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Bc Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Bc Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$6.9M
Granted FY2023
22
Grants FY2023
5
States reached
$1.4M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2023.

Philanthropy$49MFood & Nutrition$68kCrime & Legal$50kHuman Services$30kAnimals$28kHealth$24kRecreation & Sports$20kEnvironment$16kOther$0
02FY2023 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k13 grants · $55k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
  • $250k+5 grants · $6.8M
$7,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RISING PHOENIX CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$1,355,064
MRC FULL CIRCLE FOUNDATION$1,349,498
ISLAND SUNRISE FOUNDATION$1,349,327
ALEXANDER BRADY FOUNDATION$1,349,327
GRAHAM FAMILY FOUNDATION$1,349,327
BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC$25,000
NRA FOUNDATION$25,000
NATIONAL SPORTING LIBRARY AND MUSEUM$10,000
AMERICANS IN WARTIME EXPERIENCE$10,000
SEVEN LOAVES SERVICES INC$7,000
THE MIDDLEBURG HUMANE FOUNDATION$7,000
NEXT GENERATION CHOICES FOUNDATION$5,000
XERXES SOCIETY$5,000
PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 4%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 0% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%AFRICAN ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%XERXES SOCIETY: $5k → 12%FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $5k → 9%RISING PHOENIX CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $7.0M → 4%NRA FOUNDATION: $25k → 6%PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $5k → 6%AMERICANS IN WARTIME EXPERIENCE: $10k → 7%BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC: $25k → 8%NEXT GENERATION CHOICES FOUNDATION: $5k → 5%AFRICAN ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%XERXES SOCIETY: $5k → 12%FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $5k → 9%ISLAND SUNRISE FOUNDATION: $7.0M → 4%NRA FOUNDATION: $25k → 6%PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $5k → 6%AMERICANS IN WARTIME EXPERIENCE: $10k → 7%BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC: $25k → 8%NEXT GENERATION CHOICES FOUNDATION: $5k → 5%MRC FULL CIRCLE FOUNDATION: $7.0M → 4%FAUQUIER FOOD BANK: $2k → 6%ALEXANDER BRADY FOUNDATION: $7.0M → 4%FAUQUIER FOOD BANK: $2k → 6%RISING PHOENIX CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $1.4M → 4%RISING PHOENIX CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $1.4M → 4%MRC FULL CIRCLE FOUNDATION: $1.3M → 4%MRC FULL CIRCLE FOUNDATION: $1.3M → 4%ALEXANDER BRADY FOUNDATION: $1.3M → 4%ISLAND SUNRISE FOUNDATION: $1.3M → 4%ALEXANDER BRADY FOUNDATION: $1.3M → 4%ISLAND SUNRISE FOUNDATION: $1.3M → 4%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.
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$49M · 22 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

22 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
0

Total granted

$49M
$0

Still filing today

64%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
AnimalsPhilanthropyEducationCrime & LegalHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
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

  • BR
    BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $50k · revenue +26%
  • TN
    THE NATIONAL SPORTING LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
    2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +14%
  • SL
    Seven Loaves Services Inc
    2× · 2022–2023 · $14k · revenue +130%

Funded once

    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
    Northern Virginia Health Foundation
    Philanthropy
    2
    Middle Patuxent Environmental Foundation
    Philanthropy
    3
    Fulcrum Farm Foundation
    Philanthropy
    4
    Nc Farm Bureau Legal Foundation Inc
    —
    5
    Fauquier Community Food Bank & Thrift Store

    To fight hunger in fauquier county by providing our neighbors in need with nourishing food and encouraging self-sufficiency through vibrant community partnerships

    Food & Nutrition
    6
    Floyds Fork Conservancy Inc
    Environment
    7
    The Fauna Foundation
    —
    8
    Middle Ridge Animal Rescue Inc
    Animals
    9
    Born Free Foundation
    —
    10
    Duke Farms Foundation
    Environment
    11
    Old Dominion Conservation and Educational Foundation

    The old dominion conservation and educational foundation supports fox chasing, education, and open space preservation in the old dominion hunt territory of virginia's fauquier and rappahannock counties.

    Environment
    12
    Wilderness Conservation Foundation
    Environment
    How this is measured
    The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; the most unlike its peers is Island Sunrise Foundation 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

    15 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. 15 of the 22 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.

    1
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    3
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    14/15
    Grantees still filing
    10/15
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    RISING PHOENIX CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $9,720,345 · OtherRISING PHOENIX CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONMRC FULL CIRCLE FOUNDATION: $9,709,213 · OtherMRC FULL CIRCLE FOUNDATIONALEXANDER BRADY FOUNDATION: $9,708,871 · OtherALEXANDER BRADY FOUNDATION+8 more: $112,000 · OtherIsland Sunrise Foundation Inc: $9,708,871 · PhilanthropyIsland Sunrise Foundation IncGRAHAM FOUNDATION INC: $9,708,871 · PhilanthropyGRAHAM FOUNDATION INCNRA FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Crime & LegalTHE NATIONAL SPORTING LIBRARY AND MUSEUM: $20,000 · EducationNEXT GENERATION CHOICES FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationMIDDLEBURG HUMANE FOUNDATION: $14,000 · AnimalsXERCES SOCIETY INC: $10,000 · AnimalsFAUQUIER SPCA INC: $4,000 · AnimalsSeven Loaves Services Inc: $14,000 · Human ServicesTHE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $10,000 · EnvironmentAFRICAN ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FOUNDATION: $6,000 · Arts & Culture
    Other$29,250,429Philanthropy$19,417,742Crime & Legal$50,000Education$30,000Animals$28,000Human Services$14,000Environment$10,000Arts & Culture$6,000

    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 budgetGRAHAM FOUNDATION INC: $9,708,871 over 3y, 79% of budgetBLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNRA FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATIONAL SPORTING LIBRARY AND MUSEUM: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSeven Loaves Services Inc: $14,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetMIDDLEBURG HUMANE FOUNDATION: $14,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMIDDLEBURG COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetXERCES SOCIETY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEXT GENERATION CHOICES FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetAFRICAN ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetFAUQUIER FREE CLINIC INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFAUQUIER SPCA INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

    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.

    William M Backer Foun…The Luminescence Foun…Wise FoundationFauquier Health Found…The Hall Family Found…MRC Full Circle Found…McGraw FoundationFrank Mangano Foundat…Dun FoundationMorgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…
    William M Backer Foundation IncVA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

    Open a dossier: William M Backer Foundation Inc · The Luminescence Foundation Inc · Wise Foundation · Fauquier Health Foundation Dba the Path Foundation · The Hall Family Foundation Inc · MRC Full Circle Foundation · McGraw Foundation · Frank Mangano Foundation · Dun Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

    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 Bc Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bc Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

    2024
    ’20’21’22’23’24’25
    no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
    • Xerces Society Inc: 22% of income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Bc Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Bc Family 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 22 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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