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Centra Health Foundation

To provide support to the centra healthcare system.

$6.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$6.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Health$33MHuman Services$123kFood & Nutrition$121kYouth Development$74kRecreation & Sports$69kHousing & Shelter$60kEducation$27kCommunity Improvement$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 3 grants below total $6,136,739 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $6,335,645 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $198,906 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 · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $26k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $67k
  • $250k+1 grant · $6.0M
$67,447
Median grant
1
States reached
$83M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTRA HEALTH INC$6,042,874
BEDFORD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL$67,447
SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL INC$26,418
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 (FY18–19, $289k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FREE FOUNDATION: $24k → 8%Foundation for Rehab Equipment & Endowment: $15k → 8%SOUTHSIDE VA FAMILY YMCA: $29k → 15%Park View Mission Inc: $28k → 13%BEDFORD RIDE PROJECT (CENTRAL VA ALLIANCE): $25k → 8%CENTRAL VA ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY INC: $99k → 13%CENTRAL VA ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY INC: $70k → 13%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.

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 16% of Centra Health Foundation’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.

Centra Health Foundationlessmore 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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$33M · 15 repeat orgs$517k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +96% since the first grant, against +47% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
28

Total granted

$33M
$517k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+96%
+47%

Still filing today

100%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • CH
    CENTRA HEALTH INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $31M · revenue +20%
  • CA
    COMMUNITY ACCESS NETWORK INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $1.1M · revenue +193%
  • BM
    BEDFORD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
    6× · 2018–2024 · $415k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • FC
    FREE CLINIC OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC
    one grant, 2018 · $80k · revenue +8%
  • JH
    JOHNSON HEALTH CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $35k · revenue +74%
  • AE
    AMELIA EMERGENCY SQUAD INC
    one grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue -68%

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
Peninsula Institute for Community Health

Providing medical and dental care to indigent patients.

Health
2
Southwest Virginia Community Health Systems Inc

Provide comprehensive primary medical care to the communites served.

Health
3
Free Clinic of the New River Valley Inc

The purpose of the Community Health Center of the New River Valley (CHCNRV) is to provide affordable and high quality medical, dental, behavioral, and preventive health care services to people of all ages and circumstances, regardless of…

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4
Neighborhood Health

To improve health and advance health equity in alexandria, arlington, and fairfax by providing high quality primary care regardless of ability to pay.

Health
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.

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6
Virginia Lutheran Homes Inc

Providing life-enriching services that promote well-being and build community.

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7
Beckley Health Right Inc

To provide primary care services at no cost to uninsured and underinsured low income residents of west virginia.

Health
8
Fredericksburg Area Health and Support Services

To positively impact individual and community health.

Health
9
Virginia Poverty Law Center Inc

Virginia poverty law center uses advocacy, education, and litigation to break down systemic barriers that keep low-income virginians in the cycle of poverty.

Crime & Legal
10
Miller Home of Lynchburg Virginia
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11
Ywca of Central Virginia

The ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, dignity, and freedom for all.

Human Services
12
Legal Aid Justice Center

The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Virginia Health Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Neighbors Helping Neighbors of Amherst County Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr12%8%5–10yr17%21%10–20yr15%23%20–35yr14%31%35–55yr19%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr12%0%5–10yr17%4%10–20yr15%1%20–35yr14%1%35–55yr19%95%55yr+

The field is 22% 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 — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/43
the rest of the field
11%
146/1,375

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

40 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. 40 of the 43 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/40
Grantees still filing
32/40
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CENTRA HEALTH INC — $30,714,258 · HealthCENTRA HEALTH INCCOMMUNITY ACCESS NETWORK INC — $1,112,500 · Health+13 more — $913,399 · HealthCENTRAL VIRGINIA ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY LIVING INC — $193,500 · Human ServicesFREE FOUNDATION FOR REHABILITATION EQUIPMENT & ENDOWMENT — $38,900 · Human ServicesSOUTHSIDE VIRGINIA FAMILY YMCA — $29,000 · Human ServicesPARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSION INC — $28,000 · Human ServicesDANVILLE PITTSYLVANIA CANCER ASSOCIATION INC — $30,000 · OtherLYNCHBURG COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP I GROUP INC — $25,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF LYNCHBURG PARKS AND RECREATION INC — $11,462 · OtherSecond StageAmherst — $10,000 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS INC — $10,000 · OtherPIEDMONT HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $10,000 · OtherINTERFAITH OUTREACH ASSOCIATION — $30,000 · OtherCENTRAL VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONINC — $27,000 · OtherBROOK HILL RETIREMENT CENTER FOR HORSES INC — $25,000 · OtherVirginia Legal Aid Society Inc — $10,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC — $10,000 · OtherPOSTPARTUM SUPPORT VIRGINIA INC — $8,000 · Other+2 more — $12,000 · OtherLYNCHBURG GROWS — $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LYNCHBURG — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentPIEDMONT SENIOR RESOURCES AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC — $25,000 · Food & NutritionLYNCHBURG DAILY BREAD INC — $18,500 · Food & NutritionNEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS OF AMHERST COUNTY INC — $9,000 · Food & NutritionJUBILEE FAMILY DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $29,000 · Recreation & SportsGirls on the Run Central Virginia and Blue Ridge — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsCamp Kum-Ba-Yah Inc — $9,000 · Recreation & SportsMIRIAM'S HOUSE INC — $20,000 · Housing & ShelterRUSH HOMES INC — $20,000 · Housing & Shelter
Health$32,740,157Human Services$289,400Other$218,462Youth Development$60,000Food & Nutrition$52,500Recreation & Sports$48,000Housing & Shelter$40,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCENTRA HEALTH INC — $30,714,258 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACCESS NETWORK INC — $1,112,500 over 2y, 23% of budgetBEDFORD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL — $414,546 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL INC — $204,173 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL VIRGINIA ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY LIVING INC — $193,500 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetFREE CLINIC OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC — $80,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetLYNCHBURG GROWS — $40,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetFREE FOUNDATION FOR REHABILITATION EQUIPMENT & ENDOWMENT — $38,900 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetHeart of Virginia Free Clinic Inc — $37,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetJOHNSON HEALTH CENTER — $35,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMELIA EMERGENCY SQUAD INC — $30,280 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetROADS TO RECOVERY INC — $30,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetINTERFAITH OUTREACH ASSOCIATION — $30,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetDANVILLE PITTSYLVANIA CANCER ASSOCIATION INC — $30,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetJUBILEE FAMILY DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $29,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetSOUTHSIDE VIRGINIA FAMILY YMCA — $29,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetPARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSION INC — $28,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCENTRAL VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONINC — $27,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetLYNCHBURG COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP I GROUP INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPIEDMONT SENIOR RESOURCES AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBROOK HILL RETIREMENT CENTER FOR HORSES INC — $25,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetCoalition for HIV Awareness and Prevention Inc — $24,500 over 2y, 32% of budgetTHE UP FOUNDATION — $24,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LYNCHBURG — $20,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetMIRIAM'S HOUSE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetRUSH HOMES INC — $20,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetLYNCHBURG DAILY BREAD INC — $18,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetRX DRUG ACCESS PARTNERSHIP — $12,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetVirginia Legal Aid Society Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS OF AMHERST COUNTY INC — $9,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCamp Kum-Ba-Yah Inc — $9,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPOSTPARTUM SUPPORT VIRGINIA INC — $8,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetKIDS' HAVEN A CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN — $8,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetDIAMOND HILL HEALTH AND WELLNESS COMM SVCS INC — $7,500 over 1y, 81% of budgetCENTRAL VIRGINIA HEALTH SERVICES INC — $6,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEAR 2 FREEDOM INC — $6,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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.

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.

Centra Health IncGreater Lynchburg Com…The Al Stroobants Fou…Foster FoundationSchewel Charitable Fo…Easley Char Irr Tua 5…The Harry D Forsyth F…Carrington Family Fou…M4k Lynchburg IncValentine Family Foun…United Way of Central…Kva Foundation
Centra Health IncVA64.1× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Centra Health Inc · Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation · The Al Stroobants Foundation · Foster Foundation · Schewel Charitable Foundation · Easley Char Irr Tua 5019004715 · The Harry D Forsyth Foundation · Carrington Family Foundation · M4k Lynchburg Inc · Valentine Family Foundation · United Way of Central Virginia Inc · Kva 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 Centra Health Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    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 43 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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