· Private foundation
Bassett Furniture Industries Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| United Way of Henry County & Martinsville | $25,000 |
| Henry County Furniture Museum | $15,000 |
| Piedmont Arts Association | $10,000 |
| Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges | $10,000 |
| Rooster Walk Inc | $10,000 |
| Virginia Museum of Natural History | $5,000 |
| Henry County Parks and Recreation | $2,500 |
| Bassett High School Band | $2,500 |
| Smith River Singers | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UWUNITED WAY OF HENRY COUNTY & MARTINSVILLE5× · 2021–2025 · $125k · revenue +30%
- HHopeCo2× · 2022–2023 · $100k · revenue +88%
- RWROOSTER WALK INC5× · 2021–2025 · $95k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- HFHome Furnishings Hall of Fameone grant, 2022 · $50k
- TETRINITY EPISCOPAL SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +27%
- BCBASSETT COMMUNITY CENTER INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -47%
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.
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.
VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.
Rock Hill Development Corporation develops business parks, recruits and supports new businesses to the area, and assists in the revitalization of Rock Hill.
The preservation of the heritage and history of Rockingham County, North Carolina
Trade association for electric cooperatives
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.
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.
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…
Advance energy efficiency
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…
The mission of Toccoa Falls College is to glorify God through seeking and developing Christian servant leaders who will impact their world with the love and message of Jesus Christ.
Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.
To provide educational programs to stimulate the creation and growth of high impact companies
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 20 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 UNITED WAY OF HENRY COUNTY & MARTINSVILLE ↗
- Who funds HopeCo ↗
- Who funds ROOSTER WALK INC ↗
- Who funds Henry County Furniture Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds VA FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT COLLEGES ↗
- Who funds The Piedmont Arts Association ↗
- Who funds TRINITY EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA BUSINESS LEADERS FOR EDUC ↗
- Who funds BASSETT COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Harvest Foundation of the Piedmont · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bassett Furniture Industries Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bassett Furniture Industries Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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