· Private foundation
The Garrett 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.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOLLING HAXALL FOUNDATION | $6,125 |
| ST PAULS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $5,000 |
| HOLLINS UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| USNA FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| WESTMINSTER CANTERBURY FD | $2,000 |
| COLLEGIATE SCHOOL | $1,500 |
| MASSEY CANCER CENTER | $1,200 |
| THIRD CHUCH | $1,050 |
| HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| COLONIAL AGRICULTURAL EDUC FDN INC | $1,000 |
| LATISHA'S HOUSE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| FOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| M D ANDERSON CANCER CTR | $1,000 |
| THE VIRGINIA HOME | $725 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
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, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 51% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +36% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
66 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 3 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- UNUS NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $18k · revenue +41%
CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $14k · revenue +53%
HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $13k · revenue +229%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $5k
- TWTHE WOMAN'S CLUB AT BOLLING HAXALLone grant, 2018 · $5k
- HBHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $5k
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).
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 deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.
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…
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…
To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.
Vsa represents sheriffs and their staff on criminal justice issues on a state level and provides information about emerging law enforcement issues, corrections and crime prevention to sheriff's offices and the public.
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".
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Trade association for electric cooperatives
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Colonial Agri Educ Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
53 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. 53 of the 98 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 HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds US NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER CANTERBURY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLONIAL AGRI EDUC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds LET'S GO BOYS AND GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds The Virginia Home ↗
- Who funds CARITAS ↗
- Who funds THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF RICHMOND VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Latishas House Foundation ↗
- Who funds LEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE RICHMOND BALLET ↗
- Who funds THE VALENTINE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA OPERA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA WAR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Children's Museum of Richmond ↗
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: The Community Foundation Inc · Commonwealth Foundations · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Carmax Foundation · Herndon Foundation · Kathryn & W H Schwarzschild Fund · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation · Louise B Cochrane Charitable Founda · The William H - John G - Emma Scott Foundation · Tesco Foundation
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 Garrett 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.
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project 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.