· Private foundation
The Lewis and Butler 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $82k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $122k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $167k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VIRIGNIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS | $115,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF RICHMOND | $52,250 |
| WEINSTEIN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $40,000 |
| WOOLLY MAMMOTH THEATRE COMPANY | $15,000 |
| YOUTH LEARNING AS CITIZENS ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENTIST | $15,000 |
| VIRGINIA REPERTORY THEATRE | $12,000 |
| VISUAL ARTS OF RICHMOND | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER RICHMOND | $10,000 |
| THE STUDIO THEATRE | $10,000 |
| CONGREGATION BETH AHABAH | $10,000 |
| BARD PRISON INITIATIVE | $7,500 |
| RICHMOND SPCA | $7,500 |
| ST PATRICK'S CATHOLIC CHURCH | $6,000 |
| CHRYSLER MUSEUM OF ART | $5,000 |
| CINDY NEUSCHWANDER SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $218k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +58% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF RICHMOND9× · 2017–2025 · $518k · revenue +19%
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF RICHMOND9× · 2017–2025 · $200k · revenue +122%
- WMWoolly Mammoth Theatre Company Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $130k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- VFVCU Foundationone grant, 2017 · $100k
Davidson Collegegraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +42%- LGLEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +28%
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 university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
The richmond symphony performs, teaches and champions music to inspire and unite our communities.
Meridian international center is a nonpartisan diplomacy institution founded in 1960 to advance american leadership. headquartered on a historic campus in washington dc, our mission is to empower leaders to advance the next era of…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…
The mission of the edward via college of osteopathic medicine (vcom) is to prepare globally-minded, community-focused physicians to meet the needs of rural and medically underserved populations and promote research to improve human health.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater Richmond & Petersburg and the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. 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 51 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 51 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 JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Inc ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds The Studio Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER RICHMOND & PETERSBURG ↗
- Who funds THE RICHMOND BALLET ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds DAILY PLANET INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FEED THE CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds Davidson College ↗
- Who funds LEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Washington and Lee University ↗
- Who funds GoochlandCares ↗
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 Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · Kathryn & W H Schwarzschild Fund · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · Robins Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Carmax Foundation · Estes Foundation Co Matthew Breidenbach Pitcairn · Wilbur Moreland Havens Charitable Foundation · The Pauley Family Foundation · Virginia Nonprofit Housing Coalition
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 Lewis and Butler Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% 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.