· Private foundation
Groves-Chaney Founda
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $39k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SALVATION ARMY | $15,500 |
| YMCA | $12,500 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $11,000 |
| HENRY FORK CENTER | $6,500 |
| OAKWOOD CEMETERY FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| FERRUM COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| CARLISLE SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $3,000 |
| PIEDMONT ARTS ASSOCIATION | $3,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $3,000 |
| BASSETT HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| MARC FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| FULLER CENTER | $2,000 |
| ADULT DAY CARE | $2,000 |
| MARTINSVILLE AREA COMM FND | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
32 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TPThe Piedmont Arts Association9× · 2017–2025 · $26k · revenue +22%
- THTRI-RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC7× · 2017–2023 · $14k · revenue +156%
- PCPREGNANCY CARE CENTER OF MHC INC9× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $18k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $3k
- BSBOYS SCOUTS OF AMERICA CLAYTORone grant, 2023 · $2k
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.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Mary's meadow at providence place offers long-term care, rehabilitation and spiritual support for the elderly.
SMC Delivers an exceptional education that fuses the empowerment of the liberal arts with crucial career skills. Our mission is to equip our students with the knowledge, skills, virtues, and mindset needed to thrive personally, create…
Trinity Pines provides older persons and handicapped persons with housing facilities and services specifically designed to meet their physical, social, phychological and spiritual needs and to promote their health, security, happiness and…
Psrc is the go-to resource where aging adults and their families find support, guidance, educational and social programs to help navigate life transitions and continue to be active, healty and engaged in the community.
Building homes working families can afford. We are dedicated to: providing new, affordable homes to residents in the South Cumberland Plateau of Tennessee; preparing future and current homeowners to both acquire and maintain a safe and…
Chapel pointe at carlisle is a continuing care retirement community of the christian and missionary alliance and is for persons of all faiths. our mission is to provide comfortable retirement living and quality care and service to each…
Provide comprehensive primary medical care to the communites served.
To provide compassionate care to women unprepared for pregnancy by offering resources and practical assistance for life affirming choices
Provide low-cost housing to qualifying families
Low income housing for seniors and handicapped To provide a safe, secure, affordable, and aesthetically pleasing environment designed to compassionately meet the needs of seniors and handicapped persons without regard to their racial,…
Above all else, summersville regional medical center is committed to the care and improvement of human life. in recognition of this commitment, we will strive to deliver quality, cost effective healthcare to the communities we serve
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 39 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 FERRUM COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CARLISLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds The Piedmont Arts Association ↗
- Who funds TRI-RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY CARE CENTER OF MHC INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHSIDE SURVIVOR RESPONSE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Gateway Streetscape Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SUNNYSIDE PRESBYTERIAN HOME ↗
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: Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia · William Whidbee Sale & Virginia B Sale Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Groves-Chaney Founda funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Groves-Chaney Founda. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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