· Private foundation
The Jefferson Legacy Foundation Sydney N Stokes Jr Chairman
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of THE JEFFERSON LEGACY FOUNDATION SYDNEY N STOKES JR CHAIRMAN’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION | $6,500 |
| PRESIDENTIAL PRECINCT | $2,000 |
| MUSEUM OF CULPEPER HISTORY | $1,500 |
| THE NAFISA ATIKU ADEJUWON FOUNDATION | $1,100 |
| FARMINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA | $500 |
| RIDDICK'S FOLLY | $500 |
| LIVING FREE MINISTRIES | $500 |
| THE ROSENBACH MUSEUM AND LIBRARY | $500 |
| HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $500 |
| ABLEMARLE CHARLOTTESVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF VIRGINIA | $250 |
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 (FY23–23, $40) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% 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 +111% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 8 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- PPPRESIDENTIAL PRECINCT8× · 2018–2025 · $32k · revenue +168%
- TJTHOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC3× · 2018–2025 · $19k · revenue +124%
- TCTHE CORPORATION FOR THOMAS JEFFERSON'S POPLAR FOREST6× · 2018–2023 · $13k · revenue +142%
Funded once
- EAEarly Access Music Projectone grant, 2022 · $1k
- EMEARLY MUSIC ACCESS PROJECT INCone grant, 2020 · $1k
- EAEARLY ACCESS MUSIC PROJECTSone grant, 2023 · $1k
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.
The mission of the american civil war museum collection is to serve as the preeminent world center for the display, study, interpretation, commemoration, and preservation of the history and artifacts of the confederate states of america.
The schs mission is to expand, preserve, and make accessible our invaluable collection, and to encourage interest and pride in the rich history of our state.
To promote understanding of the history of massachusetts and the nation by collecting and communicating materials and resources that foster historical knowledge.
To preserve, promote and serve as an advocate for virginia's irreplaceable historic places for cultural, economic and educational benefits for everyone.
Supports and maintains a research library of american history and culture. the american antiquarian society cultivates a deeper understanding of the american past, grounded in its ever-growing collection of printed and manuscript sources.…
Preserve, restore, reconstruct, or otherwise maintain historical structures, objects, works of art and locations and to promote, encourage, and carry on any historical, interpretive, research, or related educational activities.
Founding Fathers Paper's purpose is to perform the functions of and carry out the purposes of the Founding Fathers Editorial Projects, primarily by supporting and facilitating the publication of the papers of J. Adams, B. Franklin, T.…
The purpose of the montauk historical society is to collect, restore, preserve and display historically significant buildings, objects and writings and to preserve and share the history and cultures of montauk and the east end for this and…
The mission of the society is to advance the knowledge and understanding of architecture, design, landscape and urbanism worldwide among scholars, professionals in allied fields (including architecture, historic preservation and planning)…
Tudor place historic house & garden preserves the stories of six generations of descendants of martha washington and the enslaved and free people who lived and worked at this georgetown landmark for nearly two centuries. by examining their…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montpelier Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Stratton Mountain School. 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 41 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 — 0.0% 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.
25 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. 25 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 PRESIDENTIAL PRECINCT ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CORPORATION FOR THOMAS JEFFERSON'S POPLAR FOREST ↗
- Who funds EKWANOK SCHOLARSHIP TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds ALBEMARLE CHARLOTTESVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LAFAYETTE ↗
- Who funds LET'S BREAKTHROUGH INC ↗
- Who funds ETHAN ALLEN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FARMINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Lewis & Clark Exploratory Center of Virginia Inc ↗
- Who funds MANCHESTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Center for Palladian Studies in America ↗
- Who funds MONTPELIER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RIDDICKS FOLLY ↗
- Who funds THE ROSENBACH OF THE FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds LIVING FREE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds STRATTON MOUNTAIN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Historical Society of Pennsylvania ↗
- Who funds ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds VERMONT HUMANITIES COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds LIBRARY OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION ↗
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 Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation · Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · The Charles Fund Inc · Oakwood Foundation Charitable Trust · The Community Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Jefferson Legacy Foundation Sydney N Stokes Jr Chairman 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Vermont Humanities Council — 67% 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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