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White Trivas Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$34k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$167kEducation$94kCommunity Improvement$22kHealth$22kHuman Services$16kPhilanthropy$11kInternational$6kRecreation & Sports$4kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$3,775
Median grant
3
States reached
$822k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GET LIT - WORDS IGNITE$10,000
ST CATHERINE'S FUND$9,000
THE STEWARD SCHOOL$5,000
CULTURE ENCOUNTERS$3,775
JAMES RIVER WRITERS$2,500
BEFRIEND$2,000
FOCUS RICHMOND & CENTRAL VA$1,500
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 (FY17–21, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CAMEROON K GALLAGHERE FOUNDATION: $500 → 6%NEXT UP RVA: $3k → 9%VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS: $10k → 9%EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
CT
CA
VA
MD
NC
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$229k · 15 repeat orgs$120k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
25

Total granted

$229k
$108k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+17%

Still filing today

53%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • GL
    GET LIT - WORDS IGNITE INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $77k · revenue +166%
  • JR
    James River Writers
    4× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue +21%
  • GN
    GFWC NAPLES WOMAN'S CLUB INC
    2× · 2019–2021 · $15k · revenue +131%

Funded once

  • GC
    GOUCHER COLLEGE
    one grant, 2017 · $32k · revenue +5%
  • VH
    VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +15%
  • CM
    Children's Museum of Richmondgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue +110%
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
The Richmond Forum

To present powerful voices so richmond can learn. to empower local voices so richmond can lead.

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2
Richard Wright Public Charter School for Journalism and Media Art

The mission of richard wright public charter school for journalism and media arts is to transform students in grades 8-12 into well-versed medial contributors by providing a student-centered environment that connects them to the classic…

Education
3
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,…

Education
4
Jefferson Scholars Foundation

The jefferson scholars foundation (foundation) provides academic merit-based scholarship, fellowship and professorship support to students and faculty at the university of virginia (uva).

Philanthropy
5
University of Virginia Law School Foundation

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.

Education
6
Richmond Waldorf School

Our approach to a holistic Waldorf education lays the foundation for a life full of meaning and purpose. (See 4a)

—
7
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
8
Thomas Jefferson School of Law

The mission of the school is to provide outstanding legal education in a collegial and supportive environment with attention to newly emerging areas of law, particularly those related to technological development, globalization and the…

Education
9
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

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).

Education
10
Virginia Commonwealth University Intellectual Property Foundation

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…

Health
11
Lowell School

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…

Education
12
The Richmond Symphony

The richmond symphony performs, teaches and champions music to inspire and unite our communities.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Historic Richmond Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Pocahontas State Park. 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

26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 44 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/26
Grantees still filing
18/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GET LIT - WORDS IGNITE INC: $77,000 · Arts & CultureGET LIT - WORDS IGNITE INCJames River Writers: $25,000 · Arts & CultureJames River WritersSTUTTERING ASSOCIATION FOR THE YOUNG INC: $11,000 · Arts & CultureSTUTTERING ASSOCIATION FOR THE YOUNG INCChildren's Museum of Richmond: $7,000 · Arts & CultureCULTURE ENCOUNTERS: $6,775 · Arts & CultureARTSUP LA: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureBon Secours Richmond Healthcare Foundation: $20,000 · OtherBon Secours Richmond Healthcare Foundatio…COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF GENERAL STUDIES: $13,600 · OtherCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF GENERAL STU…Richmond Young Writers: $13,000 · OtherRichmond Young WritersVIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $11,500 · OtherVIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTSST CATHERINES SCHOOL RICHMOND: $11,000 · OtherST CATHERINES SCHOOL RICHMONDTHE STEWARD SCHOOL: $10,000 · OtherTHE STEWARD SCHOOLST CATHERINE'S FUND: $9,000 · OtherST CATHERINE'S FUNDTHE SHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATION: $5,500 · OtherTHE BOYS SCHOOL OF SAINT PAULS PARISH INC: $5,500 · OtherWILLIAM BYRD THEATRE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Other+15 more: $25,422 · Other+15 moreGOUCHER COLLEGE: $32,000 · EducationGOUCHER COLLE…LA'S BEST: $5,000 · EducationLA'S BESTUCLA FOUNDATION: $2,500 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATI…+1 more: $1,000 · EducationGFWC NAPLES WOMAN'S CLUB INC: $15,000 · Community ImprovementTHE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF RICHMOND VIRGINIA INC: $7,000 · Community ImprovementVIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS: $10,000 · Human ServicesEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Human ServicesNEXTUP RVA: $3,000 · Human Services+1 more: $500 · Human ServicesJUST KEEP LIVIN FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyFriends of Pocahontas State Park: $3,700 · Recreation & Sports
Arts & Culture$132,775Other$129,522Education$40,500Community Improvement$22,000Human Services$18,500Philanthropy$5,000Recreation & Sports$3,700

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGET LIT - WORDS IGNITE INC: $77,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetJames River Writers: $25,000 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetBon Secours Richmond Healthcare Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGFWC NAPLES WOMAN'S CLUB INC: $15,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetRichmond Young Writers: $13,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetSTUTTERING ASSOCIATION FOR THE YOUNG INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE STEWARD SCHOOL: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Museum of Richmond: $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF RICHMOND VIRGINIA INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCULTURE ENCOUNTERS: $6,775 over 2y, 23% of budgetTHE SHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATION: $5,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetLA'S BEST: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUST KEEP LIVIN FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARTSUP LA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFriends of Pocahontas State Park: $3,700 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetREAL LIFE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD PEDIATRICS: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORIC RICHMOND FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLYNN UNIVERSITY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEARTS WITH HAITI INC: $777 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Cameron K Gallagher Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

The Community Foundat…The Mary Morton Parso…Carmax FoundationDominion Energy Chari…Robins FoundationPga Tour Charities IncTesco FoundationVirginia Nonprofit Ho…Estes Foundation Co M…Chrisman Family Found…Shelton H Short Jr Tr…Williams Mullen Found…
The Community Foundation IncVA22.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation Inc · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Carmax Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Robins Foundation · Pga Tour Charities Inc · Tesco Foundation · Virginia Nonprofit Housing Coalition · Estes Foundation Co Matthew Breidenbach Pitcairn · Chrisman Family Foundation · Shelton H Short Jr Trust · Williams Mullen 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 White Trivas Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from White Trivas Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Goucher College: 0% of income from government
  • Lynn University Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to White Trivas Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to White Trivas Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 44 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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