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Virginia Daughters of the American Revolution
The virginia daughters of the american revlution is organized for charitable and educational purposes to perpetuate the memory and spirit of the men and women who achieved american independence by preserving historic landmarks and promoting the study of history; to carry out the injunction of george washington in his farewell address to…
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 5 grants below total $96,584 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $181,674 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $85,090 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
- Under $10k2 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $85k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SEMPER K9 ASSISTANCE DOGS | $40,000 |
| BOULDER CREST FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| NATIONAL SOCIETY DAUGHTERS OF THE | $19,733 |
| WOODLAWN PLANTATION | $6,279 |
| CHILDREN OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION | $5,572 |
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 (FY24–25, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
5 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- MFMONTPELIER FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2019 · $216k · revenue +80%
- SKSEMPER K9 ASSISTANCE DOGS2× · 2023–2025 · $60k · revenue +770%
- NSNATIONAL SOCIETY DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION4× · 2021–2025 · $53k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- SPSmithfield Preston Foundationone grant, 2021 · $52k · revenue 0%
- LOLIBRARY OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +833%
- COCounty of Rockbridgeone grant, 2017 · $17k
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.
To preserve, promote and serve as an advocate for virginia's irreplaceable historic places for cultural, economic and educational benefits for everyone.
The objects of this society are patriotic, historical, educational, and shall include those intended or designed to perpetuate the memory of those patriots who, by their services or sacrifices during the war of the american revolution,…
The national society of the colonial dames of america actively promotes our national heritage through historic preservation, patriotic service, and educational projects.
Preservation of buildings and sites of historical or architectural importance.
To promote patriotism, preserve and increase knowledge of American history through historic preservation, commemorative events, patriotic education and maintain National Headquarters library and museum of 1784-1815 period memorabilia.
Stimulate and advance the study of military history, especially that of the united states of america and to diffuse knowledge thereof by publications, displays and otherwise.
To promote interest in, knowledge of, and appreciation for north carolina history and culture through historical preservation, library service, and perpetuation of state literary and cultural heritage.
The mission of the american civil war museum collection is to serve as the preeminent world center for the display, study, interpretation, commemoration, and preservation of the history and artifacts of the confederate states of america.
To educate the membership and the general public about the american revolution and its patriots and to foster patriotism and appreciation of american freedoms
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Society Daughters of the American Revolution and the most unlike its peers is Semper K9 Assistance Dogs. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 10 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 MONTPELIER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEMPER K9 ASSISTANCE DOGS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SOCIETY DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ↗
- Who funds Smithfield Preston Foundation ↗
- Who funds BOULDER CREST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIBRARY OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds National Society of the Children of the American Revolution ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES ↗
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.
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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 Virginia Daughters of the American Revolution 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.
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