· Private foundation
The Durham Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
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 (FY19–23, $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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +30% since the first grant, against +23% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
- VTVIRGINIA TECHone grant, 2021 · $10k
- VHVIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLSone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +15%
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 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.
How this is measured
33 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. 33 of the 72 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 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 SOUTHERNERS ON NEW GROUND INC ↗
- Who funds The Landing School of Boatbuilding & Design ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LIFTPD ↗
- 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 The Virginia Home ↗
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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Durham Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Durham Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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