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The Richard & Leslie Gilliam Foundation at a glance

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The Richard & Leslie Gilliam 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.

$3.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
38
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$600k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$6.0MArts & Culture$3.8MHuman Services$1.7MHealth$1.2MEnvironment$625kSocial Science$300kInternational$276kEmployment$275kOther$0
02FY2024 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $360k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $726k
  • $250k+4 grants · $2.0M
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$47M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION$600,000
FAMILY CRISIS SUPPORT SERVICES INC$525,000
APPALACHIAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT$500,000
ADVANCED STUDIES IN CULTURE FOUNDATION$350,000
VIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION$249,640
ELEVATE EARLY EDUCATION$166,667
WILLIAM KING MUSEUM OF ART$135,000
UVA COLLEGE AT WISE$75,000
ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE$50,000
VIRGINIA COMMEMORATIONS INC$50,000
BARTER THEATRE$40,000
JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY$40,000
AMERICAN CLIMATE PARTNERS$30,000
THE NAPOLEON HILL FOUNDATION$25,000
THE PARAMOUNT THEATER$25,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%MOUNTAIN EMPIRE OLDER CITIZENS INC: $10k → 22%MOUNTAIN EMPIRE OLDER CITIZENS INC: $10k → 22%MOUNTAIN EMPIRE OLDER CITIZENS INC: $3k → 22%MOUNTAIN EMPIRE OLDER CITIZENS INC: $3k → 22%SHELTER FOR HELP IN EMERGENCY: $3k → 8%SHELTER FOR HELP IN EMERGENCY: $3k → 8%SHELTER FOR HELP IN EMERGENCY: $3k → 8%SHELTER FOR HELP IN EMERGENCY: $3k → 8%SHELTER FOR HELP IN EMERGENCY: $3k → 8%SHELTER FOR HELP IN EMERGENCY: $3k → 8%SHELTER FOR HELP IN EMERGENCY: $3k → 8%PIEDMONT FAMILY YMCA: $1k → 8%PIEDMONT FAMILY YMCA: $1k → 8%PIEDMONT FAMILY YMCA: $1k → 8%PIEDMONT FAMILY YMCA: $1k → 8%PIEDMONT FAMILY YMCA: $1k → 8%PIEDMONT FAMILY YMCA: $1k → 8%PIEDMONT FAMILY YMCA: $1k → 8%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

NY
CA
KY
WV
VA
MD
TN
DC
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 43 repeat orgs$3.0M to everyone else

43 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
14

Total granted

$12M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+116%

Still filing today

72%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesPublic BenefitFood & NutritionOther
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

  • JM
    JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2018–2022 · $2.2M · revenue +68%
  • IM
    IN MEDIAS RES
    7× · 2018–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +128%
  • TV
    THE VIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +206%

Funded once

  • HC
    HARLAN COUNTY COMMUNITY ACT
    one grant, 2019 · $748k
  • LK
    LESLIE KNOTT LETCHER PERRY
    one grant, 2019 · $276k
  • SV
    SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA WORKFORCE INVE
    one grant, 2019 · $250k
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
Edward Via Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine

The mission of the edward via college of osteopathic medicine (vcom) is to prepare globally-minded, community-focused physicians to meet the needs of rural and medically underserved populations and promote research to improve human health.

Education
2
Virginia Commonwealth University Intellectual Property Foundation

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…

Health
3
Va Foundation for Independent Colleges

To secure financial support that enables college-bound students to access and graduate from outstanding virginia independent higher education institutions.

Education
4
Virginia Press Foundation Virginia Local News Project
Civil Rights
5
Virginia Wesleyan University

Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.

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6
Association for the Preservation of Va Antiquities

To preserve, promote and serve as an advocate for virginia's irreplaceable historic places for cultural, economic and educational benefits for everyone.

Arts & Culture
7
Vpm Media Corporation

To use the power of media to educate, entertain and inspire, using public television and public radio to make a positive impact on the communities throughout central virginia, charlottesville, the shenandoah valley, the northern neck and…

Arts & Culture
8
The West Virginia Chamber Foundation
Public Benefit
9
Vcu Health Tappahannock Hospital

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

Health
10
Community Memorial Hospital

To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.

Health
11
Jefferson Scholars Foundation

The jefferson scholars foundation (foundation) provides academic merit-based scholarship, fellowship and professorship support to students and faculty at the university of virginia (uva).

Philanthropy
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is In Medias Res; the most unlike its peers is Napoleon Hill Foundation. 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

41 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. 41 of the 66 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/41
Grantees still filing
34/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UVA COLLEGE AT WISE: $1,241,117 · OtherUVA COLLEGE AT WISETHE VIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION INC: $1,126,873 · OtherTHE VIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCAT…HARLAN COUNTY COMMUNITY ACT: $748,000 · OtherHARLAN COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTBARTER FOUNDATION INC STATE THEATRE OF VIRGINIA: $655,000 · OtherBARTER FOUNDATION INC STATE THEATRE OF VIRGINIAFAMILY CRISIS SUPPORT SERVICES INC: $525,000 · OtherFAMILY CRISIS SUPPORT SERVICES INCIndividual grant recipient: $300,000 · OtherLESLIE KNOTT LETCHER PERRY: $276,000 · OtherSOUTHWEST VIRGINIA WORKFORCE INVE: $250,000 · OtherVIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR COM: $230,752 · Other+27 more: $1,549,758 · Other+27 moreJAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $2,222,480 · EducationJAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION I…IN MEDIAS RES: $2,050,000 · EducationIN MEDIAS RESMILLIGAN UNIVERSITY: $195,000 · EducationELEVATE EARLY EDUCATION INC: $186,667 · Education+3 more: $220,000 · EducationFOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION: $900,000 · HealthFOCUSED U…MARTHA JEFFERSON HOSPITAL: $175,000 · HealthMARTHA JE…ST MARYS HEALTH WAGON INC: $50,000 · Health+4 more: $65,500 · Health+4 moreWILLIAM KING MUSEUM OF ART: $305,000 · Arts & CulturePRO ART ASSOCIATION: $175,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PARAMOUNT THEATER FOUNDATION IN F/K/A THE PARAMOUNT THEATER INC: $150,000 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA COMMEMORATIONS INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureMONTPELIER FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $73,874 · Arts & CultureAPPALACHIAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: $500,000 · Community ImprovementMercatus Center Inc: $300,000 · Social ScienceHOLSTON HOME FOR CHILDREN INC: $175,000 · Human ServicesMOUNTAIN EMPIRE OLDER CITIZENS INC: $26,000 · Human ServicesSHELTER FOR HELP IN EMERGENCY INC: $18,000 · Human Services+1 more: $7,000 · Human Services
Other$6,902,500Education$4,874,147Health$1,190,500Arts & Culture$793,874Community Improvement$500,000Social Science$300,000Human Services$226,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $2,222,480 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetIN MEDIAS RES: $2,050,000 over 7y, 16% of budgetTHE VIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION INC: $1,126,873 over 5y, 6.9% of budgetFOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION: $900,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetBARTER FOUNDATION INC STATE THEATRE OF VIRGINIA: $655,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetFAMILY CRISIS SUPPORT SERVICES INC: $525,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetAPPALACHIAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: $500,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetWILLIAM KING MUSEUM OF ART: $305,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetMercatus Center Inc: $300,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMILLIGAN UNIVERSITY: $195,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetELEVATE EARLY EDUCATION INC: $186,667 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetHOLSTON HOME FOR CHILDREN INC: $175,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetPRO ART ASSOCIATION: $175,000 over 7y, 8.9% of budgetMARTHA JEFFERSON HOSPITAL: $175,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PARAMOUNT THEATER FOUNDATION IN F/K/A THE PARAMOUNT THEATER INC: $150,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetInstitute for Humane Studies: $150,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetALICE LLOYD COLLEGE: $135,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN CLIMATE PARTNERS: $125,000 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetWEST LIBERTY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetTHE COVENANT SCHOOL INC: $60,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetVIRGINIA COMMEMORATIONS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetNAPOLEON HILL FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTHE SEMINAR NETWORK INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST MARYS HEALTH WAGON INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMONTPELIER FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCHARLOTTESVILLE FREE CLINIC: $35,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetEMORY & HENRY UNIVERSITY: $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNTAIN EMPIRE OLDER CITIZENS INC: $26,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetORIGIN PROJECT INCORPORATED: $25,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC: $23,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTER FOR HELP IN EMERGENCY INC: $18,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC: $14,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLOTTESVILLE OPERA: $13,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetVIRGINIA PUBLIC ACCESS PROJECT: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHERE FOR THE GIRLS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY INC: $8,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPIEDMONT FAMILY YMCA INC: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetVIDEO ACTION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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 JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds IN MEDIAS RES ↗
  • Who funds THE VIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BARTER FOUNDATION INC STATE THEATRE OF VIRGINIA ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY CRISIS SUPPORT SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds APPALACHIAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAM KING MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds Mercatus Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds MILLIGAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ELEVATE EARLY EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HOLSTON HOME FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds PRO ART ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds MARTHA JEFFERSON HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds THE PARAMOUNT THEATER FOUNDATION IN F/K/A THE PARAMOUNT THEATER INC ↗
  • Who funds Institute for Humane Studies ↗
  • Who funds ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CLIMATE PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds WEST LIBERTY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE COVENANT SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA COMMEMORATIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds NAPOLEON HILL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE SEMINAR NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds ST MARYS HEALTH WAGON INC ↗
  • Who funds MONTPELIER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHARLOTTESVILLE FREE CLINIC ↗

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 …The Genan FoundationSentara HealthThe United Company Fo…Dominion Energy Chari…Perry Foundation IncThe Rapha FoundationThe Charles Fund IncManning Family Founda…Food City Charitable …Caplin FoundationAmerican Electric Pow…
Charlottesville Area Community FoundationVA29.1× affinity12 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · The Genan Foundation · Sentara Health · The United Company Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Perry Foundation Inc · The Rapha Foundation · The Charles Fund Inc · Manning Family Foundation · Food City Charitable Foundation · Caplin Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation

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 Richard & Leslie Gilliam Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Richard & Leslie Gilliam Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 66 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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