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The Micawber 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.

$18k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Education$40kArts & Culture$40kInternational$13kReligion$11kHealth$9kScience & Tech$7kHuman Services$6kCommunity Improvement$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$750
Median grant
7
States reached
$360k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN HIMALAYAN FOUNDATION$2,000
VPM MEDIA CORPORATION$2,000
GIVE HOPE 2 KIDS$1,500
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY$1,000
RICHMOND MONTESSORI SCHOOL$1,000
BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION$1,000
OUR LAUGHTER IN THE RAIN$1,000
LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTE IN CHESTERFIELD$1,000
UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN FUND$1,000
COLLEGIATE SCHOOL$750
ST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION$750
SCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION$750
ISLAMIC CENTER OF VIRGINIA$500
K DANCE INC$500
UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD$500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTE IN CHESTERFIELD: $1k → 7%LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTE IN CHESTERFIELD: $1k → 7%LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTE IN CHESTERFIELD: $1k → 7%LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTE IN CHESTERFIELD: $1k → 7%LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTE IN CHESTERFIELD: $1k → 7%LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTE IN CHESTERFIELD: $1k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MN
MI
NY
NJ
CT
CA
VA
DC

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$119k · 19 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +10% since the first grant, against -21% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
4

Total granted

$119k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
-21%

Still filing today

79%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $750 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureInternationalEducationPublic Safety & DisasterHuman ServicesHealthOther

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

  • The Trustees of Princeton University
    6× · 2020–2025 · $9k · revenue +51%
  • UO
    University Of Dublin Fund
    6× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +10%
  • THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • ICNA RELIEF USA PROGRAMS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue 0%
  • WC
    WOODSON CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -21%
  • CF
    CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $750

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

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).

Education
2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
4
Lehigh University

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…

Education
5
Virginia Wesleyan University

Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.

6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

7
Sarah Lawrence College

At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…

Education
8
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
9
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
10
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
11
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
12
Harvard Club of Washington Dc

To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Virginia Repertory Theatre and the most unlike its peers is Give Hope 2 Kids. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr18%4%10–20yr14%26%20–35yr15%35%35–55yr15%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr18%0%10–20yr14%22%20–35yr15%43%35–55yr15%32%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/23
the rest of the field
13%
6,446/50,445

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.

04the grantee network

21 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 26 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
14/21
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VIRGINIA MUSUEM OF FINE ARTS — $15,000 · OtherVIRGINIA MUSUEM OF FINE ARTSISLAMIC CENTER OF VIRGINIA — $11,000 · OtherISLAMIC CENTER OF VIRGINIASPARC — $6,750 · OtherSPARCK DANCE INCORPORATED — $3,000 · OtherK DANCE INCORPORATEDRICHMOND MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC — $1,500 · Other+2 more — $1,000 · OtherThe Trustees of Princeton University — $9,000 · EducationThe Trustees of Princet…ST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $5,000 · EducationST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL F…THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL — $5,000 · EducationTHE COLLEGIATE SCHOOLUNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD — $3,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF HARTFORDHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $3,400 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGEThe American Himalayan Foundation — $11,000 · InternationalThe American Himalaya…University Of Dublin Fund — $6,500 · InternationalUniversity Of Dublin …GIVE HOPE 2 KIDS — $6,000 · InternationalGIVE HOPE 2 KIDS+1 more — $400 · InternationalVPM MEDIA CORPORATION — $11,500 · Arts & CultureVPM MEDIA CORPORATI…SCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION INC — $4,500 · Arts & CultureSCIENCE MUSEUM OF V…VIRGINIA REPERTORY THEATRE — $3,500 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA REPERTORY …THE RICHMOND SYMPHONY — $2,000 · Arts & CultureTHE RICHMOND SYMPHO…+1 more — $350 · Arts & CultureTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 · Public Safety & DisasterICNA RELIEF USA PROGRAMS INC — $2,000 · Public Safety & DisasterLIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTE IN CHESTERFIELD COUNTY VIRGINIA INC — $6,000 · Human ServicesOUR LAUGHTER IN THE RAIN INC — $2,250 · HealthWOODSON CENTER — $1,000 · Community Improvement
Other$38,250Education$25,900International$23,900Arts & Culture$21,850Public Safety & Disaster$8,000Human Services$6,000Health$2,250Community Improvement$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetVPM MEDIA CORPORATION — $11,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Himalayan Foundation — $11,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University — $9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity Of Dublin Fund — $6,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGIVE HOPE 2 KIDS — $6,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTE IN CHESTERFIELD COUNTY VIRGINIA INC — $6,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL — $5,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION INC — $4,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD — $3,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA REPERTORY THEATRE — $3,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $3,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOUR LAUGHTER IN THE RAIN INC — $2,250 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetTHE RICHMOND SYMPHONY — $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetICNA RELIEF USA PROGRAMS INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRICHMOND MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOODSON CENTER — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 VPM MEDIA CORPORATION
  • Who funds The American Himalayan Foundation
  • Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University
  • Who funds University Of Dublin Fund
  • Who funds GIVE HOPE 2 KIDS
  • Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTE IN CHESTERFIELD COUNTY VIRGINIA INC
  • Who funds ST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL
  • Who funds SCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD
  • Who funds VIRGINIA REPERTORY THEATRE
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE
  • Who funds OUR LAUGHTER IN THE RAIN INC
  • Who funds THE RICHMOND SYMPHONY
  • Who funds ICNA RELIEF USA PROGRAMS INC
  • Who funds RICHMOND MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds WOODSON CENTER
  • Who funds PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND
  • Who funds STUDIO TWO THREE
  • Who funds COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC

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.

Carmax FoundationVA20.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Carmax Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · Robins Foundation · McKesson Foundation Inc · The NewMarket Foundation · Massey Family Foundation · The Pauley Family Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Saunders Family Foundation · Commonwealth Foundations · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation · Herndon Foundation

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 Micawber 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 11%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University11% of income from government
  • University of Hartford1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Micawber Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Micawber Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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