· Private foundation
Bella Vista Foundation
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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $1k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $626k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $250,000 |
| HEALING HANDS HEALTH CENTER | $125,000 |
| VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDA | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $87,500 |
| YWCA NETN AND SWVA | $60,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $53,500 |
| WILLIAM KING MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| SYMPHONY OF THE MOUNTAINS | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| VIRGINIA HIGHLANDS FESTIVAL | $20,000 |
| BIRTHPLACE OF COUNTRY MUSIC | $15,000 |
| BALLAD HEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE NAPOLEON HILL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 70% 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 5% of Bella Vista Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 78% of the giving stays in VA; by stated purpose, 73%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against -74% for those funded once.
39 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 3 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, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $348k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SOSYMPHONY OF THE MOUNTAINS9× · 2017–2025 · $450k · revenue +64%
- HHHEALING HANDS HEALTH CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $325k · revenue +148%
VIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INC2× · 2017–2018 · $300k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- COCITY OF NORTON VAone grant, 2023 · $250k
- GIGIRL'S INC OF BRISTOLone grant, 2023 · $100k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $100k
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.
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.
To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.
To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.
To improve the communitys health through the efficient provision, coordination, and integration of quality health services, health education, and research. To provide compassionate, quality health services according to the spiritual,…
Represent the agriculture, forestry, and agribusiness community in virginia.
To maintain high standards for nursing homes in the state of tennessee and to seek the solutions to problems common to members of the association.
To receive and hold the endowment of the north carolina symphony society, inc. (the "society"), solicit additions to the endowment, safeguard assets, and expend funds for the exclusive use and benefit of the society.
Advance and support the healthcare and research missions of virginia mason medical center and benaroya research institute at virginia mason through governance oversight of both organizations.
Valley healthcare system shall improve our community's health by delivering the highest quality behavioral healthcare guided by our consumer's needs.
To assist rural virginians in developing and advancing their agricultural, economic and social interests to enhance their quality of life.
Roane County Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
The mission of penn highlands mon valley is to enhance the health of the residents of the mid-monongahela valley area by providing outstanding healthcare services.
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 62 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 BARTER FOUNDATION INC STATE THEATRE OF VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds SYMPHONY OF THE MOUNTAINS ↗
- Who funds HEALING HANDS HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds BIRTHPLACE OF COUNTRY MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA HIGHLANDS FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds MILLIGAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PRO ART ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA ↗
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 United Company Foundation · Food City Charitable Foundation · The Richard & Leslie Gilliam Foundation · The James W and Frances Gibson McGlothlin Foundation · Eastman Credit Union · Clarke Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bella Vista Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bella Vista Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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