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The Endeavour Legacy Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$39M
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10M
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212024.

Education$64MHealth$23MArts & Culture$12MFood & Nutrition$10MHuman Services$130kCommunity Improvement$20k
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $460k
  • $250k+8 grants · $38M
$666,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$732M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE$10,000,000
MCV FOUNDATION$10,000,000
HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE$6,650,000
VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND CULTURE$6,000,000
HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE$2,500,000
RICHMOND SYMPHONY$2,000,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF RICHMOND$666,000
VIRGINIA REPERTORY THEATRE$500,000
RICHMOND SYMPHONY$160,000
BRANCHES OF THE ARTS$125,000
BELVEDERE SERIES$125,000
RICHMOND SYMPHONY$50,000
VENTURE RICHMOND$20,000
VCU MASSEY COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER$20,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $130k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%RESOURCES FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $5k → 9%BRANCHES OF THE ARTS: $125k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$85M · 7 repeat orgs$24M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
7

Total granted

$85M
$17M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+8%

Still filing today

86%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesFood & NutritionHealthReligionOther

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

  • HC
    HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE
    4× · 2021–2024 · $47M · revenue +25%
  • MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $16M · revenue +12%
  • SC
    ST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $7.0M · revenue +36% · 37% of their budget

Funded once

  • FM
    FEED MORE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10M · revenue +8%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $6.3M · revenue -54%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +14%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Richmond Shakespeare Fka Quill Theatre

We produce vital works of classical and contemporary theatre, with Shakespeare as our foundation. We approach this work boldly with a resolve to ignite spirits, educate minds and defy expectation.

Arts & Culture
2
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
3
Roanoke Symphony Orchestra

The Roanoke Symphony Orchestra provides a professional symphony orchestra of artistic excellence and integrity to enrich lives, to educate, and to entertain diverse audiences in western Virginia with the highest quality instrumental and…

Arts & Culture
4
Bon Secours - Richmond Health System Inc

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.

Health
5
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
6
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
7
Virginia Wesleyan University

Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.

8
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
9
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
10
Bon Secours-Richmond Community Hospital

The mission is to bring compassion to health care and to be good help 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.

11
William & Mary Foundation

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…

Education
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medical College of Va Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Richmond Urban Dance 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

18 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 21 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE — $46,655,000 · EducationHAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGEMEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION — $16,000,000 · EducationMEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATIONST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $7,050,000 · EducationST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATIONSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE — $6,000,000 · EducationSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE+1 more — $500,000 · EducationVIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $6,000,000 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA HIS…THE RICHMOND SYMPHONY — $5,410,000 · Arts & CultureTHE RICHMOND…VIRGINIA REPERTORY THEATRE — $500,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $135,000 · Arts & CultureFEED MORE INC — $10,000,000 · Food & NutritionFEED MORE …Children's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation — $6,334,000 · HealthSAINT ANDREW'S SCHOOL — $3,050,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF RICHMOND — $666,000 · OtherTHE NEW COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $550,000 · Other+2 more — $25,000 · OtherBRANCHES OF THE ARTS INC — $125,000 · Human ServicesRESOURCES FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesRichmond Urban Dance Inc — $50,000 · ReligionVENTURE RICHMOND INC — $20,000 · Community Improvement
Education$76,205,000Arts & Culture$12,045,000Food & Nutrition$10,000,000Health$6,334,000Other$4,291,000Human Services$130,000Religion$50,000Community Improvement$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE — $46,655,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetMEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION — $16,000,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetFEED MORE INC — $10,000,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $7,050,000 over 2y, 37% of budgetChildren's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation — $6,334,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetVIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $6,000,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE — $6,000,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetTHE RICHMOND SYMPHONY — $5,410,000 over 4y, 24% of budgetTHE NEW COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $550,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND — $500,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVIRGINIA REPERTORY THEATRE — $500,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetBelvedere Series — $125,000 over 1y, 83% of budgetRichmond Urban Dance Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetVENTURE RICHMOND INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMONTPELIER FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRESOURCES FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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.

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.

The Pauley Family FoundationVA24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pauley Family Foundation · Robins Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · Carmax Foundation · Universal Leaf Foundation · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation · Williams Mullen Foundation · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic 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 Endeavour Legacy 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.

2025
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Endeavour Legacy Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Endeavour Legacy 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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