· Private foundation
Saunders Family 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $155k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| UVA CONTEMPLATIVE SCIENCES CENTER | $100,000 |
| INNERWORKS CENTER | $50,000 |
| GOOCHLAND CARES | $50,000 |
| PGA TOUR CHARITIES | $25,000 |
| VIRGINIA REPERTORY THEATRE | $25,000 |
| RICHMOND BALLET | $25,000 |
| THE V FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| VCU PAULEY HEART CENTER | $20,000 |
| UPRVA | $15,000 |
| ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE LILIBET SNELLINGS KYTE | $10,000 |
| FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| GOOCHLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE RESCUE | $1,000 |
| BYRD THEATRE FOUNDATION | $250 |
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 (FY17–23, $265k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 94% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +44% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 8 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $96k 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
- CCCOMMUNITY CANCER FUND4× · 2017–2021 · $200k · revenue +57%
- GGoochlandCares6× · 2017–2024 · $150k · revenue +96%
- TRTHE RICHMOND BALLET7× · 2017–2024 · $103k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- CSCOLLEGIATE SCHOOL ANNUAL FUNDone grant, 2023 · $25k
- TPTHE PEAVEY PROJECTgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +222%
- VMVPM MEDIA CORPORATIONone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -20%
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 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).
To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.
To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.
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…
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.
Richmond County Partnership for Children advances a high-quality, accountable system of care and early education for each child beginning with a healthy birth, and supports families to improve early childhood health and development to…
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.
Represent the agriculture, forestry, and agribusiness community in virginia.
GRP's mission is to aggressively generate economic opportunities that create quality jobs for residents in the region and increase the tax base for needed community services.
The mission of the organization is to provide physicians and other healthcare professionals to support the needs of the community, as well as the academic mission of the vcu school of medicine.
To present powerful voices so richmond can learn. to empower local voices so richmond can lead.
Conquer cancer funds research for every type of cancer to benefit every patient, everywhere. working in collaboration with a global network of top scientists and clinicians, and leading advocacy and research organizations, conquer cancer…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Robin Hood Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Amigos Hospitalito Atitlan. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 36 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 Innerwork Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation ↗
- Who funds GOOCHLAND PET LOVERS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CANCER FUND ↗
- Who funds GoochlandCares ↗
- Who funds THE RICHMOND BALLET ↗
- Who funds UP RVA ↗
- Who funds LITTLE HANDS VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds PGA TOUR CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds THE V FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PEAVEY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds The Dogwood School Inc ↗
- Who funds THE RICHMOND SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds WORLD PEDIATRICS ↗
- Who funds VPM MEDIA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Amigos Hospitalito Atitlan ↗
- Who funds The Byrd Theatre Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY 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 · Pga Tour Charities Inc · Townebank Richmond Foundation · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · Commonwealth Foundations · Robins Foundation · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Townebank Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Carmax Foundation · Estes Foundation Co Matthew Breidenbach Pitcairn · Wilbur Moreland Havens Charitable 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 Saunders Family 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.