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Robert H & Jane Bassett Spilman 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 55% of ROBERT H & JANE BASSETT SPILMAN FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $25,000 |
| CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $4,000 |
| GOOCHLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $3,500 |
| GOOCHLAND CARES | $3,500 |
| ST JAMES EPISCOPAL | $2,000 |
| VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS | $2,000 |
| USSGA MEMORIAL FUND | $2,000 |
| LINVILLE FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP FD | $1,500 |
| DARDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL | $500 |
| AMERICAN CANOE ASSOCIATION | $500 |
| LINVILLE FOUNDATION INC | $500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 69% of your 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.
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 +51% since the first grant, against +49% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 7 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, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- GGoochlandCares5× · 2020–2024 · $20k · revenue +51%
- LFLINVILLE FOUNDATION INC6× · 2018–2024 · $14k · revenue +57%
- UMUSSGA MEMORIAL FUND INC3× · 2022–2024 · $7k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- SJST JAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $5k
- TETHE ELI BANANA FUNDone grant, 2021 · $5k
- HCHenry County Furniture Museum Incone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -41%
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 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".
Vsa represents sheriffs and their staff on criminal justice issues on a state level and provides information about emerging law enforcement issues, corrections and crime prevention to sheriff's offices and the public.
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.
The virginia capital trail foundation exists to protect, promote, and enhance the virginia capital trail and engage communities around it.
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…
Vfa promotes stewardship and wise use of the commonwealth's forest resources for the economic and environmental benefits of all virginians.
Represent the agriculture, forestry, and agribusiness community in virginia.
Trade association for electric cooperatives
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…
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
Elevating awareness of the transformative power of architecture and design.
The purpose of the VMI Alumni Association is to organize the alumni of VMI into one general body.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Virginia Historical Society and the most unlike its peers is Henry County Furniture Museum Inc. 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 51 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 26% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 46 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.
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- Who funds LINVILLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds USSGA MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MAYMONT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Henry County Furniture Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANOE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA OPERA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
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- Who funds TRI-RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds ELK HILL FARM INC ↗
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- Who funds WILLIAMS YMCA OF AVERY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA LITERACY FOUNDATION ↗
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 Community Foundation Inc · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Wilbur Moreland Havens Charitable Foundation · Herndon Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Garrett Foundation · The William G Reynolds Jr Charitable Foundation · The Randolph and Susan Reynolds Foundation · Marie G Dennett Foundation Inc · Virginia Sargeant Reynolds Foundation · The William H - John G - Emma Scott 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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Robert H & Jane Bassett Spilman 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.
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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