· Private foundation
The Chachra Family Foundation
Its FY2018 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 FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k10 grants · $3k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RADFORD UNIVERSITY IMPACT LAB | $50,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA | $1,000 |
| BLACKSBURG MUSEUM | $860 |
| VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION | $300 |
| WARM HEARTH FOUNDATION | $150 |
| MONTGOMERY COUNTY CHRISTMAS STORE | $100 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NRV | $100 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE NRV | $100 |
| SUN CITY ALIANTE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION - SONGTERS | $75 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50 |
| THE LYRIC THEATRE | $30 |
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 (FY17–18, $400) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 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.
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…
Elevating awareness of the transformative power of architecture and design.
The Virginia Home provides compassionate and professional residential care to adult Virginians with irreversible physical disabilities, ensuring that their lifelong comfort and security will never be compromised, regardless of the ability…
New schools for virginia works with parents, students, educators and the community to improve educational outcomes by designing new schools and by supporting existing schools to improve outcomes.
The mission of vt-arc is to extend the impact of the virginia tech research and innovation enterprise, delivering superior analytic and technology solutions to government and non-government customers.
Home of va ensures equal access to housing opportunities by building individual capacity, ensuring compliance with fair housing laws, and promoting effective public policy to advance housing justice.
VCDF provides alternative financing and technical assistance to real estate developers engaged in the creation or preservation of affordable housing, community development, and economic development projects throughout our service areas of…
To support world relief and fair-trade merchandise sales.
To secure financial support that enables college-bound students to access and graduate from outstanding virginia independent higher education institutions.
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…
VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.
We are a christ-centered community cultivating compassion, integrity and respect for aging well and living fully.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of the New River Valley Inc and the most unlike its peers is Montgomery County Christmas Store. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 17 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 VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds RENAISSANCE MUSIC ACADEMY OF VA ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY COUNTY CHRISTMAS STORE ↗
- Who funds Warm Hearth Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC OF THE NEW RIVE ↗
- Who funds The Community Foundation of the New River Valley Inc ↗
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 of the New River Valley Inc · Corning Incorporated Foundation · Celanese Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Chachra 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.
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.