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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.

$16k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$47kSocial Science$34kPublic Benefit$32kEducation$10kYouth Development$7kInternational$1kCivil Rights$1kHealth$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
3
States reached
$56k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
THE ROSENBACH MUSEUM AND LIBRARY$500
HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA$500
ABLEMARLE CHARLOTTESVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY$500
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA$500
RIDDICK'S FOLLY$500
LIVING FREE MINISTRIES$500
Individual grant recipient$500
LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF VIRGINIA$250
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JEFFERSON SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $40 → 8%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

VT
NY
PA
VA
MD
NC
DC
GA
FL
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$119k · 14 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +111% since the first grant, against +24% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
25

Total granted

$119k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+111%
+24%

Still filing today

50%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthInternationalRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • PP
    PRESIDENTIAL PRECINCT
    8× · 2018–2025 · $32k · revenue +168%
  • TJ
    THOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2018–2025 · $19k · revenue +124%
  • TC
    THE CORPORATION FOR THOMAS JEFFERSON'S POPLAR FOREST
    6× · 2018–2023 · $13k · revenue +142%

Funded once

  • EA
    Early Access Music Project
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
  • EA
    EARLY ACCESS MUSIC PROJECTS
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LAFAYETTEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +581%
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
American Civil War Museum Collection

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.

Arts & Culture
2
The South Carolina Historical Society

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.

Arts & Culture
3
Massachusetts Historical Society

To promote understanding of the history of massachusetts and the nation by collecting and communicating materials and resources that foster historical knowledge.

Arts & Culture
4
Association for the Preservation of Va Antiquities

To preserve, promote and serve as an advocate for virginia's irreplaceable historic places for cultural, economic and educational benefits for everyone.

Arts & Culture
5
American Antiquarian Society

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.…

Education
6
Mount Vernon Preservation Society
Arts & Culture
7
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

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.

Arts & Culture
8
Founding Fathers Papers Inc

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.…

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9
Montauk Historical Society

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…

Arts & Culture
10
Society of Architectural Historians

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)…

Arts & Culture
11
Tudor Place Foundation Inc

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…

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12
Harvard Club of Ny Historical Foundation
Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montpelier Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

25 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. 25 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
15/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

International Center for Jefferson Studies: $32,500 · OtherInternational Center for Jefferson StudiesEKWANOK SCHOLARSHIP TRUST INC: $8,816 · OtherEKWANOK SCHOLARSHIP TRUST INCBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF VIRGINIA: $3,000 · Other+29 more: $21,505 · Other+29 moreTHOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC: $18,500 · Arts & CultureTHOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION I…THE CORPORATION FOR THOMAS JEFFERSON'S POPLAR FOREST: $13,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CORPORATION FOR THOMAS JE…ALBEMARLE CHARLOTTESVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1,500 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $2,750 · Arts & Culture+4 morePRESIDENTIAL PRECINCT: $31,500 · InternationalPRESIDENTIAL PRECINCTUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION: $1,000 · EducationLewis & Clark Exploratory Center of Virginia Inc: $500 · EducationLIBRARY OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION: $250 · EducationLET'S BREAKTHROUGH INC: $1,000 · Crime & LegalLIVING FREE MINISTRIES INC: $500 · HealthARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $500 · HealthSTRATTON MOUNTAIN SCHOOL: $500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$65,821Arts & Culture$35,750International$31,500Education$1,750Crime & Legal$1,000Health$1,000Recreation & Sports$500

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 budgetPRESIDENTIAL PRECINCT: $31,500 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC: $18,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CORPORATION FOR THOMAS JEFFERSON'S POPLAR FOREST: $13,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEKWANOK SCHOLARSHIP TRUST INC: $8,816 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetALBEMARLE CHARLOTTESVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetETHAN ALLEN INSTITUTE: $1,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFARMINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION: $750 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCenter for Palladian Studies in America: $500 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetLewis & Clark Exploratory Center of Virginia Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE ROSENBACH OF THE FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHistorical Society of Pennsylvania: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTRATTON MOUNTAIN SCHOOL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTPELIER FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMANCHESTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRIDDICKS FOLLY: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVERMONT HUMANITIES COUNCIL: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIBRARY OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEFFERSON SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $40 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.

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 Joseph and Robert…Charlottesville Area …The Charles Fund IncOakwood Foundation Ch…The Community Foundat…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial FoundationVA24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Jefferson Legacy Foundation Sydney N Stokes Jr Chairman funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jefferson Legacy Foundation Sydney N Stokes Jr Chairman. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 67%
  • Vermont Humanities Council: 67% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Jefferson Legacy Foundation Sydney N Stokes Jr Chairman through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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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