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Bane Foundation

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.

$52k
Granted FY2024still arriving
53
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$104kEducation$86kAnimals$45kArts & Culture$42kReligion$37kHuman Services$33kEnvironment$26kRecreation & Sports$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
12
States reached
$647k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTHERN COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY$5,000
EMORY & HENRY COLLEGE$5,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSP$4,800
SUSAN G KOMEN BREAST CANCER$4,300
ST CROIX REFORMED CHURCH$2,500
ROTARY PAUL HARRIS FOUNDATION$2,000
ROANOKE COLLEGE$2,000
BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK$1,500
HOPE LEGACY EQUINE RESCUE$1,500
WINTERGREEN NATURE FOUNDATION$1,200
ANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE$1,000
BROWARD OUTREACH CENTER$1,000
BROWARD PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION$1,000
APPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY$1,000
WINTERGREEN ADAPTIVE SPORTS$1,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 14% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BOYS TOWN: $300 → 12%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $5k → 6%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $800 → 17%CHALLANGE ASPEN: $600 → 6%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS: $650 → 8%BOYS TOWN: $300 → 12%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $4k → 6%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $500 → 17%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $300 → 8%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $3k → 6%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $500 → 17%ST FRANCIS SERVICE DOGS: $3k → 8%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $3k → 6%ST FRANCIS SERVICE DOGS: $500 → 8%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $300 → 6%ST FRANCIS SERVICE DOGS: $500 → 8%ST FRANCIS SERVICE DOGS: $500 → 8%ST FRANCIS SERVICE DOGS: $400 → 8%PRESBYTERIAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $500 → 20%PRESBYTERIAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $500 → 20%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

WA
IL
NY
MA
SD
OH
CA
CO
NE
KY
WV
VA
DE
AZ
KS
AR
TN
NC
DC
TX
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$388k · 78 repeat orgs$36k to everyone else

78 repeat relationships: 39 still active in FY2024, 39 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

78
31

Total granted

$388k
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+41%

Still filing today

63%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureAnimalsRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • SC
    Southern College of Optometry
    8× · 2017–2024 · $43k · revenue +29%
  • HL
    HOPE'S LEGACY EQUINE RESCUE INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $28k · revenue +43%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $26k · revenue +145%

Funded once

  • VF
    VMI Foundation
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +25%
  • MA
    MAKE A WISH
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • CS
    CHARLOTTESVILLE-ALBEMARLE SOC SPCA
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
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
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
Edward Via Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine

The mission of the edward via college of osteopathic medicine (vcom) is to prepare globally-minded, community-focused physicians to meet the needs of rural and medically underserved populations and promote research to improve human health.

Education
3
The Wildlife Society

The wildlife society's mission is to inspire, empower, and enable wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation.

Animals
4
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
5
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
6
American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine

The mission of the american college of veterinary internal medicine (acvim) is to enhance animal and human health by advancing veterinary internal medicine through training, education, an discovery. the acvim is the american certifying…

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7
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
8
Virginia Living Museum Inc

The museum connects people to nature by delivering educational classes, programs, exhibits, events and demonstrations. staff and volunteers engage learners of all ages on a 23 acre campus setting. indoor and outdoor learning opportunities…

Arts & Culture
9
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
10
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
11
West Virginia University Research Corporation

To foster and support research at west virginia university (wvu) and to provide evaluation, development, patenting, management and marketing services for inventions by the faculty, staff, and students of wvu.

Education
12
Worldwide Vets Incorporated

Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Olympics Virginia Inc; the most unlike its peers is Aicardi Syndrome Foundation. 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

79 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. 79 of the 125 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
78/79
Grantees still filing
60/79
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOPE'S LEGACY EQUINE RESCUE INC: $27,712 · OtherHOPE'S LEGACY EQUINE RESCUE INCSUSAN G KOMEN BREAST CANCER: $15,000 · OtherSUSAN G KOMEN BREAST CANCERST CROIX REFORMED CHURCH INC: $14,500 · OtherST CROIX REFORMED CHURCH INCFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF: $8,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $8,000 · OtherSALEM MUSEUM AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $7,500 · OtherWINTERGREEN ADAPTIVE SPORTS: $8,000 · Other+72 more: $130,505 · Other+72 moreSouthern College of Optometry: $43,000 · EducationSouthern College of …ROANOKE COLLEGE: $22,000 · EducationROANOKE COLLEGEEMORY & HENRY UNIVERSITY: $6,000 · EducationEMORY & HENRY UNIVER…VMI Foundation: $3,000 · Education+6 more: $4,000 · EducationST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $25,692 · HealthST JUDE CHILDRE…American Heart Association Inc: $9,450 · HealthAmerican Heart …THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $7,412 · HealthTHE SHRINERS' H…FLORIDA BREAST CANCER COALITION RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 · HealthFLORIDA BREAST …HEALTH TALENTS INTERNATIONAL INC: $3,000 · Health+6 more: $4,850 · Health+6 moreMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $15,280 · Human ServicesSAINT FRANCIS SERVICE DOGS: $4,400 · Human ServicesPUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC: $1,300 · Human ServicesPRESBYTERIAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $1,000 · Human ServicesFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $950 · Human Services+3 more: $1,700 · Human ServicesROANOKE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $6,000 · Arts & CultureWINTERGREEN PERFORMING ARTS INC: $4,900 · Arts & CultureTHOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · Arts & CultureATTIC PRODUCTIONS INC: $1,500 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1,100 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $600 · Arts & CultureTHE NATURE FOUNDATION AT WINTERGREEN: $13,700 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $1,375 · Environment+1 more: $200 · EnvironmentCATS EXCLUSIVE INC: $4,000 · AnimalsALBEMARLE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC: $3,750 · AnimalsANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE: $2,500 · AnimalsTROUT UNLIMITED INC: $1,500 · AnimalsSOUTH FLORIDA WILDLIFE CENTER INC: $1,000 · AnimalsGood Karma Pet Rescue Inc: $500 · Animals+1 more: $300 · Animals
Other$219,217Education$78,000Health$57,404Human Services$24,630Arts & Culture$17,100Environment$15,275Animals$13,550

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSouthern College of Optometry: $43,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE'S LEGACY EQUINE RESCUE INC: $27,712 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $25,692 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetROANOKE COLLEGE: $22,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $15,280 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE FOUNDATION AT WINTERGREEN: $13,700 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $9,450 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWINTERGREEN ADAPTIVE SPORTS: $8,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $7,412 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA BREAST CANCER COALITION RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBROWARD PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $6,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetEMORY & HENRY UNIVERSITY: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROANOKE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $6,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFORT LAUDERDALE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $5,800 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetWINTERGREEN PERFORMING ARTS INC: $4,900 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSAINT FRANCIS SERVICE DOGS: $4,400 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAICARDI SYNDROME FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetCATS EXCLUSIVE INC: $4,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetALBEMARLE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC: $3,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVMI Foundation: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTH TALENTS INTERNATIONAL INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST CROIX LANDMARKS SOCIETY: $2,200 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF VIRGINIA'S BLUE RIDGE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Ocean School Inc: $2,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF BROWARD INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWINTERGREEN VOLUNTEER FIRE: $1,600 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBUILDING GOODNESS FOUNDATION: $1,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetATTIC PRODUCTIONS INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED INC: $1,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSEXUAL ASSAULT RESOURCE AGENCY: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $1,375 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC: $1,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE RIDGE WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Olympics Virginia Inc: $1,100 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1,100 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA WILDLIFE CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAPPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $950 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSYMPHONY OF THE MOUNTAINS: $900 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL D-DAY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $780 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF MUSTANGS AND BURROS: $750 over 2y, 0.2% 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 Southern College of Optometry ↗
  • Who funds HOPE'S LEGACY EQUINE RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds ROANOKE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE FOUNDATION AT WINTERGREEN ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds WINTERGREEN ADAPTIVE SPORTS ↗
  • Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA BREAST CANCER COALITION RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BROWARD PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds EMORY & HENRY UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ROANOKE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds FORT LAUDERDALE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds WINTERGREEN PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds SAINT FRANCIS SERVICE DOGS ↗
  • Who funds AICARDI SYNDROME FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CATS EXCLUSIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds ALBEMARLE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC ↗
  • Who funds VMI Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HEALTH TALENTS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds ANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE ↗

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.

Charlottesville Area Community FoundationVA32.2× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · Perry Foundation Inc · Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia · Ge Aerospace Foundation · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation · Oakwood Foundation Charitable Trust · Cartledge Charitable Foundation Inc · Manning Family Foundation · Caplin Foundation · The McGlothlin Foundation · Whitney and Anne Stone Foundation · The J & E Berkley 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 Bane Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bane Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Delaware Community Foundation Inc: 13% of income from government
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
  • Habitat for Humanity of Broward Inc: 6% of income from government
  • World Ocean School Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 125 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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