· Private foundation
Robert Blair Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
90% of Robert Blair Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Robert Blair Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $8k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RICHMOND BALLET | $3,500 |
| ST STEPHENS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $3,500 |
| PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $500 |
| THE VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS | $250 |
| RICHMOND SPCA | $250 |
| COMPACT CANINE RESCUE | $200 |
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 (FY17–23, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 1% 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.
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.
11 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2023, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TRTHE RICHMOND BALLET8× · 2017–2024 · $28k · revenue +4%
- TVThe Virginia Home5× · 2017–2021 · $3k · revenue +142%
- RSRICHMOND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS7× · 2017–2023 · $2k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- VMVCU MASSEY CANCER CENTERone grant, 2017 · $3k
- SMSHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $500 · revenue +244%
- KJKIDS JOIN THE FIGHTgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue +290%
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.
Dorchester Paws strives to instill humane principles into society through the prevention of cruelty to animals.
Virginia german shepherd rescue is an all volunteer organization dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation and re-homing of the german shepherd dog (and sometimes other breeds/mixes). the rescue provide a safe haven for german shepherds who…
Dedicated to providing emergency medical careto our city shelter to helpsave as many lives as possible, and supporting animal lives in the community
The mission of Henrico Humane Society is to address the enormous population of homeless animals in the greater Richmond, Virginia area by providing care, shelter, and medical services until permanent homes can be found.
THE ANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPTONS ACTIVELY RESCUES CATS AND DOGS, PROVIDES QUALITY CARE AND OFFERS SANCTUARY UNTIL LOVING HOMES CAN BE FOUND. ARF's work with animals, within our community and throughout the organization is guided by…
Sfc virginia is a foster-based animal rescue group in fredericksburg, va. founded in june 2019 with a focus on saving dogs and cats from rural and otherwise underserved shelters in the state, we strive to provide quality medical care…
The mission of the virginia beach spca is to increase our community's capacity for compassion and decrease the tolerance for cruelty. the virginia beach spca is a non-profit organization supported solely by contributions. we are dedicated…
Rescue, care, and find homes for abandoned and/or abused animals.
Hope for paws rescues dogs and all other animals who are suffering on the streets and in shelters. our goal is to educate people on the importance of companion animals in our society, to reduce euthanasia rates at shelters, (continued on…
Rural Dog Rescue saves the lives of high risk dogs in economically challenged shelters in rural areas of the country. Our mission is to save the dogs that are at greatest risk of euthanasia and are the most overlooked dogs in the shelter.…
Provide shelter, care, and treatment to homeless animals in the city of portsmouth community through permanent adoptions, spay/neuter programs, and community education.
To advance the humane treatment of dogs and cats by providing comprehensive sheltering, medical care, and behavioral support. we strive to ensure every animal has the opportunity to find a permanent, loving home through community education…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Richmond Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the most unlike its peers is Humane World for Animals Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 19 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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds THE RICHMOND BALLET ↗
- Who funds PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds The Virginia Home ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds A FOREVER-HOME RESCUE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KIDS JOIN THE FIGHT ↗
- Who funds St Andrew's School ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL VIRGINIA LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds COMPACT CANINE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
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: Herndon Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · Massey Family Foundation · Wilbur Moreland Havens Charitable Foundation · The Reinhart Foundation · Shelton H Short Jr Trust · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Robert Blair 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Sheriff's Meadow Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project 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.