· Public charity
Blue Ridge Area Food Bank Inc
The food bank purchases food and obtains donations of food from the united states department of agriculture, manufacturers, distributors, retailers, growers and community members for distribution to people in need in 25 counties and eight cities in central and western virginia through a network of more than 220 providers, soup kitchens,…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 25 grants below total $226,175 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $57,469,969 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $57,243,794 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $98k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $128k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOUDOUN HUNGER RELIEF | $38,500 |
| RAPPAHANNOCK FOOD PANTRY | $24,759 |
| COMPASSION CHURCH OF NAZERENE | $21,000 |
| EMPOWERING CULPEPERPEOPLE INC | $18,053 |
| ROCKBRIDGE AREA RELIEF ASSOC | $15,017 |
| BETHANY SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST | $11,000 |
| PARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSION | $8,510 |
| LOVE OUTREACH FOOD PANTRY | $8,350 |
| BEDFORD COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS | $8,340 |
| DULLES SOUTH SOUP KITCHEN | $7,887 |
| FEEDING GREENE | $7,500 |
| OUR COMMUNITY PLACE | $7,341 |
| NEW PROSPECT BAPTIST CHURCH | $7,150 |
| UVA CAVALIER FOOD PANTRY | $6,253 |
| ELKTON AREA UNITED SERVICES | $6,118 |
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 (FY19–25, $358k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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 +20% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $97k 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
- LHLOUDOUN HUNGER RELIEF INC3× · 2017–2025 · $124k · revenue +151%
- FGFEEDING GREENE INC - THE FOOD PANTRY OF GREENE COUNTY4× · 2021–2025 · $98k · revenue +41%
- PVPARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSION INC6× · 2019–2025 · $96k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- NONETWORK OF 200 MEMBER AGENCIES4× · 2018–2021 · $198k
- NONETWORK OF 212 MEMBER AGENCIESone grant, 2017 · $134k
- NCNelson County Pantry Incgraduated2× · 2019–2022 · $41k · revenue +170%
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.
To provide for the economically disadvantaged people in the community.
Distribution of food to qualified low-income residents of Prince Edward County, VA
To provide food to the needy residents of Dickenson County Virginia
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…
Providing food to those in need.
Food distribution to the needy
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…
Provide food to needy individuals & families - food is puchased from several sources, donated from serveral sources. costs include renting u-haul trucks to picking up truck loads of food from the mountaineer food bank. we also provide…
Provide emergency food for those in need.
Providing weekly food assistance
our goal is to alleviate hunger through providing healthy foods as well as basic hygiene supplies. We respond also to specific food needs caused by medical and religious requirements.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feeding Greene Inc - the Food Pantry of Greene County and the most unlike its peers is Monacan Nation Cultural Foundation Inc. 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.
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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
47 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. 47 of the 108 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 LOUDOUN HUNGER RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds OUR COMMUNITY PLACE ↗
- Who funds FEEDING GREENE INC - THE FOOD PANTRY OF GREENE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds VERONA COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds LYNCHBURG DAILY BREAD INC ↗
- Who funds DULLES SOUTH FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Love Outreach Food Pantry Inc ↗
- Who funds ROCKBRIDGE AREA RELIEF ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS OF AMHERST COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Nelson County Pantry Inc ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT HOUSING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds BEDFORD COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS STATION ↗
- Who funds LOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds RAPPAHANNOCK PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Monacan Nation Cultural Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ELKTON AREA UNITED SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds DULLES SOUTH SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds AGAPE CENTER CORPORATION INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE INCORPORATED OF VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE TO HOPE FOOD PANTRY LLC ↗
- Who funds FRONT ROYAL - WARREN COUNTY C-CAP ↗
- Who funds AMHERST-NELSON CARES LTD ↗
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: Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · The Community Foundation of Harrisonburg & Rockingham County · Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation · Community Foundation of the Central Blue Ridge · Sentara Health · Foster Foundation · American Woodmark Foundation Inc · Houff Charitable Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Community Foundation of the Northern Shenandoah Valley · United Way of Northern Shenandoah Valley Inc · Community Foundation for Loudoun and Northern Fauquier Counties
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 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.
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.