· Private foundation
The Oak Hill Fund
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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k26 grants · $77k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $515k
- $50k–250k19 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE FAISON CENTER | $250,000 |
| PIEDMONT HOUSING ALLIANCE | $150,000 |
| THE VIRGINIA LEAGUE FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $125,000 |
| WOMEN'S EMERGENCY NETWORK INC | $100,000 |
| REPRO RISING VIRGINIA FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION | $85,000 |
| DC ABORTION FUND | $80,000 |
| LOWER SUSQUEHANNA RIVERKEEPER ASSOCIATION | $80,000 |
| PRO-CHOICE NORTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| ACLU OF KENTUCKY FDTN INC | $65,000 |
| TBA FUND INC | $60,000 |
| THE LONGLEAF ALLIANCE | $59,375 |
| INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITY CLIMATE COLLABORATIVE | $50,000 |
| CENTER FOR PROGRESSIVE REFORM | $50,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 14% of The Oak Hill Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 38% of the giving stays in VA; read by stated purpose it is 44% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +42% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
157 repeat relationships — 56 still active in FY2024, 101 since wound down; 10 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $342k 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
- VLVIRGINIA LEAGUE FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD INCORPORATED4× · 2020–2024 · $575k · revenue +56%
- BTBOOK TRUST3× · 2021–2023 · $500k · revenue +43%
THE AMERICAN CHESTNUT FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2023 · $450k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- MRMESOAMERICAN REEF FUNDone grant, 2023 · $160k
- TJTHOMAS JEFFERSON SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTone grant, 2019 · $129k
- ASA STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION TRI-CITIESone grant, 2023 · $110k · revenue -4%
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.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.
The endowment's mission is to improve the quality of the environment by using its capital, expertise, and resources to fund projects and programs that encourage all sectors to work together to prevent pollution, improve water quality,…
The national caucus of environmental legislators empowers a nonpartisan network of legislative champions to protect, conserve, and improve the natural and human environment.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Environment next supports individuals, nonprofits and businesses around the world on solutions to complex climate issues. we provide leadership, outreach and communication support, grants, and investments to empower leaders and their ideas…
Terraset uses philanthropic capital to purchase permanent, high-quality carbon removal. we pool donations from individuals, foundations, family offices, and donor advised funds, and make strategic purchases of high-quality carbon removal…
The north carolina conservation network supports, trains, and coordinates diverse groups and directly advocates to achieve equitable and sustainable solutions for our environment.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The endowment works collaboratively with partners in the public and private sectors to advance systemic, transformative, and sustainable change for the health and vitality of the nation's working forests and forest reliant communities.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Potomac Conservancy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ndponics. 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 28 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
228 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. 228 of the 273 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THE FAISON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA LEAGUE FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BOOK TRUST ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN CHESTNUT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOCAL ENERGY ALLIANCE PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEAST INC ↗
- Who funds ALBEMARLE HOUSING IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Solar United Neighbors Inc ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds RARE ↗
- Who funds JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA CONSERVATION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Women's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project ↗
- Who funds DENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Potomac Riverkeeper Network ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
- Who funds WHOLE WOMAN'S HEALTH ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN VOICES ↗
- Who funds Cultivate Charlottesville ↗
- Who funds Memphis Center For Reproductive Health Inc ↗
- Who funds WOMENS EMERGENCY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE ABORTION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Bay Islands Conservation Association Inc ↗
- Who funds WOMENS RIGHTS AND EMPOWERMENT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
- Who funds STATES NEWSROOM ↗
- Who funds THE LONGLEAF ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds FRESH ENERGY ↗
- Who funds National Women's Health Network ↗
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: Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · The J & E Berkley Foundation · Perry Foundation Inc · The Genan Foundation · Caplin Foundation · The Charles Fund Inc · United States Energy Foundation · Manning Family Foundation · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation · Oakwood Foundation Charitable Trust · Westwind Foundation · Sentara Health
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 Oak Hill Fund 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.
- Center for Watershed Protection Inc — 64% of income from government
- Ridge to Reefs Inc — 33% of income from government
- Chesapeake Conservancy Inc — 27% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Clean Energy States Alliance Inc — 2% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Marion Institute Inc — 1% of income from government
- Clearwater Marine Aquarium Inc — 1% of income from government
- Ceres Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rethink Energy Florida Inc — 0% of income from government
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.