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Townebank Richmond Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$645k
Granted FY2021
117
Grants FY2021
7
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
0189% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202021.

Recreation & Sports$258kArts & Culture$188kHuman Services$182kEducation$162kYouth Development$129kHealth$101kHousing & Shelter$75kFood & Nutrition$43kOther$0
02FY2021 · 117 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k97 grants · $275k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $320k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$2,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PGA TOUR CHARITIES$50,000
Richmond Ballet$35,000
BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF METRO RICHOND$35,000
FEEDMORE$20,000
Anna Julia Cooper Episcopal School$20,000
PGA Tour Charities for PeterPaulDev$20,000
YMCA OF GREATER RICHMOND$20,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
MEDARVA$20,000
Beth Sholom of VA$15,000
VALENTINE MUSEUM$15,000
BETTER HOUSING COALITION$15,000
Individual grant recipient$12,500
THE DOORWAYS$12,500
VA REPERTORY THEATRE$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–21, $103k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES: $10k → 22%GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES: $8k → 22%GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES: $4k → 22%YMCA OF GREATER RICHMOND: $20k → 7%LITTLE HANDS VIRGINIA: $1k → 7%COMFORT ZONE CAMP: $7k → 22%COMFORT ZONE CAMP: $5k → 22%COMFORT ZONE CAMP: $2k → 22%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $20k → 9%COMFORT ZONE CAMP: $2k → 22%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $5k → 9%NEXT UP: $8k → 22%NEXT UP: $8k → 22%SPORTABLE: $3k → 22%SPORTABLE: $3k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

CT
CA
VA
MD
NC
DC
LA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$843k · 64 repeat orgs$519k to everyone else

64 repeat relationships — 64 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 42 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

64
58

Total granted

$843k
$308k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+43%

Still filing today

59%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $210k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterEnvironmentOther

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

  • TR
    THE RICHMOND BALLET
    2× · 2020–2021 · $62k · revenue +2%
  • FM
    FEED MORE INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $41k · revenue +29%
  • AJ
    ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL
    2× · 2020–2021 · $40k · revenue +276%

Funded once

  • BG
    BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF METRO RICHMOND
    one grant, 2020 · $35k
  • PT
    PGA TOUR CHARITIES RICHMOND BALLET
    one grant, 2020 · $28k
  • PP
    PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -14%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce

Chamberrva is the trusted voice for modern business in the richmond virginia region. we are change agents, rallying to do the hard things that will create a more connected, prosperous, health and equitable community.

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
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
4
Vpm Media Corporation

To use the power of media to educate, entertain and inspire, using public television and public radio to make a positive impact on the communities throughout central virginia, charlottesville, the shenandoah valley, the northern neck and…

Arts & Culture
5
Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities

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

Civil Rights
6
Virginia Community Action Partnership Inc

Virginia community action partnership (vacap) is the statewide membership association for virginia's thirty-one non-profit and public community action agencies. vacaps mission is to build the capacity and competencies of virginias…

Human Services
7
The Richmond Forum

To present powerful voices so richmond can learn. to empower local voices so richmond can lead.

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
The Commonwealth Institute for

To use policy, research, and analysis to advance the well-being of Virginia communities, and improve the economic security and social opportunities of all Virginians.

Public Benefit
10
Community Memorial Hospital

To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.

Health
11
New Schools for Virginia

New schools for virginia works with parents, students, educators and the community to improve educational outcomes by designing new schools and by supporting existing schools to improve outcomes.

Education
12
Richmonders for Good Jobs

Operate as a virginia referendum committee; operate as a labor-management cooperation committee in accordance with the federal labor-management cooperation act in order to improve communication between representatives of labor and…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater Richmond & Petersburg and the most unlike its peers is Battle of the Bulge Association 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth Arts Education Progra…Richmond Community Developm…Health and Wellness ServicesCommunity Empowerment Organ…Fraternal Organizations & L…Regional Economic Developme…Youth Sports ProgramsCommunity Support ServicesAffordable Housing and Resi…Virginia Professional Assoc…Youth Sports ProgramsCommunity Foundations and C…Virginia History MuseumsIndependent K-12 Schools
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 30 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%1%<5yr16%6%5–10yr17%22%10–20yr15%27%20–35yr15%26%35–55yr13%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%0%<5yr16%2%5–10yr17%17%10–20yr15%17%20–35yr15%45%35–55yr13%19%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/86
the rest of the field
14%
802/5,607

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.

04the grantee network

85 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 85 of the 165 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
29
Early backer (in before they grew)
82/85
Grantees still filing
61/85
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $40,000 · OtherBOYS GIRLS CLUB OF METRO RICHMOND — $35,000 · OtherBOYS GIRLS CLUB OF METRO RICHOND — $35,000 · OtherBETH SHOLOM OF VA — $30,000 · OtherPGA TOUR CHARITIES RICHMOND BALLET — $28,000 · OtherFEED MORE INC — $41,054 · Other+111 more — $593,441 · Other+111 moreTHE RICHMOND BALLET — $62,000 · Arts & CultureTHE RICHMON…THE VALENTINE MUSEUM — $30,000 · Arts & CultureTHE VALENTI…VIRGINIA REPERTORY THEATRE — $22,500 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA RE…THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR MUSEUM — $8,000 · Arts & CultureTHE AMERICA…SWIFT CREEK MILL THEATRE INC — $5,000 · Arts & CulturePOE FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more — $2,836 · Arts & CultureANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL — $40,000 · EducationANNA JULI…St Andrew's School — $15,000 · EducationSt Andrew…ST JAMES'S CHILDREN'S CENTER — $10,500 · EducationST JAMES'…UP RVA — $9,500 · EducationUP RVACOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHESTERFIELD — $7,500 · EducationCOMMUNITI…THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL — $5,000 · EducationRIVERSIDE SCHOOL INC — $5,000 · EducationCOMMONWEALTH CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC — $4,000 · Education+6 more — $11,998 · Education+6 morePETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesGOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES — $21,500 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769) — $20,000 · Human ServicesCOMFORT ZONE CAMP INC — $15,763 · Human ServicesNEXTUP RVA — $15,000 · Human ServicesSPORTABLE RICHMOND ADAPTIVE SPORTS AND RECREATION INC — $5,000 · Human Services+1 more — $1,000 · Human ServicesPGA TOUR CHARITIES INC — $90,000 · Youth DevelopmentRICHMOND FIRST TEE — $10,000 · Youth Development+1 more — $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentBETTER HOUSING COALITION — $35,000 · Housing & ShelterELDERHOMES CORPORATION — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterCARITAS — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING FAMILIES FIRST — $5,050 · Housing & ShelterTHE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC — $20,000 · HealthGATEWAY HOMES INC — $10,000 · HealthLEGAL INFORMATION NETWORK FOR CANCER — $6,000 · HealthGoochlandCares — $5,500 · HealthConexus — $5,000 · HealthSHELTERING ARMS CORPORATION — $2,500 · Health+3 more — $2,400 · Health
Other$802,495Arts & Culture$135,336Education$108,498Human Services$103,263Youth Development$101,000Housing & Shelter$60,050Health$51,400

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPGA TOUR CHARITIES INC — $90,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE RICHMOND BALLET — $62,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFEED MORE INC — $41,054 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL — $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBETTER HOUSING COALITION — $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE VALENTINE MUSEUM — $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetVIRGINIA REPERTORY THEATRE — $22,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES — $21,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769) — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMFORT ZONE CAMP INC — $15,763 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSt Andrew's School — $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNEXTUP RVA — $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSupportWorks Housing — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD PEDIATRICS — $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST JAMES'S CHILDREN'S CENTER — $10,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetELDERHOMES CORPORATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Richmond Partnership Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetViridiant — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCARITAS — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRICHMOND FIRST TEE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUP RVA — $9,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetReWork Richmond Inc — $9,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR MUSEUM — $8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOAR 365 — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHESTERFIELD — $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetASK CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetINNSBROOK FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetLEGAL INFORMATION NETWORK FOR CANCER — $6,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetGoochlandCares — $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSING FAMILIES FIRST — $5,050 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN RICHMOND SPORTS BACKERS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetConexus — $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPORTABLE RICHMOND ADAPTIVE SPORTS AND RECREATION INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSWIFT CREEK MILL THEATRE INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF RICHMOND INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPOE FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetRIVERSIDE SCHOOL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRichmond Police Athletic League — $4,500 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetCAPITAL TREES — $4,150 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMONWEALTH CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC — $4,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetDavidson College — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTECH FOR TROOP — $3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSTARTUP VIRGINIA INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWILLIAM & MARY LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 PGA TOUR CHARITIES INC
  • Who funds THE RICHMOND BALLET
  • Who funds FEED MORE INC
  • Who funds ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL
  • Who funds BETTER HOUSING COALITION
  • Who funds THE VALENTINE MUSEUM
  • Who funds PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC
  • Who funds VIRGINIA REPERTORY THEATRE
  • Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES
  • Who funds THE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC
  • Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769)
  • Who funds COMFORT ZONE CAMP INC
  • Who funds St Andrew's School
  • Who funds NEXTUP RVA
  • Who funds SupportWorks Housing
  • Who funds WORLD PEDIATRICS
  • Who funds ST JAMES'S CHILDREN'S CENTER
  • Who funds ELDERHOMES CORPORATION
  • Who funds GATEWAY HOMES 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.

Townebank FoundationVA93.3× affinity43 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Townebank Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Robins Foundation · Herndon Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Pauley Family Foundation · Tesco Foundation · Williams Mullen Foundation · Pga Tour Charities Inc · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation · Virginia Nonprofit Housing Coalition

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 Townebank Richmond Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Pga Tour Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
30report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Townebank Richmond Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Townebank Richmond Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 165 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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