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Blue Ridge Charitable Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$106k
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$348kCivil Rights$61kEnvironment$60kReligion$44kHousing & Shelter$39kEmployment$32kYouth Development$29kPhilanthropy$26kOther$0
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k19 grants · $51k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
$3,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Syracuse University School of Architecture$20,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
ACCESS FUND$10,000
Washington University in St Louis$10,000
ACLU FOUNDATION$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
THE BOWERY MISSION$5,000
Princeton Day School$5,000
Appalachian Service Project$4,000
Heartland Human Care Services$3,000
UCAN$3,000
New Alternatives$3,000
STRONG TOWNS$2,000
ST FRANCIS HOUSE$2,000
02The need
03

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 (FY18–24, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.

area typical 11%PINE STREET INN: $5k → 16%Heartland Human Care Services: $3k → 14%PINE STREET INN: $5k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $3k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $2k → 16%UCAN: $3k → 14%Pine Street Inn: $2k → 16%UCAN: $2k → 14%PINE STREET INN: $2k → 16%UCAN: $1k → 14%PINE STREET INN: $2k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 9% of Blue Ridge Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Blue Ridge Charitable Trustlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$701k · 28 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against -13% for the ones you funded once.

28 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
6

Total granted

$701k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
-13%

Still filing today

68%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationInternationalPublic Safety & DisasterCommunity ImprovementHealthOther

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

  • WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $85k · revenue +76%
  • TA
    THE ACCESS FUND
    8× · 2017–2024 · $52k · revenue +11%
  • CH
    Christian Herald Association Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $44k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • Save The Children Federation Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -13%
  • GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -40%
  • GG
    GIVING GREEN
    one grant, 2022 · $5k

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
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.

Health
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

3
Neighborhealth Corporation

Neighborhealth's mission is to promote and sustain healthy communities, families, and individuals by providing accessible, person-centered, and compassionate, high-quality health care services to all who live and work in our service area,…

Health
4
Mass General Brigham Health Plan Inc

Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.

Health
5
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
6
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
7
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
8
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
9
Boston Harbor Now Inc

Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…

Environment
10
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
11
Healthwise Incorporated

The healthwise mission is to help people make better health decisions.

Health
12
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of New York City and the most unlike its peers is Movember Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLand Conservation Organizat…Child and Family ServicesFood Pantries & AssistanceEducation Equity LeadershipCancer Support OrganizationsCommunity Health CentersIndependent K-8 SchoolsHomeless Services & ShelterLgbtq+ Community CentersFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
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
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 42 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr20%32%10–20yr19%8%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%36%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr19%2%20–35yr13%17%35–55yr16%66%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/27
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,733

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

27 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 41 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
20/27
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE — $136,000 · OtherSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURESYRACUSE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ARCH — $59,300 · OtherSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ARCHTHE ACCESS FUND — $52,000 · OtherTHE ACCESS FUNDCENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY — $32,000 · OtherCENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITYIndividual grant recipient — $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientACLU — $20,000 · Other+22 more — $134,924 · Other+22 moreWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $85,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSIT…PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL INC — $40,000 · EducationPRINCETON DAY SCHOOL…PROPRIETORS OF THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM — $7,000 · Education+1 more — $2,500 · EducationChristian Herald Association Inc — $44,000 · ReligionPINE STREET INN INC — $21,000 · Human ServicesSAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC — $14,000 · Human ServicesUCAN — $6,000 · Human ServicesHEARTLAND HUMAN CARE SERVICES INC — $3,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $33,000 · Civil RightsNew Alternatives for LGBT Homeless Youth Inc — $21,000 · Housing & ShelterSTRONG TOWNS — $12,000 · Community ImprovementBEACON HILL CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC — $4,000 · Community Improvement
Other$459,224Education$134,500Religion$44,000Human Services$44,000Civil Rights$33,000Housing & Shelter$21,000Community Improvement$16,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $85,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACCESS FUND — $52,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetChristian Herald Association Inc — $44,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPRINCETON DAY SCHOOL INC — $40,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $33,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC — $21,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNew Alternatives for LGBT Homeless Youth Inc — $21,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetNEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY — $14,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC — $14,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSTRONG TOWNS — $12,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC — $10,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPROPRIETORS OF THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM — $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUCAN — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEACON HILL CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBOSTON CYCLISTS UNION INC — $3,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetInstitute for Nonviolence Chicago — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHe Is Me Institute Inc — $2,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJourney of Awesomeness Incorporated — $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMOVEMBER FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC — $513 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VINCENT CLUB INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds THE ACCESS FUND
  • Who funds Christian Herald Association Inc
  • Who funds PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds PINE STREET INN INC
  • Who funds New Alternatives for LGBT Homeless Youth Inc
  • Who funds NEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN INC
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY
  • Who funds SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC
  • Who funds STRONG TOWNS
  • Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC
  • Who funds PROPRIETORS OF THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM
  • Who funds UCAN
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc
  • Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC
  • Who funds BEACON HILL CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds BOSTON CYCLISTS UNION INC
  • Who funds Institute for Nonviolence Chicago
  • Who funds HEARTLAND HUMAN CARE SERVICES INC
  • Who funds He Is Me Institute Inc
  • Who funds Journey of Awesomeness Incorporated
  • Who funds MOVEMBER FOUNDATION
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
  • Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE 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.

Boston Foundation IncMA12.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Blue Ridge Charitable Trust 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 16%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc30% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc22% of income from government
  • Saint Francis House Inc18% of income from government
  • He Is Me Institute Inc16% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc11% of income from government
  • Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
5report 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, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Blue Ridge Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to Blue Ridge Charitable Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 41 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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