· Private foundation
Beverly W & Hampton O Powell Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 43% of Beverly W & Hampton O Powell Charitable Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $165k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Altavista Area YMCA | $40,000 |
| Altavista Area YMCA | $20,000 |
| The Fuller Center for Housing | $20,000 |
| Centra Health Foundation | $15,000 |
| Avoca Museum and Historical Society | $15,000 |
| Three Into One Community Project | $13,000 |
| Campbell County Educational Foundat | $12,000 |
| Virginia Technical Institute | $10,000 |
| Faith Christian Academy | $10,000 |
| CVCC Educational Foundation | $10,000 |
| Lynchburg Daily Bread | $7,500 |
| DAWN | $7,500 |
| Lynch Station Baptist Church | $5,500 |
| Lynch Station Ruritan Society | $5,000 |
| Claire Parker Foundation | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $493k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
26 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- AAAltavista Area YMCA Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $490k · revenue +90%
- THTRI-RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC7× · 2017–2023 · $140k · revenue +156% · 58% of their budget
- FCFaith Christian Academy9× · 2017–2025 · $100k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- AVALTAVISTA VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +33%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $10k
- CVCENTRAL VA YMCA FRANNY'S HOUSEone grant, 2017 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Furtherance of economic growth, education, training and development
VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.
To use policy, research, and analysis to advance the well-being of Virginia communities, and improve the economic security and social opportunities of all Virginians.
Working within the faith community to educate and mobilize citizen to create systemic social change for low income Virginians.
Provide comprehensive primary medical care to the communites served.
Our mission is to ensure the availability, access, and affordability of locally produced food by connecting local farmers and all members of the community through programs, awareness, and advocacy.
The free clinic of franklin county, inc is founded on the belief that everyone should have access to quality, affordable, primary health care regardless of their socio-economic or insurance status.
Elevating awareness of the transformative power of architecture and design.
The Children's Advocacy Centers of Virginia (CACVA) promotes and supports the development, growth and continuation of child advocacy centers and multidisciplinary teams across the state in their service to child victims of abuse and…
To provide for scholarships, faculty & staff development and instructor equipment
To promote locally owned retail establishments and service providers.
The purpose of the Community Health Center of the New River Valley (CHCNRV) is to provide affordable and high quality medical, dental, behavioral, and preventive health care services to people of all ages and circumstances, regardless of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Free Clinic of Central Virginia Inc and the most unlike its peers is Avoca Museum and Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 33 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Altavista Area YMCA Inc ↗
- Who funds TRI-RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds Faith Christian Academy ↗
- Who funds CENTRA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AVOCA MUSEUM AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LYNCHBURG DAILY BREAD INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLAIRE PARKER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DAWN INC ↗
- Who funds Virginia Technical Institute ↗
- Who funds ALTAVISTA VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds EMPOWER DAY SUPPORT OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds FREE CLINIC OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds CAMPBELL COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF LYNCHBURG ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation · The Minnie and Bernard Lane Foundation · Foster Foundation · Moore's Charitable Foundation · The Al Stroobants Foundation · Fray Family Charitable Trust · Wc English Foundation · Centra Health Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Beverly W & Hampton O Powell Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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