· Private foundation
Ben Conley Charitable & Education Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k25 grants · $107k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $36k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| LANCASTER VA EDUCATION FD | $8,000 |
| HEALTHY FOOD HARVEST | $8,000 |
| LANCASTER COUNTY YOUTH CLUB | $8,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF LYNCHBURG | $7,000 |
| VIRGINIA WESLEYAN UNIV | $7,000 |
| NORTHERN NECK FREE HEALTH CLINIC | $5,000 |
| LANCASTER COMMUNITY LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| LANCASTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $4,000 |
| CHARITIES 1000 AND BELOW | $3,750 |
| FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY | $3,500 |
| RANDOLPH MACON COLLEGE | $3,500 |
| SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY | $3,500 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% 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
Which US states its grants reach
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 +32% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.
50 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 5 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RCRANDOLPH-MACON COLLEGE6× · 2020–2025 · $25k · revenue +32%
- HPHIGH POINT UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $21k · revenue +70%
- JLJacob's Ladder Inc4× · 2020–2023 · $16k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $8k
- ODOLD DOMINION UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $5k
- LVLANCASTER VA HISTORICAL SOCone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
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How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 76 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 VIRGINIA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RANDOLPH-MACON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Jacob's Ladder Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUTH CLUB OF LANCASTER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CHOWAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF LYNCHBURG ↗
- Who funds LINK INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE NORTHERN NECK-MIDDLESEX FREE HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY HARVEST FOOD BANK 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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ben Conley Charitable & Education Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ben Conley Charitable & Education Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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