How much did ROBERT LEROY ATWELL AND LUCY grant in FY2024?

ROBERT LEROY ATWELL AND LUCY reported 19 grants totaling $282,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is ROBERT LEROY ATWELL AND LUCY based?

ROBERT LEROY ATWELL AND LUCY is based in VA.

ROBERT LEROY ATWELL AND LUCY

Foundation Dossiers

· Private foundation

ROBERT LEROY ATWELL AND LUCY

This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.

$282k

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$50k

Largest

01What you fund

0162% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$801kHuman Services$115kEnvironment$85kHealth$75kHousing & Shelter$40kPhilanthropy$30kYouth Development$25kArts & Culture$20kOther$726k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

james

2019

religion

2020

james

2021

—

2022

james

2023

—

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k2 grants · $7k
$10k–50k15 grants · $175k
$50k–250k2 grants · $100k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$5.7M

Total assets

Largest grants

VIRGINIA ATHLETICS FOUNDATION$50,000
HAMPDEN SYDNEY COLLEGE$50,000
FRIENDS OF BELLEMEADE PARK$20,000
HIGHER ACHIEVEMENT RICHMOND$15,000
ELIJAH HOUSE ACADEMY$15,000
THE READ CENTER$15,000
MCSHIN FOUNDATION$10,000
CRISTO REY RICHMOND$10,000
ST JOHN'S CHURCH FOUNDATION$10,000
ANNA JULIA COOPER EPISCOPAL SCHOOL$10,000
CARITAS$10,000
ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL$10,000
SPORTSBACKERS$10,000
PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER$10,000
PARTNERSHIP FOR THE FUTURE$10,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $115k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.8M · 24 repeat orgs$125k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +78% since the first grant, against -29% for the ones you funded once.

24 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.8M

$115k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+78%

-29%

Still filing today

71%

13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationEnvironmentArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterOther

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

HC
HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE
7× · 2017–2024 · $550k · revenue +79%
EH
ELIJAH HOUSE ACADEMY
8× · 2017–2024 · $103k · revenue +54%
AJ
ANNA JULIA COOPER EPISCOPAL SCHOOL
8× · 2017–2024 · $90k · revenue +801%

Funded once

SM
SCIENCE MUSEUM OF RICHMOND
one grant, 2017 · $15k
CV
CODE VA
one grant, 2018 · $10k
NC
NOAH'S CHILDREN
one grant, 2018 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Cristo Rey Richmond High School Inc

A Catholic learning community that educates young people of limited economic means to become people of faith, purpose and service. Through a rigorous college preparatory curriculum, integrated with a relevant work study experience,…

Education

Academy of Richmond County

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Good Shepherd Episcopal School

The mission of Good Shepherd Episcopal School is to inspire each child to achieve academic excellence within a diverse, nurturing community that builds character and fosters respect for one another and our shared environment, locally and…

Education

Richmond Friends School Inc

Committed to providing a quality educational experience for each child, creating an environment that nutures individual intellectual, emotional, creative, spiritual, and physical gifts within a community.

Education

Richmond Christian School Inc

Richmond Christian School is a co-educational, college preparatory, Christian day school.

Education

Richmond Waldorf School

Our Waldorf approach to educate seeks to nurture physical, moral, intellectual, artistic, emotional & spiritual capacities of the child.

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William & Mary Foundation

To aid, strengthen and expand, in every proper and useful way, the work of william & mary, a public university in virginia.

Education

Richmond Public Schools Education

To increase private philanthropy coming into the school system to support new and existing programs. to be a liason between the school system and private sector to ensure programs are aligned with the rps strategic outlook.

Education

St James's Children's Center

Offering an integrated education program for the growing community of young children in the richmond metropolitan area who might be considered at-risk. providing an enriching and academically competitive preschool and after- school…

Education

Richmond Primary School

Build a strong social, emotional, spiritual and academic foundation!

Education

The Richmond Symphony Foundation

To support the richmond symphony.

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Jewish Community Center of Richmond

The carole and marcus weinstein jewish community center exists to provide the highest quality education, physical, and spiritual wellness programs and experiences for all ages and abilities, guided by jewish values and culture. the…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Elijah House Academy and the most unlike its peers is Hampden-Sydney College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

20/21

Grantees still filing

15/21

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$801,305Other$770,500Human Services$115,000Environment$85,000Health$75,000Housing & Shelter$40,000Philanthropy$30,000

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.

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.

The Community Foundation IncVA36× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 organisation ROBERT LEROY ATWELL AND LUCY 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.

2025

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: JACOB'S LADDER.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~5 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 541717138 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on JACOB'S LADDER, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 5 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 3% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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Find your warmest path to Robert Leroy Atwell and Lucy through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

ROBERT LEROY ATWELL AND LUCY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Robert Leroy Atwell and Lucy?

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ROBERT LEROY ATWELL AND LUCY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Robert Leroy Atwell and Lucy?

More from the funding graph