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The Genan Foundation at a glance

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The Genan 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.

$8.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
104
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$3.5MArts & Culture$3.5MEnvironment$3.4MHousing & Shelter$3.1MHealth$2.8MPublic Benefit$2.1MHuman Services$1.7MFood & Nutrition$1.2MOther$0
02FY2024 · 104 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $79k
  • $10k–50k42 grants · $936k
  • $50k–250k36 grants · $4.1M
  • $250k+10 grants · $3.4M
$35,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$190M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BLUE RIDGE PUBLIC TELEVISION$500,000
APPALACHIAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT$500,000
MILLER CENTER FOUNDATION$375,000
MILLER CENTER FOUNDATION$375,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY IN VIRGINIA$350,000
Individual grant recipient$300,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTESVILLE$271,265
PVCC EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$250,000
PIEDMONT HOUSING ALLIANCE$250,000
MOUNTAIN EMPIRE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$250,000
ALBEMARLE HOUSING IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM$234,000
US NATIONAL WHITEWATER CENTER INC$230,000
HORIZON HEALTH SERVICES INC$224,000
VIRGINIA HIGHLANDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$200,000
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$200,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, 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.

area typical 8%VIRGINIA DENTAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $15k → 9%CENTRAL VIRGINIA FARM WORKERS INITIATIVE: $50k → 13%MOUNTAIN EMPIRE OLDER CITIZENS INC: $20k → 22%READYKIDS INC: $120k → 8%PIEDMONT FAMILY YMCA: $120k → 8%PIEDMONT FAMILY YMCA: $20k → 8%SHELTER FOR HELP IN EMERGENCY: $8k → 8%JEFFERSON AREA BOARD FOR AGING: $170k → 8%JEFFERSON AREA BOARD FOR AGING: $125k → 8%JEFFERSON AREA BOARD FOR AGING INC: $75k → 8%JEFFERSON AREA BOARD FOR AGING INC: $75k → 8%THE ARC OF THE PIEDMONT: $5k → 8%JEFFERSON AREA BOARD FOR AGING INC: $50k → 8%JEFFERSON AREA BOARD FOR AGING INC: $50k → 8%JEFFERSON AREA BOARD FOR AGING INC: $50k → 8%CITY OF PROMISE: $5k → 8%JEFFERSON AREA BOARD FOR AGING INC: $50k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of The Genan Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in VA; by stated purpose, 87%.

The Genan Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 6.3% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$20M · 68 repeat orgs$4.7M to everyone else

68 repeat relationships: 49 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 35 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

68
36

Total granted

$20M
$2.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+25%

Still filing today

79%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthEnvironmentHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • PH
    PIEDMONT HOUSING ALLIANCE
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +119%
  • AS
    APPALACHIAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
    3× · 2022–2024 · $720k · revenue +115%
  • PV
    PIEDMONT VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $652k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • VM
    VIRGINIA MUSUEM OF HISTORY AND CULTURE
    one grant, 2021 · $500k
  • MD
    MISSION DENTAL VIRGINIA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $234k · revenue +100%
  • TC
    THE CORPORATION FOR THOMAS JEFFERSON'S POPLAR FORESTgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue +38%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Virginia Community Action Partnership Inc

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…

Human Services
2
Virginia Coalition for Progressive Values

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.

—
3
Virginia Community Food Connections

Our mission is to ensure the availability, access, and affordability of locally produced food by connecting local farmers and all members of the community through programs, awareness, and advocacy.

Food & Nutrition
4
The Commonwealth Institute for

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.

Public Benefit
5
The West Virginia Chamber Foundation
Public Benefit
6
Virginia Commonwealth University Intellectual Property Foundation

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…

Health
7
Virginia Foundation for Agriculture Innovation and Rural Sustainability

To assist rural virginians in developing and advancing their agricultural, economic and social interests to enhance their quality of life.

Environment
8
Federation of Virginia Food Banks

Facilitating statewide collaboration among Virginia's food banks, partners, and neighbors to improve nutrition security and empower strong, healthy communities.

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9
Voices for Virginia's Children

The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.

Civil Rights
10
Virginia Environmental Endowment

The endowment's mission is to improve the quality of the environment by using its capital, expertise, and resources to fund projects and programs that encourage all sectors to work together to prevent pollution, improve water quality,…

Environment
11
Virginia Capital Trail Foundation

The virginia capital trail foundation exists to protect, promote, and enhance the virginia capital trail and engage communities around it.

Recreation & Sports
12
Central Virginia Partnership for Economic Development

To promote economic development in the charlottesville and central virginia region.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is People Incorporated of Virginia; the most unlike its peers is Mission Dental Virginia Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

102 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 102 of the 142 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
101/102
Grantees still filing
65/102
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE MILLER CENTER FOUNDATION: $1,875,000 · OtherTHE MILLER CENTER FOUNDATIONTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY IN VIRGINIA: $835,300 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY IN VIRGINIAUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $700,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS: $650,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA: $555,000 · OtherVIRGINIA MUSUEM OF HISTORY AND CULTURE: $500,000 · OtherBLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC: $495,000 · OtherAPPALACHIAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: $720,000 · Other+77 more: $7,214,408 · Other+77 morePIEDMONT HOUSING ALLIANCE: $1,375,000 · Housing & ShelterPIEDMONT HOU…ALBEMARLE HOUSING IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM INC: $1,250,000 · Housing & ShelterALBEMARLE HO…FAIRVIEW HOUSING MANAGEMENT CORP: $150,000 · Housing & ShelterFAIRVIEW HOU…+1 more: $8,500 · Housing & ShelterMOUNTAIN EMPIRE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $750,000 · EducationMOUNTAIN E…PIEDMONT VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $652,000 · EducationPIEDMONT V…VIRGINIA HIGHLANDS FOUNDATION INC: $600,000 · EducationVIRGINIA H…COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF APPALACHIAN HIGHLANDS: $200,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIE…+3 more: $91,855 · EducationBLUE RIDGE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $500,000 · Arts & CultureBLUE RIDGE…VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $500,000 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA H…ASSOCIATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF VA ANTIQUITIES: $466,000 · Arts & CultureASSOCIATIO…THE CORPORATION FOR THOMAS JEFFERSON'S POPLAR FOREST: $200,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CORPOR…FRIENDS OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA: $159,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF…WILLIAM KING MUSEUM OF ART: $100,000 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIES AND PUBLIC POLICY: $85,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $278,973 · Arts & Culture+6 moreBALLAD HEALTH FOUNDATION: $339,528 · HealthHORIZON HEALTH SERVICES INC: $324,000 · HealthTHE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE: $275,000 · HealthMISSION DENTAL VIRGINIA INC: $234,136 · HealthMARTHA JEFFERSON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $200,000 · HealthFOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION: $100,000 · HealthCHARLOTTESVILLE FREE CLINIC: $70,000 · Health+5 more: $181,290 · HealthJAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION: $411,000 · EnvironmentBRISTOL VIRGINIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $337,417 · EnvironmentAPPALACHIAN VOICES: $320,000 · EnvironmentCOMMUNITY CLIMATE COLLABORATIVE: $135,000 · EnvironmentTHE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $125,000 · EnvironmentBLUE RIDGE DISCOVERY CENTER INC: $95,000 · Environment+6 more: $149,800 · EnvironmentJEFFERSON AREA BOARD FOR AGING INC: $645,000 · Human ServicesCITY OF PROMISE INC: $180,000 · Human ServicesPIEDMONT FAMILY YMCA INC: $140,000 · Human ServicesREADYKIDS INC: $120,000 · Human ServicesCENTRAL VIRGINIA FARM WORKERS INITIATIVE INC: $50,000 · Human Services+4 more: $47,500 · Human Services
Other$13,544,708Housing & Shelter$2,783,500Education$2,293,855Arts & Culture$2,288,973Health$1,723,954Environment$1,573,217Human Services$1,182,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE MILLER CENTER FOUNDATION: $1,875,000 over 4y, 21% of budgetPIEDMONT HOUSING ALLIANCE: $1,375,000 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetALBEMARLE HOUSING IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM INC: $1,250,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetMOUNTAIN EMPIRE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $750,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetAPPALACHIAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: $720,000 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetPIEDMONT VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $652,000 over 3y, 9.6% of budgetJEFFERSON AREA BOARD FOR AGING INC: $645,000 over 4y, 7.8% of budgetVIRGINIA HIGHLANDS FOUNDATION INC: $600,000 over 3y, 32% of budgetBLUE RIDGE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $500,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetVIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $500,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetBLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC: $495,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF VA ANTIQUITIES: $466,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetFEEDING SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA: $444,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetJAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION: $411,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $410,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBALLAD HEALTH FOUNDATION: $339,528 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetBRISTOL VIRGINIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $337,417 over 3y, 36% of budgetHORIZON HEALTH SERVICES INC: $324,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetAPPALACHIAN VOICES: $320,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetCARDINAL PRODUCTIONS INC: $300,000 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE: $275,000 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTESVILLE: $271,265 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetGREATER CHARLOTTESVILLE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $260,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetMISSION DENTAL VIRGINIA INC: $234,136 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetTHE COLLEGE FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $230,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetUS NATIONAL WHITEWATER CENTER INC: $230,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CORPORATION FOR THOMAS JEFFERSON'S POPLAR FOREST: $200,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetCHARLOTTESVILLE TOMORROW: $200,000 over 5y, 7.2% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF APPALACHIAN HIGHLANDS: $200,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $188,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCITY OF PROMISE INC: $180,000 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetAMERICAN CLIMATE PARTNERS: $174,900 over 4y, 8.9% of budgetCENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE: $160,791 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA: $159,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA: $150,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFAIRVIEW HOUSING MANAGEMENT CORP: $150,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY INVESTMENT COLLABORATIVE: $150,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetPIEDMONT FAMILY YMCA INC: $140,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY CLIMATE COLLABORATIVE: $135,000 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetTHE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $125,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetREADYKIDS INC: $120,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $120,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY INC: $115,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC: $100,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNETWORK2WORK USA: $100,000 over 1y, 67% of budgetWILLIAM KING MUSEUM OF ART: $100,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetBLUE RIDGE DISCOVERY CENTER INC: $95,000 over 2y, 16% of budget
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.

Charlottesville Area …Perry Foundation IncCaplin FoundationManning Family Founda…Sentara HealthThe Charles Fund IncOakwood Foundation Ch…The Oak Hill FundThe J & E Berkley Fou…United Way of Greater…Thomas C & Mary Ann H…S&P Global Foundation…
Charlottesville Area Community FoundationVA123.8× affinity65 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · Perry Foundation Inc · Caplin Foundation · Manning Family Foundation · Sentara Health · The Charles Fund Inc · Oakwood Foundation Charitable Trust · The Oak Hill Fund · The J & E Berkley Foundation · United Way of Greater Charlottesville · Thomas C & Mary Ann Hays Fam Char Tr · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Genan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Genan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
41report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Genan Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Genan Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 142 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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