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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.

$100k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$202kHuman Services$113kEducation$104kPhilanthropy$82kScience & Tech$72kCommunity Improvement$40kPublic Safety & Disaster$34kArts & Culture$31kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $80k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC$20,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$10,000
THE FAISON SCHOOL$10,000
RICHMOND SPCA$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
NPR$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA$10,000
CARE TO SHARE RVA INC$5,000
FEEDING AMERICA$5,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$5,000
HOUSING FAMILIES FIRST$5,000
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.

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Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%VIRGINIA BEACH FALLEN HERROS: $3k → 10%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF VA: $7k → 9%COMMONWEALTH CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $10k → 9%COMMONWEALTH CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $10k → 9%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
NY
CA
NE
VA
TN
DC
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$606k · 25 repeat orgs$177k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
19

Total granted

$606k
$142k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+32%

Still filing today

48%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

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Human ServicesHealthPublic BenefitHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionInternationalOther
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

  • VU
    VIRGIN UNITE USA INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $77k · revenue +51%
  • THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +21%
  • CC
    Commonwealth Catholic Charities
    2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $31k · revenue +57%
  • EC
    EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +522%
  • WP
    WORLD PEDIATRICS
    one grant, 2019 · $16k · revenue -18%
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
SupportWorks Housing

We end homelessness by providing permanent housing and supportive services.

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2
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
3
Sfc Virginia

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…

Animals
4
Community Memorial Hospital

To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.

Health
5
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
6
Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation

Vipc grows and diversifies virginia's economy by investing in and accelerating innovation commercialization and entrepreneurship.

Science & Tech
7
Virginia Housing Alliance

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…

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8
Virginia Tech Foundation Inc

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.

Education
9
Virginia Center for Health Innovation

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.

Health
10
Vcu Health Tappahannock Hospital

To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.

Health
11
Transitions Family Violence Services

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…

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12
Veterans Inc

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…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Commonwealth Catholic Charities; 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.
04the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 47 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/27
Grantees still filing
19/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VCU SCHOOL OF BUSINESS FOUNDATION: $63,500 · OtherVCU SCHOOL OF BUSINESS FOUNDATIONALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION: $54,000 · OtherALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATIONBOYS HOME OF VIRGINIA: $52,700 · OtherBOYS HOME OF VIRGINIAVCU COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING: $46,905 · OtherVCU COLLEGE OF ENGINEERINGTHE FAISON SCHOOL: $30,000 · OtherTHE FAISON SCHOOLPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA: $27,000 · OtherELECTRICAL ENGINEERING ANNUAL FUND - VCU: $25,000 · OtherNPR: $21,000 · OtherUNBOUNDRVA: $20,000 · OtherCARE TO SHARE RVA INC: $20,000 · Other+23 more: $159,835 · Other+23 moreVIRGIN UNITE USA INC: $77,000 · PhilanthropyVIRGIN UNIT…ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC: $31,000 · HealthTHE MCSHIN FOUNDATION: $11,300 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $10,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $2,500 · HealthCommonwealth Catholic Charities: $20,000 · Human ServicesEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Human ServicesChildren's Home Society of Virginia: $7,307 · Human ServicesVIRGINIA BEACH FALLEN HEROES INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $20,000 · InternationalWORLD PEDIATRICS: $16,000 · InternationalFEED MORE INC: $15,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding America: $10,000 · Food & NutritionTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$519,940Philanthropy$77,000Health$54,800Human Services$49,807International$36,000Food & Nutrition$25,000Public Safety & Disaster$20,000

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 budgetVIRGIN UNITE USA INC: $77,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC: $31,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCommonwealth Catholic Charities: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNBOUNDRVA: $20,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD PEDIATRICS: $16,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFEED MORE INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRunway 2 Life Inc: $12,000 over 2y, 50% of budgetTHE MCSHIN FOUNDATION: $11,300 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBOOTS TO SUITS: $10,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetEmergency Shelter Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSUBSTANCE ABUSE FREE ENVIRONMENT INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFeeding America: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTECH FOR TROOP: $7,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetChildren's Home Society of Virginia: $7,307 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHOUSING FAMILIES FIRST: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVIRGINIA CAPITAL TRAIL FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetRICHARDSONS RESCUE: $3,300 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetVIRGINIA BEACH FALLEN HEROES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetAMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARITAS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVETERANS ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC: $35 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds VIRGIN UNITE USA INC ↗
  • Who funds ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds Commonwealth Catholic Charities ↗
  • Who funds UNBOUNDRVA ↗
  • Who funds EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WORLD PEDIATRICS ↗
  • Who funds FEED MORE INC ↗
  • Who funds Runway 2 Life Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE MCSHIN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BOOTS TO SUITS ↗
  • Who funds Emergency Shelter Inc ↗
  • Who funds SUBSTANCE ABUSE FREE ENVIRONMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds Feeding America ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds RICHMOND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

The Community Foundat…Carmax FoundationDominion Energy Chari…Herndon FoundationMcKesson Foundation I…Annabella R Jenkins F…United Way of Greater…The Pauley Family Fou…Richard S Reynolds Fo…Robins FoundationPga Tour Charities IncThe Bank of America C…
The Community Foundation IncVA21.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Hull Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hull Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.

    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 47 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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