· Community foundation
Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING WESTERN VIRGINIA provides leadership,resources, and inspiration for philanthropy in the communities it serves.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 174 grants below total $4,228,059 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,362,567 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $134,508 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k50 grants · $362k
- $10k–50k101 grants · $2.1M
- $50k–250k23 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPICE INC | $214,884 |
| VIRGINIA TECH | $120,950 |
| LOCAL OFFICE ON AGING | $103,030 |
| SUNNYSIDE COMMUNITIES - KINGS GRANT RETIREMENT COMMUNITY | $100,000 |
| BROAD STREET CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $93,068 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $82,500 |
| ROANOKE AREA MINISTRIES | $78,748 |
| ADULT CARE CENTER OF ROANOKE VALLEY | $77,896 |
| FREE CLINIC OF FRANKLIN COUNTY | $70,900 |
| RENOVATION ALLIANCE | $70,800 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY ROANOKE CORPS | $65,394 |
| VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF AUTISM | $65,350 |
| WEST END CENTER | $60,992 |
| TOTAL ACTION FOR PROGRESS | $59,590 |
| BRADLEY FREE CLINIC | $58,528 |
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 (FY17–25, $3.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia’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, 97% of the giving stays in VA; read by stated purpose it is 93% — 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 +18% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
204 repeat relationships — 131 still active in FY2025, 73 since wound down; 33 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $666k 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
- GSGOOD SAMARITAN HOSPICE INC7× · 2017–2025 · $847k · revenue +103%
- LOLOCAL OFFICE ON AGING7× · 2017–2025 · $650k · revenue +48%
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2025 · $456k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- RCROANOKE CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLSone grant, 2024 · $396k
- TOTransitional Options for Womenone grant, 2018 · $94k
- YSYouth Sports Incorporatedone grant, 2022 · $78k · 62% of their budget
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 provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…
The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…
Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.
The mission of vt-arc is to extend the impact of the virginia tech research and innovation enterprise, delivering superior analytic and technology solutions to government and non-government customers.
To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.
VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
Solicitation of public contributions on behalf of member colleges. provides foundations, businesses, and individuals a convenient way of supporting small colleges and universities in virginia.
To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.
Virginia community action partnership (vacap) is the statewide membership association for virginia's thirty-one non-profit and public community action agencies. vacaps mission is to build the capacity and competencies of virginias…
To secure financial support that enables college-bound students to access and graduate from outstanding virginia independent higher education institutions.
The virginia association of museums is a statewide network serving the museum community. the association's mission statement is "the virginia association of museums helps our museum community succeed".
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Virginia's Blue Ridge Inc and the most unlike its peers is The June Bug Center Inc. 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 37 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
251 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. 251 of the 345 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOCAL OFFICE ON AGING ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA WESTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds West End Center Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF VIRGINIA'S BLUE RIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds BRADLEY FREE CLINIC OF ROANOKE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds Roanoke Womens Foundation ↗
- Who funds ADULT CARE CENTER OF ROANOKE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds Renovation Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds RADFORD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FREE CLINIC OF FRANKLIN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds The Piedmont Arts Association ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds Roanoke Area Ministries ↗
- Who funds BEDFORD COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS STATION ↗
- Who funds LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGRICULTURE PROJECT LEAP ↗
- Who funds WESTERN VIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS AND SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds THE RESCUE MISSION OF ROANOKE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROANOKE VALLEY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF VIRGINIA INC DBA MILL MOUNTAIN ZOO ↗
- Who funds FERRUM COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TAUBMAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds ROANOKE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FREE FOUNDATION FOR REHABILITATION EQUIPMENT & ENDOWMENT ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF ROANOKE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN AREA AGENCY ON AGING ↗
- Who funds FAMILY YMCA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF VIRGINIA'S BLUE RIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF HENRY COUNTY & MARTINSVILLE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S TRUST FOUNDATION ROANOKE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds BOTETOURT RESOURCE CENTER 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: Robertson Family Foundation Inc · United Way of Virginia's Blue Ridge Inc · Edgar a Thurman Fdn Children Nect · Carilion Medical Center · Cartledge Charitable Foundation Inc · The Newbern Foundation · The Ceres Foundation Inc · Sam & Marion Golden Helping Hand Foundation · The Beirne Carter Foundation · Muse Family Foundation Co Elizabeth Muse · James a Meador Foundation · Investco 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 Serving Western Virginia 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.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Goucher College — 0% of income from government
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.