How much did BF FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 72% of BF FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

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2021

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2022

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2023

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2024

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k4 grants · $14k
$10k–50k7 grants · $134k
$50k–250k3 grants · $441k

$15,600

Median grant

States reached

$14M

Total assets

Largest grants

BUCHANAN COUNTY YMCA$230,600
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL APPALACHIA$150,000
ALICE LLYOD COLLEGE$60,000
BUCHANAN COUNTY TECHNOLOGY AND CAREER CENTER$30,000
APPALACHAIN HIGHLANDS COMMUNITY DENTAL CENTER$25,000
THEATRE GUILD OF BUCHANAN COUNTY INC$20,000
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NC INC$15,600
BAPTIST GENERAL ASSOCIAION OF VIRGINIA$15,600
SAMARITANS PURSE$15,000
FRIENDS OF BUCHANAN COUNTY LIBRARY$12,500
WILLIAM KING MUSEUM OF ART$5,000
BUCHANAN FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$5,000
GRUNDY HIGH SCHOOL - ART DEPARTMENT$3,000
29TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES PROGRAM$600

02The need

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 25% — the area typically sits at 15%. 94% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.9M · 15 repeat orgs$116k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +195% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.9M

$70k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+195%

+27%

Still filing today

27%

67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionReligionOther

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

BG
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL APPALACHIA
5× · 2020–2024 · $650k · revenue +42% · 33% of their budget
MU
MILLIGAN UNIVERSITY
4× · 2020–2023 · $53k · revenue +48%
WK
WILLIAM KING MUSEUM OF ART
5× · 2020–2024 · $46k · revenue +195%

Funded once

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SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $21k · revenue +26%
CA
COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION
one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +17%
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SVCC EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2022 · $13k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Greenville College

To transform students for lives of character and service through a christ-centered education.

Education

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

Vcca's mission is to provide time and space for national and international writers, visual artists, and composers of talent and promise to bring forth their finest works, because the arts are vital, diversity is a strength, and creativity…

Arts & Culture

West Virginia Independent Colleges

The mission of wvicu is "to champion independent higher education throughout the state of west virginia". the vision further states that independent higher education in west virginia will be an accessible, indispensable and highly visible…

Education

Virginia Wesleyan University

Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.

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Southside Virginia Community

To foster and promote the growth, progress and general welfare of the southside virginia community college and the virginia college system.

Education

Wise County Christian School

The wise county christian school provides a christian education and academic excellance that glorifies christ and edifies the students by consistently presenting christian world views to children in southwest virignia. it serves between 80…

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Grace Christian Academy of Kings Mtn

A christ-centered, bible-based religious curriculum is combined with god pleasing discipline to prepare students for citizenship on earth as well as in heaven.

Education

American College of the Building

The american college of the building arts educates and trains artisans in the traditional building arts to foster exceptional craftsmanship and encourage the preservation, enrichment, (continued on schedule o)

Education

Kentucky Mountain Bible College Inc

To educate and prepare students for biblical gospel ministry as educators, pastors, and foreign missionaries.

Education

West Virginia University Alumni

Wvuaa provides life-long support of our alumni and friends and serves the interest of the university.

Education

Carson-Newman University

Mission of challenge, nurture, community: carson-newman college offers a christian, liberal arts education in an environment that encourages open intellectual inquiry and deeper spiritual maturity. students receive a personalized education…

Education

William Carey University

As a christian university which embraces its baptist heritage and namesake, william carey university provides quality educational programs within a caring christian academic community, which challenge the individual student to excel in…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Emory & Henry College and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

9/9

Grantees still filing

9/9

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$2,166,500Youth Development$650,000Arts & Culture$110,560Education$83,000Religion$15,000Food & Nutrition$1,500

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.

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.

The James W and Frances GibsonVA13.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The James W and Frances Gibson · The United Company Foundation · The Thompson Charitable Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 organisation BF 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.

2024

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL APPALACHIA.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~14 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 205517073 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL APPALACHIA, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 14 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 33% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Bf Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Bf Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

BF FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Bf Foundation?

More from the funding graph

BF FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Bf Foundation?

More from the funding graph