· Private foundation
The Shilling Foundation Inc
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $76k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RING DOG RESCUE | $76,000 |
| COMPUTERS FOR KIDS | $20,000 |
| WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $15,000 |
| KINDNESS CVILLE | $10,000 |
| BROOKS FAMILY YMCA | $9,000 |
| THE COVENANT SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL | $4,000 |
| LAND TRUST OF VIRGINIA | $3,000 |
| BENNET'S VILLAGE | $3,000 |
| VIRGINIA PRISON BIRTH PROJECT | $2,000 |
| UVA CHILDREN'S HEALTH | $2,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL VA | $1,500 |
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| VIA CENTERS FOR NEURODEVELOPMENT | $500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of your 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +85% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- RDRing Dog Rescue Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $567k · revenue +85%
- KCKindness Cville7× · 2019–2025 · $59k · revenue +95%
- TPTHE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL8× · 2018–2025 · $58k · revenue +94%
Funded once
- OOON OUR OWN CHARLOTTESVILLE VA INCone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -6%
- FFNCASone grant, 2018 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $2k
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 voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.
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 establish an effective, long-term and resilient political infrastructure that advocates for and delivers public policy victories which reflect the values held in common by our members.
The virginia capital trail foundation exists to protect, promote, and enhance the virginia capital trail and engage communities around it.
Our mission is to ensure the availability, access, and affordability of locally produced food by connecting local farmers and all members of the community through programs, awareness, and advocacy.
The mission of CHSVA is to build strong permanent families and lifelong relationships for Virginia's at risk children and youth.
For children's sake is dedicated to promoting positive environments for children and families that develop trust, stability and independence.
Protecting and connecting virginia's wild places.
VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.
Vcn is a facilitator of strategic action, a resource for network partners statewide, and a constant preservation presence in richmond. playing a unique role in virginia's conservation community, vcn helps the community speak with one…
Charlottesville community bikes promotes environmentally-sound transportation, recycles bicycles, and makes cycling accessible in charlottesville, va. we work to create innovative, community-rooted solutions to address community mobility…
Chip of virginia administers and monitors a network of 7 agencies in 27 virginia localities who work with low-income families to assure that children from birth to age 6 receive the health care necessary for them to lead healthy lives,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Land Trust of Virginia Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. 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 27 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 Ring Dog Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds Kindness Cville ↗
- Who funds THE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds THE COVENANT SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds COMPUTERS FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds BENNETT'S VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA PRISON BIRTH PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE PAI ↗
- Who funds THE LAND TRUST OF VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE'S LEGACY EQUINE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds COMPUTERS4KIDS ↗
- Who funds ON OUR OWN CHARLOTTESVILLE VA INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOWS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST CHRISTOPHER'S SCHOOL 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 · Perry Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Shilling 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.