· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $360k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $726k
- $250k+4 grants · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| HOLSTON HOME FOR CHILDREN | $25,000 |
| VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ART | $25,000 |
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 (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 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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
- JMJAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC5× · 2018–2022 · $2.2M · revenue +68%
- IMIN MEDIAS RES7× · 2018–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +128%
- TVTHE VIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +206%
Funded once
- HCHARLAN COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTone grant, 2019 · $748k
- LKLESLIE KNOTT LETCHER PERRYone grant, 2019 · $276k
- SVSOUTHWEST VIRGINIA WORKFORCE INVEone grant, 2019 · $250k
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 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.
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…
To secure financial support that enables college-bound students to access and graduate from outstanding virginia independent higher education institutions.
Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.
To preserve, promote and serve as an advocate for virginia's irreplaceable historic places for cultural, economic and educational benefits for everyone.
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…
To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.
To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.
The jefferson scholars foundation (foundation) provides academic merit-based scholarship, fellowship and professorship support to students and faculty at the university of virginia (uva).
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is In Medias Res and 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.
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 41 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 66 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 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 MARTHA JEFFERSON HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds HOLSTON HOME FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds PRO ART ASSOCIATION ↗
- 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 THE SEMINAR NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARYS HEALTH WAGON INC ↗
- Who funds NAPOLEON HILL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA COMMEMORATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds MONTPELIER 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 · 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
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 Richard & Leslie Gilliam 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.
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.