· Public charity
United Way of Greater Richmond & Petersburg
UNITED WAY OF GREATER RICHMOND & PETERSBURG is a nonprofit organization that exists to mobilize the caring power of our local communities to help those in need and to create opportunities for all people to thrive.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 74% of UNITED WAY OF GREATER RICHMOND & PETERSBURG’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 53 grants below total $1,950,200 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,991,597 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,041,397 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k43 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k10 grants · $859k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAMILY LIFELINE | $214,200 |
| YWCA RICHMOND | $114,800 |
| FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN | $92,800 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMOND | $91,600 |
| CHILDSAVERS | $69,000 |
| YMCA OF GREATER RICHMOND | $60,200 |
| SOAR365 (FORMERLY GREATER RICHMOND ARC) | $56,200 |
| HOUSING FAMILIES FIRST | $54,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHESTERFIELD | $53,200 |
| OAR OF RICHMOND INC | $53,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $45,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES | $44,200 |
| THRIVE VIRGINIA (FORMERLY QUIN RIVERS) | $43,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF RICHMOND | $41,000 |
| ST JOSEPH'S VILLA | $39,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $12.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 94% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
147 repeat relationships — 52 still active in FY2025, 95 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- FLFAMILY LIFELINE9× · 2017–2025 · $3.4M · revenue +12%
- YRYWCA RICHMOND9× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +190%
- FAFRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +54%
Funded once
- DVDOMINION VIRGINIA POWRPOB25339one grant, 2018 · $1.2M
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $747k
- RERAPPAHANNOCK ELECTRIC COOPERATIVEone grant, 2022 · $289k · revenue +23%
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.
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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 Yesusa Transformational Cities. 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 45 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
125 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. 125 of the 231 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 FAMILY LIFELINE ↗
- Who funds YWCA RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds CHILDSAVERS- MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769) ↗
- Who funds ELDERHOMES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SOAR 365 ↗
- Who funds OAR of Richmond Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF RICHMOND INC ↗
- Who funds HAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOUSING FAMILIES FIRST ↗
- Who funds FEED MORE INC ↗
- Who funds PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Quin Rivers Incorporated ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHESTERFIELD ↗
- Who funds Jewish Family Services Inc ↗
- Who funds Commonwealth Catholic Charities ↗
- Who funds SupportWorks Housing ↗
- Who funds CARITAS ↗
- Who funds HANOVER DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HANOVER SAFE PLACE ↗
- Who funds HOMEWARD ↗
- Who funds THE CAPITAL AREA AGENCY ON AGING ↗
- Who funds THE LITERACY LAB ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH'S VILLA ↗
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 · Herndon Foundation · Virginia Nonprofit Housing Coalition · The Pauley Family Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Richmond Memorial Health Foundation · Robins Foundation · Bon Secours - Richmond Health System Inc · Altria Companies Employee Community Fund · Annabella R Jenkins Foundation · Carmax Foundation · Bon Secours Mercy Health Inc
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 United Way of Greater Richmond & Petersburg 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.
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.