Virginia · Community foundation
Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation
To receive charitable contributions from the public, administering, and investing those gift resources, and distributing the expendable portions of the resources and their earnings for the benefit of charitable recipients in the local area.
- $2.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 110
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 103
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $2.2M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $339,491
- Organizations funded a year
- 84 to 108
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $76M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 109 | $2.2M | 13% |
| FY2024 | 103 | $1.9M | 12% |
| FY2023 | 101 | $1.9M | 14% |
| FY2022 | 91 | $1.7M | 11% |
| FY2021 | 108 | $1.7M | 25% |
| FY2020 | 96 | $1.6M | 18% |
| FY2019 | 88 | $1.4M | 18% |
| FY2017 | 84 | $1.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elizabeth's Early Learning Center Inc | $2,540,095 | 8 | 19% |
| Miriam's House Inc | $855,129 | 8 | 15% |
| Free Clinic of Central Virginia Inc | $325,705 | 8 | 8% |
| Lynchburg Daily Bread Inc | $296,033 | 8 | 5% |
| Lynchburg Grows | $292,542 | 8 | 19% |
| New Vistas School of Central Virginia Inc | $286,728 | 8 | 4% |
| United Way of Central Virginia Inc | $233,507 | 8 | 2% |
| Camp Kum-Ba-Yah Inc | $220,828 | 7 | 25% |
| Altavista Area YMCA Inc | $210,729 | 7 | 2% |
| Lynchburg Beacon of Hope Inc | $204,603 | 8 | 3% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 145 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Al Stroobants Foundation · Centra Health Inc · Foster Foundation · Easley Char Irr Tua 5019004715 · Schewel Charitable Foundation · M4k Lynchburg Inc · United Way of Central Virginia Inc · Bedford Community Health Foundation · Centra Health Foundation · Carrington Family Foundation · The Minnie and Bernard Lane Foundation · The Imperial Charitable Trust
How this is measured
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About Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation
- How much does Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation give?
- Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation reported 110 itemized grants totaling $2,174,689, out of $2,489,799 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 84 and 108 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (30%), Arts & Culture (12%), Education (12%).
- Who are Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Elizabeth's Early Learning Center Inc ($2.5M), Miriam's House Inc ($855k), Free Clinic of Central Virginia Inc ($326k).
- Does Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Al Stroobants Foundation, Centra Health Inc, Foster Foundation.
- Where is Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation based?
- Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation is based in VA.
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