· Private foundation
The Orange Tree Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $9,062 |
| FUEL | $6,000 |
| USTA MID-ATLANTIC SECTION INC | $6,000 |
| PEABODY SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| OUTWARD BOUND | $5,246 |
| RAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY | $4,280 |
| SOUTHERN ENVIONMENTAL LAW CTR | $4,280 |
| YOUNG CTR FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDREN | $4,279 |
| SARA | $4,000 |
| RARE | $3,000 |
| BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| OPERATION SMILE | $3,000 |
| INTL SCHOOL OF CHARLOTTESVILLE | $2,000 |
| LIVE ARTS | $2,000 |
| STELLA ADLER STUDIO OF ACTING | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 79% of your 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 +19% since the first grant, against -23% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- DMDELAWARE MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE INC3× · 2022–2024 · $26k · revenue +9%
- TITHE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF CHARLOTTESVLLE INC5× · 2021–2025 · $21k · revenue +19%
- PSPEABODY SCHOOL5× · 2021–2025 · $19k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- TSTHE SHENANDOAH FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue -96% · 58% of their budget
- MVMARTHA'S VINEYARD OCEAN ACADEMYone grant, 2024 · $5k
- LFLOCAL FOOD HUB INCone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -68%
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
We create opportunities for discovery and reflection by engaging the minds, hands, and hearts of our students.
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
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).
See Disclosure Above.
To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Our mission is to act to conserve threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science and take into account human needs.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Anne's-Belfield Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rails to Trails Conservancy. 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 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 36 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 THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF CHARLOTTESVLLE INC ↗
- Who funds PEABODY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds USTAMid-Atlantic Foundation ↗
- Who funds BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds THE SHENANDOAH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds RAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds ALBEMARLE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds RARE ↗
- Who funds TUCKERNUCK LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Davidson College ↗
- Who funds LIVE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds STELLA ADLER STUDIO OF ACTING ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA HORSE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Foxcroft School ↗
- Who funds ST ANNE'S-BELFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds LOCAL FOOD HUB INC ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds The End Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds SAVING NATURE INC ↗
- Who funds HOOFBEATS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST BOOK ↗
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 · Perry Foundation Inc · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Orange Tree Foundation 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.
- Delaware Museum of Nature and Science Inc — 2% 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.