How much did THE CLOSET OF THE GREATER HERNDON AREA INC grant in FY2025?

THE CLOSET OF THE GREATER HERNDON AREA INC reported 9 grants totaling $238,150 in its FY2025 IRS filing.

Where is THE CLOSET OF THE GREATER HERNDON AREA INC based?

THE CLOSET OF THE GREATER HERNDON AREA INC is based in VA.

THE CLOSET OF THE GREATER HERNDON AREA INC

Foundation Dossiers Also receives grants — funding profile →

· Public charity

THE CLOSET OF THE GREATER HERNDON AREA INC

A thrift shop that sells donated items and donated items and donates its net revenue to various charities and gives scholarships to local high schools that choose the receipients

$238k

Granted FY2025

Grants

Communities

$33k

Largest

01What you fund

0177% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

Human Services$314kHealth$81kEducation$76kHousing & Shelter$63kFood & Nutrition$35kPublic Safety & Disaster$33kPhilanthropy$21kYouth Development$15kEmployment$10kOther$198k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

livescaringyouthwomendisabilitiesliteracyphysically

2019

youthclothingwomenloudounenglish languagelanguage literacyliteracy instruction

2020

homeless

2021

legacyenglish languagelanguage literacyliteracy instructioninstruction adultsmentallycare

2022

kitchenneedylegacycarestudentsadultshealth

2023

adaptive fitnesslearningofferempoweringlivingphysical disabilitiesresidential

2024

diapersadaptive fitnesslivingempoweringphysical disabilitiesresidentialskills

2025

non-profit

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k4 grants · $23k
$10k–50k5 grants · $83k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.0M

Total assets

Largest grants

HERNDON-RESTON FISH INC$33,000
LINK INC$13,750
LAUREL LEARNING CENTERCORNERSTONES$13,750
BRITEPATHS$12,000
DULLES SOUTH FOOD PANTRY$10,000
ALL AGES READ TOGETHER$7,500
COMPUTER CORE$7,500
MOBILE HOPE OF LOUDOUN$5,000
FELLOWSHIP SQUARE$2,500

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $296k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6% — the area typically sits at 4%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 99% of THE CLOSET OF THE GREATER HERNDON AREA INC’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in VA; read by stated purpose it is 2% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

THE CLOSET OF THE GREATER HERNDON AREA INClessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$789k · 41 repeat orgs$56k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +77% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.

41 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$789k

$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+77%

+3%

Still filing today

85%

56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyEducationFood & NutritionOther

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

HF
HERNDON-RESTON FISH INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $174k · revenue +110%
LL
LAUREL LEARNING CENTERCORNERSTONES
8× · 2017–2025 · $54k · revenue +59%
AA
ALL AGES READ TOGETHER
6× · 2018–2025 · $53k · revenue +103%

Funded once

FD
FAIRFAX DIAPERS
one grant, 2024 · $5k
SG
SIMPLE GESTURE
one grant, 2023 · $5k
DS
DULLES SOUTH SOUP KITCHENgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +3890%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Northern Virginia Affordable Housing

Increase supply of and equitable access to affordable housing in Northern Virginia through education, advocacy, and community partnership.

Housing & Shelter

SeniorNavigatorcom

Providing free information on community resources available to Virginians, with a focus older adults, adults with disabilities, veterans and those who care for them.

Community Improvement

Homestretch Inc

Homestretch, Inc. is a community-based nonprofit that supports homeless parents with children in Northern Virginia as they regain their independence, move toward self-sufficiency, and break cycles of poverty for good. Our rigorous two- to…

Human Services

Virginia Center for Inclusive

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

Civil Rights

Virginia Legal Aid Society Inc

Virginia Legal Aid Society, Inc. is a non-profit organization organized to provide legal assistance in non-criminal proceedings or matters to persons financially unable to afford legal assistance.

Crime & Legal

Arlington Thrive

Arlington Thrive provides timely assistance to help our neighbors in need so they can develop the capacity to be stable, secure and thrive in their jobs, health and homes.

Human Services

Arlington Food Assistance Center

To feed our neighbors in need by providing dignified access to nutritious supplemental groceries.

Food & Nutrition

GoochlandCares

GoochlandCares provides basic human services and healthcare to our Goochland County neighbors in need.

Health

Commonwealth Cares Inc

The organization provides benevolent assistance to Virginia residents to assist with rent, medical bills, funeral expenses, and expenses incurred due to emergency situations.

Human Services

Girls on the Run of Nova

Girls on the Run of Northern Virginia (GOTR NOVA) inspires girls to be joyful, healthy and confident using a fun, experience-based curriculum which creatively integrates running. Volunteer coaches who are trained by GOTR NOVA deliver an…

Youth Development

Autism Society of Northern Virginia

The Autism Society of Northern Virginia strives to improve the welfare of children and adults with Autism and to provide support for their families.

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Literacy Volunteers of Fauquier County

Literacy Volunteers of Fauquier County (LVFC) exists to improve reading, writing, basic communication, study and computer skills of adults in Fauquier County, VA, and to promote learning as a fundamental goal shared by all family members.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shelter House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Greater Washington Community Foundation. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 28 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/59

the rest of the field

11%

1,111/10,031

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.

06the grantee network

47 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

45/47

Grantees still filing

38/47

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Human Services$314,150Other$243,718Health$80,615Education$76,000Housing & Shelter$63,000Food & Nutrition$35,000Public Safety & Disaster$33,000

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.

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.

The Community Foundation for NorthernVA51.8× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Northern · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Jv Schiro Zavela Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Community Foundation for Loudoun And · Nelson J & Katherine Friant Post Foundation · Latino Economic Development Corporation · Shoreshim Inc · Housing Trust Fund of Northern Virginia · Alloy Family Foundation Inc · Randolph D Rouse Foundation Inc · Ada L and Albert M Wibel 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 organisation THE CLOSET OF THE GREATER HERNDON AREA 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: VECINOS UNIDOS.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 541863154 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on VECINOS UNIDOS, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 28% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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Find your warmest path to The Closet of the Greater Herndon Area Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE CLOSET OF THE GREATER HERNDON AREA INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

47 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Closet of the Greater Herndon Area Inc?

More from the funding graph

THE CLOSET OF THE GREATER HERNDON AREA INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

47 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Closet of the Greater Herndon Area Inc?

More from the funding graph