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The Rimora Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$600k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Education$19MRecreation & Sports$5.9MPhilanthropy$355kHealth$350kYouth Development$335kArts & Culture$225kHuman Services$175kFood & Nutrition$135kOther$0
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $75k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $205k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $232k
  • $250k+1 grant · $600k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$600,000
AMERICAN HORSE TRIALS FOUNDATION INC$130,000
ST ANNES-BELFIELD INC$102,000
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA$30,000
CAMP HOLIDAY TRAILS INC$30,000
VIRGINIA SOCIETY OF ORINTHOLOGY$20,000
COMPUTERS4KIDS$20,000
BRISTOL VALLEY THEATER$15,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA$10,000
VIRGINIA ATHLETICS FOUNDATION$10,000
CENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE$10,000
PIEDMONT FAMILY YMCA INC$10,000
CITY CHURCH INC$10,000
CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY$10,000
VIRGINIA DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC$10,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $165k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PIEDMONT FAMILY YMCA INC: $25k → 8%PIEDMONT FAMILY YMCA INC: $25k → 8%PIEDMONT FAMILY YMCA INC: $25k → 8%PIEDMONT FAMILY YMCA INC: $10k → 8%PIEDMONT FAMILY YMCA INC: $10k → 8%READYKIDS INC: $10k → 8%READYKIDS INC: $10k → 8%READYKIDS INC: $10k → 8%PIEDMONT FAMILY YMCA INC: $10k → 8%READYKIDS INC: $10k → 8%READYKIDS INC: $10k → 8%READYKIDS INC: $5k → 8%CITY OF PROMISE: $5k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$27M · 51 repeat orgs$80k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

51 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
6

Total granted

$27M
$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
0%

Still filing today

75%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationRecreation & SportsHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • Cornell University
    6× · 2020–2025 · $16M · revenue +46%
  • VIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $4.8M · revenue +51%
  • SA
    ST ANNE'S-BELFIELD INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • KH
    KENTUCKY HORSE PARK FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue -49%
  • GC
    GREATER CHARLOTTESVILLE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +68%
  • BK
    BISHOP KEARNEY HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2020 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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
2
Community Memorial Hospital

To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.

Health
3
Vcu Health Tappahannock Hospital

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

Health
4
Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Comm

The charlottesville regional chamber of commerce is a non-profit corporation organized under the laws of the commonwealth of virginia for the purpose of representing private enterprise, promoting business, economic growth and vitality, and…

5
Vcu Investment Management Company

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…

Education
6
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
7
Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital Medical Center

Cvph medical center's mission is to provide quality health care for the north country region in upstate new york.

Health
8
Central Virginia Partnership for Economic Development

To promote economic development in the charlottesville and central virginia region.

9
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
10
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
11
Uva Community Health Inc

Our mission: transforming health and inspiring hope for all virginians and beyond. our vision: to be the nation's leading public academic health system and a best place to work - while transforming patient care, research, education, and…

Health
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cav Futures Foundation and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number16%5%<5yr12%2%5–10yr26%12%10–20yr18%30%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr15%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value16%1%<5yr12%0%5–10yr26%1%10–20yr18%5%20–35yr13%9%35–55yr15%84%55yr+

The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 2% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/47
the rest of the field
8%
169/2,221

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.

04the grantee network

44 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 44 of the 58 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/44
Grantees still filing
31/44
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Cornell University — $16,145,000 · EducationCornell UniversityVIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INC — $4,831,000 · EducationVIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INCST ANNE'S-BELFIELD INC — $1,588,000 · EducationST ANNE'S-BELFIELD INC+4 more — $695,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA — $250,000 · OtherBRISTOL VALLEY THEATER — $90,000 · OtherSHARE OUR STRENGTH — $75,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF THE CENTRAL BLUE RIDGE INC — $60,000 · OtherCITY CHURCH — $60,000 · OtherUSET FOUNDATION — $60,000 · OtherCORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY — $55,000 · OtherCHILD HEALTH PARTNERSHIP INC — $50,000 · OtherBACKPACK BUDDIES INC — $45,000 · OtherVIRGINIA DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC — $60,000 · OtherBUILDING GOODNESS FOUNDATION — $60,000 · OtherTHE HAVEN INC — $50,000 · OtherCHARLOTTESVILLE TOMORROW — $45,000 · Other+18 more — $325,000 · OtherAMERICAN HORSE TRIALS FOUNDATION INC — $603,000 · Recreation & SportsCAMP HOLIDAY TRAILS — $180,000 · Recreation & SportsVIRGINIA HORSE CENTER FOUNDATION — $73,000 · Recreation & SportsKENTUCKY HORSE PARK FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more — $5,000 · Recreation & SportsCAV FUTURES FOUNDATION — $325,000 · PhilanthropyCENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE — $85,000 · PhilanthropyCHRIS LONG FOUNDATION — $30,000 · PhilanthropyVIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF AUTISM INC — $25,000 · PhilanthropyFOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION — $135,000 · HealthVirginia Society of Ornithology — $105,000 · HealthCHARLOTTESVILLE FREE CLINIC — $45,000 · HealthMARTHA JEFFERSON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $45,000 · HealthREGION TEN COMMUNITY SERVICES BOARD INC — $30,000 · HealthCOMPUTERS4KIDS — $145,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA — $85,000 · Youth DevelopmentCultivate Charlottesville — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentPIEDMONT FAMILY YMCA INC — $105,000 · Human ServicesREADYKIDS INC — $55,000 · Human Services+1 more — $5,000 · Human Services
Education$23,259,000Other$1,285,000Recreation & Sports$891,000Philanthropy$465,000Health$360,000Youth Development$250,000Human Services$165,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCornell University — $16,145,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetVIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INC — $4,831,000 over 6y, 7.5% of budgetST ANNE'S-BELFIELD INC — $1,588,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetAMERICAN HORSE TRIALS FOUNDATION INC — $603,000 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetHarvey Mudd College — $585,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCAV FUTURES FOUNDATION — $325,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetCAMP HOLIDAY TRAILS — $180,000 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetCOMPUTERS4KIDS — $145,000 over 6y, 5.1% of budgetFOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION — $135,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetVirginia Society of Ornithology — $105,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetPIEDMONT FAMILY YMCA INC — $105,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA — $85,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE — $85,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH — $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA HORSE CENTER FOUNDATION — $73,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetBIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF THE CENTRAL BLUE RIDGE INC — $60,000 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetVIRGINIA DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC — $60,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetBUILDING GOODNESS FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetREADYKIDS INC — $55,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCHILD HEALTH PARTNERSHIP INC — $50,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetCAYUGAS WATCHERS INC — $45,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetCHARLOTTESVILLE FREE CLINIC — $45,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCHARLOTTESVILLE TOMORROW — $45,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetLOCAL FOOD HUB INC — $40,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetCLARIDEN SCHOOL INC — $35,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetKENTUCKY HORSE PARK FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetREGION TEN COMMUNITY SERVICES BOARD INC — $30,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHENS COLLEGE — $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHRIS LONG FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetGREATER CHARLOTTESVILLE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF AUTISM INC — $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BUCK SQUAD CENTRAL VIRGINIA VIOLENCE INTERRUPTERS — $20,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetTHE PARAMOUNT THEATER OF CHARLOTTESVILLE INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCultivate Charlottesville — $20,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetLIGHT HOUSE STUDIO INC — $15,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MUNICIPAL BAND OF CHARLOTTESVILLE INC — $10,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetTHE PARAMOUNT THEATER FOUNDATION IN F/K/A THE PARAMOUNT THEATER INC — $10,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCHARLOTTESVILLE COMMUNITY BASEBALL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetCITY OF PROMISE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSENIOR CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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 Cornell University
  • Who funds VIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds ST ANNE'S-BELFIELD INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN HORSE TRIALS FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Harvey Mudd College
  • Who funds CAV FUTURES FOUNDATION
  • Who funds CAMP HOLIDAY TRAILS
  • Who funds COMPUTERS4KIDS
  • Who funds FOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Virginia Society of Ornithology
  • Who funds PIEDMONT FAMILY YMCA INC
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA
  • Who funds CENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE
  • Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH
  • Who funds VIRGINIA HORSE CENTER FOUNDATION
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF THE CENTRAL BLUE RIDGE INC
  • Who funds VIRGINIA DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC
  • Who funds BUILDING GOODNESS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds READYKIDS INC
  • Who funds THE HAVEN INC
  • Who funds CHILD HEALTH PARTNERSHIP INC
  • Who funds CAYUGAS WATCHERS INC
  • Who funds CHARLOTTESVILLE FREE CLINIC
  • Who funds CHARLOTTESVILLE TOMORROW
  • Who funds LOCAL FOOD HUB INC
  • Who funds CLARIDEN SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds KENTUCKY HORSE PARK FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds REGION TEN COMMUNITY SERVICES BOARD INC
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC
  • Who funds STEPHENS COLLEGE
  • 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.

Charlottesville Area Community FoundationVA60.9× affinity28 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 · Perry Foundation Inc · The Genan Foundation · The Charles Fund Inc · The J & E Berkley Foundation · Caplin Foundation · Oakwood Foundation Charitable Trust · United Way of Greater Charlottesville · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation · Sentara Health · The Better Living 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 Rimora 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    21report 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, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Rimora Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Rimora 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 58 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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