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Washington and Lee University
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, and civility.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $1,021,621 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $78,618,810 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $77,597,189 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $122k
- $250k+2 grants · $894k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF LEXINGTON VA | $643,608 |
| Main Street Lexington | $250,000 |
| Montessori Center for Children Inc | $30,000 |
| Rockbridge Area Free Clinic | $26,300 |
| Ndponics | $24,120 |
| Yellow Brick Road Early Learning Center Inc | $19,375 |
| Rockbridge NAACP | $12,500 |
| Omicron Delta Kappa Society Inc | $10,000 |
| Rockbridge Regional Library | $5,718 |
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 (FY18–24, $163k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Grants abroad, by region — $12M on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 9 regions, all to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: Scholarship
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Stated purpose: Scholarship
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Stated purpose: Scholarship
Stated purpose: Scholarship
Stated purpose: Scholarship
Stated purpose: Scholarship
Stated purpose: Scholarship
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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.
9 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 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, 97% 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
- MSMAIN STREET LEXINGTON2× · 2022–2025 · $260k · revenue +241% · 52% of their budget
- RAROCKBRIDGE AREA FREE CLINIC INC4× · 2022–2025 · $101k · revenue +21%
- ODOMICRON DELTA KAPPA SOCIETY AND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- LGLEXINGTON GOLF AND COUNTRY CLUBgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue +98%
- RAROCKBRIDGE AREA TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +46%
- BTBRIDGE TO HOPE FOOD PANTRY LLCone grant, 2024 · $6k
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 roxborough development corporations mission is to provide roxborough residents with high quality shopping, dining and entertainment experiences.
Provide food & other holiday gifts to qualifying needy families in rockbridge county, lexington & buena vista, virginia
LPC's mission is to help children become good friends, proficient problem solvers, creative risk takers, and self-governing, accepting classmates. We want them to be as self-sufficient and independent as they can be based on their age and…
To represent our members, creating the environment and opportunity for economic prosperity and quality living in central kentucky.
Assisted Living and Nursing Care
To provide services for senior citizens in knox county
Community health center
The rotary club of lexington is a service club that provides its membership an opportunity for personal development, professional networking, camaraderie and the chance to make a contribution to their own community and communities around…
Retirement housing
Downtown lexington corporation dlc with more than 200 members who represent the largest businesses, the smallest proprietors and entrepreneurs, neighborhood associations, churches, educational institutions, and individuals, is a community…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rockbridge Area Transportation System Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ndponics. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 14 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 MAIN STREET LEXINGTON ↗
- Who funds ROCKBRIDGE AREA FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds OMICRON DELTA KAPPA SOCIETY AND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON RETIREMENT COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds NDPONICS ↗
- Who funds YELLOW BRICK ROAD EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKBRIDGE AREA RELIEF ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON GOLF AND COUNTRY CLUB ↗
- Who funds MONTESSORI CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC D/B/A WOODS CREEK MONTESSORI ↗
- Who funds ROCKBRIDGE AREA TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE TO HOPE FOOD PANTRY LLC ↗
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: Carilion Rockbridge Community Hospital · Community Foundation for RockbridgeBath & Allegh · United Way of Rockbridge Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Washington and Lee University 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.