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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,…

$57M
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$39k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$887kHuman Services$674kReligion$455kHousing & Shelter$171kPublic Safety & Disaster$52kArts & Culture$21kYouth Development$19kCommunity Improvement$19kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 25 grants below total $226,175, the rows itemized in this filing. The $57,469,969 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $57,243,794 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k19 grants · $98k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $128k
$7,150
Median grant
1
States reached
$45M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%LOVE OUTREACH FOOD PANTRY: $32k → 10%ROCKBRIDGE AREA RELIEF ASSOC: $20k → 12%LIFEWORKS PROJECT INC: $3k → 8%BEDFORD COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS: $9k → 8%LOVE OUTREACH FOOD PANTRY: $10k → 10%ROCKBRIDGE AREA RELIEF ASSOC: $15k → 12%PARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSIONS: $24k → 13%BEDFORD COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS STATION: $9k → 8%LOVE OUTREACH FOOD PANTRY: $9k → 10%ROCKBRIDGE AREA RELIEF ASSOCIATION: $13k → 12%NELSON COUNTY PANTRY: $41k → 13%AGAPE CENTER CORPORATION: $2k → 20%BEDFORD COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS: $8k → 8%LOVE OUTREACH FOOD PANTRY: $8k → 10%PARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSIONS: $18k → 13%THE HAVEN AT FIRST & MARKET: $6k → 8%THE HAVEN AT FIRST & MARKET: $5k → 8%PARK VIEW FOOD FOR THOUGHT: $2k → 13%EAGLE'S NEST REGENERATION: $2k → 13%THE AGAPE CENTER: $1k → 13%VERONA COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $66k → 8%PARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSION: $32k → 13%PARK VIEW FOOD FOR THOUGHT: $10k → 13%PARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSION: $9k → 13%VERONA COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $2k → 8%VERONA COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $600 → 8%PARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSION: $1k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 34 repeat orgs$954k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
65

Total granted

$1.4M
$858k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+7%

Still filing today

62%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $97k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionReligionEducationHousing & ShelterHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • LH
    LOUDOUN HUNGER RELIEF INC
    3× · 2017–2025 · $124k · revenue +151%
  • FG
    FEEDING GREENE INC - THE FOOD PANTRY OF GREENE COUNTY
    4× · 2021–2025 · $98k · revenue +41%
  • PV
    PARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSION INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $96k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • NO
    NETWORK OF 200 MEMBER AGENCIES
    4× · 2018–2021 · $198k
  • NO
    NETWORK OF 212 MEMBER AGENCIES
    one grant, 2017 · $134k
  • NC
    Nelson County Pantry Incgraduated
    2× · 2019–2022 · $41k · revenue +170%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Tobacco Valley Food Pantry

To provide for the economically disadvantaged people in the community.

Human Services
2
Farmville Area Community Emergency Services Inc

Distribution of food to qualified low-income residents of Prince Edward County, VA

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3
Dickenson County Food Bank

To provide food to the needy residents of Dickenson County Virginia

Food & Nutrition
4
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
5
Heart of Putnam Food Pantry Inc Sharing Putnams Bounty

Providing food to those in need.

Food & Nutrition
6
Hickory County Cares

Food distribution to the needy

Human Services
7
The Lord's Pantry of Shinnston

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…

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8
Medina County Food Pantry

Provide emergency food for those in need.

Human Services
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
Nac Food Pantry Inc

Providing weekly food assistance

Food & Nutrition
11
Falmouth Food Pantry Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
12
Harvest of Hope Food Pantry Inc

Food Pantry

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feeding Greene Inc - the Food Pantry of Greene County; 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.
04the grantee network

47 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. 47 of the 108 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/47
Grantees still filing
29/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NETWORK OF 200 MEMBER AGENCIES: $197,538 · OtherNETWORK OF 200 MEMBER AGENCIESNETWORK OF 212 MEMBER AGENCIES: $134,139 · OtherNETWORK OF 212 MEMBER AGENCIESCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ARLINGTON INC: $68,021 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ARLINGTON INCTIMBERLAKE UNITED METHODIST: $61,881 · OtherBY GODS GRACE MISSION CENTER: $52,838 · Other+75 more: $735,710 · Other+75 morePARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSION INC: $95,895 · Human ServicesPARK VIEW COMMUNIT…VERONA COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $68,007 · Human ServicesVERONA COMMUNITY F…Love Outreach Food Pantry Inc: $59,188 · Human ServicesLove Outreach Food…ROCKBRIDGE AREA RELIEF ASSOCIATION INC: $48,351 · Human ServicesROCKBRIDGE AREA RE…Nelson County Pantry Inc: $41,160 · Human ServicesNelson County Pant…BEDFORD COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS STATION: $26,609 · Human ServicesBEDFORD COMMUNITY …AGAPE CENTER CORPORATION INC: $18,494 · Human Services+4 more: $21,053 · Human Services+4 moreFEEDING GREENE INC - THE FOOD PANTRY OF GREENE COUNTY: $97,631 · Food & NutritionFEEDING GREENE IN…LYNCHBURG DAILY BREAD INC: $64,559 · Food & NutritionLYNCHBURG DAILY B…DULLES SOUTH FOOD PANTRY INC: $61,253 · Food & NutritionDULLES SOUTH FOOD…NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS OF AMHERST COUNTY INC: $47,232 · Food & NutritionNEIGHBORS HELPING…LOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY INC: $25,801 · Food & NutritionLOAVES & FISHES F…RAPPAHANNOCK PANTRY INC: $24,759 · Food & NutritionRAPPAHANNOCK PANT…DULLES SOUTH SOUP KITCHEN INC: $19,164 · Food & Nutrition+3 more: $24,542 · Food & Nutrition+3 moreLOUDOUN HUNGER RELIEF INC: $123,500 · ReligionEMBASSY OUTREACH MINISTRIES INC: $5,983 · ReligionOUR COMMUNITY PLACE: $110,275 · EducationWashington and Lee University: $7,354 · EducationPIEDMONT HOUSING ALLIANCE: $40,000 · Housing & ShelterVALLEY MISSION INC: $10,002 · Housing & ShelterMonacan Nation Cultural Foundation Inc: $20,972 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,250,127Human Services$378,757Food & Nutrition$364,941Religion$129,483Education$117,629Housing & Shelter$50,002Arts & Culture$20,972

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLOUDOUN HUNGER RELIEF INC: $123,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetOUR COMMUNITY PLACE: $110,275 over 3y, 15% of budgetFEEDING GREENE INC - THE FOOD PANTRY OF GREENE COUNTY: $97,631 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetPARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSION INC: $95,895 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetVERONA COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $68,007 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetLYNCHBURG DAILY BREAD INC: $64,559 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetDULLES SOUTH FOOD PANTRY INC: $61,253 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetLove Outreach Food Pantry Inc: $59,188 over 4y, 17% of budgetROCKBRIDGE AREA RELIEF ASSOCIATION INC: $48,351 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetNEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS OF AMHERST COUNTY INC: $47,232 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetNelson County Pantry Inc: $41,160 over 2y, 13% of budgetPIEDMONT HOUSING ALLIANCE: $40,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBEDFORD COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS STATION: $26,609 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetLOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY INC: $25,801 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMonacan Nation Cultural Foundation Inc: $20,972 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetELKTON AREA UNITED SERVICES INC: $19,562 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetDULLES SOUTH SOUP KITCHEN INC: $19,164 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetAGAPE CENTER CORPORATION INC: $18,494 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetPEOPLE INCORPORATED OF VIRGINIA: $18,053 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRIDGE TO HOPE FOOD PANTRY LLC: $16,473 over 2y, 26% of budgetFRONT ROYAL - WARREN COUNTY C-CAP: $16,138 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetTHE HAVEN AT FIRST AND MARKET INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetVALLEY MISSION INC: $10,002 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFAUQUIER COMMUNITY FOOD BANK & THRIFT STORE: $8,826 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetWashington and Lee University: $7,354 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAGE ONE OF PAGE COUNTY INC: $7,300 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetEMBASSY OUTREACH MINISTRIES INC: $5,983 over 1y, 10% of budgetFARRR FOUNDATION INC: $5,971 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCONGREGATIONAL COMMUNITY ACTION PROJECT INC: $5,692 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSeven Loaves Services Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHOPE DISTRIBUTED COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $4,026 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMADISON EMERGENCY SERVICES ASSOCIATION INC: $3,330 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE LIFE WORKS PROJECT INC: $2,642 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetEAGLES NEST REGENERATION: $2,411 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEastern Mennonite University: $2,254 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREE CLINIC OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC: $1,186 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 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 ↗

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.

Charlottesville Area …The Community Foundat…Greater Lynchburg Com…Community Foundation …Sentara HealthFoster FoundationAmerican Woodmark Fou…Houff Charitable Foun…Dominion Energy Chari…The Community Foundat…United Way of Norther…Community Foundation …
Charlottesville Area Community FoundationVA26.1× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Blue Ridge Area Food Bank Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Blue Ridge Area Food Bank Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 108 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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