· Private foundation
The Farrell 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 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–50k3 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $345k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UVA Community Health Foundation | $150,000 |
| Virginia Athletic Foundation | $100,000 |
| Virginia Museum of History & Culture | $95,000 |
| Collegiate School | $40,000 |
| Patrick Henry School of Science & Art | $25,000 |
| Break Through Cancer Foundation | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–21, $78k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those 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.
17 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 13 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, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- VHVIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY7× · 2019–2025 · $460k · revenue +70%
VIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INC4× · 2018–2021 · $285k · revenue +59%- TCTHE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL6× · 2020–2025 · $195k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- VMVirginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $105k · revenue +234%
- VMVirginia Military Instituteone grant, 2018 · $100k
- TCTredegar Civil Ware Museumone grant, 2018 · $50k
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.
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 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).
The richmond symphony performs, teaches and champions music to inspire and unite our communities.
To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.
To use the power of media to educate, entertain and inspire, using public television and public radio to make a positive impact on the communities throughout central virginia, charlottesville, the shenandoah valley, the northern neck and…
To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.
Virginia tech foundation, inc. (vtf) is a virginia nonstock corporation established in 1948 for the sole purpose of managing virginia tech's endowment to advance virginia tech's mission and its strategic priorities.
The virginia association of museums is a statewide network serving the museum community. the association's mission statement is "the virginia association of museums helps our museum community succeed".
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…
New schools for virginia works with parents, students, educators and the community to improve educational outcomes by designing new schools and by supporting existing schools to improve outcomes.
Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.
VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 43 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.
- Who funds VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UVA COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE RICHMOND BALLET ↗
- Who funds WORLD PEDIATRICS ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIAS KIDS BELONG ↗
- Who funds PATRICK HENRY SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND ARTS ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds ELIJAH HOUSE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Children's Museum of Richmond ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds BETTER HOUSING COALITION ↗
- Who funds BOLLING HAXALL HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND FIRST TEE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS ↗
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: Herndon Foundation · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Wilbur Moreland Havens Charitable Foundation · The Pauley Family Foundation · Williams Mullen Foundation · Virginia Nonprofit Housing Coalition · Townebank Foundation · Carmax Foundation · Estes Foundation Co Matthew Breidenbach Pitcairn
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Farrell Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Farrell Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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