· Private foundation
Fray Family Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $83k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $159k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BARCC | $110,000 |
| CAMPBELL COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS | $24,000 |
| CAMPBELL COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| BROOKVILLE BAND BOOSTERS | $20,000 |
| ALTAVISTA AREACAMPBELL COUNTY FULLER CENTER (FKA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY) | $15,000 |
| EVINGTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $13,060 |
| LYN-DAN HEIGHTS FIRE DEPARTMENT | $12,000 |
| DAWN INC | $10,000 |
| HARVEST OUTREACH CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| CENTRAL VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| CAMPBELL COUNTY TRAINING SCHOOL COMPLEX | $10,000 |
| GLADYS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $9,500 |
| FRIENDS OF CAMPBELL COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL | $5,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $92k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 19 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, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $147k 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
- CCCAMPBELL COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $87k · revenue +138%
- RDRUSTBURG DIXIE SOFTBALL INC3× · 2020–2022 · $27k · revenue +386%
- CVCONCORD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT2× · 2023–2024 · $23k · revenue +90%
Funded once
- CHCENTRA HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0%
- BVBROOKNEAL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $12k · revenue +59%
- VLVirginia Legal Aid Society Incone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +2%
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.
The organization provides emergency, medical, and fire fighting services to the citizens in and around the Burkeville, Virginia area.
To provide emergency fire and medical services to citizens in cascade, va and surrounding areas.
Volunteer fire company servig the elkton, va community and surrounding area. area is approximately 100 square miles and 8000 people
Public safety
The purpose of the Buckingham County Vol. Fire Dept. is to provide fire protection to the citizens of Buckingham County and surrounding counties if needed. We also respond to automobile accidents as well as any other request for assistance.
Fire protection services for dolphin, va and surrounding communities
The organization is a nonprofit organization and is dedicated to the purpose of providing fire and rescue services to the residents of brosville and cascade areas in the state of virginia
Provide emergency fire suppression and emergency medical services to the public of campbell county, virginia and the city of lynchburg, virginia.
To serve the community as a volunteer fire department.
Volunteer fire department providing services to amelia county, va and support to surrounding localities in virginia as needed.
To provide fire suppression services and public education on fire saftey to the citizens of Appomattox County.
`the primary mission of the back creek valley volunteer fire company is to protect the lives and property of the inhabitants in the area from the adverse affects of fire, sudden medical emergencies and exposure to dangerous conditions.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Concord Volunteer Fire Department and the most unlike its peers is The Claire Parker Foundation 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 21 years old; the field is 21. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 101 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 CAMPBELL COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EVINGTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC ↗
- Who funds Campbell County Training School Complex ↗
- Who funds RUSTBURG DIXIE SOFTBALL INC ↗
- Who funds CONCORD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds Campbell County Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds BROOKVILLE BAND BOOSTERS ↗
- Who funds HARVEST OUTREACH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKNEAL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Virginia Legal Aid Society Inc ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL VA ↗
- Who funds DAWN INC ↗
- Who funds GLADYS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds THE CLAIRE PARKER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CAMPBELL COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA 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: Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation · Foster Foundation · Centra Health Inc · The Al Stroobants Foundation · The Minnie and Bernard Lane Foundation · Beverly W & Hampton O Powell Charitable Foundation · Wc English Foundation · Schewel Charitable Foundation · Easley Char Irr Tua 5019004715 · Centra Health Foundation · Valentine Family Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management 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 organization Fray Family Charitable Trust 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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