· Private foundation
The Lwh Family 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $71k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOSTON FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| COROLLA WILDE HORSE FUND | $10,000 |
| VIRGINIA PUBLIC ACCESS FOUNDATION | $9,000 |
| VIRGINIA LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDU FOUNDAT | $9,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NOVA | $9,000 |
| NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| VIRGINIA CONSERVATION NETWORK | $5,000 |
| THE HILL SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| CENTERVILLE IMMIGRATION FORUM | $3,500 |
| FULLBRIGHT ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| FAITH ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE SOLUTIONS | $2,500 |
| WASAYTCH TRAILS ALLIANCE | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $104k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 1% 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.
48 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 7 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, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC4× · 2017–2020 · $101k · revenue +86%- VCVIRGINIA CONSERVATION NETWORK7× · 2017–2024 · $60k · revenue +108%
- TPTHE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL7× · 2017–2024 · $48k · revenue +161%
Funded once
GREENPEACE FUND INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +57%- DDONORSCHOOSEORGone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +1%
- IIBMEone grant, 2018 · $20k
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 union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
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).
Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.
Create a more accessible, sustainable, prosperous and livable national capital region by being a discussion forum, expert resource, issue advocate, and catalyst for action.
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…
Alliance for the shenandoah valley informs and engages people to protect the natural resources, cultural heritages, and rural character of our region.
Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.
The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…
The endowment works collaboratively with partners in the public and private sectors to advance systemic, transformative, and sustainable change for the health and vitality of the nation's working forests and forest reliant communities.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Eastern North Carolina and the most unlike its peers is Earth Sangha. 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 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
76 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. 76 of the 144 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 Boston Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA CONSERVATION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Virginia League of Conservation Voters Education Fund ↗
- Who funds Central Virginia Horse Rescue ↗
- Who funds THE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA PUBLIC ACCESS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Faith Alliance for Climate Solutions ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Earth Sangha ↗
- Who funds CENTREVILLE IMMIGRATION FORUM ↗
- Who funds DANNY & RONS RESCUE ↗
- Who funds HERSHEY MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA21 ↗
- Who funds THE HILL SCHOOL CORPORATION OF MIDDLEBURG ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds All Ages Read Together ↗
- Who funds GREENPEACE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds HOLISTIC LIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOCAL FOOD HUB INC ↗
- Who funds ONEVIRGINIA2021 ↗
- Who funds MINDFUL SCHOOLS ↗
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 Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · United Way of the National Capital Area · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · Wolf Run Foundation Inc · Van Metre Companies Foundation Inc · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Loudoun and Northern Fauquier Counties · The Oak Hill Fund · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Frederick Henry Prince Testamentary Trust
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 Lwh Family 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.
- Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research Inc — 3% of income from government
- Holistic Life Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
- Boston Foundation Inc — 0% 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.