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The Danwell Foundation
Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
94% of The Danwell Foundation’s FY2018 grant dollars went to Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2018 names 19 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2017, the last year The Danwell Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 17 organizations, $20k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS | $5,000 |
| MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| ST JOHN'S FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| MARY BALDWIN COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| KEMMERER VILLAGE | $1,000 |
| OPERATION GIVING BACK MISSION BOHOL PHILLIPINES | $1,000 |
| HUMANKIND | $1,000 |
| GUILFORD COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| VIRGINIA CAPITAL FOUNDATION | $500 |
| SANTA FUND | $500 |
| SHELTER FOR HELP IN EMERGENCY | $500 |
| NORTH POINTE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $500 |
| CHARLOTTESVILLE FREE CLINIC | $500 |
| THE MONTPELIER FOUNDATION | $250 |
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 (FY17–18, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 40% 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.
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 +101% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2017, 0 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2017 (too recent to call). Read against FY2017, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2018, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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 FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $4k · revenue +131%- UOUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $3k · revenue +113%
MARY BALDWIN UNIVERSITY2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- FPFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $5k
- SJST JOHN'S FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $2k
- OGOPERATION GIVING BACK MISSION BOHOL PHILIPPINESone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.
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 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 mission of the organization is to provide physicians and other healthcare professionals to support the needs of the community, as well as the academic mission of the vcu school of medicine.
To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.
Cvph medical center's mission is to provide quality health care for the north country region in upstate new york.
The vermont community foundation helps to build philanthropic resources to sustain healthy and vital vermont communities. the foundation connects and mobilizes people through giving to multiply the impact of philanthropy.
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 organization's mission is to sustain a vibrant, healthy and strong community through affordable, culturally competent, quality primary health care.
The mission of the school is to provide outstanding legal education in a collegial and supportive environment with attention to newly emerging areas of law, particularly those related to technological development, globalization and the…
The jefferson scholars foundation (foundation) provides academic merit-based scholarship, fellowship and professorship support to students and faculty at the university of virginia (uva).
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hampton Roads Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Senior Center Inc. 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 48 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 34 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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARY BALDWIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds KEMMERER VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN HOMES & FAMILY SVCS ↗
- Who funds GUILFORD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SHELTER FOR HELP IN EMERGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds HAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Virginia Capitol Foundation ↗
- Who funds MONTPELIER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PARAMOUNT THEATER FOUNDATION IN F/K/A THE PARAMOUNT THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds COMPUTERS4KIDS ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTESVILLE FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTESVILLE TOMORROW ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTESVILLE OPERA ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTESVILLE-ALBEMARLE RESCUE SQUAD ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP HOLIDAY TRAILS ↗
- Who funds REGION TEN COMMUNITY SERVICES BOARD INC ↗
- Who funds BARRETT EARLY LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
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: Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · The Charles Fund Inc · Perry Foundation Inc · Manning Family Foundation · The J & E Berkley Foundation · The Rimora Foundation · The Oak Hill Fund · Caplin Foundation · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation · Praxis Foundation (The) · The Marshall Fund 7522-Xxxxxx00227 · Oakwood Foundation Charitable Trust
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 Danwell Foundation 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.
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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