· Private foundation
The Farkas Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $88k
- $250k+1 grant · $4.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEGAL AID JUSTICE CENTER | $4,000,000 |
| SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER | $40,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA MIDLIFE | $25,000 |
| KINDNESS CVILLE | $12,500 |
| MOBIUS DISCOVERY CENTER | $10,000 |
| SAINT GEORGE'S SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| BUFORD MIDDLE SCHOOL | $2,000 |
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, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +80% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- LALEGAL AID JUSTICE CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $5.1M · revenue +317%
SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $310k · revenue +55%- NRNEW RIVER ABORTION ACCESS FUND3× · 2022–2024 · $250k · revenue +89% · 27% of their budget
Funded once
- DMDEMOCRACY MATTERS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +416%
- TPTHE PARAMOUNT THEATRE OFone grant, 2017 · $47k
- AEAllied Extractone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -39%
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.
To use policy, research, and analysis to advance the well-being of Virginia communities, and improve the economic security and social opportunities of all Virginians.
The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.
VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.
To establish an effective, long-term and resilient political infrastructure that advocates for and delivers public policy victories which reflect the values held in common by our members.
Virginia community action partnership (vacap) is the statewide membership association for virginia's thirty-one non-profit and public community action agencies. vacaps mission is to build the capacity and competencies of virginias…
To promote economic development in the charlottesville and central virginia region.
Working within the faith community to educate and mobilize citizen to create systemic social change for low income Virginians.
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…
The charlottesville regional chamber of commerce is a non-profit corporation organized under the laws of the commonwealth of virginia for the purpose of representing private enterprise, promoting business, economic growth and vitality, and…
Alliance for the shenandoah valley informs and engages people to protect the natural resources, cultural heritages, and rural character of our region.
Chamberrva is the trusted voice for modern business in the richmond virginia region. we are change agents, rallying to do the hard things that will create a more connected, prosperous, health and equitable community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Nonprofit Excellence and the most unlike its peers is Creciendo Juntos. 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 23 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% 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 12% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 72 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 LEGAL AID JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds NEW RIVER ABORTION ACCESS FUND ↗
- Who funds MONTPELIER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds THE PARAMOUNT THEATER FOUNDATION IN F/K/A THE PARAMOUNT THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds READYKIDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILDLIFE CENTER OF VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC ↗
- Who funds THE HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTESVILLE TOMORROW ↗
- Who funds FOOTHILLS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds DEMOCRACY MATTERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON SCHOOL AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Allied Extract ↗
- Who funds TRI-RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CLIMATE COLLABORATIVE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · Caplin Foundation · The Charles Fund Inc · Perry Foundation Inc · The Genan Foundation · The J & E Berkley Foundation · Manning Family Foundation · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation · Oakwood Foundation Charitable Trust · Janet Stone Jones Foundation · The Hartfield Fdn Inc 0739-80-42 · Cassiopeia Foundation Inc
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 Farkas Family 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.
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.