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BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC
The blue ridge area food bank's mission is to improve food security through equitable access to good nutrition and the resources that support health and well-being.
$55M
Granted FY2024
21
Grants
1
Communities
$32k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 57% of BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC’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
2019
increase storagestorage cap
2020
nutritious personalpersonal supplies
2021
pagepark viewpantryloaves fishescatholic churchgraceneighbors
2022
ministrypresbyterian churchcharlottesvillehousingeverypantrysafe
2023
partnershipsnourishingstudentsfreeclothingseeevery
2024
kitchenclothingfinancial needycatholic churchelderlymeals needyenvironment
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 21 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $85k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $130k
$8,477
Median grant
1
States reached
$42M
Total assets
Largest grants
- FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF FRONT ROYAL$31,691
- FISHERSVILLE UNITED METHODIST$27,055
- NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS$20,162
- VERONA UNITED METHODIST$18,696
- DULLES SOUTH SOUP KITCHEN$11,277
- FRONT ROYAL-WARREN CO C-CAP$10,843
- LOVE OUTREACH FOOD PANTRY$10,000
- MINISTERIOS PALABRA VIVA$9,705
- BEDFORD COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS$9,225
- BLESSED SACRAMENT CATHOLIC CHURCH$9,064
- VALLEY RIDGE DISTRICT-VA ANNUAL CON$8,477
- MISSIONARY FOOD BANK$8,081
- LYNCHBURG DAILY BREAD$6,838
- ELKTON AREA UNITED SERVICES$6,812
- GOOD SAMARITAN INC$6,690
02The need
04
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:
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $298k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 7%. 100% of those 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.
55%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.0M · 27 repeat orgs$838k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +80% since the first grant, against +52% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
27
64
Total granted
$1.0M
$790k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+80%
+52%
Still filing today
56%
23%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesFood & NutritionEducationHealthReligionArts & CultureOther
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
- OCOUR COMMUNITY PLACE2× · 2022–2023 · $103k · revenue +34%
- FGFEEDING GREENE3× · 2021–2023 · $90k · revenue +52%
- PVPARK VIEW FOOD FOR THOUGHT4× · 2019–2023 · $69k · revenue +115%
Funded once
- NONETWORK OF 200 MEMBER AGENCIES4× · 2018–2021 · $198k
- LHLOUDOUN HUNGER RELIEFgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +107%
- NCNELSON COUNTY PANTRYgraduated2× · 2019–2022 · $41k · revenue +219%
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.
1
Tobacco Valley Food Pantry
To provide for the economically disadvantaged people in the community.
Human Services
2
Farmville Area Community Emergency
Distribution of food to qualified low-income residents of Prince Edward County, VA
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3
The Pantry at Hamilton Mill Inc
The Pantry seeks to offer the Bread of Life to our community by providing quality food and building quality relationships rooted in the love ofJesus. Due to the strong need in our community, The Pantry at Hamilton Mill was created to…
Food & Nutrition
4
Dickenson County Food Bank
To provide food to the needy residents of Dickenson County Virginia
Food & Nutrition
5
Bread of Life Food Pantry Inc
Operate a food pantry in rural west virginia
Food & Nutrition
6
3G Food Pantry
Local food pantry serving those food insecurity.
Food & Nutrition
7
The Lord's Pantry of Shinnston
The organization's mission is to help alleviate hunger in west virginia by operating a local food pantry.
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8
Heart of Putnam Food Pantry Inc
Providing food to those in need.
Food & Nutrition
9
Church Women United
Jesus commanded, "love your neighbor as yourself." (mark 12:31) our ministry provides loving service to the poor and hungry. the organization will operate an ecumenical food pantry to serve those who need food assistance in york county and…
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10
The Lords Table a Ministry of Rccg
Food Pantry - Providing Food and other household items to people in the community
Religion
11
Faith Food Pantry
The mission of the food pantry is to help any resident who needs food assistance and to do so without judgement faith does not discriminate by age, color, religious belief or gender.
Food & Nutrition
12
Medina County Food Pantry
Provide emergency food for those in need.
Human Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dulles South Food Pantry Inc and the most unlike its peers is Washington and Lee University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 20 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
1%1/100
the rest of the field
10%
734/7,502
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
05the grantee network
41 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/41
Grantees still filing
31/41
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$1,077,236Human Services$318,739Food & Nutrition$290,259Education$110,288Religion$55,983Arts & Culture$16,353Housing & Shelter$10,002
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 OUR COMMUNITY PLACE ↗
- Who funds FEEDING GREENE ↗
- Who funds PARK VIEW FOOD FOR THOUGHT ↗
- Who funds VERONA COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds DULLES SOUTH SOUP KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds LYNCHBURG DAILY BREAD ↗
- Who funds LOVE OUTREACH FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds LOUDOUN HUNGER RELIEF ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS AMHERST ↗
- Who funds NELSON COUNTY PANTRY ↗
- Who funds ROCKBRIDGE AREA RELIEF ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BEDFORD COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS STATION ↗
- Who funds THE AGAPE CENTER ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE TO HOPE FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds MONACAN NATION CULTURAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRONT ROYAL-WARREN CO C-CAP ↗
- Who funds ELKTON AREA UNITED SERVICES ↗
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.
Charlottesville Area CommunityVA21.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Charlottesville Area Community · Community Foundation of the Central · Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation · The Community Foundation of Harrisonburg · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · American Woodmark Foundation Inc · Sentara Health · Houff Charitable Foundation · The Community Foundation of the Northern · United Way of Northern Shenandoah · Community Foundation for Loudoun And · The Community Foundation for Northern
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 BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC 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
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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: LOVE OUTREACH FOOD PANTRY.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~17 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 541475154 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 LOVE OUTREACH FOOD PANTRY, 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 17 months of cash on hand.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 17% 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 Blue Ridge Area Food Bank Inc?
Find your warmest path to Blue Ridge Area Food Bank Inc 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.
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines