· Private foundation
The Clovelly Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $81k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $129k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE | $128,500 |
| TROUSDALE PLACE | $30,500 |
| THE RICHMOND SYMPHONY | $20,000 |
| VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDA | $20,000 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUBS OF RICHMOND | $10,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| UNITED WAY | $5,000 |
| ST STEPHEN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $5,000 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| COMMONWEALTH SHAKESPEARE COMPANY | $5,000 |
| LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS | $5,000 |
| THE BELVEDERE SERIES | $5,000 |
| MISSION GAIT FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| LEADERSHIP METRO RICHMOND | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 8 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HCHAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $638k · revenue +76%
- TRTHE RICHMOND SYMPHONY9× · 2017–2025 · $152k · revenue +44%
- VMVirginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation6× · 2017–2022 · $110k · revenue +234%
Funded once
- VWVA WAR MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $25k
- SCST CHRISTOPHER'S SCHOOL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +121%
- NSNC SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATIone grant, 2021 · $10k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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 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 law school foundation's primary purpose is to receive, manage and expend funds for the benefit of the university of virginia school of law.
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 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…
To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.
Virginia tech foundation, inc. (vtf) is a virginia nonstock corporation established in 1948 for the sole purpose of managing virginia tech's endowment to advance virginia tech's mission and its strategic priorities.
The jefferson scholars foundation (foundation) provides academic merit-based scholarship, fellowship and professorship support to students and faculty at the university of virginia (uva).
To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To support and foster vcu health and vcu health sciences through philanthropy, stewardship, innovation, communication, and collaboration.
To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 51 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE RICHMOND SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER RICHMOND & PETERSBURG ↗
- Who funds THE RICHMOND BALLET ↗
- Who funds ST CHRISTOPHER'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL TRUST IN AMERICA ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds AN ACHIEVABLE DREAM INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds FEED MORE INC ↗
- Who funds US NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES OF COASTAL GEORGIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Belvedere Series ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds The Commonwealth Shakespeare Co Inc ↗
- Who funds LEGAL INFORMATION NETWORK FOR CANCER ↗
- Who funds HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD CEMETERY ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation Inc · Virginia Nonprofit Housing Coalition · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Tesco Foundation · Williams Mullen Foundation · Herndon Foundation · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Carmax Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Clovelly Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Clovelly Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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