· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN HIMALAYAN FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| VPM MEDIA CORPORATION | $2,000 |
| GIVE HOPE 2 KIDS | $1,500 |
| RICHMOND MONTESSORI SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| OUR LAUGHTER IN THE RAIN | $1,000 |
| BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTE IN CHESTERFIELD | $1,000 |
| PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN FUND | $1,000 |
| COLLEGIATE SCHOOL | $750 |
| ST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $750 |
| SCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION | $750 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD | $500 |
| K DANCE INC | $500 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $500 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +10% since the first grant, against -21% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $750 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
The Trustees of Princeton University6× · 2020–2025 · $9k · revenue +51%- UOUniversity Of Dublin Fund6× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +10%
THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +34%
Funded once
ICNA RELIEF USA PROGRAMS INCone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue 0%- WCWOODSON CENTERone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -21%
- CFCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $750
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.
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).
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…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
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…
Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
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.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
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…
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…
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.
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 26 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 VPM MEDIA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds The American Himalayan Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds University Of Dublin Fund ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTE IN CHESTERFIELD COUNTY VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds GIVE HOPE 2 KIDS ↗
- 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 ICNA RELIEF USA PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds THE RICHMOND SYMPHONY ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Micawber Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Micawber Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
- University of Hartford: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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