· Private foundation
Sterzing Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 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 FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k39 grants · $92k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Old Donation Episcopal Church | $25,000 |
| Elephant Sanctuary | $5,000 |
| Samaritan House | $5,000 |
| Food Bank of Southeastern Virginia | $5,000 |
| REACH | $5,000 |
| Eastern Virginia Medical School Foundation | $5,000 |
| World Central Kitchen | $5,000 |
| The Wells TheaterVa Stage | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| CHKD | $5,000 |
| WHRO | $5,000 |
| YMCA Camp Silver Beach | $3,000 |
| Sentara Foundation | $2,500 |
| Norfolk Botanical Gardens | $2,500 |
| Judeo-Christian Outreach Center | $2,500 |
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 (FY23–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
34 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- SHSamaritan House Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $15k · revenue +7%
- CHChildren's Hospital of the King's Daughters3× · 2023–2025 · $15k · revenue +27%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC3× · 2023–2025 · $15k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF NORFOLKS ENVIRONMENT INCone grant, 2024 · $1k
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 washington humane society protects animals, supports families, and advocates for positive change to create a world where all animals can thrive. we enrich the humanity of our communities by promoting compassion and encouraging people…
THE ANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPTONS ACTIVELY RESCUES CATS AND DOGS, PROVIDES QUALITY CARE AND OFFERS SANCTUARY UNTIL LOVING HOMES CAN BE FOUND. ARF's work with animals, within our community and throughout the organization is guided by…
Wildlife rehabilitation and educational activities to inform the public about the need for protection of wildlife
Sfc virginia is a foster-based animal rescue group in fredericksburg, va. founded in june 2019 with a focus on saving dogs and cats from rural and otherwise underserved shelters in the state, we strive to provide quality medical care…
The richmond spca is cultivating a community committed to saving, protecting and enriching animal lives with a mission to provide education and resources to achieve and sustain a no-kill community.
Protecting and connecting virginia's wild places.
Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…
To improve the health & well-being of animals through veterinary aid, response, training, research & local capacity building worldwide. We provide services to companion animals, horses, street dogs, livestock and marine animals including…
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.
The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.
Alleviate the suffering of our island's animals by providing temporary shelter, finding forever homes, offering spay-neuter services and a low-cost veterinary clinic for our community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Wildlife Center of Virginia and the most unlike its peers is Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters. 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 35 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 44 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 Samaritan House Inc ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds REACH FOUNDATION INC (REACH ENRICHES ALL CHILDREN) ↗
- Who funds NORFOLK BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds STILLSTANDING2 ↗
- Who funds HAMPTON ROADS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Eastern Virginia Medical School Foundation ↗
- Who funds FOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds JUDEO-CHRISTIAN OUTREACH CENTERINC ↗
- Who funds ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LGBT LIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA BEACH SPCA ↗
- Who funds JACKSON FEILD HOMES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUT COUNCIL OF COLONIAL COAST ↗
- Who funds EQUINE ADVOCATES INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Retirement Home For Horses Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE A HOME FOR HORSES INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILDLIFE CENTER OF VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RESOURCES OF TIDEWATER ↗
- Who funds Cheetah Conservation Fund ↗
- Who funds THE MARY C SCHANZ FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORFOLK CASA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE 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: United Way of South Hampton Roads · Hampton Roads Community Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Sentara Health · The Dalis Foundation · Townebank Foundation · The Townsend Family Foundation · The Blocker Foundation · Langley for Families - the Foundation of Lfcu · Wards Corner Lions Club Charity Foundation Inc · Jerry J Wilson Memorial Foundation Inc co Jennifer Wilson · L & J Goldrich 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 Sterzing Charitable Trust 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.