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Smith Vicars Family Foundation Fka Hunter Smith 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of SMITH VICARS FAMILY FOUNDATION FKA HUNTER SMITH FAMILY 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 $10k9 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $465k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE BLUE RIDGE CENTER | $140,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER CHARLOTTESVILLE | $120,000 |
| PIEDMONT VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK | $55,000 |
| THE JEFFERSON COUNCIL FOR UVA | $50,000 |
| CHARLOTTESVILLE OPERA | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| SHELTER FOR HELP IN EMERGENCY | $15,000 |
| THE PARAMOUNT THEATER | $14,000 |
| FARMINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION | $11,000 |
| JUDICIAL WATCH | $10,000 |
| THE FIRST TEE OF THE VIRGINIA BLUE RIDGE | $10,000 |
| INGLES CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $5,000 |
| THE BRIDGE MINISTRY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $87k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
17 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 7 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $197k 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
- GCGREATER CHARLOTTESVILLE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC4× · 2020–2024 · $560k · revenue +11%
- BRBLUE RIDGE CENTER3× · 2022–2024 · $418k · revenue +47% · 33% of their budget
- TBTHE BRIDGE MINISTRY INC4× · 2020–2024 · $407k · revenue +102%
Funded once
- AAALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VAone grant, 2023 · $175k
- MRMOBILIZE RECOVERYone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -8%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIAone grant, 2020 · $50k
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.
To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…
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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 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 law school foundation's primary purpose is to receive, manage and expend funds for the benefit of the university of virginia school of law.
To secure financial support that enables college-bound students to access and graduate from outstanding virginia independent higher education institutions.
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Solicitation of public contributions on behalf of member colleges. provides foundations, businesses, and individuals a convenient way of supporting small colleges and universities in virginia.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Mobilize Recovery. 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 45 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% 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 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.
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 33 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 GREATER CHARLOTTESVILLE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHELTER FOR HELP IN EMERGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds MOBILIZE RECOVERY ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE YOUTH GOLF FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FARMINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTESVILLE OPERA ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF CHARLOTTESVILLE- ALBEMARLE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE PARAMOUNT THEATER FOUNDATION IN F/K/A THE PARAMOUNT THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds NETWORK OF ENLIGHTENED WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds ELK HILL FARM INC ↗
- Who funds ALBEMARLE COUNTY ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ParadeRest Virginia ↗
- Who funds READYKIDS INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTESVILLE-ALBEMARLE RESCUE SQUAD ↗
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: Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · The Charles Fund Inc · Caplin Foundation · The Stultz Foundation · The Watterson Foundation · The Betsy & Alan D Cohn Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Charlottesville · Perry Foundation Inc · Sentara Health · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation · The Danwell Foundation · The Better Living 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 Smith Vicars Family Foundation Fka Hunter Smith 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.
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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