· Community foundation
The Community Foundation Inc
We bring people together to transform our community through informed and inspired philanthropy.
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.
The 917 grants below total $61,774,345 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $64,462,881 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,688,536 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k132 grants · $973k
- $10k–50k496 grants · $10M
- $50k–250k244 grants · $25M
- $250k+45 grants · $25M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION | $1,795,000 |
| ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL | $1,722,963 |
| BETTER HOUSING COALITION | $1,470,029 |
| MAGGIE WALKER COMMUNITY LAND TRUST | $1,157,250 |
| PROJECTHOMES | $1,135,000 |
| VIRGINIA ATHLETICS FOUNDATION | $1,028,474 |
| CITY OF HOPE | $1,000,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER RICHMOND & PETERSBURG | $997,294 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF RICHMOND | $844,039 |
| ASK CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION | $835,044 |
| MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION | $813,907 |
| VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION | $636,900 |
| LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION | $550,000 |
| YMCA OF GREATER RICHMOND | $502,945 |
| NAPLES COMMUNITY HOSPITAL | $500,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $33.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 57% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +39% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
1027 repeat relationships — 717 still active in FY2024, 310 since wound down; 168 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.4M 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
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $8.6M · revenue +131%
VIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $8.1M · revenue +22%- BHBETTER HOUSING COALITION8× · 2017–2024 · $7.5M · revenue +380%
Funded once
- KSKENTUCKY STATE TREASURERone grant, 2021 · $501k
SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $488k · revenue +26%- COCURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURIone grant, 2019 · $201k
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…
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…
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).
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 deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.
To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.
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…
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.
To assist rural virginians in developing and advancing their agricultural, economic and social interests to enhance their quality of life.
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.
The uva licensing and ventures group is dedicated to growing and guiding university innovations while improving lives on grounds and around the world.
Trade association for electric cooperatives
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater Richmond & Petersburg and the most unlike its peers is Southampton County Historical Society. 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 32 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% 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.
1486 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. 1486 of the 1,847 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 CITY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BETTER HOUSING COALITION ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769) ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER RICHMOND & PETERSBURG ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE MAGGIE WALKER COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds CHILDSAVERS- MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY FOUNDAT ↗
- Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF RICHMOND INC ↗
- Who funds CARITAS ↗
- Who funds THE VALENTINE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Powhatan Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE RICHMOND SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FEED MORE INC ↗
- Who funds PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LOCUS IMPACT FUND ↗
- Who funds SOAR 365 ↗
- Who funds ST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST CHRISTOPHER'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASK CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REAL LIFE ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH'S VILLA ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds ELDERHOMES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GoochlandCares ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEXTUP RVA ↗
- Who funds YWCA RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE STEWARD SCHOOL ↗
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 · Herndon Foundation · Robins Foundation · Richmond Memorial Health Foundation · Virginia Nonprofit Housing Coalition · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation · The Pauley Family Foundation · Tesco Foundation · Shelton H Short Jr Trust · Annabella R Jenkins Foundation · Bon Secours - Richmond Health System 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 Community 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Naples Community Hospital Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 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.