· Community foundation
Community Foundation of the Virginias Inc
To promote education, health, beautification, youth, and recreation in the greater southern west virginia and southwest virginia areas.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 76% of COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE VIRGINIAS INC’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 23 grants below total $483,044 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $936,670 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $453,626 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 $10k6 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $183k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $256k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OUTSIDE DREAMS | $80,000 |
| CLINCH VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION JOY CAMP | $75,782 |
| CITY OF BLUEFIELD PLAYGROUND | $50,000 |
| SACRED HEART CHURCH | $50,000 |
| RICHLANDS FIRE-RESCUE (RESCUE DIVISION) | $25,000 |
| CITY OF BLUEFIELD PARKS & REC DEPT | $23,915 |
| BLUEFIELD BEAUTIFICATION COMMISSION | $15,134 |
| ABWE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| CHILD PROTECT OF MERCER COUNTY | $14,000 |
| HELPFUL HARVEST FOOD BANK | $13,560 |
| BLUEFIELD ARTS AND REVITALIZATION CORP | $13,500 |
| CLEARFORK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $12,769 |
| HISTORIC CRAB ORCHARD MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| CITY OF BLUEFIELD POLICE DEPT | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 86% of Community Foundation of the Virginias Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 54% of the giving stays in WV; read by stated purpose it is 9% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +16% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 10 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, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $313k 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
- CPCHILD PROTECT OF MERCER COUNTY INC2× · 2023–2024 · $32k · revenue +64%
- WHWorld Help2× · 2017–2021 · $30k · revenue +16%
- ASAPPALACHIAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT2× · 2023–2024 · $18k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- CVCLINCH VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP INCone grant, 2022 · $29k
- TMTENDER MERCIES MINISTRIES OF PRINCETONone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +7%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $20k
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.
To help local farms thrive, link farmers to markets and supporters, and build healthy communities through connections to local food.
Preserve historic buildings and customs
To ensure the safety and wellbeing of Greenbrier Valley citizens in all phases of disaster.
Public library
To foster the historical and genealogical heritage of fauquier county, virginia.
Community development
Preservation of historic structures and public education as to the area history in the town of beverly, wv.
Lead the lost to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ by showing Christ's love through assisting people with spiritual, physical and economic needs, that they may become disciples in partnership with local churches to carry out the great…
Restoration of an historic opera house and to provide a venue for arts and events in Thomas, WV.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Historic Crab Orchard Museum & Pioneer Park Inc and the most unlike its peers is Outside Dreams Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 62 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 OUTSIDE DREAMS INC ↗
- Who funds Helpful Harvest Food Bank ↗
- Who funds HEAVEN SENT MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD PROTECT OF MERCER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds World Help ↗
- Who funds BLUEFIELD ARTS AND REVITALIZATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds TENDER MERCIES MINISTRIES OF PRINCETON ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN AGENCY FOR SR CITIZENS ↗
- Who funds BRAMWELL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON RESCUE SQUAD 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: Hugh I Shott Jr Foundation Inc · The H P and Anne S Hunnicutt Foundation · Frank Litz Smoot Charitable Trust · The Pace Family Foundation Inc · K B Tierney Charitable Foundation Trust · Skewes Family Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 Community Foundation of the Virginias Inc 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.