· Private foundation
The Mraz Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k60 grants · $216k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VMI Foundation | $10,000 |
| Friends of Hollywood Cemetery | $10,000 |
| George Marshall Foundation | $10,000 |
| Garden Club of Virginia | $10,000 |
| The First Tee of Greater Richmond | $10,000 |
| Fore Children Inc | $8,000 |
| Virginia War Memorial Inc | $7,000 |
| ALS Association | $6,500 |
| College Orientation Wowrkshop-VMI | $5,000 |
| Boy Scouts of America | $5,000 |
| Richmond SPCA | $5,000 |
| US Army War College Foundation | $5,000 |
| William Mary Foundation | $5,000 |
| Virginia Early Childhood Foundation | $5,000 |
| St Christopher's School Fdn | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $136k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
89 repeat relationships — 52 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 11 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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
- VFVMI Foundation7× · 2018–2024 · $43k · revenue +11%
- CCCHAMBLISS CENTER FOR CHILDREN7× · 2017–2023 · $40k · revenue +74%
- RARICHMOND ANIMAL WELFARE FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +459%
Funded once
- MCMetro Chattanooga YMCACamp Ocoeeone grant, 2023 · $8k
- CHCOVENANT HOUSEone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +7%
- VKVMI Keydet Club Swimmingone grant, 2021 · $5k
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 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…
To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…
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…
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 virginia law school foundation's primary purpose is to receive, manage and expend funds for the benefit of the university of virginia school of law.
To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.
The William & Mary Foundation advances the university's highest aspirations by securing private support, guiding a multi-asset investment portfolio, and offering strategic leadership. In this work, we propel the university toward national…
The jefferson scholars foundation (foundation) provides academic merit-based scholarship, fellowship and professorship support to students and faculty at the university of virginia (uva).
To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.
The mission is to bring compassion to health care and to be good to those in need, especially those who are poor and dying. as a system of caregivers, we commit ourselves to help bring people and communities to health and wholeness.
To promote and raise funds for the virginia war memorial, a state agency of virginia, which was created for the purpose of honoring patriotic virginians who rendered faithful service and sacrifice in the cause of freedom and liberty for…
The mission of the alumni association is to build the strongest bond among alumni and between alumni and the university by serving all alumni and students; being the center for engaging and connecting the global uva community; acting as a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Richmond Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the most unlike its peers is The Rosewell Foundation Inc. 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 47 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
65 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. 65 of the 111 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 VMI Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHAMBLISS CENTER FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND ANIMAL WELFARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GARDEN CLUB OF VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds CARITAS ↗
- Who funds THE VALENTINE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Jewish Family Services Inc ↗
- Who funds FEED MORE INC ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC ↗
- Who funds MOSE & GARRISON SISKIN MEMORIAL FDN INC D/B/A SISKIN CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND ANIMAL LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND FIRST TEE ↗
- Who funds ST CHRISTOPHER'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONROE PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ARMY WAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Virginia Home ↗
- Who funds MAYMONT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL TREES ↗
- Who funds Vmi Keydet Club ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association 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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation Inc · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Carmax Foundation · The Capa Foundation · Herndon Foundation · Cathys Foundation · The Pauley Family Foundation · The Beirne Carter Foundation · Commonwealth Foundations · Tesco Foundation · Virginia Nonprofit Housing Coalition
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 Mraz Charitable Trust 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.
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.
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