· Private foundation
The J & E Berkley 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 $10k43 grants · $181k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK | $15,000 |
| RECLAIMED HOPE INITIATIVE | $10,000 |
| AUGUSTA HEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE HAVEN | $10,000 |
| ALBEMARLE HOUSING IMPROVEMENT PROGR | $10,000 |
| GEORGIA'S FRIENDS INC | $10,000 |
| VIRGINIA CENTER FOR THE CREATIVE AR | $10,000 |
| CITY OF PROMISE | $7,500 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $7,500 |
| THE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE | $7,500 |
| CENTRAL VIRGINIA LEGAL AID SOCIETY | $7,500 |
| RIVANNA CONSERVATION ALLIANCE | $7,500 |
| OPEN DOORS INC | $7,500 |
| INNISFREE INC | $6,000 |
| THE FRONT PORCH | $6,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $92k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 4% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +46% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
83 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2025, 43 since wound down; 10 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k 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
- BRBLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC7× · 2017–2025 · $77k · revenue +51%
- PCPIEDMONT CASA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $68k · revenue +114%
- TWTHE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE9× · 2017–2025 · $59k · revenue +101%
Funded once
- ASALBEMARLE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INCone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +4%
- TITransformation Incone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -82%
- THTHE HSS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $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.
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…
VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.
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.
VCDC delivers vital financial resources and support while collaborating with local organizations dedicated to social impact, ensuring the creation of affordable homes in vibrant neighborhoods where everyone can thrive.
Virginia poverty law center uses advocacy, education, and litigation to break down systemic barriers that keep low-income virginians in the cycle of poverty.
Habitat for Humanity Virginia provides support to Virginia affiliates so that they can build or facilitate affordable housing by offering advocacy, organizational development, funding, and resource development
The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.
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.
Casa of central va, inc. recruits, trains and supports volunteer advocates for abused and neglected children involved in juvenile court proceedings in the 24th judicial district and educates the community about the needs of these children.
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…
The mission of Virginia Legal Aid Society is to resolve serious legal problems of low-income people, promote economic and family stability, reduce poverty through effective legal assistance, and to champion equal justice.
Communityworks in west virignia (cwwv) creates housing and community development solutions for all west virginians through a network of member organizations. cwwv carries out its mission by providing effective training and technical…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Region Ten Community Services Board Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Hss Foundation. 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 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
107 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. 107 of the 162 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 ALBEMARLE HOUSING IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT CASA INC ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKFISH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds READYKIDS INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTESVILLE FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Louisa County Resource Council of Louisa Virginia ↗
- Who funds THE HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA'S FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds CITY OF PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA CENTER FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS ↗
- Who funds IVY CREEK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RIVANNA CONSERVATION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds CHILD HEALTH PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds RECLAIMED HOPE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL CARE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds RX DRUG ACCESS PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds ON OUR OWN CHARLOTTESVILLE VA INC ↗
- Who funds WILD VIRGINIA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL VIRGINIA LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN AMERICAN TEACHING FELLOWS OF CHARLOTTESVILLE-ALBEMARLE INC ↗
- Who funds TRI-RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Community Services Housing Inc ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE CASA FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF AUTISM INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Charlottesville Ballet ↗
- Who funds DEPAUL COMMUNITY RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds THE WILDLIFE CENTER OF VIRGINIA ↗
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 · Perry Foundation Inc · Caplin Foundation · The Oak Hill Fund · The Charles Fund Inc · Oakwood Foundation Charitable Trust · Sentara Health · Manning Family Foundation · United Way of Greater Charlottesville · The Genan Foundation · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable 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 J & E Berkley 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.
- Adopt-a-Family of the Palm Beaches Inc — 15% 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.