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Elizabeth & James Bustard Char Perm Trust at a glance

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Elizabeth & James Bustard Char Perm Trust

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$188k
Granted FY2026still arriving
9
Grants FY2026still arriving
1
States reached
$33k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0180% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$277kHuman Services$250kEducation$185kPublic Safety & Disaster$182kEnvironment$148kPhilanthropy$84kRecreation & Sports$20kOther$0
02FY2026 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$22,189
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF THE EPIPHANY MISSION$33,342
AVERETT COLLEGE$22,189
PROTESTANT EPISCOP THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY$22,189
THE SALVATION ARMY$22,189
SIGHT CONSERVATION CMTE DANVILLE LIONS$22,189
DANVILLE LIFE SAVING CREW$22,189
DCC EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC$21,472
DANVILLE-PITTS COUNTY UNITED WAY$11,114
JOY RANCH CHRISTIAN SCHOOL OF HILLSVILLE$11,114
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–26, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%JOY RANCH CHRISTIAN: $12k → 16%JOY RANCH CHRISTIAN SCHOOL OF HILLSVILLE: $11k → 16%JOY RANCH CHRISTIAN: $11k → 16%JOY RANCH CHRISTIAN: $10k → 16%JOY RANCH CHRISTIAN SCHOOL OF HILLSVILLE: $10k → 16%JOY RANCH CHRISTIAN: $9k → 16%JOY RANCH CHRISTIAN: $9k → 16%JOY RANCH CHRISTIAN: $8k → 16%JOY RANCH CHRISTIAN: $8k → 16%JOY RANCH CHRISTIAN: $7k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 14 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2026, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
0

Total granted

$1.6M
$0

Still filing today

14%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
HealthHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • EC
    EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF THE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $226k
  • DL
    DANVILLE LIFE SAVING AND FIRST AID CREW INC
    10× · 2017–2026 · $204k · revenue +347%
  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    10× · 2017–2026 · $189k

Funded once

    How this is measured

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

    04Its field
    04the grantee network

    2 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

    Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

    How this is measured

    Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 2 of the 14 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

    Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

    0
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    1
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    2/2
    Grantees still filing
    2/2
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF THE: $226,484 · OtherEPISCOPAL CHURCH OF THETHE SALVATION ARMY: $188,945 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYAVERETT COLLEGE: $188,945 · OtherAVERETT COLLEGEIndividual grant recipient: $147,631 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSIGHT CONSERVATION COMMITTEE FOR: $147,631 · OtherSIGHT CONSERVATION COMMITTEE FORIndividual grant recipient: $128,099 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDANVILLE-PITTS CO UNITED WAY: $73,939 · OtherDANVILLE-PITTS CO UNITED WAYEPISCOPAL CHURCH OF THE EPIPHANY MISSION: $63,275 · Other+4 more: $145,674 · Other+4 moreDANVILLE LIFE SAVING AND FIRST AID CREW INC: $204,298 · HealthDANVILLE LIFE …JOY RANCH INC: $94,632 · Human Services
    Other$1,310,623Health$204,298Human Services$94,632

    Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

    25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDANVILLE LIFE SAVING AND FIRST AID CREW INC: $204,298 over 10y, 0.9% of budgetJOY RANCH INC: $94,632 over 10y, 1.2% of budget
    Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

    A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

    • Who funds DANVILLE LIFE SAVING AND FIRST AID CREW INC ↗
    • Who funds JOY RANCH INC ↗

    How much its grantees rely on government

    Each dot is one organization Elizabeth & James Bustard Char Perm Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elizabeth & James Bustard Char Perm Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

    2025
    ’20’21’22’23’24’25
    no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
      no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
      0get no government money at all
      1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
      0rely on government for over half their income
      ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
      typical government reliance, FY20–25
      How this is measured
      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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

      On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

      How this is measured
      Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

      Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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