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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.

$79M
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$644k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Public Benefit$4.7MCommunity Improvement$260kEducation$170kHealth$101kHuman Services$98kFood & Nutrition$94kRecreation & Sports$60kPublic Safety & Disaster$40kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $1,021,621, the rows itemized in this filing. The $78,618,810 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $77,597,189 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $122k
  • $250k+2 grants · $894k
$24,120
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.9B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ROCKBRIDGE AREA RELIEF ASSOCIATION: $30k → 12%Yellow Brick Road Early Learning Center: $25k → 12%LEXINGTON RETIREMENT COMMUNITY INC: $20k → 12%Kendal at Lexington: $20k → 12%Kendal at Lexington: $20k → 12%Kendal at Lexington: $20k → 12%LEXINGTON RETIREMENT COMMUNITY INC: $10k → 12%Rockbridge Area Transportation: $8k → 12%ROCKBRIDGE AREA RELIEF ASSOCIATION: $5k → 12%Rockbridge Area Relief Association: $5k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

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.

South Asia$2.7M · 22% · 30 people

Stated purpose: Scholarship

Sub-Saharan Africa$2.4M · 20% · 25 people

Stated purpose: Scholarship

East Asia and the Pacific$1.8M · 15% · 29 people

Stated purpose: Scholarship

Russia and Neighboring States$1.4M · 12% · 16 people

Stated purpose: Scholarship

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$1.3M · 10% · 15 people

Stated purpose: Scholarship

Middle East and North Africa$928k · 8% · 10 people

Stated purpose: Scholarship

South America$916k · 7% · 10 people

Stated purpose: Scholarship

North America (Canada and Mexico)$390k · 3% · 4 people

Stated purpose: Scholarship

Central America and the Caribbean$377k · 3% · 5 people

Stated purpose: Scholarship

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.5M · 9 repeat orgs$89k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
3

Total granted

$5.5M
$53k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+46%

Still filing today

78%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementHealthFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MS
    MAIN STREET LEXINGTON
    2× · 2022–2025 · $260k · revenue +241% · 52% of their budget
  • RA
    ROCKBRIDGE AREA FREE CLINIC INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $101k · revenue +18%
  • LR
    LEXINGTON RETIREMENT COMMUNITY INC
    5× · 2018–2022 · $90k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • LG
    LEXINGTON GOLF AND COUNTRY CLUBgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue +98%
  • RA
    ROCKBRIDGE AREA TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +46%
  • BT
    BRIDGE TO HOPE FOOD PANTRY LLC
    one grant, 2024 · $6k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Lexington Retirement Corporation
Human Services
2
Rockbridge Historical Society
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3
Roxborough Development Corporation

The roxborough development corporations mission is to provide roxborough residents with high quality shopping, dining and entertainment experiences.

Community Improvement
4
Lexington Playcare Center Inc

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…

Human Services
5
Rockbridge Christmas Basket Inc

Provide food & other holiday gifts to qualifying needy families in rockbridge county, lexington & buena vista, virginia

Human Services
6
Commerce Lexington Inc

To represent our members, creating the environment and opportunity for economic prosperity and quality living in central kentucky.

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7
Rockville Meals On Wheels

Daily delivery of prepared meals

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8
Blue Ridge Health Center Inc

Community health center

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9
Rotary Club of Lexington Kentucky Inc

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…

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10
Lynchburg Daily Bread Inc

Provision of food for the needy

Food & Nutrition
11
Downtown Lexington Partnership

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…

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12
The Red Brick Nursery School Inc

Nursery school & kindergarten

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rockbridge Area Transportation System Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF LEXINGTON VA: $4,761,679 · OtherCITY OF LEXINGTON VA+4 more: $73,718 · OtherMAIN STREET LEXINGTON: $260,000 · Community ImprovementLEXINGTON RETIREMENT COMMUNITY INC: $90,000 · Human ServicesYELLOW BRICK ROAD EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC: $44,375 · Human ServicesROCKBRIDGE AREA RELIEF ASSOCIATION INC: $40,210 · Human ServicesROCKBRIDGE AREA TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesOMICRON DELTA KAPPA SOCIETY AND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 · EducationMONTESSORI CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC D/B/A WOODS CREEK MONTESSORI: $30,000 · EducationROCKBRIDGE AREA FREE CLINIC INC: $101,300 · HealthNDPONICS: $88,628 · Food & Nutrition
Other$4,835,397Community Improvement$260,000Human Services$182,085Education$120,000Health$101,300Food & Nutrition$88,628

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMAIN STREET LEXINGTON: $260,000 over 2y, 52% of budgetROCKBRIDGE AREA FREE CLINIC INC: $101,300 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLEXINGTON RETIREMENT COMMUNITY INC: $90,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOMICRON DELTA KAPPA SOCIETY AND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetNDPONICS: $88,628 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetYELLOW BRICK ROAD EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC: $44,375 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetROCKBRIDGE AREA RELIEF ASSOCIATION INC: $40,210 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetLEXINGTON GOLF AND COUNTRY CLUB: $40,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetMONTESSORI CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC D/B/A WOODS CREEK MONTESSORI: $30,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetROCKBRIDGE AREA TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM INC: $7,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Carilion Rockbridge C…Community Foundation …United Way of Rockbri…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Carilion Rockbridge Community HospitalVA24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Washington and Lee University funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Washington and Lee University. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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