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The Clark Nexsen Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k85 grants · $130k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL | $10,000 |
| WESTERN NC REGIONAL EDUCATION FDN | $10,000 |
| AIA NC HURRICANE HELENE RELIEF | $10,000 |
| VIBE CREATIVE DISTRICT | $7,500 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $5,396 |
| NC A & T UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| CHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG LIBRARY FDN | $5,000 |
| MOUNTAIN CITY PUBLIC MONTESSORI | $5,000 |
| HAMPTON UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| FOUNDATON OF CALDWELL COMM COL & TECH | $5,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER HR | $5,000 |
| ASHE OUTREACH MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| THE FOUNDATION CCC&TI INC | $5,000 |
| CHILDREN'S FLIGHT OF HOPE INC | $3,968 |
| FOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA | $3,906 |
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 (FY17–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +26% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
55 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 58 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $72k 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
- TVTHE VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL INC6× · 2017–2024 · $60k · revenue +113%
- ODOLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION2× · 2021–2022 · $44k · revenue +36%
- TCTIDEWATER COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $30k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- YWYMCA - WESTERN NCone grant, 2019 · $10k
- ATASHEVILLE-BUNCOMBE TECH COM COLLEGE FDNone grant, 2019 · $10k
- L(LDDI (LAND DEVELOPMENT DESIGN INITIATIVE)one grant, 2018 · $6k
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…
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).
The mission of the edward via college of osteopathic medicine (vcom) is to prepare globally-minded, community-focused physicians to meet the needs of rural and medically underserved populations and promote research to improve human health.
Virginia community action partnership (vacap) is the statewide membership association for virginia's thirty-one non-profit and public community action agencies. vacaps mission is to build the capacity and competencies of virginias…
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 university of virginia law school foundation's primary purpose is to receive, manage and expend funds for the benefit of the university of virginia school of law.
The purpose of the university health systems of eastern carolina foundation (dba ecu health foundation), a non-profit corporation, is to give hope to eastern north carolina and beyond by inspiring philanthropy to improve health, education,…
To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.
To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.
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…
To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.
To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Homeward Bound of Western North Carolina Inc and the most unlike its peers is Project Sweet Peas. 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 35 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
106 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. 106 of the 180 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.
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- Who funds THE VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE FDN ↗
- Who funds TIDEWATER COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VMI Foundation ↗
- Who funds MATHCOUNTS Foundation ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE ↗
- Who funds THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HAMPTON ROADS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S FLIGHT OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds FOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds Carolina Day School Inc ↗
- Who funds Mountain City Public Montessori ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA BEACH EVENTS UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds The Virginia Foundation for Architecture Incorporated ↗
- Who funds JAY'S HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA MUSICAL THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds OLD DOMINION ATHLETIC FOUNDATION ↗
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: Hampton Roads Community Foundation · Townebank Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Tidewater Jewish Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Sentara Health · United Way of South Hampton Roads · The Helen G Gifford Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · Dogwood Health Trust · The Community Foundation Inc
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 Clark Nexsen Foundation Inc 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.
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% 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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