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The Virginia & John L Sinclair Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$39k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$72kHuman Services$46kYouth Development$45kPhilanthropy$34kMembership Benefit$33kArts & Culture$20kHealth$17kEducation$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$600k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
SALVATION ARMY$1,000
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
TIDEWATER FRIENDS OF FOSTER CARE$500
AVON ROTARY CLUB$400
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%BASTROP HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $6k → 16%INTEGRATIVE HEALTH PROJECT (ATITLAN MULTICULTURAL): $3k → 17%ARC OF THE CAPITAL AREA: $2k → 10%BASTROP OPERA HOUSE: $2k → 12%YOUNG LIFE: $4k → 14%BENTON COUNTY FOP LODGE 89 FOUNDATION: $13k → 14%BENTON CO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $4k → 10%CHESAPEAKE BAY WINE CLASSIC FOUNDATION: $4k → 10%BASTROP HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $4k → 16%ARC OF THE CAPITAL AREA: $2k → 10%YOUNG LIFE: $4k → 14%BENTON COUNTY FOP LODGE 89 FOUNDATION: $13k → 14%CHESAPEAKE BAY WINE CLASSIC FOUNDATION: $4k → 10%BASTROP HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $4k → 16%ARKANSAS YOUTH ANGLERS: $4k → 14%BENTON COUNTY FOP LODGE 89 FOUNDATION: $7k → 14%CHESAPEAKE BAY WINE CLASSIC FOUNDATION: $4k → 10%BASTROP HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $2k → 16%CHESAPEAKE BAY WINE CLASSIC FOUNDATION: $4k → 10%CHESAPEAKE BAY WINE CLASSIC FOUNDATION: $4k → 10%CHESAPEAKE BAY WINE CLASSIC FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%CHESAPEAKE BAY WINE CLASSIC FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%AVON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $7k → 5%CHESAPEAKE BAY WINE CLASSIC FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%AVON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $7k → 5%AVON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $5k → 5%AVON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $4k → 5%AVON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $3k → 5%AVON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $3k → 5%AVON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $3k → 5%FAMILY PROMISE: $3k → 5%FAMILY PROMISE: $3k → 5%OAKLEY CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $8k → 19%FAMILY PROMISE: $3k → 5%OAKLEY CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $8k → 19%FAMILY PROMISE: $3k → 5%OAKLEY CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $8k → 19%AVON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $3k → 5%OAKLEY CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $8k → 19%FAMILY PROMISE: $3k → 5%FAMILY PROMISE: $3k → 5%DISTINGUISHED YOUNG WOMEN OF AVON: $2k → 5%DISTINGUISHED YOUNG WOMEN OF AVON: $2k → 5%DISTINGUISHED YOUNG WOMEN OF AVON: $2k → 5%DISTINGUISHED YOUNG WOMEN OF AVON: $2k → 5%DISTINGUISHED YOUNG WOMEN OF AVON: $2k → 5%DISTINGUISHED YOUNG WOMEN OF AVON: $2k → 5%FAMILY PROMISE: $2k → 5%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
NY
MA
IN
NJ
CO
VA
AR
TN
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$266k · 28 repeat orgs$21k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +25% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
13

Total granted

$266k
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+25%

Still filing today

36%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
PhilanthropyArts & CultureHealthEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CB
    CHESAPEAKE BAY WINE CLASSIC FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $26k · revenue +366%
  • AVON EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $9k · revenue +2%
  • YL
    YOUNG LIFE
    2× · 2019–2020 · $8k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • AY
    ARKANSAS YOUTH ANGLERS
    one grant, 2018 · $4k
  • BC
    BENTON CO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
    one grant, 2017 · $4k
  • IH
    INTEGRATIVE HEALTH PROJECT (ATITLAN MULTICULTURAL)
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Virginia Early Childhood Foundation

Vecf is the non-partisan steward of virginia's promise for early childhood success.

Education
2
Voices for Virginia's Children

The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.

Civil Rights
3
Goochland Educational Foundation Incorporated

The Goochland Education Foundation mission is to provide funding for innovative learning opportunities for Goochland County Public School students.

Education
4
Central Virginia Foundation for Economic Education&Improvement Inc

Furtherance of economic growth, education, training and development

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5
Va Foundation for Independent Colleges

To secure financial support that enables college-bound students to access and graduate from outstanding virginia independent higher education institutions.

Education
6
Montgomery County Community Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
7
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
8
The Richmond Symphony

The richmond symphony performs, teaches and champions music to inspire and unite our communities.

Arts & Culture
9
Virginia Capital Trail Foundation

The virginia capital trail foundation exists to protect, promote, and enhance the virginia capital trail and engage communities around it.

Recreation & Sports
10
Henrico Education Foundation Inc

The mission of the henrico education foundation (hef) is to strengthen public education by advancing innovative programs and initiatives designed to improve student achievement.

Education
11
The Virginia Foundation for Architecture Incorporated

Elevating awareness of the transformative power of architecture and design.

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12
Community Foundation of Warren County

Enhancing and sustaining the quality of life in Warren County through philanthropy.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hendricks County Community Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 43 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
13/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AVON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $33,700 · OtherAVON UNITED METHODIST CHURCHBENTON COUNTY FOP LODGE 89 FOUNDATION: $32,500 · OtherBENTON COUNTY FOP LODGE 89 FOUNDATIONOAKLEY CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $32,000 · OtherOAKLEY CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCHNORTHWEST ARKANSAS YOUNG LIFE: $18,500 · OtherNORTHWEST ARKANSAS YOUNG LIFEFAMILY PROMISE: $18,000 · OtherFAMILY PROMISEBASTROP HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $16,000 · OtherBASTROP HISTORICAL SOCIETYDISTINGUISHED YOUNG WOMEN OF AVON INC: $14,000 · OtherDISTINGUISHED YOUNG WOMEN OF AVON INC+23 more: $61,300 · Other+23 moreCHESAPEAKE BAY WINE CLASSIC FOUNDATION: $26,000 · PhilanthropyCHESAPEAKE BAY WI…AVON EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $9,000 · PhilanthropyAVON EDUCATION FO…HENDRICKS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 · PhilanthropyHENDRICKS COUNTY …THE FRIENDS OF FOSTER CARE INCORPORATED: $2,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyYOUNG LIFE: $8,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BILLFISH FOUNDATION INC: $4,500 · AnimalsChildren's Hospital of the King's Daughters: $4,000 · HealthBastrop Opera House: $2,000 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $1,000 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA OPERA ASSOCIATION INC: $500 · Arts & CultureLYNNHAVEN RIVER NOW: $2,500 · EnvironmentROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION OF DANVILLE: $500 · Community Improvement
Other$226,000Philanthropy$46,000Youth Development$8,000Animals$4,500Health$4,000Arts & Culture$3,500Environment$2,500Community Improvement$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY WINE CLASSIC FOUNDATION: $26,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetAVON EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetHENDRICKS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BILLFISH FOUNDATION INC: $4,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetST MARY'S HOME FOR DISABLED CHILDREN INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARC OF THE CAPITAL AREA: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital of the King's Daughters: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLYNNHAVEN RIVER NOW: $2,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF FOSTER CARE INCORPORATED: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE REFUGE FOR DMST: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBastrop Opera House: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHARTWAY PROMISE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBrownsburg Education Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVIRGINIA OPERA ASSOCIATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 CHESAPEAKE BAY WINE CLASSIC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AVON EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HENDRICKS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
  • 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 THE REFUGE FOR DMST ↗
  • Who funds Bastrop Opera House ↗
  • Who funds CHARTWAY PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds Brownsburg Education Foundation 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.

Hampton Roads Communi…Tidewater Jewish Foun…Dominion Energy Chari…United Way of South H…Duke Energy FoundationThe Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…The Blackbaud Giving …American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …
Hampton Roads Community FoundationVA19.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Virginia & John L Sinclair Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Virginia & John L Sinclair Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
    6report 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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 43 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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