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River City Loves Kindness Inc at a glance

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River City Loves Kindness Inc

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.

$41k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Human Services$110kHealth$59kFood & Nutrition$35kRecreation & Sports$27kEducation$18kReligion$10kAnimals$8kCommunity Improvement$702Other$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,494
Median grant
2
States reached
$6k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
POWHATAN FOOD PANTRY$5,100
THE READ CENTER$4,900
THE SPAN (SENIOR CONNECTIONS)$4,900
FREE CLINIC OF POWHATAN$4,800
RICHMOND SPCA$4,467
GOOD TIMES SOCIAL$3,900
HAWTHORNE CANCER FOUNDATION$3,494
FAMILY LIFELINE$2,600
VIRGINIA CHARITABLE GAMING ASSOC$2,500
MANAKIN EPISCOPAL CHURCH$1,000
HONORING CHOICES VIRGINIA$1,000
THE SHEPHERD'S CENTER OF$1,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC$625
NEW LIFE COMMUNITY CENTER$540
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 (FY22–25, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, 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%CIRCLE CENTER ADULT DAY SERVICES: $5k → 9%NEW LIFE COMMUNITY CENTER: $540 → 22%NEW LIFE COMMUNITY CENTER: $120 → 22%FAMILY LIFELINE: $6k → 22%FAMILY LIFELINE: $4k → 22%FAMILY LIFELINE: $4k → 22%FAMILY LIFELINE: $3k → 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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$234k · 14 repeat orgs$35k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
6

Total granted

$234k
$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+3%

Still filing today

57%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesReligionAnimalsFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • FC
    FREE CLINIC OF POWHATAN INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $29k · revenue +52%
  • RA
    READING AND EDUCATION FOR ADULT DEVELOPMENT
    3× · 2023–2025 · $18k · revenue +17%
  • FL
    FAMILY LIFELINE
    4× · 2022–2025 · $17k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • RC
    RIVER CITY LOVES KINDNESS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $16k
  • VM
    VCU MASSEY CANCER CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • CC
    Circle Center Adult Day Services
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +3%
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
South Richmond Adult Day Care Center

Provide a structured, supportive, supervised and enrichment environment for the elderly at a low cost to the participants and their families.

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2
Sentara Health

We improve health every day through coordinating, promoting and planning for the provision of health services and the promotion of health, medical education, and the social, cultural, educational, and economic development of the community.

Health
3
Central Virginia Health Services Inc

Central virginia health services, inc. (organization) is a non-profit health care organization with locations in bowling green, charles city, new canton, charlotte court house, farmville, alberta, petersburg, aylett, hopewell, montross,…

Health
4
Sentara Rmh Medical Center

As part of sentara health's integrated health care system, we improve health every day.

Health
5
Adult Care Center of Roanoke Valley Inc

The adult care center of roaonke valley is a safe and secure program committed to providing compassionate, stimulating daytime care for dependent adults while providing family support and an alternative to long-term care.

Human Services
6
Sentara Medical Group

See schedule o.as part of sentara health's integrated health care system, we improve health every day through the establishment and operation of programs and services for the provision of health care and for health related purposes; the…

Health
7
Capital Area Food Bank Inc

The mission of the capital area food bank (the food bank or cafb) is to help our neighbors thrive by creating more equitable access to food and opportunity through community partnerships.

Food & Nutrition
8
Northern Virginia Family Services Inc

The mission of northern virginia family service (nvfs) is "to empower individuals and families to improve their quality of life, and to promote community cooperation and support in responding to family needs." nvfs was established in 1924…

Human Services
9
Uva Prince William Health System

Uva prince william health system ("pwhs") is part of the uva community health enterprise, an integrated network of not-for-profit, tax-exempt entities that includes physician offices, outpatient facilities and community medical centers.…

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10
Peninsula Institute for Community Health

Providing medical and dental care to indigent patients.

Health
11
Arlington Food Assistance Center

To provide dignified access to free groceries for qualified families in Arlington, VA and surrounding counties.

Food & Nutrition
12
Martha Jefferson Hospital

As part of sentara health's integrated delivery system, we improve health every day.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Honoring Choices Virginia Inc; the most unlike its peers is New Life Community Center. 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

13 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. 13 of the 22 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
7/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SENIOR CONNECTIONS: $41,000 · OtherSENIOR CONNECTIONSGOOD TIMES SOCIAL INC: $24,400 · OtherGOOD TIMES SOCIAL INCTHE SPAN (SENIOR CONNECTIONS): $19,200 · OtherTHE SPAN (SENIOR CONNECTIONS)READING AND EDUCATION FOR ADULT DEVELOPMENT: $17,900 · OtherREADING AND EDUCATION FOR ADULT DEVELOPMENTPOWHATAN FOOD PANTRY: $17,100 · OtherPOWHATAN FOOD PANTRYRIVER CITY LOVES KINDNESS INC: $15,762 · OtherRIVER CITY LOVES KINDNESS INCHAWTHORNE CANCER FOUNDATION: $15,494 · OtherHAWTHORNE CANCER FOUNDATIONTHE SHEPHERD'S CENTER OF: $12,500 · OtherTHE SHEPHERD'S CENTER OFMANAKIN EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $10,111 · OtherMANAKIN EPISCOPAL CHURCH+3 more: $7,712 · OtherFREE CLINIC OF POWHATAN INC: $28,800 · HealthFREE CLINIC OF P…HONORING CHOICES VIRGINIA INC: $9,000 · HealthHONORING CHOICES…+1 more: $625 · HealthFAMILY LIFELINE: $16,600 · Human ServicesFAMILY LI…Circle Center Adult Day Services: $5,000 · Human ServicesCircle Ce…+1 more: $660 · Human ServicesCHESTERFIELD FOOD BANK OUTREACH CENTER: $13,000 · ReligionRICHMOND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $7,967 · AnimalsFEED MORE INC: $3,000 · Food & NutritionVIRGINIA CHARITABLE GAMING ASSOCIAT: $2,500 · Community Improvement
Other$181,179Health$38,425Human Services$22,260Religion$13,000Animals$7,967Food & Nutrition$3,000Community Improvement$2,500

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 budgetFREE CLINIC OF POWHATAN INC: $28,800 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetREADING AND EDUCATION FOR ADULT DEVELOPMENT: $17,900 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetFAMILY LIFELINE: $16,600 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHAWTHORNE CANCER FOUNDATION: $15,494 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetCHESTERFIELD FOOD BANK OUTREACH CENTER: $13,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHONORING CHOICES VIRGINIA INC: $9,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetRICHMOND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $7,967 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCircle Center Adult Day Services: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFEED MORE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA CHARITABLE GAMING ASSOCIAT: $2,500 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetBLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC: $2,010 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW LIFE COMMUNITY CENTER: $660 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $625 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Richmond Memorial Hea…The Community Foundat…Dominion Energy Chari…Annabella R Jenkins F…The William H - John …Robert G Cabell III a…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Richmond Memorial Health FoundationVA17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Richmond Memorial Health Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Annabella R Jenkins Foundation · The William H - John G - Emma Scott Foundation · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 River City Loves Kindness Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from River City Loves Kindness Inc. 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
    6report 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.

    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 22 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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