· Private foundation
Viro Fund
Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k23 grants · $82k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $11,000 |
| MIKE SLIVE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL PRESBYTERIAN SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| BEYOND THE HOOP FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MONTGOMERY AREA CONCIL ON AGING | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL CHILD RESEARCH CENTER | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART CIRCLE | $5,000 |
| SOME | $5,000 |
| FAMILY SUNSHINE CENTER | $5,000 |
| POTOMAC FUND | $5,000 |
| WHEATON COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| YMCA OF MONTGOMERY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE RIVER REGI | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–18, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +40% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (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 FY2018, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- ACAlabama Children's Hospital Foundation2× · 2017–2018 · $15k · revenue +81%
- NCNATIONAL CHILD RESEARCH CENTER2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +92%
- SISOME INC2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- HDHIGHLANDS DAY SCHOOL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $40k · revenue +21%
- RRRIVER REGION UNITED WAYone grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue -29%
- WFWHEATON FUNDone grant, 2017 · $25k
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 provide supportive services, educational services, and assistance to cancer patients throughout central alabama, including those patients who lack the resources
Leading the creation and advancement of health equity we exist to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities, increase the diversity of the health professional and scientific workforce, and address primary health care…
To work in partnership with families and organizations to ensure that all alabama children (birth to five) get everything they need to develop to their fullest potential.
The mission of the grady health foundation is to grow both philanthropic support and broad-based understanding of the critical role that grady health system plays in the metro atlanta region. our focus is to ensure grady health system has…
Our mission is to create thriving communities by helping nonprofits succeed. our work revolves around four primary areas of focus.1. we are a hub for social innovation 2. we are a capacity accelerator for organizations and their people3.…
The arc baltimore supports people with developmental disabilities to lead fulfilling lives with a sense of belonging, purpose, and meaningful relationships.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Provides a holistic program with comprehensive midwifery care, a nurturing environment where you feel supported, respected, safe and secure, and personalized family-centered care.
Community and economic development
The woodruff arts center's mission is to inspire, create, support, and celebrate renowned arts and education for diverse audiences through a unique model of partnerships and collaborations, and in an institutionally sustainable manner.
Mission: to provide the highest quality medical care and rehabilitation services to ensure that each patient achieves the maximum functional recovery from illness, injury or disability. vision: to lead the field as the most effective and…
To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alabama Children's Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Walter a Bloedorn Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 56 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 HIGHLANDS DAY SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RIVER REGION UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds Prevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn ↗
- Who funds Alabama Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHILD RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds SOME INC ↗
- Who funds WOODLANDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WHEATON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY AREA COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEART OF ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Mike Slive Foundation for Prostate Cancer Research ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF BIRMINGHAM INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds TUKABATCHEE AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds STUDIO BY THE TRACKS INC ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY AREA NON-TRADITIONAL EQUESTRI ↗
- Who funds N STREET VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds GIFT OF LIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WHOLESOME WAVE GEORGIA 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 Caritas Fund · Kiwanis Club of Montgomery Foundation Inc · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Gordy-Mead-Britton Foundation · Arthur M Britton Foundation Inc · The S Adam Schloss Foundation Inc · Loeb Family Foundation Inc · Alfa Foundation · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · International Paper Company Foundation · The Wayne and Shan Russell Charitable Foundation · Samuel L Schloss Family Foundation Tr Schlossburke K Trustee
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 Viro Fund 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.
- Hermitage Artist Retreat Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wheaton College — 0% of income from government
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.