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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.

$105k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$135kEducation$127kArts & Culture$125kYouth Development$75kHealth$70kReligion$35kPublic Safety & Disaster$24kRecreation & Sports$14kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $68k
$8,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Sportable$15,500
Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation Inc$15,000
Science Museum of Virginia Foundati$13,500
Childrens Hospital Foundation$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
Firts Baptist Church of Islamorada$5,000
Virginia War Memorial Foundation$5,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Full Circle Grief Center: $8k → 6%Full Circle Grief Center: $8k → 6%VIRGINIA VOICE: $5k → 9%Full Circle Grief Center: $8k → 6%Full Circle Grief Center: $5k → 6%Safe Harbor: $6k → 22%Full Circle Grief Center: $5k → 6%Sportable: $20k → 22%Sportable: $16k → 22%Sportable: $11k → 22%Sportable: $5k → 22%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.
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$494k · 15 repeat orgs$119k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
18

Total granted

$494k
$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
+61%

Still filing today

80%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationAnimalsRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • RF
    RICHMOND FIRST TEE
    8× · 2018–2025 · $75k · revenue +157%
  • SR
    SPORTABLE RICHMOND ADAPTIVE SPORTS AND RECREATION INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $52k · revenue +128%
  • NW
    NAVAL WAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $48k · revenue +132%

Funded once

  • AF
    ASSOCIATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF VA ANTIQUITIES
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +10%
  • G
    GoochlandCaresgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +33%
  • IS
    INTERNATIONAL STAR CLASS YACHT RACING
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
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
Vcu Investment Management Company

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…

Education
2
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
3
Historic Virginia Land Conservancy

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.

Environment
4
Virginia Association of Museums

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".

Arts & Culture
5
Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities

VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.

Civil Rights
6
Vcu Health Tappahannock Hospital

To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.

Health
7
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

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).

Education
8
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
9
Virginia Agribusiness Council

Represent the agriculture, forestry, and agribusiness community in virginia.

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10
University of Virginia Foundation

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…

Education
11
Virginia Tech Applied Research Corporation

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.

Science & Tech
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 37 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
18/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $52,423 · OtherTHE COUNTRY SCHOOL INCTUCKAHOE FAMILY YMCA: $35,000 · OtherTUCKAHOE FAMILY YMCATUCKAHOE VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD INC: $24,000 · OtherTUCKAHOE VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD INCST JOHN'S CHURCH FOUNDATION: $22,000 · OtherST JOHN'S CHURCH FOUNDATIONST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $22,000 · OtherST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCHFirts Baptist Church of Islamorada: $10,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL STAR CLASS YACHT RACING: $10,000 · OtherPatrick Henrys Red Hill: $8,000 · Other+12 more: $23,350 · Other+12 moreSPORTABLE RICHMOND ADAPTIVE SPORTS AND RECREATION INC: $51,500 · Human ServicesSPORTABLE RICHMON…FULL CIRCLE GRIEF CENTER: $32,500 · Human ServicesFULL CIRCLE GRIEF…SAFE HARBOR: $6,000 · Human ServicesSAFE HARBORVirginia Voice Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesVIRGINIA WAR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA WAR MEMO…JAMESTOWN-YORKTOWN FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureJAMESTOWN-YORKTOW…SCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION INC: $13,500 · Arts & CultureSCIENCE MUSEUM OF…AVALON FOUNDATION INC: $10,500 · Arts & CultureAVALON FOUNDATION…ASSOCIATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF VA ANTIQUITIES: $10,000 · Arts & CultureASSOCIATION FOR T…RICHMOND FIRST TEE: $74,500 · Youth DevelopmentRICHMOND FIRS…NAVAL WAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $48,000 · EducationNAVAL WAR COL…THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA'S COLLEGE AT WISE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSIT…HAMPTON UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationHAMPTON UNIVE…Children's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation: $47,500 · HealthChildren's H…GoochlandCares: $10,000 · HealthGoochlandCar…The Virginia Home: $7,500 · HealthThe Virginia…LEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $5,000 · Environment
Other$206,773Human Services$95,000Arts & Culture$94,000Youth Development$74,500Education$73,000Health$65,000Environment$5,000

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 budgetRICHMOND FIRST TEE: $74,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTHE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $52,423 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSPORTABLE RICHMOND ADAPTIVE SPORTS AND RECREATION INC: $51,500 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetNAVAL WAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $48,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetChildren's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation: $47,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetVIRGINIA WAR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetFULL CIRCLE GRIEF CENTER: $32,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetTUCKAHOE VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD INC: $24,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetST JOHN'S CHURCH FOUNDATION: $22,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA'S COLLEGE AT WISE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetJAMESTOWN-YORKTOWN FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION INC: $13,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAVALON FOUNDATION INC: $10,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHAMPTON UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF VA ANTIQUITIES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGoochlandCares: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Virginia Home: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAFE HARBOR: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVirginia Voice Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC: $3,900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN UROLOGICAL ASSOCIATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREADING AND EDUCATION FOR ADULT DEVELOPMENT: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFOR ALL SEASONS INC: $1,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTALBOT HUMANE CO: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTALBOT INTERFAITH SHELTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWATERFOWL FESTIVAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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.

The Community Foundat…Chrisman Family Found…Dominion Energy Chari…Herndon FoundationRichard S Reynolds Fo…Shelton H Short Jr Tr…Townebank FoundationCarmax FoundationRobert G Cabell III a…Robins FoundationThe Mary Morton Parso…Peachtree House Found…
The Community Foundation IncVA36.6× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Widgeon Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Widgeon 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%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • For All Seasons Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Avalon Foundation Inc: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Widgeon Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Widgeon Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 37 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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