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The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union

The mission of the mount vernon ladies' association is to preserve, restore, and manage the estate of george washington to the highest standards and to educate visitors and people throughout the world about the life and legacies of george washington, so that his example of character and leadership will continue to inform and inspire…

$329k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$976kEnvironment$120kEducation$92kReligion$10kRecreation & Sports$9k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $73,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $329,180 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $256,180 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$13,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$401M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA$25,000
ACCOKEEK FOUNDATION$15,000
GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC$13,000
AMERICAN COLLEGE OF THE BUILDING ARTS$10,000
POHICK CHURCH$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 17% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE GILDER LERHMAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN HISTORY: $10k → 17%AMERICAN COLLEGE OF THE BUILDING ARTS: $10k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $20k → 16%ROSEMONT PRESERVATION SOCIETY: $10k → 18%UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $10k → 11%POHICK CHURCH: $10k → 6%MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $10k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $283k → 8%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $16k → 11%ACCOKEEK FOUNDATION: $15k → 19%GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $13k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $276k → 8%ACCOKEEK FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $13k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $272k → 8%ACCOKEEK FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $25k → 8%ACCOKEEK FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $25k → 8%ACCOKEEK FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $25k → 8%ACCOKEEK FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $25k → 8%ACCOKEEK FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $25k → 8%ACCOKEEK FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%THE MOYAONE ASSOCIATION: $9k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 80% of The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 83% of the giving stays in VA; by stated purpose, 4%.

The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Unionlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 3 repeat orgs$105k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
7

Total granted

$1.1M
$85k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-6%
+10%

Still filing today

67%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • RV
    RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $956k
  • AF
    ACCOKEEK FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $120k · revenue -33%
  • GM
    GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $26k · revenue -6%

Funded once

  • US
    USC School of Medicine Greenville
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $16k · revenue +25%
  • UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +10%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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2
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
3
Hillsdale College

Hillsdale college is a private liberal arts college with approximately 1,500 students. founded in 1844, the college remains, in the words of its articles of association, "grateful to god for the inestimable blessings resulting from the…

Education
4
Boston Architectural College

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

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5
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
6
St Mary's University

St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.

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7
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education
8
Hampden-Sydney College

Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.

Education
9
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
10
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
11
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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12
The George Washington University

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Johns Hopkins University; the most unlike its peers is Rosemont Preservation Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 12 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $955,762 · OtherRECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIAACCOKEEK FOUNDATION INC: $120,000 · OtherACCOKEEK FOUNDATION INC+4 more: $49,000 · OtherGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $26,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $16,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $10,000 · EducationTHE GILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN HISTORY: $10,000 · EducationAMERICAN COLLEGE OF THE BUILDING ARTS: $10,000 · EducationRosemont Preservation Society: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,124,762Education$72,000Arts & Culture$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetACCOKEEK FOUNDATION INC: $120,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $26,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $16,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRosemont Preservation Society: $10,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetTHE GILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN HISTORY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COLLEGE OF THE BUILDING ARTS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMOYAONE ASSOCIATION: $9,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budget
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Accokeek Foundation Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 11% of income from government
  • University of Hartford: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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