· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 16 grants below total $2,060,943 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,173,736 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $112,793 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VIRGINIA UNION UNIVESITY | $193,970 |
| SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY | $140,280 |
| VIRGINIA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $139,570 |
| HOLLINS UNIVERSITY | $134,401 |
| RANDOLPH-MACON COLLEGE | $132,085 |
| RANDOLPH COLLEGE | $131,819 |
| MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY | $124,977 |
| ROANOKE COLLEGE | $122,323 |
| MARY BALDWIN UNIVERSITY | $121,341 |
| BRIDGEWATER COLLEGE | $121,153 |
| SWEET BRIAR COLLEGE | $121,065 |
| UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND | $120,746 |
| EMORY & HENRY COLLEGE | $119,524 |
| UNIVERSITY OF LYNCHBURG | $114,467 |
| HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE | $112,832 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 74% of your 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.
16 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
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.
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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +10%
- VWVIRGINIA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +63%
SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +39%
Funded once
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.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Virginia Wesleyan University and the most unlike its peers is Sbc Foreign Programs Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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.
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 UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEWATER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RANDOLPH-MACON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF LYNCHBURG ↗
- Who funds EMORY & HENRY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ROANOKE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Washington and Lee University ↗
- Who funds RANDOLPH COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds MARY BALDWIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SBC FOREIGN PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA UNION UNIVERSITY ↗
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: Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Inc · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Va Foundation for Independent Colleges 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.