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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.

$53k
Granted FY2018
11
Grants FY2018
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Education$59kArts & Culture$6kInternational$1kHealth$650Food & Nutrition$500Human Services$250Housing & Shelter$250Philanthropy$100Other$0
02FY2018 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k10 grants · $3k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$100
Median grant
2
States reached
$659k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 16%MONTGOMERY COUNTY CHRISTMAS STORE: $150 → 21%MONTGOMERY COUNTY CHRISTMAS STORE: $100 → 21%WARM HEARTH FOUNDATION: $150 → 21%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
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
Virginia Commonwealth University Intellectual Property Foundation

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…

Health
2
The Virginia Foundation for Architecture Incorporated

Elevating awareness of the transformative power of architecture and design.

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3
The Virginia Home

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…

Health
4
New Schools for Virginia

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.

Education
5
Virginia Tech Applied Research Corporation

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.

Science & Tech
6
Housing Opportunities Made Equal of Virginia Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
7
Virginia Community Development Fund Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
8
Ten Thousand Villages-Richmond Va Inc

To support world relief and fair-trade merchandise sales.

International
9
Va Foundation for Independent Colleges

To secure financial support that enables college-bound students to access and graduate from outstanding virginia independent higher education institutions.

Education
10
Vcu Investment Management Company

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…

Education
11
Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities

VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.

Civil Rights
12
Vmrc Foundation Inc

We are a christ-centered community cultivating compassion, integrity and respect for aging well and living fully.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of the New River Valley Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 17 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RADFORD UNIVERSITY IMPACT LAB: $50,000 · OtherRADFORD UNIVERSITY IMPACT LABBLACKSBURG MUSEUM: $4,630 · OtherBLACKSBURG MUSEUM+8 more: $1,405 · OtherVIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $8,050 · EducationVIRGINIA TECH…JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA INC: $1,000 · InternationalRENAISSANCE MUSIC ACADEMY OF VA: $1,000 · Arts & CultureST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $500 · HealthMONTGOMERY COUNTY CHRISTMAS STORE: $250 · Human ServicesWarm Hearth Foundation Inc: $150 · Human ServicesThe Community Foundation of the New River Valley Inc: $100 · Philanthropy
Other$56,035Education$8,050International$1,000Arts & Culture$1,000Health$500Human Services$400Philanthropy$100

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $8,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRENAISSANCE MUSIC ACADEMY OF VA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTGOMERY COUNTY CHRISTMAS STORE: $250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWarm Hearth Foundation Inc: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC OF THE NEW RIVE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Community Foundation of the New River Valley Inc: $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.

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 of the New River Valley IncVA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of the New River Valley Inc · Corning Incorporated Foundation · Celanese Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 17 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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