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Foster 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k653 grants · $747k
- $10k–50k32 grants · $489k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF LYNCHBURG | $50,000 |
| THE ACADEMY CENTER OF THE ARTS | $35,000 |
| CENTRA FOUNDATION | $28,000 |
| JUBILEE FAMILY | $25,000 |
| MIRIAM'S HOUSE | $25,000 |
| FREE CLINIC OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA | $25,000 |
| HUMAN KIND | $25,000 |
| SWEET BRIAR COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| BROOKNEAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| YMCA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA | $20,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING | $20,000 |
| PARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSION | $15,000 |
| NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTHY VETERANS | $15,000 |
| TRO | $12,500 |
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 (FY18–25, $296k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 55% 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 +26% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
428 repeat relationships — 335 still active in FY2025, 93 since wound down; 124 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $138k 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
- ACACADEMY CENTER OF THE ARTS INC8× · 2018–2025 · $251k · revenue +27%
- ASAMAZEMENT SQUARE8× · 2018–2025 · $160k · revenue +20%
- PVPARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $144k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- CCCarilion Clinicone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -2%
- PPRTone grant, 2019 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $10k
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.
Provision of safe and affordable housing.
Our mission is to ensure the availability, access, and affordability of locally produced food by connecting local farmers and all members of the community through programs, awareness, and advocacy.
The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.
VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.
Furtherance of economic growth, education, training and development
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…
Providing life-enriching services that promote well-being and build community.
Fire and rescue services
Little hands virginia's mission is to ensure young children in need in central virginia have essentials from day one to improve outcomes for life.
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…
Feedmore's mission is to fight hunger in central virginia. we are the core hunger relief organization serving children, families, and seniors within our 34 city and county service area.
To provide "dignity in living" for senior adults who reside in this planned services community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Olympics Virginia Inc and the most unlike its peers is Southside Dairy Association. 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 34 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
158 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. 158 of the 733 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 ACADEMY CENTER OF THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds AMAZEMENT SQUARE ↗
- Who funds PARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER LYNCHBURG COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN HOMES & FAMILY SVCS ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF LYNCHBURG ↗
- Who funds VECTOR SPACE ↗
- Who funds MIRIAM'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds GLEANING FOR THE WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds LYNCHBURG DAILY BREAD INC ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds FREE CLINIC OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH OUTREACH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Freedom 4 24 ↗
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: Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation · The Al Stroobants Foundation · Centra Health Inc · Easley Char Irr Tua 5019004715 · Schewel Charitable Foundation · Moore's Charitable Foundation · M4k Lynchburg Inc · The Minnie and Bernard Lane Foundation · Centra Health Foundation · Liberty University Inc · The Harry D Forsyth Foundation · Bedford Community Health 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 Foster 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.
- University of Hartford — 1% 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.