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The Endeavour Legacy Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
MCV FOUNDATION$10,000,000
HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE$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
VCU MASSEY COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER$20,000
VENTURE RICHMOND$20,000
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.

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Its 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 its 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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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
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

  • 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%
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
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.

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medical College of Va Foundation; 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 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. 18 of the 21 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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
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.

The Pauley Family Fou…Robins FoundationThe Community Foundat…Carmax FoundationUniversal Leaf Founda…Robert G Cabell III a…Williams Mullen Found…Richard S Reynolds Fo…Dominion Energy Chari…The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…
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

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 Endeavour Legacy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Endeavour Legacy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's 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, 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 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 21 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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