Virginia · Private foundation
Ben Conley Charitable & Education Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $142k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2025
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 30
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations Ben Conley Charitable & Education Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 28 | $142k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 30 | $155k | 30% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $135k | 12% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $132k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $118k | 32% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $85k | 48% |
| FY2019 | 27 | $81k | 22% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $76k | 52% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| James Madison University | $49,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Virginia Wesleyan University | $36,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Morattico Baptist Church | $24,750 | 9 | n/a |
| Randolph-Macon College | $24,500 | 6 | 0% |
| High Point University | $21,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Jacob's Ladder Inc | $15,849 | 4 | 2% |
| Youth Club of Lancaster County Inc | $15,500 | 3 | 2% |
| Chowan University | $14,500 | 4 | 0% |
| University of Lynchburg | $14,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Link Incorporated | $12,500 | 5 | 2% |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| James Madison University | $49,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Virginia Wesleyan University | $36,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Morattico Baptist Church | $24,750 | 9 | n/a |
| Randolph-Macon College | $24,500 | 6 | 0% |
| High Point University | $21,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Jacob's Ladder Inc | $15,849 | 4 | 2% |
| Youth Club of Lancaster County Inc | $15,500 | 3 | 2% |
| Chowan University | $14,500 | 4 | 0% |
| University of Lynchburg | $14,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Link Incorporated | $12,500 | 5 | 2% |
| The Northern Neck-Middlesex Free Health Clinic Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Longwood University | $9,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Healthy Harvest Food Bank Inc | $9,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Shenandoah University | $3,500 | 1 | 0% |
| The Howard University | $3,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Amda Inc (American Musical and Dramatic Academy) | $3,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Wofford College | $3,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Eastern Nazarene College | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Bluefield University | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Haven Inc | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kilmarnock Baptist Church | $2,464 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 55 recipients with no EIN on record ($704k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ben Conley Charitable & Education Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About Ben Conley Charitable & Education Foundation
- How much does Ben Conley Charitable & Education Foundation give?
- Ben Conley Charitable & Education Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $142,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ben Conley Charitable & Education Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (50%), Youth Development (15%), Health (14%).
- Who are Ben Conley Charitable & Education Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: James Madison University ($49k), Virginia Wesleyan University ($36k), Morattico Baptist Church ($25k).
- Does Ben Conley Charitable & Education Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ben Conley Charitable & Education Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ben Conley Charitable & Education Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation, The Community Foundation Inc, The Nettie L and Charles L Wiley Foundation.
- Where is Ben Conley Charitable & Education Foundation based?
- Ben Conley Charitable & Education Foundation is based in VA.
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