How much does The Capa Foundation give?

The Capa Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $9,280 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 32 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.

What does The Capa Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Religion (58%), Arts & Culture (29%), Education (5%).

Who are The Capa Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: The American Civil War Museum ($3k), Virginia Historical Society ($3k), Historic Richmond Foundation ($2k).

Does The Capa Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2025, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Capa Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Capa Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation Inc, Richard S Reynolds Foundation, The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation.

Where is The Capa Foundation based?

The Capa Foundation is based in VA.

Foundation Dossiers

Virginia · Private foundation

The Capa Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$9k
Granted FY2026(still arriving): 9
Grants FY2026: 13
Organizations funded FY2025: 15%
First-time grantees FY2025

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Median grant, FY2026: $100
Largest grant, FY2026: $8,175
Organizations funded a year: 5 to 32; FY2019 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026: 1
Total assets, FY2026: $18k
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 15% of the organizations The Capa Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $395 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationAnimalsHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementPublic 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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2026still arriving	9	$9k	11%
FY2025	13	$10k	15%
FY2024	9	$8k	0%
FY2023	7	$8k	71%
FY2022	5	$4k	0%
FY2021	22	$13k	59%
FY2020	9	$14k	11%
FY2019	32	$16k	34%

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What it funded, over time

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

Religion$57kArts & Culture$28kEducation$5kEnvironment$3kHealth$2kAnimals$950Human Services$500Public Benefit$425Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The American Civil War Museum	$2,996	3	0%
Virginia Historical Society	$2,500	6	0%
Historic Richmond Foundation	$2,150	6	0%
The Valentine Museum	$1,700	5	0%
St James's Children's Center	$1,600	4	0%
St Christopher's School Foundation	$1,500	6	0%
Friends of Hollywood Cemetery	$1,250	6	0%
National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the Comm of Va	$1,225	2	0%
Virginia Repertory Theatre	$750	3	0%
Richmond Eye and Ear Foundation	$700	3	0%

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All grantees of The Capa Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The American Civil War Museum	$2,996	3	0%
Virginia Historical Society	$2,500	6	0%
Historic Richmond Foundation	$2,150	6	0%
The Valentine Museum	$1,700	5	0%
St James's Children's Center	$1,600	4	0%
St Christopher's School Foundation	$1,500	6	0%
Friends of Hollywood Cemetery	$1,250	6	0%
National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the Comm of Va	$1,225	2	0%
Virginia Repertory Theatre	$750	3	0%
Richmond Eye and Ear Foundation	$700	3	0%
Scenic Virginia Inc	$700	6	0%
Capital Trees	$700	6	0%
Virginia Beach Spca	$600	4	0%
Hollins University Corporation	$450	5	0%
St Catherine's School Foundation	$400	3	0%
Westminster Canterbury Foundation	$400	2	0%
The Garden Club of Virginia Inc	$400	4	0%
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts	$350	2	n/a
VMI Foundation	$350	2	0%
Vpm Media Corporation	$240	1	n/a
The Virginia Home	$225	2	0%
The Jhw Foundation Inc	$200	2	0%
Caritas	$150	1	0%
Gateway Homes Inc	$100	1	0%
Leadership Metro Richmond	$100	1	0%
William Peace University	$100	1	0%
Medical College of Va Foundation	$100	1	0%
St John's Church Foundation	$100	1	0%
Bolling Haxall House Foundation	$100	1	0%
Honor Flight Inc	$100	1	0%
Richmond Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals	$100	1	n/a
The Heritage Foundation	$25	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($85k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Capa Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 29.

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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 Foundation IncVA40.8× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation Inc · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Tesco Foundation · Robins Foundation · The Mraz Charitable Trust · Ruth Camp and Henry Campbell Fdn · Virginia Sargeant Reynolds Foundation · The Ruth Camp Campbell Foundation Inc · Wilbur Moreland Havens Charitable Foundation · The Beirne Carter Foundation · The William H - John G - Emma Scott 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.

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About The Capa Foundation

How much does The Capa Foundation give?: The Capa Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $9,280 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 32 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
What does The Capa Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Religion (58%), Arts & Culture (29%), Education (5%).
Who are The Capa Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: The American Civil War Museum ($3k), Virginia Historical Society ($3k), Historic Richmond Foundation ($2k).
Does The Capa Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2025, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Capa Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Capa Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation Inc, Richard S Reynolds Foundation, The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation.
Where is The Capa Foundation based?: The Capa Foundation is based in VA.