· Private foundation
Thalhimer Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k58 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $24k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF | $24,000 |
| CONGREGATION BETH AHABAH | $5,500 |
| THE FAISON CENTER | $4,500 |
| MASSEY CANCER CENTER | $3,500 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER RICHMOND & | $3,400 |
| VIRGINIA HOLOCAUST MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $2,500 |
| COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG FOUNDATION | $2,250 |
| VMFA FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| BETH SHOLOM HOME | $1,750 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS VIRGINIA CAPITAL | $1,750 |
| CULLATHER BRAIN TUMOR QUALITY OF | $1,500 |
| BYRD THEATRE FOUNDATION | $1,250 |
| FULL CIRCLE GRIEF CENTER | $1,000 |
| SWIMRVA | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 13% 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.
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.
82 repeat relationships — 59 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF RICHMOND2× · 2017–2018 · $41k · revenue +19%
- TFTHE FAISON CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +73%
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation8× · 2017–2024 · $20k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $8k
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF RICHMONDgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +122%
- VMVCU MASSEY CANCER CENTERone grant, 2018 · $2k
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 preserve, promote and serve as an advocate for virginia's irreplaceable historic places for cultural, economic and educational benefits for everyone.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The mission of the american civil war museum collection is to serve as the preeminent world center for the display, study, interpretation, commemoration, and preservation of the history and artifacts of the confederate states of america.
Inspire understanding and engagement in the rich history and natural resources of germanna through archaeology, education, genealogy, and preservation.
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.
Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.
The mission of the society is to advance the knowledge and understanding of architecture, design, landscape and urbanism worldwide among scholars, professionals in allied fields (including architecture, historic preservation and planning)…
The virginia association of museums is a statewide network serving the museum community. the association's mission statement is "the virginia association of museums helps our museum community succeed".
The jefferson scholars foundation (foundation) provides academic merit-based scholarship, fellowship and professorship support to students and faculty at the university of virginia (uva).
The William & Mary Foundation advances the university's highest aspirations by securing private support, guiding a multi-asset investment portfolio, and offering strategic leadership. In this work, we propel the university toward national…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Historic Richmond Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Grand Teton National Park Foundation. 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 41 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 88 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 JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds THE FAISON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER RICHMOND & PETERSBURG ↗
- Who funds Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Byrd Theatre Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Virginia Holocaust Museum ↗
- Who funds FULL CIRCLE GRIEF CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HANOVER TAVERN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE VALENTINE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA AERONAUTICAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH'S VILLA ↗
- Who funds UNITED NETWORK FOR ORGAN SHARING ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC RICHMOND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FEED MORE INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE RICHMOND SYMPHONY ↗
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 · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Carmax Foundation · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Robins Foundation · Kathryn & W H Schwarzschild Fund · Herndon Foundation · Commonwealth Foundations · Williams Mullen Foundation · Peachtree House Foundation · Windsor Fdn Trust Uw Quincy Cole
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 Thalhimer 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
- Jackson Health Foundation Inc — 1% 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.