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Bf Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $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 |
| BAPTIST GENERAL ASSOCIAION OF VIRGINIA | $15,600 |
| THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NC INC | $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 |
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 (FY21–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 27%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +78% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL APPALACHIA INC5× · 2020–2024 · $650k · revenue +102% · 33% of their budget
- ALALICE LLOYD COLLEGE5× · 2020–2024 · $397k · revenue +78%
- MUMILLIGAN UNIVERSITY4× · 2020–2023 · $53k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- SVSOUTHWEST VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $21k · revenue -7%
- CACOMMUNITY ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -6%
- SESVCC EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $13k
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.
Coe college is a private, four-year co-educational liberal arts college.
Wesleyan university is dedicated to providing an education in liberal arts by building a diverse, energetic community of students, faculty, and staff who value independence of mind and generosity of spirit. see additional description in…
Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…
Lincoln memorial university is a values-based learning community dedicated to providing educational experiences in the liberal arts and professional studies.
Our students enter with promise and leave with purpose. we foster personal growth, academic excellence, career-ready skills, and a compassion for service grounded in faith. we empower individuals to lead purposeful lives, guided by ferrum…
The mission of the academy is to study and teach the truths of the natural and spiritual worlds in the light of the old testament, the new testament, and the writings of emanuel swedenborg. this is done at the academy of the new church…
Georgian court university (gcu), provides a comprehensive liberal arts education and is open to students of all faiths, delivers a curriculum that promotes scholarship, service, and personal development.
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…
Warren wilson college's distinctive approach to education intentionally integrates academics, work, and community engagement to cultivate curiosity, empathy, and integrity. we empower graduates to pursue meaningful careers and lead…
To educate students in the liberal arts through free inquiry and the open exchange of ideas.when grinnell college framed its charter in the iowa territory of the united states in 1846, it set forth a mission to educate its students "for…
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, and understanding of the world's architectural heritage…
The mission of portersville christian school is to glorify god by preparing students to serve christ and instilling high standards spiritually, academically, socially, and physically. the school provides a high-quality academic program, a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southwest Virginia Community College Educational Foundation Inc 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.
12 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. 12 of the 24 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL APPALACHIA INC ↗
- Who funds ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MILLIGAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM KING MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THEATRE GUILD OF BUCHANAN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds 29TH JUDICIAL CASA PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds EMORY & HENRY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FEEDING MY SHEEP INC ↗
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: The United Company Foundation · The James W and Frances Gibson McGlothlin Foundation · Thompson Charitable Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 organization 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.
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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