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Community Foundation of the Central Blue Ridge
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(still arriving)
- 89
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 85
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $1.8M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,400
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $150,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 44 to 90
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $49M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 15% of the organizations Community Foundation of the Central Blue Ridge funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $215k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 89 | $1.8M | 12% |
| FY2023 | 85 | $2.3M | 15% |
| FY2022 | 90 | $1.8M | 22% |
| FY2021 | 72 | $1.1M | 17% |
| FY2020 | 87 | $2.3M | 40% |
| FY2019 | 55 | $695k | 31% |
| FY2018 | 52 | $1.1M | 35% |
| FY2017 | 44 | $525k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Young Mens Christian Association of Staunton Virginia | $442,876 | 7 | 8% |
| Augusta Resources for Resilience Opportunity & Wellness | $442,052 | 6 | 25% |
| Staunton Makerspace Inc | $370,624 | 1 | n/a |
| United Way of Staunton Augusta | $341,807 | 4 | n/a |
| AHC Community Health Foundation | $332,503 | 7 | 6% |
| Blue Ridge Community College Educational Foundation Inc | $311,620 | 8 | 6% |
| Blue Ridge Area Food Bank Inc | $285,397 | 8 | 0% |
| Augusta County Public Schools | $281,802 | 3 | n/a |
| Boys and Girls Club of Augusta/Waynesboro | $277,755 | 8 | 14% |
| Valley Mission Inc | $261,350 | 8 | 7% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Community Foundation of the Central Blue Ridge supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 120 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Augusta Health Care Inc · The Community Foundation of Harrisonburg & Rockingham County · Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · Houff Charitable Foundation · United Way of Staunton Augusta County & Waynesboro Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Sentara Health · The Community Foundation Inc · The J & E Berkley Foundation · Carr Family Foundation · Tr Ua George R & Evelyn W Brothers · The Houff Family Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Community Foundation of the Central Blue Ridge with peer funders
About Community Foundation of the Central Blue Ridge
- How much does Community Foundation of the Central Blue Ridge give?
- Community Foundation of the Central Blue Ridge reported 89 itemized grants totaling $1,805,941, out of $2,556,572 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 44 and 90 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Community Foundation of the Central Blue Ridge fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (18%), Human Services (14%), Health (10%).
- Who are Community Foundation of the Central Blue Ridge's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Young Mens Christian Association of Staunton Virginia ($443k), Augusta Resources for Resilience Opportunity & Wellness ($442k), Staunton Makerspace Inc ($371k).
- Does Community Foundation of the Central Blue Ridge fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Community Foundation of the Central Blue Ridge?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Augusta Health Care Inc, The Community Foundation of Harrisonburg & Rockingham County, Charlottesville Area Community Foundation.
- Where is Community Foundation of the Central Blue Ridge based?
- Community Foundation of the Central Blue Ridge is based in VA.
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