· Private foundation
Rostro Foundation
Its FY2023 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- $10k–50k1 grant · $39k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE FND | $250,000 |
| THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $39,115 |
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 (FY17–22, $12k) 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2023, 24 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k 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
- TCTHE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC6× · 2017–2022 · $7k · revenue +140%
- S3SOAR 3656× · 2017–2022 · $6k · revenue +20%
- ECELDERHOMES CORPORATION6× · 2017–2022 · $5k · revenue +140%
Funded once
- RRRISE RICHMOND INCone grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue -28%
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL VA INCone grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue +16%
- TPTHETREVOR PROJECTone grant, 2021 · $250
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 organization's mission is to sustain a vibrant, healthy and strong community through affordable, culturally competent, quality primary health care.
To provide quality, compassionate human services to all people, especially the most vulnerable, regardless of faith, by empowering individuals, streghening families and building community through faith and service.
Chip of virginia administers and monitors a network of 7 agencies in 27 virginia localities who work with low-income families to assure that children from birth to age 6 receive the health care necessary for them to lead healthy lives,…
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.
The mission is to bring compassion to health care and to be good to those in need, especially those who are poor and dying. as a system of caregivers, we commit ourselves to help bring people and communities to health and wholeness.
Community of hope's mission is to improve health, end homelessness, and partner with communities to make washington, dc more equitable.
Home of va ensures equal access to housing opportunities by building individual capacity, ensuring compliance with fair housing laws, and promoting effective public policy to advance housing justice.
To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.
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 voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.
Virginia community action partnership (vacap) is the statewide membership association for virginia's thirty-one non-profit and public community action agencies. vacaps mission is to build the capacity and competencies of virginias…
To provide food and other related products primarily to member agencies for distribution to those in need, and also for direct distribution.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Childsavers- Memorial Child Guidance Clinic and the most unlike its peers is St Joseph's Villa. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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. 21 of the 31 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 THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FIRST RESPONSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds SOAR 365 ↗
- Who funds ELDERHOMES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Emergency Shelter Inc ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds CARITAS ↗
- Who funds FEED MORE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDSAVERS- MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds ELK HILL FARM INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH'S VILLA ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds American Bird Conservancy ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds RISE RICHMOND INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL VA INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION 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: The Community Foundation Inc · Herndon Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Carmax Foundation · The Pauley Family Foundation · Virginia Nonprofit Housing Coalition · Estes Foundation Co Matthew Breidenbach Pitcairn · United Way of Greater Richmond & Petersburg · Annabella R Jenkins Foundation · The William H - John G - Emma Scott Foundation · Shelton H Short Jr Trust · Universal Leaf 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 Rostro 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.