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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $98k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| CAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL VA | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,000 |
| HOCKADAY SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| SEAL LEGACY FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF CHARLOTTESVILLE | $5,000 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CHRIS LONG FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| CONNECTING POINT | $5,000 |
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 (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 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 +43% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k 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
- VDVIRGINIA DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC8× · 2017–2024 · $88k · revenue +144%
- TPTHE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL7× · 2017–2024 · $60k · revenue +161%
- SDSOUTHWESTERN DIABETIC FOUNDATION INC7× · 2018–2024 · $57k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- WSWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FNDTNone grant, 2022 · $25k
- JDJOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INCone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -27%
- TLTHE LILABEAN FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +59%
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 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).
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…
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.
To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.
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.
To support, promote, and advance the mission of the naval academy.
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…
To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Enhance the patient and family experience at upper valley medical center by raising community support for programs and services which help build healthy communities.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and 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.
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 45 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% 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.
54 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. 54 of the 88 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.
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- 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 JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD INN TRANSITIONAL HOUSING ↗
- 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 THOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHRIS LONG FOUNDATION ↗
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 · 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
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 Prentiss Family 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.
- 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
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.
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