· Private foundation
The Fannie Milton and Leslie Friedman Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL | $100,000 |
| VIRGINIA STAGE COMPANY | $20,000 |
| LAKE TAYLOR TRANSITIONAL CARE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TVTHE VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $682k · revenue +113%
- VSVIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA6× · 2017–2022 · $272k · revenue +18%
SLOVER LIBRARY FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2019 · $120k · revenue -43%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIAone grant, 2021 · $50k
- EEVMSone grant, 2017 · $10k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA - MCINTIRE SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
Vcca's mission is to provide time and space for national and international writers, visual artists, and composers of talent and promise to bring forth their finest works, because the arts are vital, diversity is a strength, and creativity…
Virignia commonwealth university intellectual property foundation's mission is to foster a culture of innovation at virginia commonwealth university (vcu) and to protect and commercialize inventions created by the vcu research enterprise…
To receive funds and property by gift, transfer, devise or bequest and administrate and apply such funds in support of the virginia symphony orchestra which is a leading cultural asset connecting everyone in hampton roads through the…
Promotion of architectural development, education and research
The theatre and the arts center offer a series of concerts and exhibitions and workshops by performers and artists. the purpose of the theatre is to promote the arts to the citizens of greater hampton roads virginia.
The richmond symphony performs, teaches, and champions music to inspire and unite our communities.
To secure financial support that enables college-bound students to access and graduate from outstanding virginia independent higher education institutions.
To support the educational,scientific & charitable activities of vcu.
Virginia tech foundation, inc. (vtf) is a virginia nonstock corporation (see schedule o) established in 1948 for the sole purpose of managing virginia tech's endowment. vtf also manages an extensive real estate portfolio. vtf exists and…
To attract, educate, develop and engage a diverse base of audiences, volunteers and professionals through the promotion and production of quality opera performances in the commonwealth of virginia.
To entertain, challenge and uplift our communities through the power of live theatre.
The science museum of virginia foundation (smvf), inc. supports the science museum of virginia (smv), a premier center for hands-on science education in virginia. permanent exhibitions include interactive exhibits on a wide range of…
How this is measured
6 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. 6 of the 14 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.
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: Patricia and Douglas Perry Foundation DBA The Perry Family Foundation · Goode Family Foundation · Curtis Family Foundation · Business Consortium for Arts Support · Townebank Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Fannie Milton and Leslie Friedman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Fannie Milton and Leslie Friedman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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