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Danville Regional Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k34 grants · $100k
- $10k–50k39 grants · $860k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $789k
- $250k+9 grants · $9.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AVERETT UNIVERSITY | $3,000,000 |
| CITY OF DANVILLE VA | $2,000,000 |
| SOUTHSIDE BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY CENTER (SBTC) | $1,738,830 |
| SMART BEGINNINGS | $906,853 |
| PIEDMONT COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $500,000 |
| AVERETT UNIVERSITY | $500,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE DAN RIVER REGION | $300,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED LEARNING AND RESEARCH | $297,965 |
| RIVER DISTRICT ASSOCIATION | $250,000 |
| CITY OF DANVILLE PARKS AND RECREATION | $191,787 |
| DANVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $189,500 |
| DANVILLE CHURCH & COMMUNITY TUTORIAL PROGRAM | $147,774 |
| CITY OF DANVILLE VA | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| PROJECT LITERACY | $60,000 |
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, $701k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
48 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 37 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $523k 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
- AUAVERETT UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2024 · $7.5M · revenue +17%
- ODOLDE DOMINION AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2024 · $866k · revenue +46% · 46% of their budget
- DRDAN RIVER NON-PROFIT NETWORK2× · 2022–2023 · $593k · revenue +202%
Funded once
- CFCENTER FOR EARLY SUCCESSgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $579k · revenue +477% · 62% of their budget
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $254k
- PCPittsylvania County Parks and Recreationone grant, 2020 · $153k
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 ensure the long term viability of danville's river district as a center of business and civic life, and a source of community pride. rda carries out this mission through activities to attract and retain businesses, residents and…
To promote economic development, regional tourism, support and recognition of existing businesses in dickenson county virginia.
To advance the economic and civic interests of the business communinity in davie county, nc and to provide services for chamber members.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to serve charitable purposes. specifically, the education of its community, the preservation of its historical and architectural heritage and the promotion of the arts in its community.
Dacc is a non-profit, community-owned facility. the center provides a wholesome, healthy environment and pledges that no person will be denied membership or access to programs. the dacc provides for members of all ages, a wide variety of…
Chamber mission: we are a catalyst for business growth on the virginia peninsula, and a collaborative partner for economic development within the region.
To promote locally owned retail establishments and service providers.
The martinsville-henry county chamber of commerce, inc. is organized for the purpose of advancing the commercial, industrial, and civic inerests of the city of martinsville and henry county, virginia
Coordinate economic development for davie county, nc
The foundation is committed to promoting and supporting the success of danville area community college through fundraising and stewardship of the foundation's resources, with the belief in the college's positive educational, cultural, and…
The virginia dental association is a membership organization for dentists licensed in virginia. its purpose is to promote the practice of dentistry.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Danville Pittsylvania County Chamber Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Caswell County Chamber of Commerce. 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 23 years old; the field is 26. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 127 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 AVERETT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE DAN RIVER REGION ↗
- Who funds OLDE DOMINION AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DAN RIVER NON-PROFIT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR EARLY SUCCESS ↗
- Who funds DAN RIVER BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE LITERACY LAB ↗
- Who funds PPL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHSIDE BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY CENTER INC (DBA THE LAUNCH PLACE) ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF DANVILLE-PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Danville Church and Community Tutorial Program ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE BORDER FORWARD INC ↗
- Who funds DANVILLE NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CASWELL COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds Virginia Health Care Foundation ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION HEALTH CARE INC ↗
- Who funds DAN RIVER BASIN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MILTON RENAISSANCE FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Community Foundation of the Dan River Region · Jt-Minnie Maude Charitable Trust · Womack Foundation · Alexander Berkeley Carrington Jr & Ruth Simpson Carrington Charitable Trust · Hughes Memorial Home · George and Sarah Buchanan Foundation · Centra Health Inc · Foster Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Danville Regional Foundation 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.
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