· Private foundation
Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k30 grants · $595k
- $50k–250k24 grants · $2.9M
- $250k+10 grants · $4.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FEEDMORE INC | $750,000 |
| BETTER HOUSING COALITION | $750,000 |
| VIMS | $400,000 |
| RICHMOND BALLET | $400,000 |
| RAPPAHANNOCK TRIBE | $400,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION | $350,000 |
| HOSPICE HOUSE OF HAMPTON ROAD | $350,000 |
| SUPPORTWORKS HOUSING | $300,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $265,000 |
| MAYMONT FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| NATIONAL D DAY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $200,000 |
| UNITED METHODIST URBAN MINISTRIES | $200,000 |
| PIEDMONT HOUSING ALLIANCE | $200,000 |
| J SARGEANT REYNOLDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $200,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $5.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 6% of Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell 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, 100% of the giving stays in VA; read by stated purpose it is 93% — 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 +44% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
63 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 28 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, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.0M 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
- BHBETTER HOUSING COALITION3× · 2020–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +186%
- JRJAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +234%
- HCHAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE8× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +76%
Funded once
- YRYWCA RICHMONDgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $940k · revenue +32%
- SJST JOSEPH'S VILLAgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $750k · revenue +48%
- RCRANDOLPH-MACON COLLEGEone grant, 2022 · $510k · revenue +19%
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…
The virginia association of museums is a statewide network serving the museum community. the association's mission statement is "the virginia association of museums helps our museum community succeed".
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.
The mission of washington heritage museums is to preserve, promote and maintain its five 18th century properties in fredericksburg, virginia and develop dynamic educational resources and programs to engage and inspire the intrest of…
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…
VCDC delivers vital financial resources and support while collaborating with local organizations dedicated to social impact, ensuring the creation of affordable homes in vibrant neighborhoods where everyone can thrive.
To use the power of media to educate, entertain and inspire, using public television and public radio to make a positive impact on the communities throughout central virginia, charlottesville, the shenandoah valley, the northern neck and…
Vcn is a facilitator of strategic action, a resource for network partners statewide, and a constant preservation presence in richmond. playing a unique role in virginia's conservation community, vcn helps the community speak with one…
We produce vital works of classical and contemporary theatre, with Shakespeare as our foundation. We approach this work boldly with a resolve to ignite spirits, educate minds and defy expectation.
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.
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.
Creating spaces where contemporary art inspires connection, sparks creativity, and fosters innovation.
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 41 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% 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.
143 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. 143 of the 200 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 BETTER HOUSING COALITION ↗
- Who funds JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FEED MORE INC ↗
- Who funds THE RICHMOND SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CARITAS ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation ↗
- Who funds YWCA RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH'S VILLA ↗
- Who funds THE RICHMOND BALLET ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769) ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA LEAGUE FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE NEW COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SupportWorks Housing ↗
- Who funds RANDOLPH-MACON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL REGION LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHSTAR ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters ↗
- Who funds LEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE VALENTINE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SHALOM FARMSINC ↗
- Who funds ELK HILL FARM INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Virginia Foundation for Architecture Incorporated ↗
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 Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · The Pauley Family Foundation · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Herndon Foundation · Robins Foundation · Richmond Memorial Health Foundation · Virginia Nonprofit Housing Coalition · The William H - John G - Emma Scott Foundation · Tesco Foundation · Shelton H Short Jr Trust
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 G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell 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.
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% 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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