revenue +27%
- TLTHE LAND TRUST OF VIRGINIA INC3× · 2022–2024 · $260k · revenue +214%
Funded once
- NCNYC Central Park Conservancyone grant, 2023 · $10k
K9S FOR WARRIORS INCone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue -4%- MVMiddleburg Volunteer Fire Departmentone grant, 2022 · $2k
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.
Protecting and connecting virginia's wild places.
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…
Promoting for the benefit of the general public, the preservation, protection and enjoyment of our natural resources, principally in the lower james, york, rappahannock and chowan rivers and surrounding watersheds.
Protect land along rivers, lakes and wetlands of vt; protect public access, wildlife habitat, scenic natural beauty, and ecological integrity.
Represent the agriculture, forestry, and agribusiness community in virginia.
To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
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 acquire, protect, and manage open space in perpetuity for the benefit of wildlife and the community.
The Land Conservancy of Ridgefield, Inc. ("the Land Conservancy"), founded in 1967, preserves and protects, for the general benefit of the public, Ridgefield, Connecticut's natural resources including land and water resources, the plant…
The franklin land trust works to conserve farms, forests, wildlands, and other natural resources significant to the quality of the environment, economy, and rural character of western massachusetts.
Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…
Protect and restore the lands and waters of the virginia piedmont, while building stronger, more sustainable communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Great Meadow Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Marshall Ruritan Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 31 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 WAKEFIELD SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE LAND TRUST OF VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds EARTH University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL WILDERNESS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT MEADOW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Old Friends Inc ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FAUQUIER COMMUNITY FOOD BANK & THRIFT STORE ↗
- Who funds MIDDLEBURG COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds Marshall Ruritan Club ↗
- Who funds Middleburg Volunteer Fire Department ↗
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: Tara Foundation Inc · The Luminescence Foundation Inc · Wise Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.
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