· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Syracuse University School of Architecture | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| ACCESS FUND | $10,000 |
| Washington University in St Louis | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| ACLU FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THE BOWERY MISSION | $5,000 |
| Princeton Day School | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Appalachian Service Project | $4,000 |
| Heartland Human Care Services | $3,000 |
| New Alternatives | $3,000 |
| UCAN | $3,000 |
| STRONG TOWNS | $2,000 |
| Greater Boston Food Bank | $2,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 9% of Blue Ridge Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +58% since the first grant, against -13% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $85k · revenue +76%- TATHE ACCESS FUND8× · 2017–2024 · $52k · revenue +11%
- CHChristian Herald Association Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $44k · revenue +60%
Funded once
Save The Children Federation Incone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -13%- GGGIVING GREENone grant, 2022 · $5k
- CFCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +5%
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.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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,…
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.
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
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…
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…
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
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,…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
The healthwise mission is to help people make better health decisions.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
How this is measured
27 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. 27 of the 41 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 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 New Alternatives for LGBT Homeless Youth Inc ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN 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 CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BEACON HILL CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND HUMAN CARE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON CYCLISTS UNION INC ↗
- Who funds Institute for Nonviolence Chicago ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Blue Ridge Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Blue Ridge Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
- Saint Francis House Inc: 18% of income from government
- He Is Me Institute Inc: 16% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
- Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum: 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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