· Private foundation
The Hut Foundation
Its FY2020 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 FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k4 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k30 grants · $592k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $639k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST | $182,500 |
| SCHWAB CHARITABLE | $146,250 |
| THE VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF AUTISM | $145,000 |
| VANGUARD CHARITABLE | $100,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA | $65,000 |
| THE HAVEN AT FIRST AND MARKET | $42,500 |
| THE FOUNTAIN FUND | $40,000 |
| GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY | $35,000 |
| THE MILLER SCHOOL OF ALBEMARLE | $35,000 |
| LITTLE KESWICK EDUCATION CORP | $35,000 |
| RED WIGGLER COMMUNITY FARM | $30,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE WILDLIFE HERITAGE INC | $25,000 |
| CHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| WINTERGREEN ADAPTIVE SPORTS | $25,000 |
| LIFELINE OUTREACH MINISTRIES OBX | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–20, $147k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 23% of The Hut Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2020, 3 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $662k 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
- RWRED WIGGLER FOUNDATION INC4× · 2017–2020 · $60k · revenue +82%
- TWTHE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE4× · 2017–2020 · $43k · revenue +101%
- INInternational Neighbors Inc2× · 2017–2018 · $17k · revenue +200%
Funded once
- BGBoys Girls Club of Charlottesvilleone grant, 2017 · $10k
- AFACTION FOR ALL CORPone grant, 2018 · $10k
- TFTHE FOUNTAIN FUNDone grant, 2019 · $10k
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.
Mission: to cultivate the next generation of urban conservationists in richmond, virginia. vision: groundwork rva works with richmond youth to increase environmental, economic, and social well-being in neighborhoods by transforming…
Healthy chesapeake is committed to building a culture of wellness that supports, sustains and advocates for a healthier chesapeake. to achieve this, healthy chesapeake recognizes that health and well-being are interconnected with social,…
Cultivate local food systems prioritizing health, equity, and sustainability, from farm forward.
To provide responsive, person-centered services to improve the quality of life of individuals with disabilities.
Bethesda green works to locally accelerate the sustainable economy with a focus on innovation, impact, and community. we are an incubator, a connector, and a community partner. we accelerate green business startups into viable companies…
Freshfarm is a washington, dc-based nonprofit that builds a more equitable, sustainable, and resilient food system in the mid-atlantic region by producing innovative solutions in partnership with local communities and organizations. we…
Startup virginia is a non-profit, high-growth-business incubator, dedicated to building a long-term, sustainable economy for virginia. we connect our startup community to exceptional mentors and extensive programs in a dynamic workspace.
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…
Housingforward virginia helps community leaders take action to solve their housing challenges. as a trusted partner and innovator, we use evidence- based solutions to build a future where everyone has a safe, stable home they can afford.
Mission - we connect people to plants by inspiring communities to explore and conserve nature.our commitments - organizational sustainability, environmental resiliency, collaboration and gathering, social responsibilityour vision - we are…
Our mission is to empower adults with disabilities and individuals with barriers to employment to build skills and secure and sustain meaningful employment.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Readykids Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pegasus Project. 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 29 years old; the field is 14. 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.
33 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. 33 of the 45 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 NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF AUTISM INC ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds RED WIGGLER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNTAIN FUND ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds THE HAVEN AT FIRST AND MARKET INC ↗
- Who funds THE HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE MILLER SCHOOL OF ALBEMARLE ↗
- Who funds LITTLE KESWICK EDUCATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Cultivate Charlottesville ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE WILDLIFE HERITAGE INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WINTERGREEN ADAPTIVE SPORTS ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHARLOTTESVILLE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT FAMILY YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTESVILLE ↗
- Who funds International Neighbors Inc ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds READYKIDS INC ↗
- Who funds LOCAL FOOD HUB INC ↗
- Who funds Creative Works Farm Inc ↗
- Who funds WINTERGREEN VOLUNTEER FIRE ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Phillips Wharf Environmental Center Inc ↗
- Who funds ZEPONIC FARMS INC ↗
- Who funds PEGASUS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds RIVANNA CONSERVATION ALLIANCE ↗
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: Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · The Genan Foundation · Caplin Foundation · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation · Perry Foundation Inc · Sentara Health · The Charles Fund Inc · Oakwood Foundation Charitable Trust · The Rimora Foundation · Manning Family Foundation · United Way of Greater Charlottesville · The J & E Berkley 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 Hut 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.
- Phillips Wharf Environmental Center Inc — 21% of income from government
- Academy Art Museum Inc — 5% 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.
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