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Thrive Birth to Five Foundation Dba Thrive Birth to Five

The thrive birth to five (tb5) foundation (the "foundation") has been the early childhood systems building organization in the richmond region since 2007 and was designated ready region central (rrc) by the virginia early childhood foundation and the virginia department of education in 2022.

$8.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
35
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $153k
  • $50k–250k20 grants · $2.9M
  • $250k+10 grants · $5.5M
$149,891
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YWCA RICHMOND$1,052,960
FOUNDATIONS LEARNING ACADEMY$883,609
SMART COOKIE LEARNING CENTER II$568,493
FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN$562,082
NEW DIRECTION CHILDCARE & LEARNING$531,266
ANGELS AT PLAY CHILDCARE CENTER$514,536
THE GREENHOUSE DAY CARE CENTER INC$485,177
OAK GROVE CHILD CARE CENTER$386,531
SOWING SEEDS ACADEMY$279,798
SKIPWITH ACADEMY AT COLONIAL$258,965
LET'S BE A KID CHILDCARE CENTER$209,086
YMCA OF GREATER RICHMOND$204,947
KIDZ WITH GOALS UNLIMITED LLC$196,759
Individual grant recipient$182,077
Individual grant recipient$177,791
02The need
02

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 (FY25–25, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%YMCA OF GREATER RICHMOND: $205k → 22%YWCA RICHMOND: $1.1M → 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 field
03the grantee network

6 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. 6 of the 35 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
2/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FOUNDATIONS LEARNING ACADEMY: $883,609 · OtherFOUNDATIONS LEARNING ACADEMYSMART COOKIE LEARNING CENTER II: $568,493 · OtherSMART COOKIE LEARNING CENTER IINEW DIRECTION CHILDCARE & LEARNING: $531,266 · OtherNEW DIRECTION CHILDCARE & LEARNINGANGELS AT PLAY CHILDCARE CENTER: $514,536 · OtherANGELS AT PLAY CHILDCARE CENTERTHE GREENHOUSE DAY CARE CENTER INC: $485,177 · OtherTHE GREENHOUSE DAY CARE CENTER INCOAK GROVE CHILD CARE CENTER: $386,531 · OtherOAK GROVE CHILD CARE CENTERSOWING SEEDS ACADEMY: $279,798 · OtherSKIPWITH ACADEMY AT COLONIAL: $258,965 · Other+23 more: $2,807,236 · Other+23 moreYWCA RICHMOND: $1,052,960 · Human ServicesYWCA RICHMONDYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769): $204,947 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Chri…CANDID: $562,082 · PhilanthropyGREATER RICHMOND SCAN - STOP CHILD ABUSE NOW INC: $26,224 · Crime & Legal
Other$6,715,611Human Services$1,257,907Philanthropy$562,082Crime & Legal$26,224

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYWCA RICHMOND: $1,052,960 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetCANDID: $562,082 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCHILDSAVERS- MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC: $98,700 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGREATER RICHMOND SCAN - STOP CHILD ABUSE NOW INC: $26,224 over 1y, 0.7% 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 YWCA RICHMOND ↗
  • Who funds CANDID ↗
  • Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769) ↗
  • Who funds CHILDSAVERS- MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER RICHMOND SCAN - STOP CHILD ABUSE NOW INC ↗
  • Who funds RESTORATION OUTREACH MINISTRIES ↗

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.

Bon Secours - St Mary…Bon Secours - Richmon…United Way of Greater…Shelton H Short Jr Tr…The Pauley Family Fou…Virginia Nonprofit Ho…Richmond Memorial Hea…Bon Secours Mercy Hea…The Community Foundat…Dominion Energy Chari…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…
Bon Secours - St Mary's Hospital of Richmond IncVA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bon Secours - St Mary's Hospital of Richmond Inc · Bon Secours - Richmond Health System Inc · United Way of Greater Richmond & Petersburg · Shelton H Short Jr Trust · The Pauley Family Foundation · Virginia Nonprofit Housing Coalition · Richmond Memorial Health Foundation · Bon Secours Mercy Health Inc · The Community Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Thrive Birth to Five Foundation Dba Thrive Birth to Five funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thrive Birth to Five Foundation Dba Thrive Birth to Five. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
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no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 35 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 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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