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The English Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALTAVISTA AREA YMCA | $10,000 |
| DAWN | $10,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $8,000 |
| LINKHORNE MIDDLE SCHOOL PTO | $3,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS | $2,000 |
| NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTHY VETERANS | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $2,000 |
| VIRGINIA TECH ATHLETIC FUND | $2,000 |
| ALTAVISTA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $2,000 |
| V FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE | $2,000 |
| REMOTE AREA MEDICAL VOLUNTEER CORP | $1,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $1,000 |
| GOD'S PIT CREW | $1,000 |
| HUNTERS FOR THE HUNGRY | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $84k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 +19% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- AAAltavista Area YMCA Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +90%
- VFVA FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT COLLEGES3× · 2017–2019 · $15k · revenue +19%
- LULIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC6× · 2017–2022 · $15k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- NSNC STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2019 · $2k
- SBSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTEone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue -2%
- RUREGENT UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +16%
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 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).
Provides seminary, under-graduate, graduate, doctoral, and other continuing education programs
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…
The mission of vt-arc is to extend the impact of the virginia tech research and innovation enterprise, delivering superior analytic and technology solutions to government and non-government customers.
See Disclosure Above.
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…
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…
Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.
The mission of wvicu is to advance collectively the interests of west virginia's independent colleges and universities and their students.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The mission of the WVU Foundation is to enrich the lives of those touched by West Virginia University by maximizing charitable support and providing services to the University, its students and affiliated organizations.
Since 1902, Franklin University has been a pioneer in meeting the needs of adult students who have the ambition to continue their education in combination with other responsibilities, receiving its status as a tax exempt organization in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Virginia Tech Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dawn Inc. 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 48 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 55 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 VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DAWN INC ↗
- Who funds Altavista Area YMCA Inc ↗
- Who funds VA FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT COLLEGES ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE V FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA HUNTERS WHO CARE INC ↗
- Who funds ALTAVISTA AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES OF THE WOUNDED FUND INC ↗
- Who funds STONE RIDGE FOUNDATION NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTHY VETERANS ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEWATER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF LYNCHBURG ↗
- Who funds GODS PIT CREW INC ↗
- Who funds SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds REGENT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds GLEANING FOR THE WORLD INC ↗
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.
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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 English 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.
- Americares Foundation 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.
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