· Private foundation
Robert Leroy Atwell and Lucy Williams Atwell 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
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
- Under $10k2 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $175k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VIRGINIA ATHLETICS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| HAMPDEN SYDNEY COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| FRIENDS OF BELLEMEADE PARK | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| THE READ CENTER | $15,000 |
| ELIJAH HOUSE ACADEMY | $15,000 |
| ST JOHN'S CHURCH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $10,000 |
| MCSHIN FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CARITAS | $10,000 |
| ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| PARTNERSHIP FOR THE FUTURE | $10,000 |
| CRISTO REY RICHMOND | $10,000 |
| SPORTSBACKERS | $10,000 |
| ANNA JULIA COOPER EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $10,000 |
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, $115k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% 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.
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.
23 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.
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
- HCHAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE7× · 2017–2024 · $550k · revenue +76%
- RAREADING AND EDUCATION FOR ADULT DEVELOPMENT8× · 2017–2024 · $110k · revenue +61%
- EHELIJAH HOUSE ACADEMY8× · 2017–2024 · $103k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- SMSCIENCE MUSEUM OF RICHMONDone grant, 2017 · $15k
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLSgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +305%- NCNOAH'S CHILDRENone grant, 2018 · $10k
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 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…
Rise richmond's mission is to cultivate the god-given potential of students in richmond's east end through learning opportunities that equip them to flourish.
Our approach to a holistic Waldorf education lays the foundation for a life full of meaning and purpose. (See 4a)
The richmond symphony performs, teaches and champions music to inspire and unite our communities.
The mission of Chesterton Academy is to help parents raise up a new generation of joyful leaders and saints, educated in the classical tradition and the truths of the Catholic faith.
Regents' mission is to provide a classical and christian education, founded upon and informed by a biblical worldview, that equips our students to know, love, and practice that which is true, good, and the beautiful and challenges them to…
Committed to providing a quality educational experience for each child, creating an environment that nurtures individual intellectual, emotional, creative, spiritual, and physical gifts within a community
To present powerful voices so richmond can learn. to empower local voices so richmond can lead.
Provide an education to children in lower and middle school using classical christian methodology.
The mission of richard wright public charter school for journalism and media arts is to transform students in grades 8-12 into well-versed medial contributors by providing a student-centered environment that connects them to the classic…
To provide a rigorous, classical education to public school middle and high school students from across the district of columbia.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Anna Julia Cooper School and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Bellemeade Park. 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 31 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 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
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 38 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 HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds READING AND EDUCATION FOR ADULT DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds ELIJAH HOUSE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds St Andrew's School ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Cristo Rey Richmond High School Inc ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN RICHMOND SPORTS BACKERS ↗
- Who funds THE MCSHIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR THE FUTURE ↗
- Who funds ST JAMES'S CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds CARITAS ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BELLEMEADE PARK ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL TREES ↗
- Who funds Jacob's Ladder Inc ↗
- Who funds JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN'S CHURCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds ENRICHMOND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CODEVA INC ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN STUDY ↗
- Who funds ART 180 Inc ↗
- Who funds The Byrd Theatre 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 · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Wilbur Moreland Havens Charitable Foundation · Herndon Foundation · The Pauley Family Foundation · Robins Foundation · Tesco Foundation · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Shelton H Short Jr Trust · Windsor Fdn Trust Uw Quincy Cole · Estes Foundation Co Matthew Breidenbach Pitcairn
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 Leroy Atwell and Lucy Williams Atwell 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.