· Private foundation
The Capa Foundation
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $7,405 |
| NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES | $650 |
| HISTORIC RICHMOND FOUNDATION | $300 |
| VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND CULTURE | $250 |
| VIRGINIA REPERATORY THEATRE | $250 |
| VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS | $245 |
| ST CHRISTOPHER'S SCHOOL | $200 |
| ST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL | $200 |
| POE MUSEUM | $150 |
| CAPITAL TREES | $100 |
| HOLLINS UNIVERSITY | $100 |
| FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD CEMETARY | $100 |
| SCENIC VIRGINIA | $100 |
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 (FY18–19, $400) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +77% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $395 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
- VHVIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY6× · 2017–2025 · $3k · revenue +103%
- HRHISTORIC RICHMOND FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2025 · $2k · revenue +52%
- TVTHE VALENTINE MUSEUM5× · 2017–2022 · $2k · revenue +176%
Funded once
- MMEDARVAone grant, 2021 · $300
- VMVIRGINIA MUSEUM OF HIOSTORY AND CULTUREone grant, 2023 · $250
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $250
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 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…
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…
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.
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 provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.
The jefferson scholars foundation (foundation) provides academic merit-based scholarship, fellowship and professorship support to students and faculty at the university of virginia (uva).
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…
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 promote and raise funds for the virginia war memorial, a state agency of virginia, which was created for the purpose of honoring patriotic virginians who rendered faithful service and sacrifice in the cause of freedom and liberty for…
To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.
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".
Vcn is a facilitator of strategic action, a resource for network partners statewide, and a constant preservation presence in richmond. playing a unique role in virginia's conservation community, vcn helps the community speak with one…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Historic Richmond Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Gateway Homes Inc. 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 51 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 56 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 THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC RICHMOND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE VALENTINE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ST JAMES'S CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds ST CHRISTOPHER'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA IN THE COMM OF VA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD CEMETERY ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds SCENIC VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND EYE AND EAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL TREES ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA BEACH SPCA ↗
- Who funds HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER CANTERBURY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GARDEN CLUB OF VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds VMI Foundation ↗
- Who funds VPM MEDIA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds The Virginia Home ↗
- Who funds THE JHW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CARITAS ↗
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 · 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
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 The Capa 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.
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.