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The Mraz Charitable Trust at a glance

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The Mraz Charitable Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$266k
Granted FY2024still arriving
65
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Education$403kHealth$353kArts & Culture$293kHuman Services$255kAnimals$148kRecreation & Sports$91kReligion$88kEnvironment$70kOther$0
02FY2024 · 65 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k60 grants · $216k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
$3,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
George Marshall Foundation$10,000
The First Tee of Greater Richmond$10,000
Friends of Hollywood Cemetery$10,000
VMI Foundation$10,000
Garden Club of Virginia$10,000
Fore Children Inc$8,000
Virginia War Memorial Inc$7,000
ALS Association$6,500
United Service Organizations Inc$5,000
University of Georgia Foundation$5,000
Virginia Home$5,000
YWCASafe Harbor$5,000
College Orientation Wowrkshop-VMI$5,000
Jewish Family Services$5,000
The Valentine Museum$5,000
02The need
03

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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Operation Healing Force: $2k → 12%Patrick Henry Family Services: $3k → 20%Operation Healing Force: $1k → 12%Patrick Henry Family Services: $3k → 20%Operation Healing Force: $1k → 12%Patrick Henry Family Services: $3k → 20%Mercy Mall Virginia: $3k → 7%Patrick Henry Family Services: $2k → 20%Patrick Henry Family Services: $2k → 20%Mercy Mall Virginia: $3k → 7%Mercy Mall Virginia: $3k → 7%Orange Grove Center: $10k → 12%Mercy Mall Virginia: $3k → 7%Orange Grove Center: $10k → 12%Mercy Mall Virginia: $3k → 7%Mercy Mall Virginia: $3k → 7%Mercy Mall Virginia: $2k → 7%Bethel Bible VIllage: $3k → 12%Bethel Bible VIllage: $3k → 12%Bethel Bible VIllage: $3k → 12%Bethel Bible VIllage: $3k → 12%Bethel Bible VIllage: $3k → 12%Thrifty Sisters: $5k → 9%Thrifty Sisters: $3k → 9%Thrifty Sisters: $2k → 9%YWCASafe Harbor: $5k → 22%Jewish Family Services: $5k → 22%Jewish Family Services: $5k → 22%YMCASafe Harbor: $5k → 22%Jewish Family Services: $5k → 22%Jewish Family Services: $5k → 22%YMCASafe Harbor: $5k → 22%YMCASafe Harbor: $5k → 22%Jewish Family Services: $5k → 22%YMCASafe Harbor: $4k → 22%YMCASafe Harbor: $3k → 22%YWCASafe Harbor: $3k → 22%Jewish Family Services: $3k → 22%Jewish Family Services: $3k → 22%Jewish Family Services: $3k → 22%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ND
MN
MI
PA
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
KS
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 89 repeat orgs$64k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

89
9

Total granted

$1.7M
$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+7%

Still filing today

57%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureAnimalsHealthEnvironmentOther
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

  • VF
    VMI Foundation
    7× · 2018–2024 · $43k · revenue +11%
  • CC
    CHAMBLISS CENTER FOR CHILDREN
    7× · 2017–2023 · $40k · revenue +115%
  • RA
    RICHMOND ANIMAL WELFARE FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +459%

Funded once

  • MC
    Metro Chattanooga YMCACamp Ocoee
    one grant, 2023 · $8k
  • VK
    VMI Keydet Club Swimming
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • CH
    COVENANT HOUSE
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +7%
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
Virginia Commonwealth University Intellectual Property Foundation

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…

Health
2
Vcu Investment Management Company

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…

Education
3
University of Virginia Foundation

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…

Education
4
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
5
University of Virginia Law School Foundation

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.

Education
6
Community Memorial Hospital

To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.

Health
7
William & Mary Foundation

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…

Education
8
Jefferson Scholars Foundation

The jefferson scholars foundation (foundation) provides academic merit-based scholarship, fellowship and professorship support to students and faculty at the university of virginia (uva).

Philanthropy
9
Vcu Health Tappahannock Hospital

To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.

Health
10
Bon Secours - Richmond Health System Inc

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.

Health
11
Virginia War Memorial Foundation Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
12
University of Virginia Alumni Association

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Richmond Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; 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.
04the grantee network

65 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. 65 of the 111 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/65
Grantees still filing
48/65
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Alzheimers Association: $65,000 · OtherAlzheimers AssociationIndividual grant recipient: $53,000 · OtherVirginia War Memorial Inc: $50,000 · OtherGeorge Marshall Foundation: $50,000 · OtherCHAMBLISS CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $39,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $36,000 · OtherMCV Foundation Cancer Center: $35,000 · OtherGermana Foundation: $35,000 · OtherCARITAS: $36,000 · Other+52 more: $619,750 · Other+52 moreVMI Foundation: $42,500 · EducationVMI FoundationHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $31,500 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGEUNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC: $30,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF THE …MOSE & GARRISON SISKIN MEMORIAL FDN INC D/B/A SISKIN CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE: $30,000 · EducationMOSE & GARRISON SI…ST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $26,000 · EducationST CATHERINE'S SCH…ST CHRISTOPHER'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $26,000 · EducationST CHRISTOPHER'S S…ARMY WAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $22,500 · EducationARMY WAR COLLEGE F…UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND: $20,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF RICH…Vmi Keydet Club: $20,000 · EducationVmi Keydet ClubSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE: $14,500 · Education+7 more: $40,500 · Education+7 moreRICHMOND ANIMAL WELFARE FOUNDATION: $39,500 · AnimalsRICHMOND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $32,000 · AnimalsRICHMOND ANIMAL LEAGUE INC: $28,000 · AnimalsGOOCHLAND PET LOVERS: $16,500 · AnimalsHANOVER HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $16,000 · AnimalsDelta Waterfowl Foundation: $9,000 · AnimalsJewish Family Services Inc: $32,500 · Human ServicesSAFE HARBOR: $28,500 · Human ServicesTHE ORANGE GROVE CENTER INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesMERCY MALL OF VIRGINIA: $17,000 · Human ServicesBethel Bible Village: $13,000 · Human ServicesPATRICK HENRY FAMILY SERVICES INC: $11,000 · Human ServicesTHRIFTY SISTERS INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE: $5,000 · Human Services+1 more: $3,500 · Human ServicesTHE VALENTINE MUSEUM: $32,500 · Arts & CultureMAYMONT FOUNDATION: $20,500 · Arts & CultureAmerican Battlefield Trust: $17,250 · Arts & CultureTHE RICHMOND BALLET: $13,500 · Arts & CultureThe Byrd Theatre Foundation: $5,250 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $6,250 · Arts & CultureThe Virginia Home: $21,500 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $20,000 · HealthVIRGINIA BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION: $19,000 · HealthLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR IN RICHMOND: $7,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $6,000 · HealthPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · HealthTHE GARDEN CLUB OF VIRGINIA INC: $39,000 · EnvironmentCAPITAL TREES: $20,250 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD CEMETERY: $10,000 · Environment+1 more: $1,000 · Environment
Other$1,019,250Education$304,000Animals$141,000Human Services$140,500Arts & Culture$95,250Health$79,500Environment$70,250

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 budgetVMI Foundation: $42,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCHAMBLISS CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $39,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetRICHMOND ANIMAL WELFARE FOUNDATION: $39,500 over 8y, 4.2% of budgetTHE GARDEN CLUB OF VIRGINIA INC: $39,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCARITAS: $36,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE VALENTINE MUSEUM: $32,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetJewish Family Services Inc: $32,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFEED MORE INC: $32,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRICHMOND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $32,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $31,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC: $30,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $30,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMOSE & GARRISON SISKIN MEMORIAL FDN INC D/B/A SISKIN CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE: $30,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSAFE HARBOR: $28,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetRICHMOND ANIMAL LEAGUE INC: $28,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetRICHMOND FIRST TEE: $26,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $26,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetST CHRISTOPHER'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $26,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMONROE PARK CONSERVANCY: $23,000 over 7y, 18% of budgetARMY WAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $22,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetThe Virginia Home: $21,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMAYMONT FOUNDATION: $20,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCAPITAL TREES: $20,250 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ORANGE GROVE CENTER INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVmi Keydet Club: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $20,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION: $19,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetBOLLING HAXALL HOUSE FOUNDATION: $18,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetFORE CHILDREN INC: $18,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetAmerican Battlefield Trust: $17,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY MALL OF VIRGINIA: $17,000 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetGOOCHLAND PET LOVERS: $16,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetHANOVER HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $16,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE: $14,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RICHMOND BALLET: $13,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBethel Bible Village: $13,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE STEWARD SCHOOL: $12,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPATRICK HENRY FAMILY SERVICES INC: $11,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTEACH KENTUCKY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetTHRIFTY SISTERS INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD CEMETERY: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetDelta Waterfowl Foundation: $9,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAdaptive Sports Center of Crested Butte Inc: $8,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR IN RICHMOND: $7,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS 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 CATHERINE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ST CHRISTOPHER'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 UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND ↗
  • Who funds THE ORANGE GROVE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Vmi Keydet Club ↗

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.

The Community Foundat…Richard S Reynolds Fo…The Mary Morton Parso…Carmax FoundationThe Capa FoundationHerndon FoundationCathys FoundationThe Pauley Family Fou…The Beirne Carter Fou…Commonwealth Foundati…Tesco FoundationVirginia Nonprofit Ho…
The Community Foundation IncVA57.4× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Mraz Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mraz Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Mraz Charitable Trust?

    Find your warmest path to The Mraz Charitable Trust 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 111 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-PF 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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