How much did COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CENTRAL grant in FY2024?

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CENTRAL reported 89 grants totaling $2,556,572 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CENTRAL based?

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CENTRAL is based in VA.

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CENTRAL

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COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CENTRAL

To enrich the quality of life by responding to needs and inspiring philanthropy, primarily by providing leadership to community partners, building endowment funds, and making grants to charitable organizations.

$2.6M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$151k

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CENTRAL’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

surroundingwayne theatreperforming arts

2019

promotiongreaterlandgenerallydomesticsexualviolence

2020

hamptoninstitutionreceiveholdrespectcontributions bequestsbenefit fayetteville

2021

spartanburgbrain injuryconnectionscase managementaccountsbalancecats

2022

alumnianicirapresent futuredevelopseducatetechnologyworkforce

2023

leaguepresent futureworkforcefurthertechnologywintergreenbest

2024

nelsonbrain injuryaniciraconnectionssourcecase managementclasses

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 89 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k38 grants · $272k
$10k–50k41 grants · $719k
$50k–250k10 grants · $815k

$10,400

Median grant

States reached

$49M

Total assets

Largest grants

VALLEY RIDGE DISTRICT VIRGINIA$150,500
WAYNE THEATRE ALLIANCE$111,900
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WAYNESBORO$106,500
LIFEWORKS PROJECT$101,500
WAYNESBORO AREA REFUGE MINISTRY$65,500
WOODROW WILSON PRESIDENTIAL$61,215
AUGUSTA HEALTH FOUNDATION$56,786
STAUNTON AUGUSTA FAMILY YMCA$56,662
BLUE GRASS RESOURCE CENTER$53,500
SIN BARRERAS WITHOUT BARRIERS$50,500
SHENANARTS$37,600
THE NATURE FOUNDATION AT$37,500
WELL OF HOPE AMERICA$35,000
HOUSING EMERGENCY RELIEF$32,507
ARROW PROJECT$31,102

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $843k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 10%. 22% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$10M · 112 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.

112 repeat relationships — 78 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

112

Total granted

$10M

$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%

+36%

Still filing today

75%

67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $132k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsHousing & 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

SA
STAUNTON AUGUSTA FAMILY YMCA
7× · 2018–2024 · $443k · revenue +50%
AP
ARROW PROJECT
6× · 2019–2024 · $442k · revenue +23% · 25% of their budget
BE
BRCC EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $312k · revenue +192%

Funded once

SM
STAUNTON MAKERSPACE INCgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $371k · revenue +36%
CS
CENTRAL SHENANDOAH PLANNING
one grant, 2020 · $153k
DS
DABNEY S LANCASER COMMUNITY
one grant, 2022 · $65k · revenue -38%

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.

West Virginia University Alumni

Wvuaa provides life-long support of our alumni and friends and serves the interest of the university.

Education

West Virginia Rural Health Association

To advocate for empowering all west virginians to advance their quality of life, well-being, and access to excellence in rural health care.

Health

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

Vcca's mission is to provide time and space for national and international writers, visual artists, and composers of talent and promise to bring forth their finest works, because the arts are vital, diversity is a strength, and creativity…

Arts & Culture

Virginia Foundation for Agriculture

To assist rural virginians in developing and advancing their agricultural, economic and social interests.to facilitate and coordinate technical and financial assistance to rural virginians in order to provide traditional and innovative…

Environment

Southside Virginia Community

To foster and promote the growth, progress and general welfare of the southside virginia community college and the virginia college system.

Education

Southern Virginia Higher Education

To promote and enhance continuing educational opportunities for the citizens of halifax county, va and the surrounding areas.

Education

Heart of Appalachia Tourism Authority

Promote, expand and develop tourism opportunities in the southwest virginia counties of buchanan, dickenson, lee, russell, scott, tazewell, wise and city of norton

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Virginia Association of Community Banks

To provide undiluted advocacy, targeted education and quality collaboration for virginia's community banks.

—

Virginia Recylcing Association

Advance recycling and waste reduction through the advocacy of sustainable practices to benefit virginia's environment, communities and economy.

Environment

Startup Virginia Inc

Startup virginia is a non-profit, high-growth-business incubator, dedicated to building a long-term, sustainable economy for virginia. we connect our startup community to exceptional mentors and extensive programs in a dynamic workplace.

Community Improvement

Greater Augusta Regional Chamber of

Advancement of local commerce

Community Improvement

Virginia Academy of Science

Advancement of the sciences

Science & Tech

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Path Partnerships and the most unlike its peers is Bridgewater College. 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 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%2/172

the rest of the field

106/1,280

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

129 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

124/129

Grantees still filing

99/129

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$6,071,612Human Services$1,280,595Education$1,213,485Health$1,052,900Arts & Culture$1,024,086Housing & Shelter$540,350Animals$369,012

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

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.

The Community Foundation of HarrisonburgVA57.7× affinity27 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Harrisonburg · Augusta Health Care Inc · Charlottesville Area Community · United Way of Staunton Augusta County & · Houff Charitable Foundation · Sentara Health · Carr Family Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · The J & E Berkley Foundation · The Houff Family Foundation · United Way of Harrisonburg And

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 organisation COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CENTRAL 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: LIFEWORKS PROJECT.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +60% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 861329739 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on LIFEWORKS PROJECT, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 60% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Community Foundation of the Central?

Find your warmest path to Community Foundation of the Central through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CENTRAL

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

129 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Community Foundation of the Central?

More from the funding graph

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CENTRAL

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

129 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Community Foundation of the Central?

More from the funding graph