· Private foundation
The Virginia & John L Sinclair Foundation Inc
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 77% of THE VIRGINIA & JOHN L SINCLAIR FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BENTON COUNTY FOP LODGE 89 FOUNDATION | $13,000 |
| AVON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $6,600 |
| BASTROP HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $6,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE BAY WINE CLASSIC FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| FAMILY PROMISE | $2,000 |
| DISTINGUISHED YOUNG WOMEN OF AVON | $2,000 |
| CHARTWAY PROMISE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| EGGLESTON SERVICES | $1,000 |
| THE BILLFISH FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| HENDRICKS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| AVON EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $1,000 |
| TIDEWATER FRIENDS OF FOSTER CARE | $500 |
| AVON ROTARY CLUB | $400 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 1 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- CBCHESAPEAKE BAY WINE CLASSIC FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $26k · revenue +366%
AVON EDUCATION FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $9k · revenue +2%- YLYOUNG LIFE2× · 2019–2020 · $8k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- AYARKANSAS YOUTH ANGLERSone grant, 2018 · $4k
- BCBENTON CO HABITAT FOR HUMANITYone grant, 2017 · $4k
- IHINTEGRATIVE HEALTH PROJECT (ATITLAN MULTICULTURAL)one grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
Vecf is the non-partisan steward of virginia's promise for early childhood success.
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 Goochland Education Foundation mission is to provide funding for innovative learning opportunities for Goochland County Public School students.
Furtherance of economic growth, education, training and development
To secure financial support that enables college-bound students to access and graduate from outstanding virginia independent higher education institutions.
The mission of the Montgomery County Community Foundation (MCCF) is to provide leadership in Montgomery County by directing sustainable financial resources that strengthen our community and improve the quality of life for current and…
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…
The richmond symphony performs, teaches and champions music to inspire and unite our communities.
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Elevating awareness of the transformative power of architecture and design.
Enhancing and sustaining the quality of life in Warren County through philanthropy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hendricks County Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lynnhaven River Now. 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 43 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 CHESAPEAKE BAY WINE CLASSIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AVON EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds HENDRICKS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BILLFISH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S HOME FOR DISABLED CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF THE CAPITAL AREA ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters ↗
- Who funds LYNNHAVEN RIVER NOW ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF FOSTER CARE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Bastrop Opera House ↗
- Who funds THE REFUGE FOR DMST ↗
- Who funds CHARTWAY PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds Brownsburg Education Foundation 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: Hampton Roads Community Foundation · Tidewater Jewish Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · United Way of South Hampton Roads · Duke Energy Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Virginia & John L Sinclair 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.