How much did THE MICAWBER FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

THE MICAWBER FOUNDATION reported 20 grants totaling $17,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing.

Where is THE MICAWBER FOUNDATION based?

THE MICAWBER FOUNDATION is based in VA.

THE MICAWBER FOUNDATION

Foundation Dossiers

· Private foundation

THE MICAWBER FOUNDATION

This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.

$18k

Granted FY2025

Grants

Communities

$2k

Largest

01What you fund

0161% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.

Education$26kInternational$24kArts & Culture$18kPublic Safety & Disaster$6kHealth$2kCommunity Improvement$1kOther$50k

03FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$750

Median grant

States reached

$414k

Total assets

Largest grants

VPM MEDIA CORPORATION$2,000
AMERICAN HIMALAYAN FOUNDATION$2,000
GIVE HOPE 2 KIDS$1,500
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY$1,000
LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTE IN CHESTERFIELD$1,000
BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION$1,000
RICHMOND MONTESSORI SCHOOL$1,000
UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN FUND$1,000
OUR LAUGHTER IN THE RAIN$1,000
ST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION$750
COLLEGIATE SCHOOL$750
SCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION$750
SPARC$500
UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD$500
K DANCE INC$500

02The need

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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 9%. 51% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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.

$122k · 20 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships — 18 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

Total granted

$122k

$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%

+60%

Still filing today

70%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureInternationalPublic Safety & DisasterHealthCommunity ImprovementOther

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

VM
VPM MEDIA CORPORATION
6× · 2020–2025 · $12k · revenue +81%
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
6× · 2020–2025 · $9k · revenue +21%
UO
UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN FUND
6× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +100%

Funded once

IR
ICNA RELIEF
one grant, 2024 · $2k
TW
THE WOODSON CENTERgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +32%
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.

Virginia Commonwealth University Foundat

To support the educational,scientific & charitable activities of vcu.

Education

Westminster College

Four-year, undergraduate liberal arts college.

Education

Washington College

Washington college challenges and inspires emerging citizen leaders to discover lives of purpose and passion.

Education

Westminster University

Offer undergraduate and graduate degrees in liberal arts and professional programs.

Education

Harvard College Trust

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Trinity College

Trinity is a comprehensive institution offering a broad range of educational programs that prepare students across the lifespan for the intellectual, ethical, and spiritual dimensions of contemporary work, civic and family life.

Education

Davidson College

Undergraduate liberal arts education

Education

Washington University

The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)

Education

College of Charleston Foundation

To promote education, research, and development programs for the exclusive benefit of the college of charleston

Education

The Rockefeller University

A world-renowned center for research and graduate education.

Education

Columbia College

Columbia College improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education

The Cambridge School

Operate a classical school from pre-K through 12th grade education.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Breast Cancer Research and the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale College. 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 50 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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/20

the rest of the field

11%

5,477/50,448

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.

05the grantee network

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

18/18

Grantees still filing

13/18

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$49,750Education$25,900International$23,900Arts & Culture$18,350Public Safety & Disaster$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

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.

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 FoundationVA17.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Carmax Foundation · Robins Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · McKesson Foundation Inc · Massey Family Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Ge Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 organisation 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.

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⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: OUR LAUGHTER IN THE RAIN.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 842381403 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on OUR LAUGHTER IN THE RAIN, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue held over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 2% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to The Micawber Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Micawber Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE MICAWBER FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Micawber Foundation?

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THE MICAWBER FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Micawber Foundation?

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