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Commonwealth Transfusion Foundation

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.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$473k
Largest
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 FY20192024.

Health$4.2MEducation$1.7MScience & Tech$89kYouth Development$40kPublic Benefit$36kInternational$32kCommunity Improvement$25kReligion$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k24 grants · $60k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $99k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $607k
  • $250k+2 grants · $763k
$2,830
Median grant
7
States reached
$36M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BLOOD ASSURANCE$473,000
VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION$289,820
BLOOD ASSURANCE$150,000
VA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY$139,000
RADFORD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$81,000
RADFORD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$80,000
OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY$55,581
OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY$51,000
RADFORD UNIVERSITY CARILION$50,000
TIDEWATER COMMUNITY COLLEGE$20,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
VA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY$14,950
RADFORD UNIVERSITY CARILION$14,000
PIEDMONT VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE$12,750
WESTERN CAPE BLOOD SERVICES$12,000
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 (FY24–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 4%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%BALD RIDGE LODGE: $2k → 4%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

NY
PA
RI
CA
VA
MD
AZ
TN
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA

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.

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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.1M · 20 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

20 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
32

Total granted

$4.1M
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
+45%

Still filing today

15%
13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $438k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationReligionFood & NutritionInternationalHuman ServicesOther

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

  • BA
    BLOOD ASSURANCE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $819k · revenue +28%
  • VC
    VA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2019–2024 · $759k
  • OB
    OK BLOOD INSTITUTE
    2× · 2019–2020 · $660k

Funded once

  • SA
    SHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $600k · revenue -93%
  • NB
    NATIONAL BLOOD FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $250k
  • EB
    ESPORTS BLOOD CAMPAIGN
    one grant, 2019 · $180k

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
Vcu Health Tappahannock Hospital

To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.

Health
2
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
3
Cumberland Medical Center

Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

Health
4
Roane County Medical Center

Roane County Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
5
Methodist Medical Center

Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
6
Medical Center of Central Georgia Inc

To enhance the health status of those we serve in partnership with medical staff and other community organizations by providing wellness services, health education, training, and access to safe high quality health care services.

Health
7
Fort Loudoun Medical Center

Fort Loudoun Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
8
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
9
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
10
Baptist Health Richmond Inc

To provide quality health care by a team of highly-skilled physicians & staff through nurturing, personalized services.

11
Northern Illinois Blood Bank Inc D/B/a Rock River Valley Blood Center

Rock river valley blood center, in partnership with our community, is dedicated to providing safe, high value blood products and services to people in need.

Health
12
University Health Inc

Primary functions are the coordination and delivery of health care resources and services, health care education for the hospital service area, long range analysis of health care needs and development of programs, and arranging for…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mississippi Blood Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bald Ridge Lodge Inc. 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

15 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. 15 of the 72 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
13/15
Grantees still filing
7/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY — $758,624 · OtherVA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITYOK BLOOD INSTITUTE — $659,620 · OtherOK BLOOD INSTITUTEOLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY — $479,706 · OtherOLD DOMINION UNIVERSITYBLOOD CENTERS OF AMERICA — $315,000 · OtherBLOOD CENTERS OF AMERICANATIONAL BLOOD FOUNDATION — $250,000 · OtherNATIONAL BLOOD FOUNDATIONE VA MEDICAL SCHOOL — $247,588 · OtherE VA MEDICAL SCHOOLRADFORD UNIVERSITY — $215,000 · OtherESPORTS BLOOD CAMPAIGN — $180,000 · OtherTROY UNIVERSITY — $150,000 · Other+49 more — $854,170 · Other+49 moreBLOOD ASSURANCE INC — $818,670 · HealthBLOOD ASSURANCE INCSHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATION — $600,000 · HealthSHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATIONVALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION (VHF) — $289,820 · HealthVALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION (VHF)+4 more — $26,500 · HealthRADFORD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $253,750 · Education+2 more — $2,500 · EducationAWAKEN TO UNITY — $1,500 · ReligionChattanooga Area Food Bank Inc — $1,500 · Food & NutritionMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $1,500 · InternationalBALD RIDGE LODGE INC — $1,500 · Human Services
Other$4,109,708Health$1,734,990Education$256,250Religion$1,500Food & Nutrition$1,500International$1,500Human Services$1,500

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBLOOD ASSURANCE INC — $818,670 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATION — $600,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetVALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION (VHF) — $289,820 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetRADFORD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $253,750 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetMISSISSIPPI BLOOD SERVICES INC — $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCarilion Clinic — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINOVA HEALTH CARE SERVICES — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChattanooga Area Food Bank Inc — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHorizon Christian Academy Inc — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHCSC - BLOOD CENTER — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBALD RIDGE LODGE INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $1,000 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 BLOOD ASSURANCE INC
  • Who funds SHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION (VHF)
  • Who funds RADFORD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds MISSISSIPPI BLOOD SERVICES INC
  • Who funds Carilion Clinic

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.

Verizon FoundationNJ10.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Verizon Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Commonwealth Transfusion 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your 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
    3report 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, 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.

    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 72 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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