· Private foundation
The Snow 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k31 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $215k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $160k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ANNA JULIA COOPER EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $60,000 |
| LEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN | $50,000 |
| JEPSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| NASSAU COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING | $30,000 |
| COLLEGIATE SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMOND | $25,000 |
| VCU MASSEY CANCER CENTER | $25,000 |
| ST STEPHENS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $20,000 |
| UP RVA | $15,000 |
| SHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| SCAN | $10,000 |
| VIRGINIA EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| UVA | $10,000 |
| THE FAISON CENTER | $10,000 |
| VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS | $10,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $155k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 6% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
48 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 6 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- AJANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL6× · 2019–2025 · $375k · revenue +73%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMOND6× · 2019–2025 · $155k · revenue +84%
- NCNASSAU COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC4× · 2022–2025 · $141k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- VCVIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY FOUNDATgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $39k · revenue +66%
- BSBENEDICTINE SCHOOLS OF RICHMONDone grant, 2022 · $20k
- AHAmerican Heart Association Incone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +16%
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 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).
Virginia tech foundation, inc. (vtf) is a virginia nonstock corporation established in 1948 for the sole purpose of managing virginia tech's endowment to advance virginia tech's mission and its strategic priorities.
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.
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…
The mission of the alumni association is to build the strongest bond among alumni and between alumni and the university by serving all alumni and students; being the center for engaging and connecting the global uva community; acting as a…
Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.
Mission statement of washington and lee university: washington and lee university provides a liberal arts education that develops students' capacity to think freely, critically, and humanely and to conduct themselves with honor, integrity,…
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…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The William & Mary Foundation advances the university's highest aspirations by securing private support, guiding a multi-asset investment portfolio, and offering strategic leadership. In this work, we propel the university toward national…
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 primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Boots to Suits. 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 48 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 75 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 ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds NASSAU COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds LEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UP RVA ↗
- Who funds THE SHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY FOUNDAT ↗
- Who funds THE FAISON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAS YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds TSIC INC DBA/TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds FEED MORE INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds KEEP NASSAU BEAUTIFUL INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN MISSION SCHOOL ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMELIA TREE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE HANDS VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds TELLURIDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER CANTERBURY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NASSAU HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds LIVINGSTON FOOD PANTRY OF PARK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds INNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
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: Commonwealth Foundations · The Community Foundation Inc · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Pga Tour Charities Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Carmax Foundation · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · Robins Foundation · Townebank Foundation · Virginia Sargeant Reynolds Foundation · Townebank Richmond Foundation · Luck Companies 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 Snow 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Tsic Inc Dba/Take Stock in Children — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Snow Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
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