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The Carol M and Charles G Thalhimer Jr Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Carol M and Charles G Thalhimer Jr 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.

$110k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$229kHuman Services$135kArts & Culture$115kFood & Nutrition$109kEducation$101kYouth Development$95kRecreation & Sports$50kInternational$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAYMONT FOUNDATION$15,000
MAYMONT FOUNDATION$15,000
FEEDMORE (CENTRAL VIRGINIA FOODBANK)$15,000
VCU MASSEY CANCER CENTER$15,000
COLLEGIATE SCHOOL$15,000
THE DOORWAYS$15,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMOND$10,000
MCV FOUNDATION$10,000
02The need
03

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $15k → 9%THE DOORWAYS: $15k → 22%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMOND: $20k → 9%THE DOORWAYS: $15k → 22%COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $15k → 9%THE DOORWAYS: $15k → 22%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMOND: $15k → 9%THE DOORWAYS: $15k → 22%COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $10k → 9%THE DOORWAYS: $15k → 22%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMOND: $10k → 9%THE DOORWAYS: $15k → 22%COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $10k → 9%THE DOORWAYS: $15k → 22%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMOND: $10k → 9%THE DOORWAYS: $15k → 22%COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $10k → 9%THE DOORWAYS: $15k → 22%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMOND: $10k → 9%ISRAEL EMERGENCY FUND - JCFR: $15k → 22%COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $10k → 9%CONGREGATION BETH AHABA: $20k → 22%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMOND: $10k → 9%FEEDMORE (CENTRAL VIRGINIA FOODBANK): $15k → 22%COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $10k → 9%FEEDMORE (CENTRAL VIRGINIA FOODBANK): $15k → 22%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMOND: $10k → 9%MAYMONT FOUNDATION: $15k → 22%COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $10k → 9%FEEDMORE (CENTRAL VIRGINIA FOODBANK): $15k → 22%FEEDMORE (CENTRAL VIRGINIA FOODBANK): $15k → 22%MAYMONT FOUNDATION: $15k → 22%FEEDMORE (CENTRAL VIRGINIA FOODBANK): $15k → 22%MAYMONT FOUNDATION: $15k → 22%FEEDMORE (CENTRAL VIRGINIA FOODBANK): $15k → 22%VCU FOUNDATION: $20k → 22%VCU MASSEY CANCER CENTER: $15k → 22%VCU MASSEY CANCER CENTER: $15k → 22%VCU MASSEY CANCER CENTER: $15k → 22%VCU FOUNDATION: $15k → 22%VCU MASSEY CANCER CENTER: $15k → 22%VCU FOUNDATION: $15k → 22%MCV FOUNDATION: $15k → 22%VCU MASSEY CANCER CENTER: $15k → 22%VCU MASSEY CANCER CENTER: $15k → 22%VCU MASSEY CANCER CENTER: $15k → 22%VCU MASSEY CANCER CENTER: $15k → 22%VCU MASSEY CANCER CENTER: $15k → 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.
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.
$863k · 9 repeat orgs$17k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
3

Total granted

$863k
$17k

Still filing today

44%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • MF
    MAYMONT FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $115k · revenue +122%
  • TC
    THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $100k · revenue +28%
  • MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $94k · revenue +131%

Funded once

  • IE
    ISRAEL EMERGENCY FUND - JCFR
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
  • CS
    COLLEGIATE SCHOOL-CHARLIE BLAIR ENDOWMENT
    one grant, 2019 · $1k
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
04the grantee network

4 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. 4 of the 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
4/4
Grantees still filing
3/4
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE DOORWAYS: $135,000 · OtherTHE DOORWAYSVCU MASSEY CANCER CENTER: $135,000 · OtherVCU MASSEY CANCER CENTERFEEDMORE (CENTRAL VIRGINIA FOODBANK): $109,000 · OtherFEEDMORE (CENTRAL VIRGINIA FOODBANK)VCU FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherVCU FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+3 more: $17,000 · OtherTHE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $100,000 · EducationTHE COLLEGIATE SCHOOLMEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION: $94,000 · EducationMEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FO…MAYMONT FOUNDATION: $115,000 · Arts & CultureMAYMONT FOUNDA…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMOND: $95,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS…
Other$476,000Education$194,000Arts & Culture$115,000Youth Development$95,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMAYMONT FOUNDATION: $115,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetTHE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $100,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMOND: $95,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetMEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION: $94,000 over 9y, 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 MAYMONT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMOND ↗
  • Who funds MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Carol M and Charles G Thalhimer Jr Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Carol M and Charles G Thalhimer Jr Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report 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.
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    Find your warmest path to The Carol M and Charles G Thalhimer Jr Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 12 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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