· Private foundation
The Durham Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k24 grants · $97k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $37k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
- $250k+2 grants · $4.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE COMMUNITY FDN INCSHIVEL | $2,260,715 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INCDAVENPORT | $2,260,472 |
| BYRD THEATRE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| ELIJAH HOUSE ACADEMY | $17,225 |
| LANDING SCHOOL OF BOATBUILDING & DESIGN | $10,000 |
| LA LECHE LEAGUE ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| NORTHERN NECK OF VIRGINIA FOOD BANK | $8,500 |
| CENTRAL VIRGINIA FOOD BANK | $8,500 |
| TAMPA PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $7,500 |
| RICHMOND CNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT | $6,450 |
| NORTHERN NECK VOCATIONAL CENTER | $6,000 |
| CARITAS | $6,000 |
| MAYMONT FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SOLDIER'S BEST FRIEND | $5,000 |
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 (FY19–23, $62k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +30% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
60 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2023, 33 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.5M 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
- TBThe Byrd Theatre Foundation5× · 2019–2023 · $165k · revenue +123%
- EHELIJAH HOUSE ACADEMY5× · 2019–2023 · $72k · revenue +91%
- FMFEED MORE INC5× · 2019–2023 · $61k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- TVThe Virginia Homeone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +23%
- VHVIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLSone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +15%
- LLLA LECHE LEAGUE ALLIANCE FORone grant, 2021 · $10k
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 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.
To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.
To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.
Our mission is to improve the health of the communities we serve through our commitment to a common purpose of better patient care, better community health, and lower cost.
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.
Our mission is to improve the health of the communities we serve through our commitment to a common purpose of better patient care, better community health, and lower cost.
Our mission is to improve the health of the communities we serve through our commitment to a common purpose of better patient care, better community health, and lower cost.
The William & Mary Foundation advances the university's highest aspirations by securing private support, guiding a multi-asset investment portfolio, and offering strategic leadership. In this work, we propel the university toward national…
Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
Claiborne Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
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 Barry Robinson Center offers programs to improve the lives of children and their families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Richmond Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the most unlike its peers is Liftpd. 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 43 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 72 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 The Byrd Theatre Foundation ↗
- Who funds ELIJAH HOUSE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds FEED MORE INC ↗
- Who funds MAYMONT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Cameron K Gallagher Foundation ↗
- Who funds SOLDIERS BEST FRIEND ↗
- Who funds CARITAS ↗
- Who funds BRANDON ACADEMY PTO INC ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds COMFORT ZONE CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds The Landing School of Boatbuilding & Design ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERNERS ON NEW GROUND INC ↗
- Who funds LIFTPD ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds TAMPA PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE PULMONARY HYPERTENSION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds VCU Health Childrens Services at Brook Road ↗
- Who funds SHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEGAL INFORMATION NETWORK FOR CANCER ↗
- Who funds The Virginia Home ↗
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 Community Foundation Inc · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Herndon Foundation · Commonwealth Foundations · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Carmax Foundation · Peachtree House Foundation · Wilbur Moreland Havens Charitable Foundation · The Garrett Foundation · The Anne C Robins & Walter R Robins Jr Foundation · Massey Family 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 organization The Durham 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.
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Lowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Florida Aquarium Inc — 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.