· Private foundation
Virts Miller Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $95k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY | $200,000 |
| MIDDLEBURG FILM FESTIVAL | $25,000 |
| A FARM LESS ORDINARY | $10,000 |
| TOL MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR LOUDOUN AND NORTHERN FAQUIER COUNTIES | $10,000 |
| VIRGINIA PIEDMONT HERITAGE AREA ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| SHADE | $10,000 |
| MOBILE HOPE | $10,000 |
| THE FAMILY ONE | $5,000 |
| LOUDOUN EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $4,330 |
| RIVERSIDE PRESYBYTERIAN CHURCH | $2,500 |
| SHENANDOAH SCHOOL OF BUSINESS | $2,000 |
| PURCELLVILLE MAIN STREET | $1,500 |
| LOUDOUN MUSEUM | $1,250 |
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 (FY22–25, $138k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +32% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 6 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
- MFMIDDLEBURG FILM FESTIVAL9× · 2017–2025 · $225k · revenue +16%
SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY2× · 2024–2025 · $208k · revenue +1%- LELOUDOUN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $187k · revenue +315%
Funded once
- ILINOVA LOUDOUN HOSPITALone grant, 2017 · $286k
- ILINOVA LOUDOUN HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $270k
- LLLIFE LINE INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +109%
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.
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).
Undertake and assist in the identification, cultivation, encouragement and solicitation of all types of gifts and the management of trust and endowment funds for the benefit of inova loudoun hospital
Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.
The jefferson scholars foundation (foundation) provides academic merit-based scholarship, fellowship and professorship support to students and faculty at the university of virginia (uva).
The mission of the University is to inspire independent thinkers who become trustworthy, effective leaders that shape caring communities. The vision of the University of Lynchburg is to cultivate a world that is innovative, authentic, and…
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…
Lowell school (the school) provides educational services to approximately 314 students in grades pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. the school strives to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive learning environment, and offers a…
Provides seminary, under-graduate, graduate, doctoral, and other continuing education programs
Mission statement of washington and lee university: washington and lee university provides a liberal arts education that develops students' capacity to think freely, critically, and humanely and to conduct themselves with honor, integrity,…
The university of virginia law school foundation's primary purpose is to receive, manage and expend funds for the benefit of the university of virginia school of law.
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…
Iphi develops multi-sector partnerships and innovative solutions to improve the public's health and well-being across maryland, virginia and the district of columbia. our work strengthens health systems and policy, enhances conditions that…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts and the most unlike its peers is Philomont Village 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 33 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
31 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. 31 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 MIDDLEBURG FILM FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LOUDOUN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds A PLACE TO BE ↗
- Who funds LIFE LINE INC ↗
- Who funds Loudoun Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds DON'T EVER GIVE UP INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds THE HILL SCHOOL CORPORATION OF MIDDLEBURG ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR LOUDOUN AND NORTHERN FAUQUIER COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds OATLANDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE V FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA PIEDMONT HERITAGE AREA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MOBILE HOPE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds A FARM LESS ORDINARY ↗
- Who funds FUTURE KINGS INC ↗
- Who funds WINDY HILL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOUDOUN BAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHADE ↗
- Who funds Just Neighbors Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds TOL Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds The Family One ↗
- Who funds INMED PARTNERSHIPS FOR CHILDREN 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: Community Foundation for Loudoun and Northern Fauquier Counties · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · The Bank of Clarke County Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Fauquier Health Foundation Dba the Path Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The O'Shaughnessy-Hurst Memorial Foundation Inc · Major Family Foundation · The Luminescence Foundation Inc · Jack Kent Cooke Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · The Harmon 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 Virts Miller 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.
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