· Private foundation
The Leg Up Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOPES LEGACY EQUINE RESCUE INC | $15,000 |
| OUTER BANKS HOTLINE | $12,500 |
| SERVICE DOGS OF VIRGINIA | $12,500 |
| CHARLOTTESVILLE UNITED FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION | $11,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL NEIGHBORS | $10,000 |
| BLUE SKY FUND | $10,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% 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 +50% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.
4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SDSERVICE DOGS OF VIRGINIA INC2× · 2023–2024 · $18k · revenue +159%
- TOTHE OUTER BANKS HOTLINE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $18k · revenue +25%
- BSBLUE SKY FUND2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- WFWARTIME FITNESS WARRIORSone grant, 2023 · $10k
- GRGeorges River Land Trustone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -8%
- SFSHALOM FARMSINCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +11%
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.
Rural Dog Rescue saves the lives of high risk dogs in economically challenged shelters in rural areas of the country. Our mission is to save the dogs that are at greatest risk of euthanasia and are the most overlooked dogs in the shelter.…
Veterans Healing Farm enhances the mental, emotional, and physical well-being of our nations Veterans and their families.
Our mission is to ensure the availability, access, and affordability of locally produced food by connecting local farmers and all members of the community through programs, awareness, and advocacy.
Working to advance agriculture that sustains the chesapeake region's farmers, communities, and environment.
Old Dominion Humane Society provides well-matched, permanent homes for dogs in need through rescue, rehabilitation, and education.
The mission of Global Garden Refugee Training Farms is to improve access to fresh vegetables for refugee families and their neighbors, and to reconnect displaced farmers with opportunities to grow healthy food and earn supplemental income.
Rescue, rehabilitation, and lifelong sanctuary for neglected farm animals, while providing public education on animal welfare and compassionate care, and advocating for improved policies that protect animals.
Freedom virginia's mission is to advance common-sense solutions that will ensure all of virginia's working families have the economic security to thrive.
Provide shelter, care, and treatment to homeless animals in the city of portsmouth community through permanent adoptions, spay/neuter programs, and community education.
Tiny hooves is dedicated to rescuing, rehabilitating, and providing forever sanctuary to abandoned, abused, neglected, and unwanted farm animals while also inspiring positive change within the human and animal bond. we promote a vegan…
Aid in the eradication of animal fighting
Virginia german shepherd rescue is an all volunteer organization dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation and re-homing of the german shepherd dog (and sometimes other breeds/mixes). the rescue provide a safe haven for german shepherds who…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 10 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 SERVICE DOGS OF VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds THE OUTER BANKS HOTLINE INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE SKY FUND ↗
- Who funds HOPE'S LEGACY EQUINE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds International Neighbors Inc ↗
- Who funds WARTIME FITNESS WARRIORS ↗
- Who funds Georges River Land Trust ↗
- Who funds SHALOM FARMSINC ↗
- Who funds LOCAL FOOD HUB INC ↗
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: Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · The Oak Hill Fund · Caplin Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Leg Up Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Leg Up Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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