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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 FY2025still arriving
110
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$339k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0180% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

Human Services$3.9MArts & Culture$1.4MHousing & Shelter$1.0MEducation$934kHealth$814kRecreation & Sports$627kYouth Development$446kFood & Nutrition$420kAnimals$387kOther$3.8M
02FY2025 · 110 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 110 grants below total $2,174,689 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,489,799 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $315,110 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k50 grants · $368k
  • $10k–50k56 grants · $1.2M
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $281k
  • $250k+1 grant · $339k
$10,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$76M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ELIZABETH'S EARLY LEARNING CENTER$339,491
ALTAVISTA AREA YMCA$117,600
MIRIAM'S HOUSE$110,719
LYNCHBURG DAILY BREAD INC$52,349
LYNCHBURG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$47,146
NEW VISTAS SCHOOL$42,379
LYNCHBURG BEACON OF HOPE$41,158
JUBILEE FAMILY DEVELOPMENT CENTER$35,956
LYNCHBURG GROWS$35,293
LYNCHBURG HUMANE SOCIETY$34,460
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC$34,332
OPERA ON THE JAMES$33,517
THE ARC OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA$32,608
LYNCHBURG CITY SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION$30,812
CAMP KUM-BA-YAH NATURE CENTER$30,747
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25, $3.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 21% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CHILDREN'S ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY SERVICE: $15k → 19%LAKE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $12k → 13%FIVE18 FAMILY SERVICES: $18k → 20%FIVE18 FAMILY SERVICES: $17k → 20%YMCA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA: $14k → 20%ALTAVISTA AREA YMCA: $118k → 13%ALTAVISTA AREA YMCA: $25k → 13%ALTAVISTA AREA YMCA: $25k → 13%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF THE BLUE RIDGE: $12k → 20%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF THE BLUE RIDGE: $12k → 20%ALTAVISTA AREA YMCA: $14k → 13%FOOD FOR KIDS: $30k → 8%PARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSION: $30k → 13%FOOD FOR KIDS: $18k → 8%FOOD FOR KIDS: $17k → 8%ELIZABETH'S EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $339k → 8%ELIZABETH'S EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $335k → 8%ELIZABETH'S EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $320k → 8%ELIZABETH'S EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $314k → 8%ELIZABETH'S EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $312k → 8%ELIZABETH'S EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $310k → 8%ELIZABETH'S EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $305k → 8%ELIZABETH'S EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $304k → 8%HUMANKIND: $22k → 8%HUMANKIND: $17k → 8%HUMANKIND: $16k → 8%HUMANKIND - EARLY HEAD START: $15k → 8%HUMANKIND: $13k → 8%LAKE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $18k → 8%LAKE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $16k → 8%LAKE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $16k → 8%CHILDREN'S ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY SERVICES: $15k → 8%LAKE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $13k → 8%LAKE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC: $13k → 8%CHILDREN'S ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY SERVICES: $13k → 8%PATRICK HENRY FAMILY SERVICES: $23k → 13%PATRICK HENRY FAMILY SERVICES: $21k → 13%PATRICK HENRY FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 13%PATRICK HENRY FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 13%PATRICK HENRY FAMILY SERVICES: $19k → 13%PATRICK HENRY FAMILY SERVICES: $14k → 13%YWCA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA: $22k → 13%YWCA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA: $20k → 13%ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $19k → 13%YMCA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA: $15k → 13%YMCA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA: $14k → 13%YWCA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA: $14k → 13%YWCA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA: $13k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$13M · 136 repeat orgs$565k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.

136 repeat relationships — 95 still active in FY2025, 41 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

136
44

Total granted

$13M
$351k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
-6%

Still filing today

83%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $214k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionOther

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

  • EE
    ELIZABETH'S EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +75%
  • MH
    MIRIAM'S HOUSE INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $855k · revenue +345%
  • FC
    FREE CLINIC OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $326k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • SP
    ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH
    one grant, 2024 · $41k
  • TU
    THE UP FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $18k · revenue -46%
  • CC
    Campbell County Training School Complex
    one grant, 2021 · $14k · revenue -88%

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.

1
Historic Virginia Land Conservancy

Promoting for the benefit of the general public, the preservation, protection and enjoyment of our natural resources, principally in the lower james, york, rappahannock and chowan rivers and surrounding watersheds.

Environment
2
Virginias House a Family Resource Center
Human Services
3
Virginia Poverty Law Center Inc

Virginia poverty law center uses advocacy, education, and litigation to break down systemic barriers that keep low-income virginians in the cycle of poverty.

Crime & Legal
4
Virginia Community Food Connections

Our mission is to ensure the availability, access, and affordability of locally produced food by connecting local farmers and all members of the community through programs, awareness, and advocacy.

Food & Nutrition
5
Virginia Association of Museums

The virginia association of museums is a statewide network serving the museum community. the association's mission statement is "the virginia association of museums helps our museum community succeed".

Arts & Culture
6
Virginia Community Action Partnership Inc

Virginia community action partnership (vacap) is the statewide membership association for virginia's thirty-one non-profit and public community action agencies. vacaps mission is to build the capacity and competencies of virginias…

Human Services
7
Virginia Voice Inc

Virginia Voice is a non-profit audio reading and information service for individuals who are unable to read for themselves because of blindness, low vision, or other disabilities.

Human Services
8
Central Virginia Foundation for Economic Education&Improvement Inc

Furtherance of economic growth, education, training and development

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9
Legal Aid Justice Center

The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.

Crime & Legal
10
Virginia Discovery Museum Inc

The virginia discovery museum's mission is to operate a hands-on museum focusing on artistic, recreational, scientific, and educational programs and exhibits for the benefit of children who reside in the city of charlottesville and…

Arts & Culture
11
Virginia Community Development Corp

VCDC delivers vital financial resources and support while collaborating with local organizations dedicated to social impact, ensuring the creation of affordable homes in vibrant neighborhoods where everyone can thrive.

Housing & Shelter
12
Little Hands Virginia Inc

Little hands virginia's mission is to ensure young children in need in central virginia have essentials from day one to improve outcomes for life.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lynchburg Community Action Group I Group Inc and the most unlike its peers is Take My Hand Ministries 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 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%3%<5yr13%10%5–10yr18%21%10–20yr14%25%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr19%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr13%2%5–10yr18%10%10–20yr14%40%20–35yr13%33%35–55yr19%15%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%4/194
the rest of the field
13%
170/1,302

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.

04the grantee network

157 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. 157 of the 194 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
62
Early backer (in before they grew)
146/157
Grantees still filing
100/157
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ELIZABETH'S EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC — $2,540,095 · Human ServicesELIZABETH'S EARLY LEARNING CENTE…Altavista Area YMCA Inc — $210,729 · Human ServicesAltavista Area YMCA IncPATRICK HENRY FAMILY SERVICES INC — $152,435 · Human ServicesPRESBYTERIAN HOMES & FAMILY SVCS — $131,540 · Human Services+22 more — $874,696 · Human Services+22 moreUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC — $233,507 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS INC — $185,879 · OtherLYNCHBURG CITY SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $179,651 · OtherLYNCHBURG GROWS — $292,542 · OtherLYNCHBURG GROWSLYNCHBURG DAILY BREAD INC — $296,033 · OtherLYNCHBURG DAILY BREAD INCLYNCHBURG HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $197,339 · OtherINTERFAITH OUTREACH ASSOCIATION — $203,826 · Other+89 more — $3,458,371 · Other+89 moreOPERA ON THE JAMES — $178,396 · Arts & CultureOPERA ON TH…Lynchburg Symphony Orchestra Inc — $160,044 · Arts & CultureLynchburg S…ACADEMY CENTER OF THE ARTS INC — $154,053 · Arts & CultureACADEMY CEN…The Legacy Project Inc — $145,695 · Arts & CultureThe Legacy …AMAZEMENT SQUARE — $101,348 · Arts & CultureAMAZEMENT S…WOLFBANE PRODUCTIONS — $69,550 · Arts & CultureThe Sedalia Center Inc — $62,498 · Arts & CultureSOUTHERN MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION — $62,219 · Arts & CultureRIVERVIEWS — $56,500 · Arts & CultureAMHERST GLEBE ARTS RESPONSE INC — $53,242 · Arts & CultureCharlottesville Ballet — $49,100 · Arts & Culture+19 more — $351,834 · Arts & Culture+19 moreMIRIAM'S HOUSE INC — $855,129 · Housing & ShelterGREATER LYNCHBURG HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $76,455 · Housing & ShelterRUSH HOMES INC — $58,373 · Housing & Shelter+1 more — $19,000 · Housing & ShelterNew Vistas School of Central Virginia Inc — $286,728 · EducationLYNCHBURG BEACON OF HOPE INC — $204,603 · EducationSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE — $88,845 · EducationRANDOLPH COLLEGE INC — $70,747 · EducationFaith Christian Academy — $50,847 · EducationBEDFORD AREA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $44,000 · EducationCENTRAL VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONINC — $38,306 · EducationVirginia Technical Institute — $38,025 · EducationAMHERST COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $32,500 · Education+8 more — $78,948 · EducationFREE CLINIC OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC — $325,705 · HealthSAARA OF VIRGINIA INC — $128,200 · HealthBlue Ridge Pregnancy Center Inc — $89,855 · HealthCENTRA HEALTH FOUNDATION — $55,386 · HealthKIDS' HAVEN A CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN — $43,062 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER VIRGINIA — $40,000 · HealthTHE CLAIRE PARKER FOUNDATION INC — $31,700 · HealthCOMMUNITY ACCESS NETWORK INC — $31,500 · Health+7 more — $68,580 · HealthCamp Kum-Ba-Yah Inc — $220,828 · Recreation & SportsJUBILEE FAMILY DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $189,574 · Recreation & SportsNATIONAL D-DAY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $159,579 · Recreation & SportsGirls on the Run Central Virginia and Blue Ridge — $28,510 · Recreation & SportsCAMP HOLIDAY TRAILS — $23,080 · Recreation & Sports+1 more — $5,363 · Recreation & Sports
Human Services$3,909,495Other$5,047,148Arts & Culture$1,444,479Housing & Shelter$1,008,957Education$933,549Health$813,988Recreation & Sports$626,934

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetELIZABETH'S EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC — $2,540,095 over 8y, 19% of budgetMIRIAM'S HOUSE INC — $855,129 over 8y, 15% of budgetFREE CLINIC OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC — $325,705 over 8y, 8.2% of budgetLYNCHBURG DAILY BREAD INC — $296,033 over 8y, 4.6% of budgetLYNCHBURG GROWS — $292,542 over 8y, 19% of budgetNew Vistas School of Central Virginia Inc — $286,728 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC — $233,507 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetCamp Kum-Ba-Yah Inc — $220,828 over 7y, 25% of budgetAltavista Area YMCA Inc — $210,729 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetLYNCHBURG BEACON OF HOPE INC — $204,603 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetINTERFAITH OUTREACH ASSOCIATION — $203,826 over 8y, 7.8% of budgetLYNCHBURG HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $197,339 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetJUBILEE FAMILY DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $189,574 over 8y, 5.4% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC — $185,879 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetLYNCHBURG CITY SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $179,651 over 8y, 6.9% of budgetOPERA ON THE JAMES — $178,396 over 8y, 8.1% of budgetLynchburg Symphony Orchestra Inc — $160,044 over 8y, 11% of budgetNATIONAL D-DAY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $159,579 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetJAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION — $157,069 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetACADEMY CENTER OF THE ARTS INC — $154,053 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetPATRICK HENRY FAMILY SERVICES INC — $152,435 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetThe Legacy Project Inc — $145,695 over 8y, 46% of budgetBLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC — $139,504 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN HOMES & FAMILY SVCS — $131,540 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSAARA OF VIRGINIA INC — $128,200 over 3y, 16% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LYNCHBURG — $121,283 over 7y, 4.7% of budgetCASA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC — $118,220 over 7y, 4.4% of budgetBROOK HILL RETIREMENT CENTER FOR HORSES INC — $113,838 over 7y, 6.5% of budgetLAKE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC — $111,068 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetTHE ARC OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA — $103,768 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetAMAZEMENT SQUARE — $101,348 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetFOOD FOR KIDS — $97,864 over 7y, 16% of budgetYWCA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA — $95,771 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetJAMES RIVER DAY SCHOOL INC — $91,226 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetVirginia Legal Aid Society Inc — $89,945 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetBlue Ridge Pregnancy Center Inc — $89,855 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE — $88,845 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SOCIETY OF ST ANDREW INC — $79,144 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetALTAVISTA AREA CAMPBELL COUNTY FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING INC — $77,650 over 8y, 6.2% of budgetGREATER LYNCHBURG HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $76,455 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA — $73,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetRANDOLPH COLLEGE INC — $70,747 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWOLFBANE PRODUCTIONS — $69,550 over 7y, 5.7% of budgetVirginia Center for Inclusive Communities — $68,947 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetVIRGINIA HUNTERS WHO CARE INC — $65,097 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $64,750 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Sedalia Center Inc — $62,498 over 7y, 12% of budgetSOUTHERN MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION — $62,219 over 7y, 4.3% of budget
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 ELIZABETH'S EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MIRIAM'S HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds FREE CLINIC OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC ↗
  • Who funds LYNCHBURG DAILY BREAD INC ↗
  • Who funds LYNCHBURG GROWS ↗
  • Who funds New Vistas School of Central Virginia Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC ↗
  • Who funds Camp Kum-Ba-Yah Inc ↗
  • Who funds Altavista Area YMCA Inc ↗
  • Who funds LYNCHBURG BEACON OF HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERFAITH OUTREACH ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds LYNCHBURG HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds JUBILEE FAMILY DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
  • Who funds LYNCHBURG CITY SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds OPERA ON THE JAMES ↗
  • Who funds Lynchburg Symphony Orchestra Inc ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL D-DAY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds ACADEMY CENTER OF THE ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds PATRICK HENRY FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds The Legacy Project Inc ↗
  • Who funds BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds PRESBYTERIAN HOMES & FAMILY SVCS ↗
  • Who funds SAARA OF VIRGINIA INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LYNCHBURG ↗
  • Who funds CASA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC ↗
  • Who funds BROOK HILL RETIREMENT CENTER FOR HORSES INC ↗
  • Who funds LAKE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ARC OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA ↗
  • Who funds AMAZEMENT SQUARE ↗
  • Who funds FOOD FOR KIDS ↗
  • Who funds YWCA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA ↗
  • Who funds JAMES RIVER DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds Virginia Legal Aid Society Inc ↗
  • Who funds Blue Ridge Pregnancy Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE ↗

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.

The Al Stroobants Fou…Centra Health IncFoster FoundationEasley Char Irr Tua 5…Schewel Charitable Fo…M4k Lynchburg IncUnited Way of Central…Bedford Community Hea…Centra Health Foundat…Carrington Family Fou…The Minnie and Bernar…The Imperial Charitab…
The Al Stroobants FoundationVA122.6× affinity57 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Greater Lynchburg Community 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
43report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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: 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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How do I get to Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 194 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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