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The Prentiss Family Foundation at a glance

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The Prentiss Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$160k
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$234kEducation$124kArts & Culture$113kEnvironment$103kRecreation & Sports$75kPhilanthropy$71kReligion$55kFood & Nutrition$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k23 grants · $61k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $98k
$5,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$347k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
I HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION$25,000
VIRGINIA DISCOVERY MUSEUM$15,000
CAMP SWEENEY$15,000
ST MARK'S FUND$12,500
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$10,750
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL VA$10,000
CAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$10,000
Individual grant recipient$7,000
SEAL LEGACY FOUNDATION$6,000
HOCKADAY SCHOOL$6,000
MEALS ON WHEELS OF CHARLOTTESVILLE$5,000
BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE FOUNDATION$5,000
PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL$5,000
CONNECTING POINT$5,000
CHRIS LONG FOUNDATION$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, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $11k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 14%American Red Cross: $5k → 14%ReadyKids: $2k → 8%READYKIDS: $1k → 8%ReadyKids: $500 → 8%CONNECTING POINTS OF PARK CITIES: $3k → 14%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

WA
NY
MA
IA
OH
CT
RI
CA
MO
VA
MD
KS
AR
TN
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$863k · 42 repeat orgs$151k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.

42 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
34

Total granted

$863k
$107k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+29%

Still filing today

69%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k 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
EducationEnvironmentHealthHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • VD
    VIRGINIA DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $88k · revenue +144%
  • TP
    THE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL
    7× · 2017–2024 · $60k · revenue +161%
  • SD
    SOUTHWESTERN DIABETIC FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $57k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • WS
    WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FNDTN
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • JD
    JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -21%
  • TL
    THE LILABEAN FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +59%
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
United States Naval Institute

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.

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2
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
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
Virginia Tech Foundation Inc

Virginia tech foundation, inc. (vtf) is a virginia nonstock corporation established in 1948 for the sole purpose of managing virginia tech's endowment to advance virginia tech's mission and its strategic priorities.

Education
5
Vcu Health Tappahannock Hospital

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

Health
6
Furman University

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.

Education
7
Us Naval Academy Foundation Inc

To support, promote, and advance the mission of the naval academy.

Education
8
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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9
Community Memorial Hospital

To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.

Health
10
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
11
Uvmc Foundation

Enhance the patient and family experience at upper valley medical center by raising community support for programs and services which help build healthy communities.

Philanthropy
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is N-Star Events 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

54 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. 54 of the 88 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/54
Grantees still filing
44/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $120,000 · OtherCAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONST MARK'S FUND: $58,500 · OtherST MARK'S FUNDBAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherBAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE FOUNDATIONCHILDREN'S NATIONAL HOSPITAL: $31,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S NATIONAL HOSPITALBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL VA: $26,000 · OtherWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FNDTN: $25,000 · OtherI HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherBLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC: $23,500 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS OF CHARLOTTESVILLE: $19,000 · OtherSeal Legacy Foundation Inc: $21,000 · Other+48 more: $155,274 · Other+48 moreVIRGINIA DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC: $88,000 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA DI…THE WASHINGTON BALLET: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WASHING…THOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $60,000 · EnvironmentTHE PIEDMON…THREE BAYS PRESERVATION INC: $33,000 · EnvironmentTHREE BAYS …ALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INC: $6,450 · EnvironmentALLIANCE TO…+2 more: $3,000 · EnvironmentTHE HOLTON ARMS SCHOOL: $39,000 · EducationTHE HOLTON…HOCKADAY SCHOOL: $22,000 · EducationHOCKADAY S…WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationWASHINGTON…KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $12,500 · EducationKANSAS STA…VIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 · Education+3 more: $800 · EducationSOUTHWESTERN DIABETIC FOUNDATION INC: $56,600 · Recreation & SportsWILDROCK INC: $14,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $1,500 · Recreation & SportsPROJECT SHELTER INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyInternational Neighbors Inc: $12,000 · PhilanthropyCHRIS LONG FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION: $2,600 · PhilanthropyVIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF AUTISM INC: $2,500 · PhilanthropyBaylor Health Care System Foundation: $12,500 · HealthJOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC: $10,000 · HealthTHE LILABEAN FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · HealthFOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION: $6,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,000 · Health
Other$554,274Arts & Culture$104,000Environment$102,450Education$92,800Recreation & Sports$72,100Philanthropy$47,100Health$43,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVIRGINIA DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC: $88,000 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetTHE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $60,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN DIABETIC FOUNDATION INC: $56,600 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HOLTON ARMS SCHOOL: $39,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHREE BAYS PRESERVATION INC: $33,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetPROJECT SHELTER INC: $25,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetBLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC: $23,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHOCKADAY SCHOOL: $22,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSeal Legacy Foundation Inc: $21,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $15,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWILDROCK INC: $14,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetNAMI CAPE COD INC: $13,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetBaylor Health Care System Foundation: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Neighbors Inc: $12,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSHEPHERD INN TRANSITIONAL HOUSING: $10,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetJOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WASHINGTON BALLET: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LILABEAN FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INC: $6,450 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetDallas Center for Photography: $6,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetFOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MAGDALEN HOUSE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHRIS LONG FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetN-Star Events Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetREADYKIDS INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWESTERN ALBEMARLE RESCUE SQUAD: $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetOYSTER HARBORS CLUB INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTING POINT OF PARK CITIES: $3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,950 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION: $2,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMPANY OF THE REDWOOD LIBRARY AND ATHENAEUM: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF AUTISM INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIVY CREEK FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF CHARLOTTESVILLE- ALBEMARLE: $2,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCAMP HOLIDAY TRAILS: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTRI-RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMOUNTAINTOP MONTESSORI: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Animal Protectorates: $500 over 1y, 0.2% 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 VIRGINIA DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHWESTERN DIABETIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HOLTON ARMS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THREE BAYS PRESERVATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT SHELTER INC ↗
  • Who funds BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds HOCKADAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Seal Legacy Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WILDROCK INC ↗
  • Who funds NAMI CAPE COD INC ↗
  • Who funds Baylor Health Care System Foundation ↗
  • Who funds KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds International Neighbors Inc ↗
  • Who funds SHEPHERD INN TRANSITIONAL HOUSING ↗
  • Who funds JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE WASHINGTON BALLET ↗
  • Who funds THE LILABEAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Dallas Center for Photography ↗
  • Who funds FOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds THE MAGDALEN HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds CHRIS LONG FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Charlottesville Area …Manning Family Founda…The Charles Fund IncPerry Foundation IncThe Genan FoundationThe J & E Berkley Fou…S&P Global Foundation…The Hilltop FoundationThe Watterson Foundat…Whitney and Anne Ston…The Rimora FoundationThe Oak Hill Fund
Charlottesville Area Community FoundationVA27.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · Manning Family Foundation · The Charles Fund Inc · Perry Foundation Inc · The Genan Foundation · The J & E Berkley Foundation · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation · The Hilltop Foundation · The Watterson Foundation · Whitney and Anne Stone Foundation · The Rimora Foundation · The Oak Hill Fund

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 Prentiss Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Prentiss Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Joslin Diabetes Center Inc: 35% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Three Bays Preservation Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
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How do I get to The Prentiss Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Prentiss Family Foundation 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 88 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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