· Private foundation
The Hull 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 $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC | $20,000 |
| NPR | $10,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| THE FAISON SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA | $10,000 |
| RICHMOND SPCA | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| CARE TO SHARE RVA INC | $5,000 |
| HOUSING FAMILIES FIRST | $5,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA | $5,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–23, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 40% 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.
25 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 3 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- VUVIRGIN UNITE USA INC3× · 2017–2019 · $77k · revenue +51%
- CCCommonwealth Catholic Charities2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +1%
THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +21%
Funded once
ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $31k · revenue +57%- ECEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +522%
- WPWORLD PEDIATRICSone grant, 2019 · $16k · revenue -18%
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.
We end homelessness by providing permanent housing and supportive services.
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…
Sfc virginia is a foster-based animal rescue group in fredericksburg, va. founded in june 2019 with a focus on saving dogs and cats from rural and otherwise underserved shelters in the state, we strive to provide quality medical care…
To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.
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…
Vipc grows and diversifies virginia's economy by investing in and accelerating innovation commercialization and entrepreneurship.
Tracing its roots to the 1980s, the virginia housing alliance (vha) is the statewide leader in expanding housing opportunities, strengthening the capacity of affordable housing and homelessness service organizations, and advancing…
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 mission of the virginia center for health innovation (vchi) is to facilitate innovation by convening key stakeholders and securing the resources to accelerate value-driven models of wellness and health care throughout virginia.
To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.
The mission of transitions family violence services (tfvs) is to build safe and healthy families on the virginia peninsula by providing services to adult and child victims of domestic violence and human trafficking. we work to increase…
Veterans inc.'s mission is to end homelessness among veterans by helping veterans regain control of their lives. we believe that all veterans have earned respect and gratitude from our nation. this belief is translated into the philosophy…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Commonwealth Catholic Charities and the most unlike its peers is Runway 2 Life Inc. 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 31 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 47 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 VIRGIN UNITE USA INC ↗
- Who funds ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Commonwealth Catholic Charities ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNBOUNDRVA ↗
- Who funds WORLD PEDIATRICS ↗
- Who funds FEED MORE INC ↗
- Who funds Runway 2 Life Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MCSHIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds SUBSTANCE ABUSE FREE ENVIRONMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Emergency Shelter Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds BOOTS TO SUITS ↗
- Who funds TECH FOR TROOP ↗
- Who funds Children's Home Society of Virginia ↗
- Who funds HOUSING FAMILIES FIRST ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA CAPITAL TRAIL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RICHARDSONS RESCUE ↗
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 · Carmax Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Herndon Foundation · McKesson Foundation Inc · Annabella R Jenkins Foundation · United Way of Greater Richmond & Petersburg · The Pauley Family Foundation · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · Robins Foundation · Pga Tour Charities Inc · The Bank of America Charitable 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 Hull 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.