· Private foundation
The Rice Foundation Inc
Its FY2018 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 FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k15 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $129k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TAUBMAN MUSEUM OF ART | $41,500 |
| ROANOKE CULTURAL ENDOWMENT | $20,000 |
| ST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $15,632 |
| ROANOKE COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| NORTH CROSS SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| GARTH NEWEL MUSIC CENTER | $12,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF ROANOKE VALLEY | $10,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $6,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| VIRGINIA PUBLIC ACCESS PROJECT | $5,000 |
| VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL MULITPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY | $4,520 |
| WEST END CENTER FOR YOUTH | $2,500 |
| ENSWORTH | $2,500 |
| SAINT FRANCIS SERVICE DOGS | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–18, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 13% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
17 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (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 FY2018, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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
- GNGARTH NEWEL MUSIC CENTER FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $23k · revenue +34%
- NCNorth Cross School2× · 2017–2018 · $20k · revenue +61%
- VPVIRGINIA PUBLIC ACCESS PROJECT2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- TRTHE RESCUE MISSIONone grant, 2017 · $50k
- JCJEFFERSON CENTER FOUNDATION LTDone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +5%
- HMHARRISON MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTUREone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +8%
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.
The Roanoke Symphony Orchestra provides a professional symphony orchestra of artistic excellence and integrity to enrich lives, to educate, and to entertain diverse audiences in western Virginia with the highest quality instrumental and…
To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…
The virginia association of museums is a statewide network serving the museum community. the association's mission statement is "the virginia association of museums helps our museum community succeed".
The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…
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 be a catalyst in Richmond for learning and living through art.
The mission of vt-arc is to extend the impact of the virginia tech research and innovation enterprise, delivering superior analytic and technology solutions to government and non-government customers.
To serve as the region's leading source of informational science education through interactive science demonstrations, hands-on education programs and outreach programs.
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…
We produce vital works of classical and contemporary theatre, with Shakespeare as our foundation. We approach this work boldly with a resolve to ignite spirits, educate minds and defy expectation.
To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.
The west virginia chamber of commerce provides opportunities for broad based prosperity throughout west virginia.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Virginia's Blue Ridge Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bath County Christmas Mother Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 29 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 TAUBMAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds GARTH NEWEL MUSIC CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds North Cross School ↗
- Who funds ROANOKE CULTURAL ENDOWMENT ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF VIRGINIA'S BLUE RIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds ROANOKE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA PUBLIC ACCESS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON CENTER FOUNDATION LTD ↗
- Who funds LAND SAVERS UNITED ↗
- Who funds SAINT FRANCIS SERVICE DOGS ↗
- Who funds HARRISON MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE ↗
- Who funds Carilion Clinic Foundation ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds BATH COUNTY CHRISTMAS MOTHER INC ↗
- Who funds BATH COUNTY ARTS ASSOCIATION ↗
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: Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia · Farrell Foundation · The Beirne Carter Foundation · Cartledge Charitable Foundation Inc · Evelyn F James Foundation · The Ceres Foundation Inc · Taubman Foundation for the Arts · Guilford Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving 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 Rice Foundation Inc 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.
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.