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Thalhimer Family Foundation

Glen Allen, VA · EIN 54-6042097. Reported 234 grants totalling $374,490 to 60 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$500median grant
$374,490granted, 2021-2024
60organizations funded
100%of grantees funded again the next year
$2,939,594assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Thalhimer Family Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $500. Half of everything it gave fell between $200 and $1,000; the smallest was $45 and the largest $48,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
153 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
68 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
9 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
2 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
2 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Jewish Community Federation of RichmondRichmond, VA$121,000442024
The Faison CenterRichmond, VA$27,000442024
Massey Cancer CenterRichmond, VA$21,000442024
Congregation Beth AhabahRichmond, VA$19,500442024
United Way of Greater Richmond & PetersburgRichmond, VA$16,400442024
University of Virginia Darden School of BusinessCharlottesville, VA$15,000442024
Colonial Williamsburg FoundationWilliamsburg, VA$13,500442024
Vmfa FoundationRichmond, VA$12,000442024
American Red Cross Virginia CapitalRichmond, VA$10,500442024
Beth Sholom HomeRichmond, VA$10,500442024
Cullather Brain Tumor Quality of Life CenterRichmond, VA$9,000442024
Beth Ahabah Museum & ArchivesRichmond, VA$8,400442024
Byrd Theatre FoundationRichmond, VA$7,500442024
Virginia Holocaust MuseumRichmond, VA$7,000442024
Full Circle Grief CenterRichmond, VA$6,000442024
Chesapeake Bay FoundationAnnapolis, MD$4,200442024
Grand Teton National Park FoundationJackson, WY$3,000442024
Hanover Tavern FoundationHanover, VA$3,000442024
Historic Richmond FoundationRichmond, VA$3,000442024
St Joseph's VillaRichmond, VA$3,000442024
The ValentineRichmond, VA$3,000442024
UnosRichmond, VA$3,000442024
Virginia Aeronautical Historical SocietyFredericksburg, VA$3,000442024
Wilton House MuseumRichmond, VA$3,000442024
Virginia Center for Inclusive CommunitiesRichmond, VA$2,800442024
Clery CenterStrafford, PA$2,400442024
Collegiate SchoolRichmond, VA$2,400442024
Community Idea StationsRichmond, VA$2,400222022
Feed MoreRichmond, VA$2,100442024
SwimrvaRichmond, VA$2,000222024
Richmond SymphonyRichmond, VA$1,800442024
Ronald Mcdonald House CharitiesRichmond, VA$1,800442024
Sheltering Arms FoundationMechanicsville, VA$1,800442024
Mederva FoundationRichmond, VA$1,500442024
National D-Day Memorial FoundationBedford, VA$1,500442024
SparcRichmond, VA$1,500442024
Vcu Pauley Heart CenterRichmond, VA$1,500442024
Visual Arts Center of RichmondRichmond, VA$1,500442024
Friends of the Smithsonian National ZooWashington, DC$1,350442024
Stratford HallStratford, VA$1,200442024
VpmRichmond, VA$1,200222024
Arthritis Foundation - Va ChapterRichmond, VA$900442024
Jackson Health FoundationMiami, FL$900442024
Parkinson FoundationMclean, VA$900442024
Virginia Historical SocietyRichmond, VA$900442024
American Associates Ben-Gurion Univ of the NegevNew York, NY$600442024
American Society for Yad VashemNew York, NY$600442024
Anti-Defamation LeagueNew York, NY$600442024
Black History MuseumRichmond, VA$600442024
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Va ChapterBethesda, MD$600442024
Gettysburg FoundationGettysburg, PA$600442024
Maymont FoundationRichmond, VA$600442024
Mcv FoundationRichmond, VA$600442024
Richmond Performing Arts AllianceRichmond, VA$600442024
USA for UnhcrWashington, DC$600442024
B'nai B'rith InternationalWashington, DC$450442024
American Jewish Historical SocietyNew York, NY$300442024
Montpelier FoundationOrange, VA$300442024
US Holocaust Memorial MuseumWashington, DC$300442024
National Trust for Historic PreservationWashington, DC$290442024

60 of 60 (100%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 100%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 130 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Arts & Culture
74 grants
Education
12 grants
Civil Rights
8 grants
Human Services
8 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
8 grants
Health Care
8 grants
Religion
4 grants
Food & Nutrition
4 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202158$132,000$650
202258$100,800$600
202359$71,345$300
202459$70,345$300

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 96% of this one's giving went to organizations in Virginia. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Virginia
$358K
Maryland
$5K
Pennsylvania
$3K
Wyoming
$3K
District of Columbia
$3K
New York
$2K
Florida
$900

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $500. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Virginia.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Thalhimer Family Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 6323, Glen Allen, VA, 23058. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 54-6042097 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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