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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.

$20k
Granted FY2017
22
Grants FY2017
4
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

94% of The Danwell Foundation’s FY2018 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, 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

17
’17
19
’18

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Philanthropy$346kArts & Culture$13kEducation$10kReligion$6kHuman Services$5kHealth$5kInternational$1kYouth Development$500Other$0
02FY2017 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
KEMMERER VILLAGE$1,000
GUILFORD COLLEGE$1,000
OPERATION GIVING BACK MISSION BOHOL PHILLIPINES$1,000
HUMANKIND$1,000
MARY BALDWIN COLLEGE$1,000
SANTA FUND$500
NORTH POINTE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$500
SHELTER FOR HELP IN EMERGENCY$500
CHARLOTTESVILLE FREE CLINIC$500
VIRGINIA CAPITAL FOUNDATION$500
THE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE$250
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%KEMMERER VILLAGE: $1k → 16%HUMANKIND: $1k → 8%KEMMERER VILLAGE: $1k → 16%HUMANKIND: $1k → 8%SHELTER FOR HELP IN EMERGENCY: $500 → 8%SHELTER FOR HELP IN EMERGENCY: $500 → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$30k · 16 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +102% since the first grant, against +37% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
16

Total granted

$30k
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+102%
+37%

Still filing today

75%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $4k · revenue +131%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $3k · revenue +113%
  • MARY BALDWIN UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • FP
    FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • SJ
    ST JOHN'S FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
  • OG
    OPERATION GIVING BACK MISSION BOHOL PHILIPPINES
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Community Memorial Hospital

To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.

Health
2
University of Virginia Foundation

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…

Education
3
Virginia Commonwealth University Intellectual Property Foundation

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…

Health
4
Vcu Investment Management Company

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…

Education
5
Mcv Associated Physicians

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.

Health
6
Vcu Health Tappahannock Hospital

To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.

Health
7
Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital Medical Center

Cvph medical center's mission is to provide quality health care for the north country region in upstate new york.

Health
8
The Vermont Community Foundation

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.

Philanthropy
9
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

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).

Education
10
Community Health Center of Richmond Inc

The organization's mission is to sustain a vibrant, healthy and strong community through affordable, culturally competent, quality primary health care.

Health
11
Thomas Jefferson School of Law

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…

Education
12
Jefferson Scholars Foundation

The jefferson scholars foundation (foundation) provides academic merit-based scholarship, fellowship and professorship support to students and faculty at the university of virginia (uva).

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hampton Roads Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 34 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
19/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $344,023 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC+2 more: $1,500 · PhilanthropyVIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $10,000 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $5,000 · OtherST JOHN'S FOUNDATION: $2,000 · OtherOPERATION GIVING BACK MISSION BOHOL PHILIPPINES: $1,000 · OtherNORTH POINTE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $1,000 · OtherTHE FRAIN MUSEUM OF ART: $1,000 · OtherST JOHN'S COLLEGE OF NURSING: $1,000 · OtherSANTA FUND: $1,000 · Other+7 more: $2,300 · OtherMEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION: $4,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $2,500 · EducationMARY BALDWIN UNIVERSITY: $2,000 · EducationGUILFORD COLLEGE: $2,000 · EducationKEMMERER VILLAGE INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesPRESBYTERIAN HOMES & FAMILY SVCS: $2,000 · Human ServicesSHELTER FOR HELP IN EMERGENCY INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesTHE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE: $500 · HealthCHARLOTTESVILLE FREE CLINIC: $500 · HealthCHARLOTTESVILLE-ALBEMARLE RESCUE SQUAD: $250 · HealthREGION TEN COMMUNITY SERVICES BOARD INC: $250 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $100 · HealthMONTPELIER FOUNDATION: $500 · Arts & CultureTHE PARAMOUNT THEATER FOUNDATION IN F/K/A THE PARAMOUNT THEATER INC: $500 · Arts & CultureCHARLOTTESVILLE OPERA: $250 · Arts & CultureCOMPUTERS4KIDS: $500 · Youth Development
Philanthropy$345,523Other$24,300Education$10,500Human Services$5,000Health$1,600Arts & Culture$1,250Youth Development$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $344,023 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARY BALDWIN UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKEMMERER VILLAGE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN HOMES & FAMILY SVCS: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGUILFORD COLLEGE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVirginia Capitol Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMONTPELIER FOUNDATION: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PARAMOUNT THEATER FOUNDATION IN F/K/A THE PARAMOUNT THEATER INC: $500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPUTERS4KIDS: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHARLOTTESVILLE FREE CLINIC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLOTTESVILLE TOMORROW: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLOTTESVILLE OPERA: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLOTTESVILLE-ALBEMARLE RESCUE SQUAD: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSENIOR CENTER INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP HOLIDAY TRAILS: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREGION TEN COMMUNITY SERVICES BOARD INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBARRETT EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Charlottesville Area …The Charles Fund IncPerry Foundation IncManning Family Founda…The J & E Berkley Fou…The Rimora FoundationThe Oak Hill FundCaplin FoundationS&P Global Foundation…Praxis Foundation (Th…The Marshall Fund 752…Oakwood Foundation Ch…
Charlottesville Area Community FoundationVA31.8× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Danwell Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Danwell Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Danwell Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Danwell Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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