How much did EDGAR A THURMAN FDN CHILDREN NECT grant in FY2025?

Human Services$486kArts & Culture$129kFood & Nutrition$109kHealth$64kYouth Development$63kEducation$40kCrime & Legal$33kReligion$26kPhilanthropy$20kOther$619k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2021

scoutstheatremountainsouthwest

2022

theatresouthwestministries

2023

ministriessouthwestboys girls

2024

ministriessouthwest

2025

youtheducationconferenceministries

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k28 grants · $164k
$10k–50k10 grants · $135k

$6,990

Median grant

States reached

$7.7M

Total assets

Largest grants

TAUBMAN MUSEUM OF ART$20,000
LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF VIRGINIA INC$20,000
BRADLEY FREE CLINIC$18,000
FAMILY SERVICE OF ROANOKE VALLEY$15,000
APPLE RIDGE FARM INC$12,000
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$10,000
STRAIGHT STREET ROANOKE VALLEY INC$10,000
JEFFERSON CENTER FOUNDATION LTD$10,000
YOUTH SPORTS INC$10,000
HENRY COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC$10,000
YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION$8,000
BOYS HOME OF VIRGINIA$8,000
LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGRICULTURE PROJECT$8,000
PRESBYTERIAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC$8,000
FOOD FOR KIDS$7,500

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $425k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 8%. 69% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.4M · 50 repeat orgs$152k to everyone else

50 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.4M

$120k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%

+37%

Still filing today

80%

45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther

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

AR
APPLE RIDGE FARM INC
5× · 2021–2025 · $77k · revenue +25%
BF
BRADLEY FREE CLINIC
5× · 2021–2025 · $73k · revenue +15%
FS
FAMILY SERVICE OF ROANOKE VALLEY
5× · 2021–2025 · $60k · revenue +14%

Funded once

VM
VA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY FDN
one grant, 2022 · $10k
FP
FOOD PANTRY SERVING SALEM AND
one grant, 2021 · $10k
BH
BOYS' HOME
one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -23%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Rockbridge Christmas Basket Inc

Provide food & other holiday gifts to qualifying needy families in rockbridge county, lexington & buena vista, virginia

Human Services

Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia

Leading the effort to eliminate hunger in our community.

Food & Nutrition

Roane County Family Health Care Inc

The mission of roane family health care is to exceed the quality of care that our patients deserve and expect while surpassing community needs through innovative technology.

Health

The Child Care and Learning Center

Child learning/daycare facility for the benefit and welfare of rappahannock county, virginia children.

Education

Child Abuse Reporting and Enforcement Center of Southwest Va

Prevent and or reduce the incidence and trauma of child maltreatment to provide support to families through education and to be a voice for children in court through trained volunteer advocates.

Crime & Legal

Free Clinic of the New River Valley Inc

The Community Health Center of the New River Valley is a non-profit healthcare organization that serves uninsured individuals, as well as people who are insured with Medicaid, Medicare, and private insurance

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Virginia Peninsula Foodbank

Through our various programs, we provide almost 9.1 million meals to children, families, seniors, and veterans in our community.

Food & Nutrition

Rappahannock Pantry Inc

The rappahanock pantry provides food to families in rappahannock county. we envision a community where everyone has access to healthful food.

Food & Nutrition

Roanoke Gospel Outreach Center Inc

The center provides religious, educational, and charitable services including distributing clothing, refreshments, toys, gifts and religious instruction to the homeless and low income citizens of the community.

Religion

Virginia Center for Inclusive

VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.

Civil Rights

Fauquier Community Food Bank & Thrift Store

To fight hunger in fauquier county by providing our neighbors in need with nourishing food and encouraging self-sufficiency through vibrant community partnerships

Food & Nutrition

Adult Care Center of Roanoke

Provide adult care to the frail and impaired persons.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Olympics Virginia Inc and the most unlike its peers is Apple Ridge Farm 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 30 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/56

the rest of the field

214/2,367

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.

05the grantee network

54 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

53/54

Grantees still filing

41/54

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$697,595Human Services$485,842Arts & Culture$128,500Food & Nutrition$108,500Health$64,250Youth Development$63,000Education$40,000

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.

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.

Community Foundation Serving WesternVA79.2× affinity35 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation Serving Western · Carilion Medical Center · United Way of Virginia's Blue Ridge Inc · The Louise R Lester Foundation Inc · Ge Foundation · The Helen C Cobbs Foundation · Cp & Mg Lunsford Tuw · Muse Family Foundation · Cartledge Charitable Foundation · The Newbern Foundation · Roanoke Womens Foundation · The Ceres Foundation Inc

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 organisation EDGAR A THURMAN FDN CHILDREN NECT 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS STORE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 541687089 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS STORE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 27% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Edgar a Thurman Fdn Children Nect?

Find your warmest path to Edgar a Thurman Fdn Children Nect through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

EDGAR A THURMAN FDN CHILDREN NECT

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

54 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Edgar a Thurman Fdn Children Nect?

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EDGAR A THURMAN FDN CHILDREN NECT

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

54 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Edgar a Thurman Fdn Children Nect?

More from the funding graph