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Blue Ridge Community Foundation at a glance

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Blue Ridge Community Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$48k
Granted FY2019
37
Grants FY2019
1
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2019.

Health$32kHousing & Shelter$25kFood & Nutrition$16kHuman Services$15kRecreation & Sports$9kYouth Development$8kEducation$7kPhilanthropy$6kOther$0
02FY2019 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF FAUQUIER COUNTY$3,000
FAUQUIER COMMUNITY FOOD COALITON$3,000
FAUQUIER FAMILY SHELTER$3,000
THE RAINBOW RIDING THERAPEUTIC CENTER$2,500
FAUQUIER FISH$2,275
THE SWEET JULIA GRACE FOUNDATION$2,000
PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE OF FAUQUIER$2,000
ALEX'S ARMY$2,000
VERDUN ADVENTURE BOUND$2,000
FAUQUIER FREE CLINIC$2,000
COMMUNITY TOUCH$2,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF FAUQUIER$2,000
FAUQUIER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$2,000
VETS ON TRACK FOUNDATION$1,500
FAUQUIER EDUCATION FARM$1,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–19, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 5%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 5%HIGHLAND SCHOOL: $3k → 6%HIGHLAND SCHOOL: $800 → 6%FAUQUIER COMMUNITY CHILD CARE: $500 → 6%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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$110k · 24 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +81% since the first grant, against -9% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2019, 2 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
6

Total granted

$110k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+81%
-9%

Still filing today

58%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther
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

  • MH
    MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF FAUQUIER COUNTY INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $9k · revenue +11%
  • FH
    FAUQUIER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $8k · revenue +87%
  • RT
    RAINBOW THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER
    3× · 2017–2019 · $8k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • AC
    Allegro Community Music School
    one grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue -9%
  • CA
    COME AS YOU ARE
    one grant, 2017 · $500
  • FC
    FAUQUIER COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL SOCCER
    one grant, 2017 · $500
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
Fauquier Community Action Committee Inc

The organization seeks to reduce poverty, revitalize low income communities and empower low income individuals and families to become self-sufficient.

Human Services
2
Fauquier Community Food Bank & Thrift Store

To fight hunger in fauquier county by providing our neighbors in need with nourishing food and encouraging self-sufficiency through vibrant community partnerships

Food & Nutrition
3
Fauquier Chamber of Commerce

We are focused on, and a resource for, the business, government and community interests of local businesses in and around fauquier county, virginia.

—
4
Fauquier Spca Inc

The organization is dedicated to providing a temporary refuge for stray, homeless and abandoned animals, and to place such animals in a caring, appropriate home whenever possible. educating the public about the benefits of spaying and…

Animals
5
Free Clinic of Franklin County Inc

The free clinic of franklin county, inc is founded on the belief that everyone should have access to quality, affordable, primary health care regardless of their socio-economic or insurance status.

—
6
Fauquier Family Shelter Services

To provide short term shelter, transitional housing and comprehensive services, means, and guidance to homeless and potentially homesless families in our community.

Housing & Shelter
7
People Helping People of Fauquier County Inc

People helping people provides emergency financial assistance to families and individuals in fauquier county, virginia.

Philanthropy
8
Hospice Support of Fauquier County Inc

Provide free non-medical services to the public.

—
9
Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities

VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.

Civil Rights
10
Plenty Inc

To nourish community and feed hungry neighbors by growing and sharing food in Floyd County, Virginia.

Food & Nutrition
11
Fauquier County Fair Inc

To provide a safe educational environment for residents and visitors to the annual fauquier county fair.

—
12
The Arc of Frederick County Inc

The arc of frederick county helps people with developmental disabilities live enviable lives, that is, lives filled with purpose and meaning, with friends and family. the arc provides services and advocacy.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fauquier Community Child Care Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Centre Performing Arts Company. 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

26 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. 26 of the 45 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/26
Grantees still filing
18/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FAUQUIER FAMILY SHELTER: $9,300 · OtherFAUQUIER FAMILY SHELTERFAUQUIER COMMUNITY FOOD COALITON: $8,750 · OtherFAUQUIER COMMUNITY FOOD COALITONRAINBOW THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $7,500 · OtherRAINBOW THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTERPEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE OF FAUQUIER: $5,700 · OtherPEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE OF FAUQUIERTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF FAUQUIER INC: $5,500 · OtherTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF FAUQUIER INCALEX'S ARMY: $4,000 · OtherALEX'S ARMYFAUQUIER FREE CLINIC INC: $4,000 · OtherFAUQUIER FREE CLINIC INCFAMILIES 4 FAQUIER: $3,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $2,500 · OtherVets On Track Foundation: $3,000 · Other+20 more: $16,300 · Other+20 moreFAUQUIER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $7,500 · Housing & ShelterFAUQUIER HAB…COMMUNITY TOUCH INC: $5,500 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY TO…MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF FAUQUIER COUNTY INC: $8,500 · HealthThe Arc of North Central Virginia Inc: $500 · HealthWARRENTON PREGNANCY CENTER: $500 · Health+1 more: $100 · HealthTHE SWEET JULIA GRACE FOUNDATION: $4,500 · Youth DevelopmentVERDUN ADVENTURE BOUND INC: $4,000 · Youth DevelopmentFAUQUIER EDUCATION FARM INC: $4,300 · Food & NutritionHaymarket Regional Food Pantry: $3,000 · Food & NutritionHIGHLAND SCHOOL INC: $3,300 · Human ServicesGIRLS ON THE RUN PIEDMONT: $2,550 · Human ServicesFAUQUIER COMMUNITY CHILD CARE INC: $500 · Human ServicesVOLTRAN: $500 · Human ServicesFAUQUIER FISH: $5,775 · Philanthropy
Other$70,050Housing & Shelter$13,000Health$9,600Youth Development$8,500Food & Nutrition$7,300Human Services$6,850Philanthropy$5,775

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 budgetMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF FAUQUIER COUNTY INC: $8,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetFAUQUIER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetRAINBOW THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $7,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetFAUQUIER FISH: $5,775 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY TOUCH INC: $5,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF FAUQUIER INC: $5,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTHE SWEET JULIA GRACE FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetFAUQUIER EDUCATION FARM INC: $4,300 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetVERDUN ADVENTURE BOUND INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFAUQUIER FREE CLINIC INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHIGHLAND SCHOOL INC: $3,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVets On Track Foundation: $3,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN PIEDMONT: $2,550 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetFAUQUIER COUNTY SOCCER CLUB: $1,700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFAUQUIER COMMUNITY CHILD CARE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVOLTRAN: $500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFALCON BOOSTER CLUB: $500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWARRENTON PREGNANCY CENTER: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFAUQUIER HOSPITAL AUXILIARY INC: $300 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Fauquier Health Found…Northern Piedmont Com…The Jesse and Rose Lo…Fhi ServicesMightycause Charitabl…William a Hazel Famil…Wise FoundationThe Bank of Clarke Co…Uva Culpeper Medical …Margaret Spilman Bowd…The Leighton-Oare Fou…Anverse Inc
Fauquier Health Foundation Dba the Path FoundationVA47× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fauquier Health Foundation Dba the Path Foundation · Northern Piedmont Community Foundation · The Jesse and Rose Loeb Foundation Inc · Fhi Services · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · William a Hazel Family Foundation · Wise Foundation · The Bank of Clarke County Foundation · Uva Culpeper Medical Center · Margaret Spilman Bowden Foundation · The Leighton-Oare Foundation Inc · Anverse Inc

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 Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Blue Ridge Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Blue Ridge Community Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Blue Ridge Community Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 45 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2023) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2019, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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