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Virginia Law Foundation
Virginia Law Foundation's mission is to promote through philanthropy the rule of law, access to justice and law related education.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 37 grants below total $694,200 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $714,200 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $20,000 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k29 grants · $575k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| John Marshall Center for Constitutional History & Civics | $60,000 |
| Virginia Poverty Law Center Inc | $40,000 |
| The Library of Virginia Foundation | $40,000 |
| Virginia Legal Aid Society Inc | $30,000 |
| Virginia Holocaust Museum | $30,000 |
| Legal Aid Society of Roanoke Valley Inc | $27,700 |
| Blue Ridge Legal Services Inc | $25,000 |
| FairFax Law Foundation | $25,000 |
| Central Virginia Legal Aid Society Inc | $25,000 |
| Southwest Virginia Legal Aid Society Inc | $25,000 |
| Legal Services of Northern Virginia Inc | $25,000 |
| Legal Aid Society of Eastern Virginia Inc | $25,000 |
| Appalachian School of Law | $25,000 |
| FreeKind | $20,000 |
| Virginia Judges and Lawyers Assistance Program (VJLAP) | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $297k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k 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
- CACAPITAL AREA IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION8× · 2017–2024 · $250k · revenue +431%
- VPVIRGINIA POVERTY LAW CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $239k · revenue +83%
- FFREEKIND8× · 2017–2024 · $237k · revenue +149%
Funded once
- TOTREASURER OF VIRGINIA SUPREME COURT OF VIRGINIAone grant, 2018 · $75k
- TOTHE OLIVER WHITE HILL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $46k
- LALEGAL AID SOCIETY OF ROANOKEone grant, 2019 · $30k
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 cultivate & advance the science of jurisprudence, promote reform in the law & in judicial procedure, facilitate the administration of justice in virginia, and to uphold & elevate the standard of honor, integrity, and courtesy in the…
Virginia law foundation's mission is to promote through philanthropy the rule of law, access to justice and law related education.
To advocate for low-income, vulnerable west virginians seeking equal access to justice and create system change in order to improve client safety, health, housing, income, and access to resources.
Virginia trial lawyers association's primary purposes are to foster continuing legal education and to promote and increase the trial and appellate skills and knowledge of the members of the bar of the commonwealth of virginia through the…
Improve the administration of justice and the provision of legal services for west virginia's citizens.
To advocate for domestic violence victims, at-risk children, and other vulnerable individuals by providing over $22.8m in pro bono legal services, social service referrals, and on-going support; to train and support a strong network of…
Promote civil liberties and civil rights for everyone in the commonweath of Virginia thru public education, litigation and advocacy with the goal of securing freedom and equality for all.
Dlcv's mission is to advance independence, choice and self-determination; protect legal, human, and civil rights; and eliminate abuse, neglect and discrimination of people with disabilities through zealous and uncompromising legal advocacy…
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…
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 provide legal services free of charge to individuals over age 60 who are unable to pay for those services.
To support the provision of civil legal assistance to indigent individuals throughout virginia.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southwest Va Legal Aid Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jazz4Justice Inc. 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 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
52 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. 52 of the 63 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 JOHN MARSHALL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FREEKIND ↗
- Who funds LIBRARY OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE VIRGINIA BAR ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA JUDGES AND LAWYERS ASSISTANCE PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN SCHOOL OF LAW ↗
- Who funds Virginia Legal Aid Society Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER RICHMOND BAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM & MARY LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAIRFAX LAW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Just Neighbors Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA SEXUAL AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACTION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST VA LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTESVILLE-ALBEMARLE BAR ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MONTPELIER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Legal Aid Society of Roanoke Valley ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA NETWORK FOR VICTIMS AND WITNESSES OF CRIME INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL INFORMATION NETWORK FOR CANCER ↗
- Who funds REGENT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA CIVICS EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL VIRGINIA LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JAMESTOWN REDISCOVERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Drive to Work ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds Washington and Lee University ↗
- Who funds The Virginia Holocaust Museum ↗
- Who funds Jazz4Justice Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEGAL SERVICES OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC ↗
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 · Equal Justice Works · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Hampton Roads Community Foundation · Herndon Foundation · Sentara Health · Williams Mullen Foundation · Legal Services Corporation · Richmond Memorial Health Foundation · Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · Carmax Foundation · Richard S Reynolds 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 Virginia Law Foundation 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.