West Virginia · 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.
- $937k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 23
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $483k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $12,769
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $80,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 23
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $15M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Community Foundation of the Virginias Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 56% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $131k 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 | 23 | $483k | 43% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $234k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $251k | 87% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $113k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $161k | 58% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $45k | 67% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $91k | 71% |
| FY2017 | 4 | $83k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Outside Dreams Inc | $80,000 | 1 | 53% |
| Abwe Foundation Inc | $74,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Helpful Harvest Food Bank | $41,560 | 3 | 22% |
| Heaven Sent Ministries Inc | $41,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Child Protect of Mercer County Inc | $31,669 | 2 | 2% |
| Clearfork Volunteer Fire Department Inc | $30,769 | 3 | n/a |
| World Help | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Bluefield Arts and Revitalization Corporation | $20,500 | 2 | 3% |
| Tender Mercies Ministries of Princeton | $20,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Appalachian Sustainable Development | $17,500 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 22 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Outside Dreams Inc | $80,000 | 1 | 53% |
| Abwe Foundation Inc | $74,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Helpful Harvest Food Bank | $41,560 | 3 | 22% |
| Heaven Sent Ministries Inc | $41,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Child Protect of Mercer County Inc | $31,669 | 2 | 2% |
| Clearfork Volunteer Fire Department Inc | $30,769 | 3 | n/a |
| World Help | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Bluefield Arts and Revitalization Corporation | $20,500 | 2 | 3% |
| Tender Mercies Ministries of Princeton | $20,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Appalachian Sustainable Development | $17,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Bramwell Theatre Corporation | $16,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Calvarys Hill Church | $15,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Appalachian Agency for Sr Citizens | $15,164 | 2 | 0% |
| Bramwell Foundation | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Historic Crab Orchard Museum & Pioneer Park Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Tazewell County Public Library Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Princeton Rescue Squad Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Richlands Youth Baseball Booster Club Inc | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Postpartum Support Virginia Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 2% |
| Alliance for the Arts Ltd | $7,016 | 1 | 5% |
| Bluewell Lions Club | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bluewell Improvement Association | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($948k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Community Foundation of the Virginias Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 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: 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
How this is measured
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About Community Foundation of the Virginias Inc
- How much does Community Foundation of the Virginias Inc give?
- Community Foundation of the Virginias Inc reported 23 itemized grants totaling $483,044, out of $936,670 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 23 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Community Foundation of the Virginias Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (19%), Public Safety & Disaster (18%), Human Services (10%).
- Who are Community Foundation of the Virginias Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Outside Dreams Inc ($80k), Abwe Foundation Inc ($75k), Helpful Harvest Food Bank ($42k).
- Does Community Foundation of the Virginias Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Community Foundation of the Virginias Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hugh I Shott Jr Foundation Inc, The H P and Anne S Hunnicutt Foundation, Frank Litz Smoot Charitable Trust.
- Where is Community Foundation of the Virginias Inc based?
- Community Foundation of the Virginias Inc is based in WV.
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