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Thalhimer Family Foundation at a glance

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Thalhimer Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$70k
Granted FY2024still arriving
59
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$24k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$233kHealth$106kArts & Culture$85kReligion$72kEducation$26kHuman Services$20kPublic Safety & Disaster$18kRecreation & Sports$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 59 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k58 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $24k
$300
Median grant
7
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
SWIMRVA$1,000
FULL CIRCLE GRIEF CENTER$1,000
02The need
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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 (FY17–24, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FULL CIRCLE GRIEF CENTER: $2k → 6%FULL CIRCLE GRIEF CENTER: $2k → 6%FULL CIRCLE GRIEF CENTER: $1k → 6%FULL CIRCLE GRIEF CENTER: $1k → 6%FULL CIRCLE GRIEF CENTER: $1k → 6%FULL CIRCLE GRIEF CENTER: $1k → 6%ST JOSEPH'S VILLA: $1k → 9%ST JOSEPH'S VILLA: $1k → 9%ST JOSEPH'S VILLA: $500 → 9%ST JOSEPH'S VILLA: $500 → 9%ST JOSEPH'S VILLA: $500 → 9%ST JOSEPH'S VILLA: $500 → 9%ST JOSEPHS VILLA: $500 → 9%ST JOSEPHS VILLA: $500 → 9%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 22%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
WY
PA
NE
VA
MD
DC
FL
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$607k · 82 repeat orgs$12k to everyone else

82 repeat relationships: 59 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

82
6

Total granted

$607k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+122%

Still filing today

50%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesCivil RightsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF RICHMOND
    2× · 2017–2018 · $41k · revenue +19%
  • TF
    THE FAISON CENTER INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +73%
  • Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
    8× · 2017–2024 · $20k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • BS
    BETH SHOLOM
    one grant, 2017 · $8k
  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF RICHMONDgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +122%
  • VM
    VCU MASSEY CANCER CENTER
    one grant, 2018 · $2k
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
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
2
Association for the Preservation of Va Antiquities

To preserve, promote and serve as an advocate for virginia's irreplaceable historic places for cultural, economic and educational benefits for everyone.

Arts & Culture
3
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
4
American Civil War Museum Collection

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.

Arts & Culture
5
Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in Virginia Inc

Inspire understanding and engagement in the rich history and natural resources of germanna through archaeology, education, genealogy, and preservation.

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6
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
7
Virginia Wesleyan University

Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.

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8
Society of Architectural Historians

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)…

Arts & Culture
9
Virginia Association of Museums

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".

Arts & Culture
10
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
11
William & Mary Foundation

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…

Education
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Historic Richmond Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

44 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. 44 of the 88 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/44
Grantees still filing
34/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF: $121,000 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OFJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF RICHMOND (ANNUAL CONT): $47,250 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF RICHMOND (ANNUAL CONT)CONGREGATION BETH AHABAH: $33,500 · OtherCONGREGATION BETH AHABAHMASSEY CANCER CENTER: $29,500 · OtherMASSEY CANCER CENTERUNITED WAY OF GREATER RICHMOND & PETERSBURG: $22,725 · OtherVMFA FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherBETH AHABAH MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES TR: $16,400 · OtherBETH SHOLOM HOME: $15,750 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $15,000 · Other+45 more: $110,890 · Other+45 moreColonial Williamsburg Foundation: $20,000 · Arts & CultureColonial Wil…The Byrd Theatre Foundation: $11,000 · Arts & CultureThe Byrd The…The Virginia Holocaust Museum: $9,000 · Arts & CultureThe Virginia…HISTORIC RICHMOND FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC RIC…HANOVER TAVERN FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Arts & CultureHANOVER TAVE…THE VALENTINE MUSEUM: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE VALENTIN…THE RICHMOND SYMPHONY: $3,000 · Arts & Culture+11 more: $10,480 · Arts & Culture+11 moreTHE FAISON CENTER INC: $40,000 · EducationTHE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $3,600 · EducationTHE VISUAL ARTS CENTER OF RICHMOND: $2,500 · Education+2 more: $1,400 · EducationJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF RICHMOND: $40,500 · PhilanthropyRICHMOND EYE AND EAR FOUNDATION: $2,500 · PhilanthropyGRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $2,000 · PhilanthropyFULL CIRCLE GRIEF CENTER: $8,000 · Human ServicesST JOSEPH'S VILLA: $5,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF RICHMOND: $2,000 · Human ServicesCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · EnvironmentSHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATION: $2,400 · HealthJACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 · HealthSHELTERING ARMS HOSPITAL: $600 · HealthCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $600 · Health
Other$432,015Arts & Culture$68,480Education$47,500Philanthropy$45,000Human Services$15,000Environment$6,000Health$5,100

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF RICHMOND: $40,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE FAISON CENTER INC: $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER RICHMOND & PETERSBURG: $22,725 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetColonial Williamsburg Foundation: $20,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Byrd Theatre Foundation: $11,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetThe Virginia Holocaust Museum: $9,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFULL CIRCLE GRIEF CENTER: $8,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORIC RICHMOND FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHANOVER TAVERN FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTHE VALENTINE MUSEUM: $5,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA AERONAUTICAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $5,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetUNITED NETWORK FOR ORGAN SHARING: $5,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetST JOSEPH'S VILLA: $5,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFEED MORE INC: $4,100 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $3,600 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RICHMOND SYMPHONY: $3,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetRICHMOND EYE AND EAR FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetTHE VISUAL ARTS CENTER OF RICHMOND: $2,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATION: $2,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF RICHMOND: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER RICHMOND AQUATICS PARTNERSHIP: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL D-DAY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSTRATFORD HALL: $2,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $1,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $1,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMAYMONT FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC: $1,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetRICHMOND PERFORMING ARTS ALLIANCE: $1,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $1,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGETTYSBURG FOUNDATION: $800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetINCLUSIVE COMMUNITIES: $600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSHELTERING ARMS HOSPITAL: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMONTPELIER FOUNDATION: $500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY INC: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES: $180 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVirginia Center for Inclusive Communities: $100 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 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 HISTORIC RICHMOND FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HANOVER TAVERN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE VALENTINE MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA AERONAUTICAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds UNITED NETWORK FOR ORGAN SHARING ↗
  • Who funds ST JOSEPH'S VILLA ↗
  • Who funds FEED MORE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE RICHMOND SYMPHONY ↗

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…Carmax FoundationRichard S Reynolds Fo…The Mary Morton Parso…Robins FoundationKathryn & W H Schwarz…Herndon FoundationCommonwealth Foundati…Williams Mullen Found…Peachtree House Found…Windsor Fdn Trust Uw …
The Community Foundation IncVA36.4× affinity16 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 · 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

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 Thalhimer Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thalhimer Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Jackson Health Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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
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 88 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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