· Private foundation
Bf 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, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $93k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $545k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $235,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL APPALACHIA | $200,000 |
| ALICE LLYOD COLLEGE | $60,000 |
| APPALACHAIN HIGHLANDS COMMUNITY DENTAL CENTER | $50,000 |
| BUCHANAN COUNTY TECHNOLOGY AND CAREER CENTER | $40,000 |
| THEATRE GUILD OF BUCHANAN COUNTY INC | $20,000 |
| FRIENDS OF BUCHANAN COUNTY LIBRARY | $12,500 |
| WILLIAM KING MUSEUM OF ART | $10,500 |
| MILLIGAN COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| BUCHANAN FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
| GRUNDY HIGH SCHOOL - ART DEPARTMENT | $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.
Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 27%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +78% since the first grant, against -7% for those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 4 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL APPALACHIA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $850k · revenue +102% · 33% of their budget
- ALALICE LLOYD COLLEGE6× · 2020–2025 · $457k · revenue +78%
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA'S COLLEGE AT WISE FOUNDATION INC2× · 2022–2023 · $100k · revenue +241%
Funded once
- SVSOUTHWEST VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $21k · revenue -7%
- CACOMMUNITY ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -6%
- BGBAPTIST GENERAL ASSOCIATION OF VIRGINIAone grant, 2024 · $16k
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.
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…
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…
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…
Coe college is a private, four-year co-educational liberal arts college.
Bridgewater college educates the whole person by providing a challenging and supportive learning community that fosters the growth of its students and empowers and motivates them to live educated, intelligent, healthy, purposeful and…
The mission of the edward via college of osteopathic medicine (vcom) is to prepare globally-minded, community-focused physicians to meet the needs of rural and medically underserved populations and promote research to improve human health.
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…
Charleston southern university (csu) is a private, four-year co-educational institution organized under the laws of the state of south carolina as a non-profit organization and sponsored by the south carolina baptist convention. the…
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.
The mission of wvicu is to advance collectively the interests of west virginia's independent colleges and universities and their students.
Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.
Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 24 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL APPALACHIA INC ↗
- Who funds ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA'S COLLEGE AT WISE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THEATRE GUILD OF BUCHANAN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MILLIGAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM KING MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bf Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bf Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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