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The John W Warner IV 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.

$210k
Granted FY2023
52
Itemized grants FY2023
52
Organizations funded FY2023
31%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$190k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$3,425
Largest grant, FY2023
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 53
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
13
Total assets, FY2023
$2.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 31% of the organizations The John W Warner IV Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’23
Arts & CulturePhilanthropyHealthHuman ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202352$190k31%
FY202153$173k100%
FY20171$3kn/a
88% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$80kHuman Services$65kArts & Culture$44kHousing & Shelter$23kEnvironment$23kAnimals$17kPublic Safety & Disaster$17kReligion$15kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 35 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($152k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The John W Warner IV Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe College Foundation of the University of Virginia: $53,425 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Planetary Society: $8,438 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNational Gallery of Art: $5,694 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetParalyzed Veterans of America: $5,694 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetArlington Soccer Association: $5,694 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFisher House Foundation Inc: $5,694 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYellow Ribbon Fund Inc: $5,694 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOsterville Historical Society Inc: $5,694 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNavy-Marine Corps Relief Society: $5,694 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBlue Ridge Wildlife Center: $5,694 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWarrior Canine Connection Inc: $5,694 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFreedom House: $5,694 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $5,694 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Wildlife Foundation of Virginia: $5,694 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMarine Corps University Foundation Inc: $5,694 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetServe Our Willing Warriors: $5,694 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Philosophical Society: $5,694 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHomes for Our Troops Inc: $5,694 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAfrican Wildlife Foundation Inc: $5,694 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEarthjustice: $5,694 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Piedmont Environmental Council: $5,694 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBlue Ridge Area Food Bank Inc: $5,694 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSemper Fi & America's Fund: $3,425 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Eve Ministries Dba New Eve Maternity Home: $3,425 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetProject Recover Inc: $3,425 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMonacan Nation Cultural Foundation Inc: $3,425 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLeadership Enterprise for a Diverse America: $3,425 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGeorgetown Ministry Center: $3,425 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetInternational Association of Fire Fighters: $3,425 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWarrick Dunn Charities Inc: $3,425 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAllen-Chase Foundation Dba Eaglebrook School: $2,269 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $2,269 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShriners Hospitals for Children: $2,269 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 33.

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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.

Ge Aerospace FoundationCT12× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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.

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About The John W Warner IV Foundation

How much does The John W Warner IV Foundation give?
The John W Warner IV Foundation reported 52 itemized grants totaling $190,163, out of $210,032 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 53 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The John W Warner IV Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Education (5%), Human Services (4%), Arts & Culture (3%).
Who are The John W Warner IV Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: The College Foundation of the University of Virginia ($53k), The Planetary Society ($8k), National Gallery of Art ($6k).
Does The John W Warner IV Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The John W Warner IV Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The John W Warner IV Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ge Aerospace Foundation, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Verizon Foundation.
Where is The John W Warner IV Foundation based?
The John W Warner IV Foundation is based in VA.

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 71 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $244k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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