· Private foundation
The Robert McEldowney Jr Family 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k57 grants · $80k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAMEULI ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| TAYLOR FAMILY YMCA | $10,000 |
| THE RED MILL MUSEUM & VILLAGE | $7,000 |
| PRINCETON WRESTLING | $5,000 |
| THE HILL SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| LATISHA'S HOUSE | $4,000 |
| OVERLOOK FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| OPEN ARMS ADOPTION NETWORK | $3,500 |
| VILLAGE REACH | $3,500 |
| STRIVE - LEADERSHIP CHALLENGE | $3,000 |
| HOBART & WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES | $2,500 |
| BLAIR ACADEMY | $2,500 |
| DAISY FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK | $2,000 |
| THE SHANNON DALEY MEMORIAL FUND | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $94k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.
91 repeat relationships: 40 still active in FY2025, 51 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- THTHE HILL SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $58k · revenue +44%
- TRTHE RED MILL MUSEUM VILLAGE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $58k · revenue +92%
PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $39k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- AAANIMAL ALLIANCE INCone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +22%
- FUFELINE URBAN RESCUE AND REHAB INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +61%
- CCCOTTEY COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +26%
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.
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.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
Marietta college (mc) provides a strong foundation for a lifetime of leadership, critical thinking, and problem solving. we achieve this mission by offering undergraduates a contemporary liberal arts education and graduate students an…
Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.
Education and Research
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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).
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
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…
To graduate people of uncommon integrity, competence, and maturity, who are effective lifelong learners and responsible citizens, and who are prepared to contribute substantially to the world in which they live.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
How this is measured
68 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. 68 of the 135 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 THE HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE RED MILL MUSEUM VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds ACRES OF LOVE ↗
- Who funds VILLAGEREACH ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SPORTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON WRESTLING CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE VIRGINIA PENINSULAS ↗
- Who funds BLAIR ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds RIEGELSVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds HELPUSADOPTORG INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE FDN ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WRESTLING COACHES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE QUEBEC-LABRADOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON INTERNSHIPS IN CIVIC SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds SASSY MASSEY SMILES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOMENS CENTER OF WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Team Velvet Inc ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds JAMESTOWN-YORKTOWN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF GREATER WILLIAMSBURG ↗
- Who funds BEAT THE STREETS WRESTLING PROGRAM PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds SHANNON DALEY MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Wrestle Like a Girl Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Williamsburg Community Trust · Langley for Families - the Foundation of Lfcu · Sentara Health · United Way of the Virginia Peninsula · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Peninsula Community Foundation of Virginia Inc · Rbwr Family Charitable Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation Inc · The Gladys and Franklin Clark Foundation · Dan and Micki Chapin Fund Inc · Williamsburg Community Health Foundation · Bernardine Franciscan Sisters Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Robert McEldowney Jr Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robert McEldowney Jr Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
- The Red Mill Museum Village Inc: 8% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
- Blair Academy: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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