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Snead Family Foundation at a glance

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Snead Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$846k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$830k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$881kEducation$387kHealth$204kArts & Culture$192kHuman Services$65kReligion$56kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kInternational$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $16k
  • $250k+1 grant · $830k
$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION FBO SNEAD FAMILY FUND$829,563
VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY$9,327
VCU SCHOOL OF BUSINESS$2,000
SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN$1,500
AMERICAN RED CROSS$1,000
ST GERTRUDE'S HIGH SCHOOL$1,000
NEW COMMUNITY SCHOOL$500
VIRGINIA HEATHCARE FOUNDATION$500
THOMAS JEFFERSON INSTITUTE$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%OPERATION HEALING FORCES: $8k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%OPERATION HEALING FORCES: $5k → 12%OPERATION HEALING FORCES: $3k → 12%OPERATION HEALING FORCES: $3k → 12%OPERATION HEALING FORCES: $3k → 12%OPERATION HEALING FORCES: $3k → 12%ST JOSEPH'S VILLA: $3k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 38 repeat orgs$949k to everyone else

38 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
31

Total granted

$1.1M
$119k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+57%

Still filing today

39%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $830k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterArts & CulturePublic BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • OH
    OPERATION HEALING FORCES INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $23k · revenue +230%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    2× · 2024–2025 · $6k · revenue +3%
  • SM
    ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $4k · revenue +149%

Funded once

  • VF
    VCU FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • TA
    THALES ACADEMY
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +76%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Vcu Investment Management Company

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…

Education
2
Community Memorial Hospital

To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.

Health
3
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

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).

Education
4
Virginia Commonwealth University Intellectual Property Foundation

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…

Health
5
Vcu Health Tappahannock Hospital

To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.

Health
6
University of Virginia Foundation

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…

Education
7
Mcv Associated Physicians

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.

Health
8
Virginia Tech Applied Research Corporation

The mission of vt-arc is to extend the impact of the virginia tech research and innovation enterprise, delivering superior analytic and technology solutions to government and non-government customers.

Science & Tech
9
Bon Secours - Richmond Health System Inc

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.

Health
10
Virginia Tech Foundation Inc

Virginia tech foundation, inc. (vtf) is a virginia nonstock corporation established in 1948 for the sole purpose of managing virginia tech's endowment to advance virginia tech's mission and its strategic priorities.

Education
11
Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce

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.

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12
Jefferson Scholars Foundation

The jefferson scholars foundation (foundation) provides academic merit-based scholarship, fellowship and professorship support to students and faculty at the university of virginia (uva).

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Richmond Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; the most unlike its peers is Boots to Suits. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 73 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
22/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION FBO SNEAD FAMILY FUND: $829,563 · OtherAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION FBO SNEAD FAMILY FUNDVCU SCHOOL OF BUSINESS: $276,542 · OtherVCU SCHOOL OF BUSINESSIndividual grant recipient: $226,250 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMASSEY CANCER CENTER: $161,000 · OtherMASSEY CANCER CENTERVA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $97,500 · Other+50 more: $360,200 · Other+50 moreVIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $79,327 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $500 · Arts & CultureOPERATION HEALING FORCES INC: $23,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $6,000 · Human ServicesST JOSEPH'S VILLA: $2,500 · Human ServicesMEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $3,500 · EducationElon University: $3,500 · EducationRIVERSIDE SCHOOL INC: $3,000 · Education+2 more: $1,000 · EducationJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL VA INC: $6,000 · InternationalTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,500 · PhilanthropySTARABILITY FOUNDATION INC: $500 · PhilanthropyVirginia Health Care Foundation: $3,000 · HealthMIDDLESEX COUNTY VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD INC: $1,500 · HealthTHE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC: $500 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $250 · Health
Other$1,951,055Arts & Culture$79,827Human Services$31,500Education$16,000International$6,000Philanthropy$6,000Health$5,250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $79,327 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetOPERATION HEALING FORCES INC: $23,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL VA INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRICHMOND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFEED MORE INC: $3,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetElon University: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVirginia Health Care Foundation: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERSIDE SCHOOL INC: $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JOSEPH'S VILLA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOWER MIDDLESEX VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $2,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMIDDLESEX COUNTY VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD INC: $1,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE THOMAS JEFFERSON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCARITAS: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOOTS TO SUITS: $1,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetRICHMONDER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST TIMOTHY'S SCHOOL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTARABILITY FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORIC RICHMOND FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION HEALING FORCES INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL VA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RICHMOND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds FEED MORE INC ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Elon University ↗
  • Who funds Virginia Health Care Foundation ↗
  • Who funds RIVERSIDE SCHOOL INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Community Foundat…Dominion Energy Chari…Herndon FoundationThe Pauley Family Fou…The Mary Morton Parso…Shelton H Short Jr Tr…Richard S Reynolds Fo…Robins FoundationPga Tour Charities IncOverton & Katharine D…The Randolph and Susa…Reco Foundation
The Community Foundation IncVA25.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Herndon Foundation · The Pauley Family Foundation · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Shelton H Short Jr Trust · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · Robins Foundation · Pga Tour Charities Inc · Overton & Katharine Dennis Fd-Cust · The Randolph and Susan Reynolds Foundation · Reco Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Snead Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Snead Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 73 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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