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Virginia Nurses Foundation

Promotion of professional and educational advancement of nurses through conferences, educational programs and publications

$11k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182025.

Education$44kHealth$14kReligion$2kCrime & Legal$1kHuman Services$1k
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$471k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VCU$2,000
UNIVERSITY OF VA$1,000
WYTHEVILLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE$1,000
LAUREL RIDGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE$1,000
MARYMONT UNIVERSITY$1,000
HAMPTON UNIVERSITY$1,000
GEORGE EASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$1,000
RADFORD UNIVERSITY$1,000
LONGWOOD COLLEGE$1,000
AVERETT UNIVERSITY$1,000
UNIVERSITY OF LYNCHBURG$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 82% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%GEORGE EASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $1k → 14%GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY: $1k → 6%LAUREL RIDGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $1k → 6%Marymount University: $1k → 7%BRIGHTPOINT COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $1k → 7%LAUREL RIDGE COMM: $1k → 7%LONGWOOD COLLEGE: $1k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF VA: $1k → 8%SENTURA COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCE: $1k → 9%Sentara College: $1k → 9%CENTRA COLLEGE: $1k → 13%HAMPTON UNIVERSITY: $1k → 14%AVERETT UNIVERSITY: $1k → 14%Longwood University: $1k → 15%WYTHEVILLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $1k → 16%SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY: $1k → 16%RIVERSIDE COLLEGE: $1k → 17%SOUTHSIDE VA COMMUNITY: $1k → 21%VIRGINIA NURSES ASSOCIATION: $10k → 22%UVA WISE: $1k → 22%RADFORD UNIV: $2k → 25%JMU: $1k → 29%GEORGE MASON UNIV: $1k → 6%MARYMONT UNIVERSITY: $1k → 7%SOUTH UNIV: $1k → 7%LONGWOOD COLLEGE: $1k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF VA: $1k → 8%University of VA: $1k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF LYNCHBURG: $1k → 13%HAMPTON UNIVERSITY: $1k → 14%GALEN COLLEGE OF NURSING: $1k → 22%MOUNTAIN EMPIRE COMM COLLEGE: $1k → 22%RADFORD UNIVERSITY: $1k → 25%MARYMONT UNIVERSITY: $1k → 7%BRYANT & STRATTON: $1k → 7%LONGWOOD COLLEGE: $1k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF VA: $1k → 8%CENTRA COLLEGE: $1k → 13%VCU: $2k → 22%MOUNTAIN EMPIRE COMM COLLEGE: $1k → 22%RADFORD UNIVERSITY: $1k → 25%MARYMOUNT UNIV: $1k → 7%LONGWOOD COLLEGE: $1k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF VA: $1k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF LYNCHBURG: $1k → 13%VCU: $2k → 22%BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $1k → 8%VCU: $1k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$33k · 11 repeat orgs$29k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
15

Total granted

$33k
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+1%

Still filing today

55%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthOther

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

  • MU
    MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2021–2025 · $4k · revenue +14%
  • HU
    HAMPTON UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $2k · revenue +20%
  • OD
    OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $2k · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • VN
    VIRGINIA NURSES ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +9%
  • RU
    RADFORD UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $2k
  • BR
    BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2020 · $1k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Virginia Wesleyan University

Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.

2
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
3
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
4
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
5
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
6
University of Virginia Foundation

To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…

Education
7
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
8
Virginia Commonwealth University Intellectual Property Foundation

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…

Health
9
Vcu Investment Management Company

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…

Education
10
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
11
Waynesburg University

Waynesburg university educates students to make connections between faith, learning and serving so they might faithfully transofrm their communiities and the world. see continuation on schedule o.as a christian comprehensive university, we…

Education
12
Washington & Jefferson College

To graduate people of uncommon integrity, competence, and maturity, who are effective lifelong learners and responsible citizens, and who are prepared to contribute substantially to the world in which they live.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marymount University and the most unlike its peers is Sentara Health. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

14 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 30 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VIRGINIA NURSES ASSOCIATION — $10,000 · OtherVIRGINIA NURSES ASSOCIATIONVCUVCU HEALTH CAMPUS — $6,000 · OtherVCUVCU HEALTH CAMPUSLONGWOOD UNIVERSITY — $5,000 · OtherLONGWOOD UNIVERSITYRECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA — $4,000 · OtherRECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIAMARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY — $4,000 · OtherMARYMOUNT UNIVERSITYMOUNTAIN EMPIRE COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $2,000 · OtherRADFORD UNIVERSITY — $2,000 · OtherGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY — $2,000 · Other+11 more — $11,000 · Other+11 moreHAMPTON UNIVERSITY — $2,000 · EducationHAMPTON UNIVERSITYOLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $2,000 · EducationOLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY…RADFORD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 · EducationRADFORD UNIVERSITY FOUN…UNIVERSITY OF LYNCHBURG — $2,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF LYNCHBURGAVERETT UNIVERSITY — $1,000 · EducationAVERETT UNIVERSITYSHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY — $1,000 · EducationSHENANDOAH UNIVERSITYTHE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA'S COLLEGE AT WISE FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGI…BRIGHTPOINT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 · EducationBRIGHTPOINT COMMUNITY C…The George Washington University — $1,000 · EducationThe George Washington U…CENTRA HEALTH INC — $2,000 · HealthSENTARA HEALTH — $1,000 · Health
Other$46,000Education$13,000Health$3,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetVIRGINIA NURSES ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHAMPTON UNIVERSITY — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRADFORD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRA HEALTH INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF LYNCHBURG — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAVERETT UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSENTARA HEALTH — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA'S COLLEGE AT WISE FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHTPOINT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 VIRGINIA NURSES ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds HAMPTON UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION
  • Who funds RADFORD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds CENTRA HEALTH INC
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF LYNCHBURG
  • Who funds AVERETT UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds SENTARA HEALTH
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA'S COLLEGE AT WISE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds BRIGHTPOINT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds The George Washington University
  • Who funds LAUREL RIDGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION 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.

Old Dominion University Research FoundationVA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Old Dominion University Research Foundation · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Folds of Honor Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Virginia Nurses 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Virginia Nurses Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Virginia Nurses Foundation 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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