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Charles B Keesee Educational Fund Incorporated

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.9M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
14
Organizations funded FY2024
7%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$100,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$2,254,743
Organizations funded a year
14 to 17
FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$74M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 7% of the organizations Charles B Keesee Educational Fund Incorporated funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving14$3.9M0%
FY202414$3.6M7%
FY202317$3.8M12%
FY202215$3.1M13%
FY202114$3.3Mn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$14MReligion$3.4MHuman Services$25kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary$1,679,5595n/a
Duke University$819,82650%
Fork Union Military Academy$520,0005n/a
Hargrave Military Academy$475,00051%
Averett University$412,50050%
Bluefield University$375,00050%
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary$372,1003n/a
Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary Inc$115,9265n/a
Virginia Baptist Children's Home and Family Services$25,00010%

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($13M), not named here.

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.

Community Foundation Serving Western VirginiaVA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About Charles B Keesee Educational Fund Incorporated

How much does Charles B Keesee Educational Fund Incorporated give?
Charles B Keesee Educational Fund Incorporated reported 14 grants totaling $3,938,325 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 17 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Charles B Keesee Educational Fund Incorporated fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (80%), Religion (19%), Human Services (0%).
Who are Charles B Keesee Educational Fund Incorporated's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Southern Baptist Theological Seminary ($1.7M), Duke University ($820k), Fork Union Military Academy ($520k).
Does Charles B Keesee Educational Fund Incorporated fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Charles B Keesee Educational Fund Incorporated accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Charles B Keesee Educational Fund Incorporated?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia, Ge Aerospace Foundation, Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund.
Where is Charles B Keesee Educational Fund Incorporated based?
Charles B Keesee Educational Fund Incorporated is based in VA.

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 19 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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