· Private foundation
The Jackson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $555k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $730k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDSAVERS | $75,000 |
| FRIENDS OF RICHMOND COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL | $65,000 |
| FAMILY LIFELINE | $60,000 |
| HUMANKIND | $60,000 |
| BETTER HOUSING COALITION | $60,000 |
| VIRGINIA LEAGUE FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $60,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF RICHMOND | $50,000 |
| GREATER RICHMOND SCAN | $50,000 |
| SACRED HEART CENTER | $50,000 |
| YWCA OF RICHMOND | $50,000 |
| REESTABLISH RICHMOND | $50,000 |
| VIRGINIA CENTER FOR INCLUSIVE COMMUNITIES | $50,000 |
| GREATER RICHMOND FIT4KIDS | $50,000 |
| PARTNERSHIP FOR THE FUTURE | $45,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHESTERFIELD | $45,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against -6% for those funded once.
42 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 2 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FOFriends of Richmond Community High School8× · 2018–2025 · $461k · revenue +53% · 38% of their budget
- YRYWCA RICHMOND8× · 2018–2025 · $411k · revenue +161%
- FLFAMILY LIFELINE8× · 2018–2025 · $350k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- ACADVISORY COUNCIL OF THE VTCCone grant, 2018 · $33k
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF RICHMONDone grant, 2023 · $30k
- HBHEALTH BRIGADEgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +83%
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.
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.
Chamberrva is the trusted voice for modern business in the richmond virginia region. we are change agents, rallying to do the hard things that will create a more connected, prosperous, health and equitable community.
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.
Richmond County Partnership for Children advances a high-quality, accountable system of care and early education for each child beginning with a healthy birth, and supports families to improve early childhood health and development to…
The organization's mission is to sustain a vibrant, healthy and strong community through affordable, culturally competent, quality primary health care.
Working within the faith community to educate and mobilize citizen to create systemic social change for low income Virginians.
To present powerful voices so richmond can learn. to empower local voices so richmond can lead.
For Richmond convenes city wide events and presentations, prayer meetings and worship services to promote unity in the city of Richmond among Christians by building trusted relationships between churches and leaders, while doing good for…
To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…
GRP's mission is to aggressively generate economic opportunities that create quality jobs for residents in the region and increase the tax base for needed community 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…
To use the power of media to educate, entertain and inspire, using public television and public radio to make a positive impact on the communities throughout central virginia, charlottesville, the shenandoah valley, the northern neck and…
To be a catalyst in Richmond for learning and living through art.
How this is measured
46 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. 46 of the 53 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Friends of Richmond Community High School ↗
- Who funds YWCA RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds FAMILY LIFELINE ↗
- Who funds GREATER RICHMOND SCAN - STOP CHILD ABUSE NOW INC ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDSAVERS- MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN HOMES & FAMILY SVCS ↗
- Who funds BETTER HOUSING COALITION ↗
- Who funds JSARGEANT REYNOLDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA LEAGUE FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds GREATER RICHMOND FIT4KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF RICHMOND INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR THE FUTURE ↗
- Who funds Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities ↗
- Who funds THE VALENTINE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND HILL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHESTERFIELD ↗
- Who funds GREAT ASPIRATIONS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds SHALOM FARMSINC ↗
- Who funds VOICES FOR VIRGINIA'S CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds ART 180 Inc ↗
- Who funds Partnership for Housing Affordability ↗
- Who funds HOUSING FAMILIES FIRST ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds FULL CIRCLE GRIEF CENTER ↗
- Who funds RE-ESTABLISH RICHMOND INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Home Society of Virginia ↗
- Who funds ROBINSON THEATER COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIAFIRST ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND COMMUNITY TOOLBANK ↗
- Who funds READING AND EDUCATION FOR ADULT DEVELOPMENT ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Richmond Memorial Health Foundation · Robins Foundation · Herndon Foundation · The Pauley Family Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · Virginia Nonprofit Housing Coalition · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Carmax Foundation · Shelton H Short Jr Trust · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Bon Secours - Richmond Health System Inc · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Jackson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jackson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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