· Private foundation
The Charles M Caravati Foundation Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 47% of THE CHARLES M CARAVATI FOUNDATION FUND’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL | $5,000 |
| ELK HILL FARM | $4,000 |
| ST BRIDGET CHURCH | $4,000 |
| NORTH STAR ACADEMY | $3,500 |
| GOOCHLAND CARES | $3,000 |
| MONASTERY OF THE VISITATION | $3,000 |
| ST CHRISTOPHER'S SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| CRISTO REY RICHMOND HIGH SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| MCV FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| UVA MEDICAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| KINDNESS 4 KATE | $1,500 |
| HOME OF LOVE ORPHANAGE | $1,500 |
| OPERATION HEALING FORCES | $1,000 |
| FAIRY GODMOTHER PROJECT | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +51% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
90 repeat relationships — 74 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 6 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- CICHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA9× · 2017–2025 · $57k · revenue +3%
- GGoochlandCares9× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +96%
- EHELK HILL FARM INC9× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- LBLE BONHEUR HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $1k
- EFENRICHMOND FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue 0%
- S3SOAR 365one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +20%
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 mission is to bring compassion to health care and to be good to those in need, especially those who are poor and dying. as a system of caregivers, we commit ourselves to help bring people and communities to health and wholeness.
To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.
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 Good Shepherd Episcopal School is to inspire each child to achieve academic excellence within a diverse, nurturing community that builds character and fosters respect for one another and our shared environment, locally and…
To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.
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…
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).
VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.
Vcu health children's services at brook road (csbr), fka crippled children's hospital, is a resource and provider of specialized medical services customized to meet the specific needs of children and their families.
The williams school builds with each child the foundation for academic, moral and social success. a williams school student embodies confidence, integrity and a love of learning.
Chip of virginia administers and monitors a network of 7 agencies in 27 virginia localities who work with low-income families to assure that children from birth to age 6 receive the health care necessary for them to lead healthy lives,…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Christophers Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
60 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. 60 of the 118 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 CHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA ↗
- Who funds GoochlandCares ↗
- Who funds ELK HILL FARM INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTERING ARMS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ST CHRISTOPHER'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ST JAMES'S CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH'S VILLA ↗
- Who funds FAIRY GODMOTHER PROJECT ↗
- Who funds NORTHSTAR ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Cristo Rey Richmond High School Inc ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HEALING FORCES INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Commonwealth Catholic Charities ↗
- Who funds FEED MORE INC ↗
- Who funds MIRACLEFEET ↗
- Who funds PALS Programs ↗
- Who funds FREDERICKSBURG ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds HELP THE HELPLESS ↗
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 Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · Herndon Foundation · Shelton H Short Jr Trust · The Pauley Family Foundation · The William H - John G - Emma Scott Foundation · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · Estes Foundation Co Matthew Breidenbach Pitcairn · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Virginia Sargeant Reynolds Foundation · Wilbur Moreland Havens Charitable Foundation · Annabella R Jenkins 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 Charles M Caravati Foundation Fund 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.
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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