· Private foundation
Tua August Heid by T Heid Char
Its FY2026 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 FY2018–2026.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k1 grant · $4k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $140k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $760k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $100,000 |
| PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL | $100,000 |
| CHARLOTTESVILLE-ALBEMARLE SPCA | $100,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| MARTHA JEFFERSON HOSPITAL | $100,000 |
| CHARLOTTESVILLE FREE CLINIC | $85,000 |
| CARING FOR CREATURES FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| CHILDSAVERS | $50,000 |
| PATRICK HENRY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION | $40,000 |
| LEWIS GINTER BOTANTICAL GARDEN INC | $40,000 |
| WILD VIRGINIA INCORPORATED | $35,000 |
| WARD BURTON WILDLIFE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| PATH PARTNERSHIPS | $4,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $375k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
20 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2026, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $139k 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
- TPTHE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL9× · 2018–2026 · $1.1M · revenue +94%
- MJMARTHA JEFFERSON HOSPITAL8× · 2018–2026 · $1.1M · revenue +30%
CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC8× · 2018–2026 · $975k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- CBCOLONIAL BEHAVIORIAL HEALTHone grant, 2024 · $150k
- AFAMERICAN FOREST FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $108k · revenue +67%
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +76%
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.
Alliance for the shenandoah valley informs and engages people to protect the natural resources, cultural heritages, and rural character of our region.
The endowment's mission is to improve the quality of the environment by using its capital, expertise, and resources to fund projects and programs that encourage all sectors to work together to prevent pollution, improve water quality,…
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…
The museum connects people to nature by delivering educational classes, programs, exhibits, events and demonstrations. staff and volunteers engage learners of all ages on a 23 acre campus setting. indoor and outdoor learning opportunities…
Virginias United Land Trusts was founded to promote conservation statewide and to coordinate conservation planning and green infrastructure. The Organization offers training and educational programs, like our annual Virginia Land…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
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…
To establish an effective, long-term and resilient political infrastructure that advocates for and delivers public policy victories which reflect the values held in common by our members.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
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…
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".
Vcn is a facilitator of strategic action, a resource for network partners statewide, and a constant preservation presence in richmond. playing a unique role in virginia's conservation community, vcn helps the community speak with one…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Path Partnerships and the most unlike its peers is Caring for Creatures Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 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, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 33 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 THE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds MARTHA JEFFERSON HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NatureServe ↗
- Who funds ALBEMARLE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds PATRICK HENRY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH BRIGADE ↗
- Who funds CHILDSAVERS- MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds EARTH DAY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds LEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds Defenders of Wildlife ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH'S VILLA ↗
- Who funds Virginia Health Care Foundation ↗
- Who funds CAPITA SOCIAL INC ↗
- Who funds Resources for the Future Inc ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTESVILLE FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOREST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHALOM FARMSINC ↗
- Who funds Caring For Creatures Foundation ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COAST GUARD MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ↗
- Who funds WILD VIRGINIA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds WARD BURTON WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPORTABLE RICHMOND ADAPTIVE SPORTS AND RECREATION INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SOCIETY OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA CHAPTER INC ↗
- Who funds PATH PARTNERSHIPS ↗
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: Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Sentara Health · Shelton H Short Jr Trust · The Community Foundation Inc · Tua Anne M Orrell Charitable · Richmond Memorial Health Foundation · Carmax Foundation · Estes Foundation Co Matthew Breidenbach Pitcairn · McKesson Foundation Inc · Annabella R Jenkins Foundation · Bon Secours - Richmond Health System Inc · 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 Tua August Heid by T Heid Char 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.
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% 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.