· Community foundation
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.
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 BLUE RIDGE’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 89 grants below total $1,805,941 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,556,572 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $750,631 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
- Under $10k38 grants · $272k
- $10k–50k41 grants · $719k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $815k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $843k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 22% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
111 repeat relationships — 78 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $132k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- YMYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF STAUNTON VIRGINIA7× · 2018–2024 · $443k · revenue +41%
- ARAUGUSTA RESOURCES FOR RESILIENCE OPPORTUNITY & WELLNESS6× · 2019–2024 · $442k · revenue +23% · 25% of their budget
- BRBLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $312k · revenue +111%
Funded once
- SMSTAUNTON MAKERSPACE INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $371k · revenue +36%
- CSCENTRAL SHENANDOAH PLANNINGone grant, 2020 · $153k
- MGMOUNTAIN GATEWAY COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $65k · revenue -29%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Harrisonburg & Rockingham County and the most unlike its peers is Greater Augusta Regional Chamber of Commerce Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
131 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. 131 of the 172 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF STAUNTON VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA RESOURCES FOR RESILIENCE OPPORTUNITY & WELLNESS ↗
- Who funds STAUNTON MAKERSPACE INC ↗
- Who funds AHC Community Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF AUGUSTA/WAYNESBORO ↗
- Who funds VALLEY MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds THE STUART HALL SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SIN BARRERAS WITHOUT BARRIERS INC ↗
- Who funds WAYNE THEATRE ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds MARY BALDWIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WAYNESBORO AREA REFUGE MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIFE WORKS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WELL OF HOPE AMERICA ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF WAYNESBORO VA INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA REGIONAL SPCA INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY AREA COMMUNITY SUPPORT INC DBA VALLEY SUPPORTIVE HOUSING ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA REGIONAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds The Highland Center ↗
- Who funds THE CITIZEN SOLDIERS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RENEWING HOMES OF GREATER AUGUSTA INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE GRASS RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds VALLEY PROGRAM FOR AGING SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CAT'S CRADLE OF THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds WOODROW WILSON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE CASA FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds WAYNESBORO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds IKIGAI PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SHENANARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF AUGUSTA INC ↗
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.
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
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 Community Foundation of the Central Blue Ridge 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.
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.