Foundations that fund organizations in Charlottesville, Virginia
Worked out from where the grants went, not where the foundations sit.
Funding landscape for Charlottesville nonprofits
1,162 private foundations gave $141M to Charlottesville organizations in their latest filings; 21 of the 100 that say either way accept applications.
2,773 grants in total, with a typical foundation's median grant to Charlottesville around $250K. 34 of these funders are based in Virginia; the rest give here from elsewhere.
- Foundations giving here
- 1,162
- Accept applications
- 21
- of 100 that state a policy
- Dollars to Charlottesville
- $141M
- latest filings
- Grants
- 2,773
- Typical median grant
- $250K
- Based in VA
- 34%
- of funders listed
Funders, by dollars given to Charlottesville organizations
| Foundation | Based in | Grants here | Dollars here | Median | Accepts applications | Typical purposes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quantitative Foundation | Charlottesville, VA | 19 | $8.8M | $25K | Preselected only | General purpose; Education support; Programs for young people |
| The Karsh Family Foundation | Beverly Hills, CA | 3 | $7.3M | $285K | Preselected only | Education; Philanthropic activity |
| Gates Foundation | Seattle, WA | 12 | $7.0M | $500K | Yes | Enterics, diagnostics, genomics & epidemiology; K-12 education; Maternal, newborn, child nutrition and health |
| Manning Family Foundation | Charlottesville, VA | 48 | $5.3M | $25K | Yes | General |
| The Affordable Housing Opportunity Fund | Charlottesville, VA | 6 | $4.9M | $252K | Preselected only | Crescent halls renovation; South first phase ii; Sixth street |
| The Genan Foundation | Charlottesville, VA | 60 | $4.5M | $28K | Preselected only | Program support; Operating support |
| Red Gates Foundation | Richmond, VA | 2 | $3.9M | $2.0M | Preselected only | General support |
| Oakwood Foundation Charitable Trust | Tupelo, MS | 21 | $3.4M | $10K | Preselected only | General fund |
| The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation | Charlottesville, VA | 31 | $2.8M | $35K | Preselected only | Grant is for donee's exempt purpose |
| Freedom Together Foundation | New York, NY | 4 | $2.8M | $750K | Preselected only | Securing an equitable energy economy in the south; Advancing environmental justice; Building a brighter and healthier future for babies - hbbf'… |
| The Chris and Carrie Shumway Foundation C/O Andersen | New York, NY | 1 | $2.5M | $2.5M | Preselected only | To provide administrative services to university entities,… |
| Kinder Foundation | Houston, TX | 2 | $2.5M | $1.2M | Preselected only | Endowed chair in landscape architecture |
| Perry Foundation Inc | Charlottesville, VA | 41 | $2.2M | $25K | Yes | Purpose of donee |
| The Dn Batten Foundation C/O Brown Advisory | Norfolk, VA | 13 | $2.2M | $125K | Preselected only | To provide financial support |
| The Farkas Family Foundation | Charlottesville, VA | 6 | $2.1M | $25K | Preselected only | General |
| The Oak Hill Fund | Charlottesville, VA | 36 | $1.6M | $13K | Yes | General support; For the continued investment in critical rehab and energy-e…; Continued support the friends in schools helping (fish) pro… |
| The Owens Family Foundation | Norwell, MA | 1 | $1.6M | $1.6M | Preselected only | The college fund |
| Stanley E Fulton Family Foundation | Dallas, TX | 1 | $1.3M | $1.3M | Preselected only | General |
| The Robert D and Patricia E Kern Family Foundation Inc | Waukesha, WI | 1 | $1.1M | $1.1M | Preselected only | Support four ongoing initiatives |
| The Richard & Leslie Gilliam Foundation | Charlottesville, VA | 12 | $1.0M | $7,500 | Preselected only | Help mankind; Education; Support the arts |
| Shelby Cullom Davis Charitable Fund Inc | Wilmington, DE | 1 | $1.0M | $1.0M | Preselected only | Davis First-Generation Scholarship fund |
| The Colorado Health Foundation | Denver, CO | 1 | $1.0M | $1.0M | Yes | General operating support |
| Aloha Foundation C/O Lourie & Cutler Pc | Boston, MA | 1 | $1.0M | $1.0M | Preselected only | Shadwell grant |
| The William Stamps Farish Fund | Houston, TX | 1 | $1.0M | $1.0M | Yes | Fulfillment of pledge towards creation of endowment at the… |
| The Harrison Foundation | Manakinsabot, VA | 5 | $944K | $50K | Preselected only | General 501(c)(3) purposes of organization |
| The Melville Foundation | North Palm Beach, FL | 8 | $937K | $2,000 | Preselected only | Charitable grant; Chraitable grant |
| Widger Family Foundation | Philadelphia, PA | 1 | $917K | $917K | Preselected only | Programmatic grant, virginia women's lacrosse legacy fund,… |
| John Eagle Delashmutt Jr Charitable Trust | Falls Church, VA | 1 | $900K | $900K | Preselected only | General support |
| Fauquier Health Foundation Dba the Path Foundation | Warrenton, VA | 12 | $895K | $18K | Yes | Capacity building; Better together; Community engagement |
| The William Jeff and Jennifer Gross Family Foundation | Laguna Beach, CA | 1 | $875K | $875K | Preselected only | General donation |
| The Watterson Foundation | Charlottesville, VA | 4 | $870K | $210K | Yes | General purposes of the donee; General purposes of donee; General purposes of the donne |
| The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation | Atlanta, GA | 1 | $850K | $850K | Preselected only | Clean energy in the south |
| John Templeton Foundation | West Conshohocken, PA | 6 | $808K | $115K | Yes | Enabling research rigor and transparency, fostering researc…; To support the astronomy department; The development of gratitude across cultures |
| Leducq Foundation for Cardiovascular Research | Houston, TX | 1 | $807K | $807K | Preselected only | General support |
| The Spencer Foundation | Chicago, IL | 6 | $791K | $140K | Yes | Leveraging out-of-school cultural learning opportunities; Young african american children animating societal change; Education for children with autism spectrum disorder |
| The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation | Menlo Park, CA | 3 | $785K | $150K | Yes | For support of the third founding project; For support of the center for effective lawmaking; For the karsh institute of democracy to support the institu… |
| Smith Vicars Family Foundation | Charlottesville, VA | 8 | $765K | $101K | Preselected only | Operational support; Charitable fundraiser; 2025 camper financial aid, campership fund, and med korner… |
| The James and Laura Rogers Foundation | Kingsport, TN | 1 | $763K | $763K | Preselected only | Operations |
| Wend II Inc | Bentonville, AR | 1 | $725K | $725K | Preselected only | General Operating Support for Landing Justice Fund |
| Peter B and Adeline W Ruffin Foundation Inc | Johns Island, SC | 3 | $720K | $50K | Preselected only | Unrestricted |
| John L Nau III Foundation | Houston, TX | 2 | $703K | $352K | Preselected only | Education |
| John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation | Chicago, IL | 2 | $700K | $350K | Preselected only | In support of general operations |
| The Schiff Foundation Incorporated | Northbrook, IL | 3 | $687K | $10K | Preselected only | General support; Establishment of translational program in neuro-oncology wi… |
| Rogers Rissler Foundation | Woodbridge, NJ | 3 | $687K | $100K | Preselected only | Operational |
| Elhapa Foundation Inc | Lexington, KY | 12 | $675K | $35K | Preselected only | Unrestricted |
| Commonwealth Foundations | Richmond, VA | 13 | $672K | $15K | Preselected only | General support |
| Carol and Witt Stephens Charitable Foundation | Little Rock, AR | 1 | $670K | $670K | Preselected only | 38,500 units of energy transfer partners lp |
| John & Amy Griffin Foundation C/O John Griffin Ttee | Pearl River, NY | 2 | $606K | $303K | Preselected only | Annual fund; General support |
| Weissberg Foundation | McLean, VA | 3 | $593K | $200K | Preselected only | Program support; General operating support |
| Carnegie Corporation of New York | New York, NY | 1 | $583K | $583K | Yes | For support of its project to rebuild civic infrastructure… |
| The William E Jackson Foundation | Littleton, CO | 2 | $582K | $291K | Preselected only | Further charitable purpose; Further medical research |
| The Essex Avenue Foundation | Wilmington, DE | 1 | $580K | $580K | Preselected only | to assist 10 Habitat for humanity statewide offices in star… |
| Marty and Dorothy Silverman Foundation | New York, NY | 2 | $555K | $278K | Preselected only | General donation |
| Park Loop Charitable Foundation | Fort Worth, TX | 1 | $550K | $550K | Preselected only | Capital commitment |
| Rick and Susan Goings Foundation C/O Bessemer Trust Company Na | New York, NY | 8 | $505K | $10K | Preselected only | General exempt purpose |
| Danville Regional Foundation | Danville, VA | 1 | $500K | $500K | Yes | Center for educational & agricultural development (cead) |
| Marguerite Casey Foundation | Seattle, WA | 1 | $500K | $500K | Preselected only | General operating support |
| The Horace W Goldsmith Foundation | New York, NY | 1 | $500K | $500K | Preselected only | General operations |
| The Brunckhorst Foundation | Melville, NY | 1 | $480K | $480K | Preselected only | General Purpose unless otherwise stated |
| Cassiopeia Foundation Inc | Charlottesvle, VA | 6 | $457K | $53K | Preselected only | For General Operating Purposes; General Operating Grant; Discretionary Support for Nuclear Medicine |
| Westwind Foundation | Norwalk, CT | 31 | $453K | $5,000 | Preselected only | To fund operating needs; To provide operating funds; To fund oerating needs |
| Beth and Ravenel Curry Foundation | Erie, PA | 2 | $445K | $223K | Preselected only | Expansion & gen opps; Unrestricted |
| Laura and John Arnold Foundation | Houston, TX | 3 | $444K | $130K | Preselected only | To assess long-term impacts of incarceration's personal and…; To expand an in-progress federally-funded multi-state rando…; To review data and surveys with the overall goal of laying… |
| The Hartfield Fdn Inc 0739-80-42 | Philadelphia, PA | 14 | $438K | $20K | Preselected only | Anywhere it is needed; Operating; Ongoing capacity building |
| Tua August Heid By T Heid Char | Dallas, TX | 5 | $420K | $100K | Preselected only | Unrestricted general; Unrestricted general suport |
| The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation | Omaha, NE | 3 | $416K | $152K | Preselected only | Program support |
| Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation | Richmond, VA | 2 | $400K | $200K | Yes | To support the expansion and renovation of the food bank's…; To support the financing of the early learning centerat fri… |
| The Rosenthal Foundation | Richmond, VA | 1 | $377K | $377K | Preselected only | Fund programorganization needs |
| Cary D Langhorne Trust | Dallas, TX | 1 | $376K | $376K | Preselected only | Unrestricted general |
| Geismar Family Foundation | Charlottesville, VA | 8 | $376K | $30K | Preselected only | General operations; General operatingsupport; Childrens health |
| The Hilltop Foundation | Charlottesville, VA | 18 | $375K | $18K | Preselected only | General operations; Hope has a placenew center of hope; STEAM Mentoring |
| Capital One Foundation Inc | McLean, VA | 1 | $375K | $375K | Preselected only | Asset building/financial capability |
| The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation | Princeton, NJ | 3 | $372K | $45K | Yes | Matching gifts; 75587 launching, marketing, and evaluating finalized versio…; 81767 combatting misinformation and improving decisionmakin… |
| William T Grant Foundation Inc | New York, NY | 4 | $368K | $74K | Yes | Improving teacher-student relationships to help close the r…; Bridging institutions to close youth opportunity gaps; Sustaining school district improvement |
| Obici Healthcare Foundation Inc | Suffolk, VA | 1 | $364K | $364K | Yes | Capacity building |
| The Stultz Foundation | Charlottesville, VA | 19 | $359K | $2,000 | Yes | Community assistance; Social services; Health services |
| Viridi Futuro Foundation | Durham, NC | 1 | $352K | $352K | Preselected only | General support |
| The Troon Foundation | Elon, NC | 7 | $342K | $30K | Preselected only | To fund homelessness program.; To fund swim programs.; To fund partner impact program. |
| The Frederick a Deluca Foundation Inc | Pompano Beach, FL | 1 | $340K | $340K | Preselected only | Expanding scholarship opportunities for florida students |
| The Sands Family Foundation Inc C/O Wildstar Partners LLC | Delray Beach, FL | 1 | $338K | $338K | Preselected only | Unrestricted program use |
| E Stuart James Grant Charitable Trust C/O Atlantic Union Bank | Danville, VA | 1 | $337K | $337K | Preselected only | $175,000 advisva; $112,000 uva-ple cohort 23; $50,000 undes… |
| The Rimora Foundation | Charlottesville, VA | 25 | $327K | $5,000 | Preselected only | Help families who face the challenges of child illness, dev…; Community based mentoring program; Provide a safe, productive and fun after school and summer… |
| Tua Anne M Orrell Charitable | Dallas, TX | 2 | $325K | $163K | Preselected only | Unrestricted general |
| The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fund for Strategic Innovation | Palo Alto, CA | 1 | $300K | $300K | Preselected only | Creating instructionnet |
| Farvue Foundation Inc | Washington, DC | 1 | $300K | $300K | Preselected only | General support |
| Elizabeth a Hull Charitable Trust | Dallas, TX | 1 | $290K | $290K | Preselected only | Unrestricted general |
| Additional Ventures Foundation | Palo Alto, CA | 1 | $283K | $283K | Preselected only | Single ventricle research fund |
| The Jennie and Matthew Hantzmon Family Foundation | Charlottesville, VA | 15 | $265K | $2,500 | Preselected only | General purposes of donee; Ukraine relief |
| The Mary a Harrison Foundation Q12673002 | Denver, CO | 1 | $254K | $254K | Preselected only | General purposes |
| The Klungness Family Foundation Inc | Wilmington, DE | 1 | $250K | $250K | Preselected only | General & Unrestricted |
| Democracy Fund Inc | Washington, DC | 2 | $250K | $125K | Preselected only | General support; Program support for Charlottesville Inclusive Media Project |
| Mastercard Impact Fund | Purchase, NY | 1 | $250K | $250K | Preselected only | Data for social impact |
| Cornell Douglas Foundation Inc | Bethesda, MD | 1 | $250K | $250K | Preselected only | General support |
| Newtmont Foundation | Wilmington, DE | 1 | $250K | $250K | Yes | Pledge payment 1 |
| The Farrell Family Foundation | Richmond, VA | 2 | $250K | $125K | Preselected only | Cancer Research; Master Plan |
| Bacca Foundation | Chicago, IL | 1 | $250K | $250K | Preselected only | Support to provide scholarships, promote faculty research,… |
| The Charles Fund Inc | Charlottesville, VA | 59 | $250K | $500 | Yes | General purposes of donee |
| The Joyce Foundation | Chicago, IL | 1 | $244K | $244K | Yes | Environment |
| Bella Vista Foundation | Bristol, VA | 3 | $241K | $88K | Preselected only | General operations; Jpj gift agreement; Scholarship funding |
| Edmonds Family Foundation | Charlottesville, VA | 8 | $239K | $18K | Preselected only | Unrestricted operational support; $5,000 Center for Social Impact; $5,000 Parent's Fund; $40,000 Unrestricted operational support; $2,500 Children's… |
Source: IRS Form 990-PF Part XV, latest electronic return per foundation (2026-10-28). "Accepts applications" reflects the foundation's own checkbox on Part XV line 2. Grants to individuals excluded.
Common questions
Which foundations give to nonprofits in Charlottesville, Virginia?
Quantitative Foundation, The Karsh Family Foundation, Gates Foundation, Manning Family Foundation, The Affordable Housing Opportunity Fund and 95 others reported grants to Charlottesville organizations on their latest Form 990-PF.
How do I approach a foundation that doesn't accept applications?
A foundation that checks "contributes only to preselected organizations" on its 990-PF won't review a cold proposal. Look at who it funds, find a shared board member, grantee or advisor, and ask for an introduction. Foundations that accept applications usually list a contact and deadlines in Part XV; we show that text on each foundation's page.
Is this list complete?
No. It covers private foundations (Form 990-PF filers) whose latest electronic return lists at least one grant to an organization in Charlottesville. Community foundations and corporate giving programs file different forms and are not included yet.