· Private foundation
The Widgeon 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $68k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Sportable | $15,500 |
| Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation Inc | $15,000 |
| Childrens Hospital Foundation | $13,500 |
| Science Museum of Virginia Foundati | $13,500 |
| Hampton University | $10,000 |
| The First Tee of Greater Richmond | $8,000 |
| Full Circle Grief Center | $7,500 |
| Safe Harbor | $6,000 |
| Tuckahoe Volunteer Rescue Squad | $6,000 |
| Virginia War Memorial Foundation | $5,000 |
| Firts Baptist Church of Islamorada | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 66% of those 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.
15 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 4 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, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
- RFRICHMOND FIRST TEE8× · 2018–2025 · $75k · revenue +157%
- SRSPORTABLE RICHMOND ADAPTIVE SPORTS AND RECREATION INC4× · 2022–2025 · $52k · revenue +128%
- FCFULL CIRCLE GRIEF CENTER5× · 2021–2025 · $33k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- AFASSOCIATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF VA ANTIQUITIESone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +10%
- GGoochlandCaresgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +43%
- ISINTERNATIONAL STAR CLASS YACHT RACINGone grant, 2018 · $10k
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.
To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…
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…
Promoting for the benefit of the general public, the preservation, protection and enjoyment of our natural resources, principally in the lower james, york, rappahannock and chowan rivers and surrounding watersheds.
The virginia association of museums is a statewide network serving the museum community. the association's mission statement is "the virginia association of museums helps our museum community succeed".
VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.
To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.
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 voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.
Represent the agriculture, forestry, and agribusiness community in virginia.
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 vt-arc is to extend the impact of the virginia tech research and innovation enterprise, delivering superior analytic and technology solutions to government and non-government customers.
To secure financial support that enables college-bound students to access and graduate from outstanding virginia independent higher education institutions.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Talbot Interfaith Shelter Inc. 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 40 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% 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 12% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 37 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 RICHMOND FIRST TEE ↗
- Who funds THE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SPORTABLE RICHMOND ADAPTIVE SPORTS AND RECREATION INC ↗
- Who funds NAVAL WAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA WAR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FULL CIRCLE GRIEF CENTER ↗
- Who funds TUCKAHOE VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN'S CHURCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA'S COLLEGE AT WISE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JAMESTOWN-YORKTOWN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AVALON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HAMPTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF VA ANTIQUITIES ↗
- Who funds GoochlandCares ↗
- Who funds The Virginia Home ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR ↗
- Who funds Virginia Voice Inc ↗
- Who funds LEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UROLOGICAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds READING AND EDUCATION FOR ADULT DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds FOR ALL SEASONS INC ↗
- Who funds TALBOT HUMANE CO ↗
- Who funds TALBOT INTERFAITH SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds WATERFOWL FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds NATURE CAMP 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: The Community Foundation Inc · Chrisman Family Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Herndon Foundation · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · Shelton H Short Jr Trust · Townebank Foundation · Carmax Foundation · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation · Robins Foundation · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Peachtree House 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 Widgeon 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- For All Seasons Inc — 22% of income from government
- Avalon Foundation Inc — 6% 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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