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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…

$182k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
5
Itemized grants FY2025
3
Organizations funded FY2024
67%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$97k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$19,733
Largest grant, FY2025
$40,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 3
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$542k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 67% of the organizations Virginia Daughters of the American Revolution funded were first-time grantees, receiving 87% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

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Arts & CulturePublic BenefitHuman ServicesEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving5$97k20%
FY20243$42k67%
FY20233$34k67%
FY20213$87k100%
FY20191$71k0%
FY20181$95k0%
FY20172$67kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$358kPublic Benefit$60kHuman Services$42kEnvironment$17kSocial Science$15k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Montpelier Foundation$216,03731%
Semper K9 Assistance Dogs$60,00023%
National Society Daughters of the American Revolution$53,07040%
Smithfield Preston Foundation$52,440117%
Boulder Crest Foundation$41,50020%
Library of Virginia Foundation$20,00012%
County of Rockbridge$17,0631n/a
Center for Teaching the Rule of Law Inc$15,0001n/a
National Society of the Children of the American Revolution$10,66021%
National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States$6,27910%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Virginia Daughters of the American Revolution supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMontpelier Foundation: $216,037 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetSemper K9 Assistance Dogs: $60,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetNational Society Daughters of the American Revolution: $53,070 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSmithfield Preston Foundation: $52,440 over 1y, 17% of budgetBoulder Crest Foundation: $41,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLibrary of Virginia Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetNational Society of the Children of the American Revolution: $10,660 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNational Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States: $6,279 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Find your warmest path to Virginia Daughters of the American Revolution 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.

About Virginia Daughters of the American Revolution

How much does Virginia Daughters of the American Revolution give?
Virginia Daughters of the American Revolution reported 5 itemized grants totaling $96,584, out of $181,674 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Virginia Daughters of the American Revolution fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (73%), Public Benefit (12%), Human Services (8%).
Who are Virginia Daughters of the American Revolution's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Montpelier Foundation ($216k), Semper K9 Assistance Dogs ($60k), National Society Daughters of the American Revolution ($53k).
Does Virginia Daughters of the American Revolution fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Virginia Daughters of the American Revolution?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Virginia Daughters of the American Revolution based?
Virginia Daughters of the American Revolution is based in VA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 10 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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