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Wrinkle In Time 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.

$749k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$3.1MEnvironment$1.6MArts & Culture$1.3MAnimals$135kPublic Safety & Disaster$100kHousing & Shelter$70kPublic Benefit$60k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $379k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$54,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$5.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Buxton School$300,000
Piedmont Environmental Council$125,000
Afro-American Historical Assoc$90,000
Prince William Consrvation Alliance$60,000
Bull Run Mountains Conservancy$54,000
Windy Hill Foundation$50,000
Bull Run Preserve ta Turn The Mill Around Campaign$40,000
Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute$20,000
University of Virginia Center for Politics$10,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 5%. 80% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 5%Buxton School: $500k → 12%The Hill School: $200k → 4%Piedmont Environmental Council: $150k → 6%Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute: $20k → 10%Buxton School: $300k → 12%The Hill School: $200k → 4%Piedmont Environmental Council: $125k → 6%Buxton School: $300k → 12%The Hill School: $200k → 4%Piedmont Environmental Council: $90k → 6%Buxton School: $300k → 12%The Hill School: $200k → 4%Piedmont Environmental Council: $90k → 6%Buxton School: $300k → 12%The Hill School: $200k → 4%Piedmont Environmental Council: $90k → 6%Buxton School: $75k → 12%The Hill School: $75k → 4%Piedmont Environmental Council: $90k → 6%Buxton School: $75k → 12%Windy Hill Foundation: $50k → 4%Piedmont Environmental Council: $90k → 6%Buxton School: $60k → 12%Piedmont Environmental Council: $90k → 6%The Plains Volunteer Fire Company: $100k → 6%Afro-American Historical Assoc: $90k → 6%Afro-American Historical Assoc: $90k → 6%Afro-American Historical Assoc: $90k → 6%Afro-American Historical Assoc: $90k → 6%Afro-American Historical Assoc: $90k → 6%Afro-American Historical Assoc: $90k → 6%Afro-American Historical Assoc: $90k → 6%Afro-American Historical Assoc: $90k → 6%Bull Run Preserve ta Turn The Mill Around Campaign: $194k → 6%Bull Run Preserve ta Turn The Mill Around Campaign: $90k → 6%Bull Run Preserve ta Turn The Mill Around Campaign: $81k → 6%Bull Run Preserve ta Turn The Mill Around Campaign: $65k → 6%Bull Run Mountains Conservancy: $54k → 6%Bull Run Preserve ta Turn The Mill Around Campaign: $50k → 6%Bull Run Mountains Conservancy: $47k → 6%Bull Run Preserve ta Turn The Mill Around Campaign: $43k → 6%Bull Run Preserve ta Turn The Mill Around Campaign: $40k → 6%Bull Run Preserve ta Turn The Mill Around Campaign: $40k → 6%Bull Run Mountains Conservancy: $30k → 6%Bull Run Mountains Conservancy: $25k → 6%Bull Run Mountains Conservancy: $25k → 6%Bull Run Mountains Conservancy: $25k → 6%Bull Run Mountains Conservancy: $25k → 6%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.
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.2M · 11 repeat orgs$230k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +65% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
3

Total granted

$6.2M
$180k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
+38%

Still filing today

64%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
EducationEnvironmentArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • BS
    BUXTON SCHOOLINC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +2%
  • TH
    THE HILL SCHOOL CORPORATION OF MIDDLEBURG
    7× · 2017–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +68%
  • TP
    THE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $815k · revenue +161%

Funded once

  • TP
    THE PLAINS VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue -64%
  • MM
    MIDDLEBURG MONTESSORI SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $60k · revenue +222%
  • FH
    FOOTHILLS HOUSING CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +38%
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
Mountainside Montessori

To provide a montessori education for children, from birth to ninth grade, for the surrounding virginia counties of fauquier, prince william, culpeper, loudoun, warren, clarke and fairfax.

Education
2
Hampshire Country School

Hampshire country school is a place of possibilities for high-ability, neurodiverse students enrolling in later elementary or middle school who have not found success in traditional educational environments. hampshire country school offers…

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3
The Mountain School At Winhall Inc

Our purpose is to establish an educational foundation of curiosity, confidence, and competence while practicing kindness to oneself, the community and nature.

Education
4
Historic Virginia Land Conservancy

Promoting for the benefit of the general public, the preservation, protection and enjoyment of our natural resources, principally in the lower james, york, rappahannock and chowan rivers and surrounding watersheds.

Environment
5
Pine Creek Valley Watershed Assoc

Watershed conservation & protection

Environment
6
Cache Creek Conservancy

Conservation & education

Animals
7
Preservation Piedmont

Preservation piedmont is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation of the built environment and its setting in order to protect and create an appreciation for the historic resources of the region.

Arts & Culture
8
Franklin County Historical Society- Kittochtinny

The objective of the franklin county historical society - kittochtinny shall be to foster increased knowledge of the history of franklin county and the cumberland valley through a museum and library, to publish papers of the corporation at…

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9
Blue Ridge National Heritage Area Inc

Preserving, interpreting, and developing the heritage resources of the North Carolina mountains.

Environment
10
Flint Hill School

Flint Hill is a private nonsectarian school of 1,049 preschool through high school students from 95 countries. We create developmental experiences that embrace the best practices of traditional and contemporary education. Through…

Education
11
Piedmont Land Conservancy

The mission of piedmont land conservancy is to protect natural and scenic lands, farms, and green space in piedmont north carolina to enrich the quality of life for our communities and for future generations.

Environment
12
Piedmont Classical High School

Education as a public charter school

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Piedmont Environmental Council; the most unlike its peers is The Plains Volunteer Fire Company Inc. 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, 2017–2025.

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. 11 of the 15 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BUXTON SCHOOLINC: $1,910,000 · EducationBUXTON SCHOOLINCTHE HILL SCHOOL CORPORATION OF MIDDLEBURG: $1,085,000 · EducationTHE HILL SCHOOL CORPORATION OF MIDDLEBURG+1 more: $60,000 · EducationTHE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $815,000 · EnvironmentTHE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL CO…PRINCE WILLIAM CONSERVATION ALLIANCE: $585,000 · EnvironmentPRINCE WILLIAM CONSERVATION A…BULL RUN MOUNTAINS CONSERVANCY INC: $249,782 · EnvironmentBULL RUN MOUNTAINS CONSERVANC…Afro-American Historical Assoc: $720,000 · OtherAfro-American Historical Ass…Bull Run Preserve t/a Turn The Mill Around Campaign: $603,812 · OtherBull Run Preserve t/a Turn T…Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute: $135,000 · OtherSmithsonian Conservation Bio…+4 more: $130,000 · Other+4 moreTHE PLAINS VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC: $100,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTHE COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL OF THE PIEDMONT INC: $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$3,055,000Environment$1,649,782Other$1,588,812Public Safety & Disaster$100,000Arts & Culture$5,000

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 budgetBUXTON SCHOOLINC: $1,910,000 over 8y, 7.6% of budgetTHE HILL SCHOOL CORPORATION OF MIDDLEBURG: $1,085,000 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetTHE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $815,000 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetBull Run Preserve t/a Turn The Mill Around Campaign: $603,812 over 8y, 83% of budgetPRINCE WILLIAM CONSERVATION ALLIANCE: $585,000 over 8y, 45% of budgetBULL RUN MOUNTAINS CONSERVANCY INC: $249,782 over 8y, 26% of budgetTHE PLAINS VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC: $100,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetMIDDLEBURG MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $60,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetWINDY HILL FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetFOOTHILLS HOUSING CORPORATION: $20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL OF THE PIEDMONT INC: $5,000 over 2y, 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.

  • Who funds BUXTON SCHOOLINC ↗
  • Who funds THE HILL SCHOOL CORPORATION OF MIDDLEBURG ↗
  • Who funds THE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds Bull Run Preserve t/a Turn The Mill Around Campaign ↗
  • Who funds PRINCE WILLIAM CONSERVATION ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds BULL RUN MOUNTAINS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PLAINS VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC ↗
  • Who funds MIDDLEBURG MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds WINDY HILL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FOOTHILLS HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL OF THE PIEDMONT INC ↗

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.

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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 Wrinkle In Time Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wrinkle In Time Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 Wrinkle In Time Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Wrinkle In Time 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 15 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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