Grants made by Charlottesville Area Community Foundation
Charlottesville Area Community Foundation (EIN 54-1506312) reported 437 grants totaling $27.9M in FY2024 on Schedule I of its IRS Form 990 — the 100 largest are listed below. See the full financial profile for revenue, ratings and leadership.
Grant recipients (FY2024) · $27.9M total
| Recipient | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| The Nature Conservancy | Tree planting campaign and general purposes | $1,217,019 |
| Statue of Liberty Ellis Island Foundation | General purposes | $1,025,000 |
| Mayo Clinic | Bill hewitt employee wellness center payment 2 of 2 | $1,000,000 |
| New Hill Development Corporation | Beacon commercial kitchen construction and black business incubator | $874,000 |
| Piedmont Housing Alliance | General purposes, black mothers blooming steering committee, kindlewood elc consultant fee and support early learning center | $791,827 |
| Hayground School Inc | General purposes and founders fund capital campaign | $760,000 |
| The Women's Initiative | General purposes | $688,664 |
| St Augustine Wild Reserve | General purposes | $540,000 |
| Bank of America Charitable Gift Fund | Close fund and transfer account balance to boa charitable | $500,181 |
| University Cooperative School | General purposes | $500,000 |
| Hamptons Art Camp Inc | Hamptons community outreach | $500,000 |
| Chesapeake Bay Foundation | General purposes and engaging virginia students in nature's classroom | $425,600 |
| Atta Impact Capital Inc | General purposes from michael donovan | $375,000 |
| Ola of Eastern Long Island Inc | General purposes | $359,215 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Virginia | Unrestricted purposes and bgccva summer literacy | $357,471 |
| Focused Ultrasound Foundation | General purposes | $350,000 |
| City of Promise | General purposes, community schools support, and healthy bites | $328,200 |
| University of Virginia - School of Education and Human Development | Tomorrow teachers fund and general purposes | $325,000 |
| Piedmont Virginia Community College Educational Foundation | General purposes, carol clarke nursing scholarship, the anne tennant bryan scholarship fund and capital pathways campaign | $318,754 |
| Wagilabs | General purposes | $300,000 |
| Community Climate Collaborative | Operating grant, rva implementation grant and green team stipends | $294,400 |
| Charlottesville Free Clinic | General purposes | $272,169 |
| Virginia Organizing | Indie short film festival, support charlottesville united for public education, support of the community engager program and general purposes | $253,220 |
| Connections Mentor Inc | General purposes from michael/linda donovan | $250,000 |
| Shining Light Inc | General purposes from michael/linda donovan | $250,000 |
| YMCA of Greater New York | General purposes | $250,000 |
| Ekvnv Yefolecvlke | General purposes | $250,000 |
| United Way of Greater Charlottesville | Women united in philanthrophy - 20th anniversary sustainers circle from ann myers, general purposes, early education and pilgrim baptist preschool | $243,477 |
| Southern Environmental Law Center | General purposes | $221,000 |
| The Fountain Fund | General purposes | $219,750 |
| Asheville Area Arts Council | $100k for arts avl and $100k for wnc tip it forward campaign on behalf of the artists from the soulshine concert | $200,000 |
| Mclean Hospital Corporation | General purposes from michael/linda donovan | $186,200 |
| Readykids | General purposes, ryan vaughn fund, ready steps expansion and teen counseling program | $184,400 |
| University of Virginia | Uva orthopedics, uva fund for the arts, leukemia and lymphoma research fund and general purposes | $177,500 |
| Cultivate Charlottesville | General purposes, food justice network and dultivating food equity in charlottesville | $168,750 |
| Columbia University | Amazon sustainable restoration research and general purposes | $165,000 |
| Legal Aid Justice Center | General purposes from shelah scott | $155,750 |
| Stony Brook Foundation Inc | Foodlab education fund from michael donovan | $150,000 |
| Propl | General purposes from michael donovan | $150,000 |
| Virginia Discovery Museum | Program support | $150,000 |
| Botanical Garden of the Piedmont | General purposes, capital campaign, classical music in the garden programming and taking action on climate | $145,500 |
| Kirchner Impact Foundation | General purposes and southeast economic development study | $145,250 |
| Charlottesville Tomorrow | General purposes | $138,100 |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | General purposes | $126,850 |
| On Our Own Charlottesville | General purposes | $125,000 |
| Charlottesville Abundant Life Ministries | General purposes, fna grocery store, k-8th tutoring and fifeville neighborhood association | $124,250 |
| Blue Ridge Area Food Bank | General purposes and capital renovations | $121,850 |
| Virginia Energy Efficiency Council | Energy efficiency workforce initiative | $120,000 |
| Building Goodness Foundation | Special projects in haiti and guatemala and general purposes | $117,500 |
| Nelson County Education Foundation | Program support | $116,500 |
| Congregate Charlottesville | General purposes, teen health care, fire flower farm and mutual aid in puerto rico | $115,400 |
| Loaves & Fishes Food Pantry | General purposes and equipping community members for positive outcomes | $111,550 |
| Charlottesville Catholic School | General purposes | $110,000 |
| Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation | Sponsorship of the american born, hungary exhibit and general purposes | $108,600 |
| The Bridge Ministry | General operations, bridge ministry operations and solar project | $108,488 |
| The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative | Solidarity - black creativity incubator and mural project | $105,000 |
| Shanta Foundation Inc | The benefit of atta impact capital | $105,000 |
| African-american Teaching Fellows of Charlottesville-albemarle Inc | General purposes, in memory of kate and buddy kessler from shelah scott and general support | $102,250 |
| Miller School of Albemarle | Support of sustainable agriculture program and unrestricted support | $101,569 |
| Via Centers For Neurodevelopment | Adult services program and general purposes | $101,250 |
| Jefferson School African American Heritage Center | Center for local knowledge, trailblazers program, swords into plowshares project and general purposes | $100,300 |
| United Palestinian Appeal | Ghassan abu sittas children fund | $100,100 |
| Sarara Institute | General operating support | $100,000 |
| I Am Als | General purposes | $100,000 |
| Friends of Momentum Bike Clubs | General purposes from michael/linda donovan | $100,000 |
| Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic Inc | General purposes from michael donovan | $100,000 |
| The Peace Appeal | General purposes | $100,000 |
| Society For Historians of American Foreign Relations | Education, research and support of organization from melvyn and phyllis leffler | $100,000 |
| Stepping Stone Charlottesville | General purposes | $92,000 |
| Center For Nonprofit Excellence | The cristine nardi fund at cne, philanthropy day champions, and general purposes | $91,500 |
| 100 Black Men of Central Virginia | M3 academy, in memory of elijah berlin witt and general purposes | $89,500 |
| New City Arts Initiative | General purposes, sponsorship of meesha goldberg exhibition and soup honorariums | $89,000 |
| St Anne's-belfield School | General purposes, financial aid, support girls soccer and scholarship fund | $88,750 |
| Birth Sisters of Charlottesville | General purposes and 2016 shaping futures grant | $87,772 |
| Bon Secours Richmond Health Care Foundation | Rappahannock general hospital campaign | $86,000 |
| Child Health Partnership | General purposes, child health services and at-home child and family nutrition education project | $84,000 |
| Planned Parenthood South Atlantic | General purposes | $83,550 |
| Live Arts | General purposes | $82,300 |
| Piedmont Family YMCA | Diversity scholarships and general purposes | $81,500 |
| Wildrock | Going the distance grant and annual fund | $79,100 |
| Nature Foundation At Wintergreen | General purposes | $77,499 |
| Charlottesville-albemarle SPCA | General purposes, emergency pet services and fall festival | $77,000 |
| Brody Jewish Center Hillel At Uva | Staff support and matching funds and educational purposes | $76,250 |
| American Friends of the Botanics Foundation Inc | General purposes | $75,000 |
| Operation Social Equality (ose) | Expanding therapeutic group work programming | $75,000 |
| Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital Foundation | Support nursing scholarships and education, phillips cancer care center, annual campaign and general purposes | $73,017 |
| Hospice of the Piedmont | General purposes and kids' grief and healing | $72,868 |
| Nelson County Community Development Foundation | General purposes | $72,500 |
| Albemarle Housing Improvement Program | Safe at home programs, general purpoes and bama works | $72,250 |
| Light House Studio | Youth film festival and general purposes | $71,250 |
| Sin Barreras Without Barriers Inc | 2024 educational programs, building power through education and advocacy and general purposes | $70,000 |
| Charlottesville Public Housing Association of Residents (phar) | Racial and economic equity program, general purposes, youth leadership program | $68,250 |
| Salvation Army National Corp | General purpoess | $67,500 |
| Fluvanna Meals On Wheels Inc | General operating support | $63,000 |
| Piedmont Casa | General purposes | $62,750 |
| International Rescue Committee | General purposes and new roots program | $62,750 |
| Meals On Wheels of Charlottesvillealbemarle | General purposes and storage shed and thermal bags | $62,600 |
| Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society | Support of magazine of albemarle charlottesville history, the alice ivory exhibit from shelah scott, and general purposes in honor of george gilliam | $62,250 |
| Emergency Food Network | General purpose and providing food for urgent needs | $60,600 |
| Montpelier Foundation | General purposes and ethical storytelling developing collaborative steps | $60,500 |
Grant data comes from Schedule I of Charlottesville Area Community Foundation's e-filed Form 990, via CharityIndex. Recipients link to their own profiles where the EIN matches our directory.