· Private foundation
The Oak Hill Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k34 grants · $88k
- $10k–50k49 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k50 grants · $4.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALBEMARLE HOUSING IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM | $200,000 |
| ALBEMARLE HOUSING IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM | $200,000 |
| BOOK TRUST | $200,000 |
| BOOK TRUST | $200,000 |
| THE AMERICAN CHESTNUT FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| PIEDMONT HOUSING ALLIANCE | $150,000 |
| PIEDMONT HOUSING ALLIANCE | $150,000 |
| HEALTHY REEFS FOR HEALTHY PEOPLE | $140,000 |
| WHOLE WOMEN'S HEALTH | $125,000 |
| NEW RIVER ABORTION ACCESS FUND | $100,000 |
| BLUE RIDGE ABORTION FUND | $100,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS | $100,000 |
| DENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS | $100,000 |
| DENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 14% of The Oak Hill Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 38% of the giving stays in VA; by stated purpose, 44%.
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 +40% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.
174 repeat relationships: 96 still active in FY2025, 78 since wound down; 25 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BTBOOK TRUST4× · 2021–2025 · $900k · revenue +43%
THE AMERICAN CHESTNUT FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2025 · $600k · revenue +40%- VLVIRGINIA LEAGUE FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD INCORPORATED4× · 2020–2024 · $575k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- MRMESOAMERICAN REEF FUNDone grant, 2023 · $160k
- TJTHOMAS JEFFERSON SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTone grant, 2019 · $129k
- NMNEW MORNINGone grant, 2023 · $100k · 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.
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.
Western Resource Advocates (WRA) is a regional nonprofit advocacy organization fighting climate change and its impacts to sustain the environment, economy, and people of the West. As the region's go-to experts for more than three decades,…
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.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
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 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.
The Breakthrough Institute is a research center that identifies and promotes technological solutions to environmental and human development challenges.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
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…
How this is measured
245 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 245 of the 298 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 BOOK TRUST ↗
- Who funds ALBEMARLE HOUSING IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAISON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN CHESTNUT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA LEAGUE FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT HOUSING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds DENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
- Who funds LOCAL ENERGY ALLIANCE PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
- Who funds Solar United Neighbors Inc ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEAST INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA CONSERVATION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Women's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project ↗
- Who funds JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE ABORTION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN VOICES ↗
- Who funds Potomac Riverkeeper Network ↗
- Who funds WOMENS EMERGENCY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds Bay Islands Conservation Association Inc ↗
- Who funds STATES NEWSROOM ↗
- Who funds THE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds RARE ↗
- Who funds THE LONGLEAF ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds WOMENS RIGHTS AND EMPOWERMENT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds WHOLE WOMAN'S HEALTH ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Cultivate Charlottesville ↗
- Who funds Memphis Center For Reproductive Health Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds NEW RIVER ABORTION ACCESS FUND ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
- Who funds BAY JOURNAL MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION 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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Oak Hill Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Oak Hill Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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