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Bassett Furniture Industries 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.

$15k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212024.

Arts & Culture$210kInternational$100kPhilanthropy$75kEducation$66kYouth Development$8kRecreation & Sports$8kHuman Services$3kReligion$1k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$755k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Henry County Furniture Museum$15,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Special Olympics: $3k → 14%BEST NC: $5k → 8%Trinity Episcopal School: $30k → 10%Home Furnishings Hall of Fame: $50k → 16%Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges: $10k → 9%United Way of Henry County & Martinsville: $25k → 17%Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges: $10k → 9%United Way of Henry County & Martinsville: $25k → 17%Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges: $10k → 9%United Way of Henry County & Martinsville: $25k → 17%Piedmont Arts Association: $10k → 17%Piedmont Arts Association: $10k → 17%Virginia Museum of Natural History: $5k → 17%Boys and Girls Club of Martinsville and Henry County: $5k → 17%Virginia Museum of Natural History: $5k → 17%MHC Family YMCA: $3k → 17%Boys and Girls Club of Martinsville and Henry County: $3k → 17%Deondre Millner Scholarship Fund: $1k → 17%Morning Star Holy Church: $1k → 17%Henry County Furniture Museum: $20k → 17%Henry County Furniture Museum: $15k → 17%Henry County Furniture Museum: $10k → 17%Henry County Furniture Museum: $10k → 17%Bassett Community Center: $5k → 17%Bassett High School Band: $5k → 17%Bassett High School Band: $3k → 17%Greater Bassett Area Community: $3k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$370k · 9 repeat orgs$100k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
9

Total granted

$370k
$100k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+27%

Still filing today

67%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24
EducationRecreation & SportsArts & CultureOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • H
    HopeCo
    3× · 2022–2024 · $100k · revenue +88%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF HENRY COUNTY & MARTINSVILLE
    4× · 2021–2024 · $75k · revenue +30%
  • RW
    ROOSTER WALK INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $65k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • HF
    Home Furnishings Hall of Fame
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • TE
    TRINITY EPISCOPAL SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +27%
  • NC
    NORTH CAROLINA BUSINESS LEADERS FOR EDUC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $5k · revenue +14%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities

VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.

Civil Rights
2
Rock Hill Economic Development Corporation

Rock Hill Development Corporation develops business parks, recruits and supports new businesses to the area, and assists in the revitalization of Rock Hill.

Community Improvement
3
Virginia Maryland and Delaware Association of Electric Cooperatives

Trade association for electric cooperatives

4
Rockingham County Historical Society Museum and Archives

The preservation of the heritage and history of Rockingham County, North Carolina

5
Yadkin Valley Chamber of Commerce

The Yadkin Valley Chamber of Commerce is an organization that promotes a positive business environment, community betterment and supports economic development

6
North Carolina Symphony Society Inc

To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.

Arts & Culture
7
Junior Achievement of Central Carolinas Inc

Junior achievement is the world's largest organization dedicated to educating private and public school students in grades k-12 about entrepreneurship, workforce readiness, and financial literacy, through experiential, hands-on programs.

International
8
Research Triangle Regional Partnership

The research triangle regional partnership is an association of area economic development agencies dedicated to keeping the research triangle region economically strong by collectively marketing the region's competitive advantages and…

9
Roanoke Symphony Orchestra

The Roanoke Symphony Orchestra provides a professional symphony orchestra of artistic excellence and integrity to enrich lives, to educate, and to entertain diverse audiences in western Virginia with the highest quality instrumental and…

Arts & Culture
10
Virginia Energy Efficiency Council

Advance energy efficiency

Environment
11
Venture Carolina

To provide educational programs to stimulate the creation and growth of high impact companies

Community Improvement
12
Sc Chamber of Commerce

Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trinity Episcopal School and the most unlike its peers is Bassett Community Center 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

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HopeCo — $100,000 · OtherHopeCoUNITED WAY OF HENRY COUNTY & MARTINSVILLE — $75,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF HENRY COUNTY & MARTINSVILLEHome Furnishings Hall of Fame — $50,000 · OtherHome Furnishings Hall of FameThe Piedmont Arts Association — $20,000 · OtherThe Piedmont Arts AssociationVirginia Museum of Natural History — $10,000 · Other+6 more — $22,500 · Other+6 moreROOSTER WALK INC — $65,000 · EducationROOSTER WALK INCVA FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT COLLEGES — $30,000 · EducationVA FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT C…TRINITY EPISCOPAL SCHOOL — $30,000 · EducationTRINITY EPISCOPAL SCHOOLNORTH CAROLINA BUSINESS LEADERS FOR EDUC — $5,000 · EducationHenry County Furniture Museum Inc — $55,000 · Arts & CultureHenry County …BASSETT COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $5,000 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC — $2,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$277,500Education$130,000Arts & Culture$55,000Recreation & Sports$7,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHopeCo — $100,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF HENRY COUNTY & MARTINSVILLE — $75,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetROOSTER WALK INC — $65,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetHenry County Furniture Museum Inc — $55,000 over 4y, 39% of budgetVA FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT COLLEGES — $30,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTRINITY EPISCOPAL SCHOOL — $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Piedmont Arts Association — $20,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA BUSINESS LEADERS FOR EDUC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBASSETT COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds HopeCo
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF HENRY COUNTY & MARTINSVILLE
  • Who funds ROOSTER WALK INC
  • Who funds Henry County Furniture Museum Inc
  • Who funds VA FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT COLLEGES
  • Who funds TRINITY EPISCOPAL SCHOOL
  • Who funds The Piedmont Arts Association
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA BUSINESS LEADERS FOR EDUC
  • Who funds BASSETT COMMUNITY CENTER INC
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Harvest Foundation of the PiedmontVA15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Harvest Foundation of the Piedmont · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Bassett Furniture Industries Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Bassett Furniture Industries Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Bassett Furniture Industries 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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