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· Private foundation
HELEN R VAN RENSSELAER CHAR
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$21k
Granted FY2024
4
Grants
2
Communities
$6k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of HELEN R VAN RENSSELAER CHAR’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
roanoke valley
2019
—
2020
roanoke valley
2021
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2022
roanoke valley
2023
roanoke valley
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 4 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$535k
Total assets
Largest grants
- EASTERSEALS UCP NC VA INC$6,000
- THE RESCUE MISSION OF ROANOKE INC$5,000
- BRADLEY FREE CLINIC OF ROANOKE VALLEY$5,000
- CAMP HOLIDAY TRAILS$5,000
02The need
04
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 (FY19–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.
75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$121k · 9 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else
9 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
9
6
Total granted
$121k
$34k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+12%
+14%
Still filing today
78%
33%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
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
- BFBRADLEY FREE CLINIC OF ROANOKE VALLEY5× · 2020–2024 · $28k · revenue +15%
- TRTHE RESCUE MISSION OF ROANOKE INC2× · 2019–2024 · $15k · revenue +26%
- CHCAMP HOLIDAY TRAILS INC3× · 2022–2024 · $12k · revenue +156%
Funded once
- ESEASTER SEALS INCone grant, 2019 · $9k · revenue -10%
- RMRESCUE MISSION MINISTRIESone grant, 2018 · $7k
- EUEASTERSEALS UCP NC & VA INCone grant, 2023 · $5k
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
Appalachian Regional Healthcare
To provide central appalachia an abundance of healthcare and community-oriented services through its hospital, clinics and home health operations as well as community outreach services.
Health
2
River Valley Health
Our mission is to build health and bridge gaps by providing inclusive, quality healthcare to all.
Health
3
Carilion Clinic
Our mission is to improve the health of the communities we serve through our commitment to a common purpose of better patient care, better community health, and lower cost.
Health
4
Carilion Medical Center
Our mission is to improve the health of the communities we serve through our commitment to a common purpose of better patient care, better community health, and lower cost.
Health
5
Bronson Battle Creek Hospital
Together, we advance the health of our communities.
Health
6
Carilion New River Valley Medical Center
Our mission is to improve the health of the communities we serve through our commitment to a common purpose of better patient care, better community health, and lower cost.
Health
7
Rosscare
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8
Elk Regional Health Center
Provide premier healthcare services including inpatient and outpatient care (see schedule o) family, internal and general medicine, and long term care services to our surrounding communities.
Health
9
Rosecrance Health Network
Rosecrance is an integrated network of behavioral health services that provides help, hope and lasting recovery to children, youth, adults, and families. its community of 1400 compassionate professionals service and supports over 50,000…
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10
Riverside Medical Center
To meet the health care needs of our community, by providing a comprehensive array of high value & quality services in a caring & effective manner.
Health
11
Ridgeview Medical Center
Ridgeview medical center exists to enhance the lifelong health of the people we serve with a culture that nurtures the whole personmind, body and spirit.
Health
12
Intermountain Healthcare
Provide strategic and fiduciary leadership for philanthropic endeavors of ihc health services, inc.
Health
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Easter Seals Inc and the most unlike its peers is Elmira College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$87,375Education$32,375Human Services$15,000Recreation & Sports$12,000Health$10,000Philanthropy$3,750
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 BRADLEY FREE CLINIC OF ROANOKE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds BOYS HOME INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE RESCUE MISSION OF ROANOKE INC ↗
- Who funds ELMIRA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CAMP HOLIDAY TRAILS INC ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS INC ↗
- Who funds ROANOKE VALLEY SPEECH AND HEARING CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ROANOKE VALLEY ↗
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.
Community Foundation Serving WesternVA15.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Community Foundation Serving Western · Edgar a Thurman Fdn Children Nect · The Louise R Lester Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 organisation HELEN R VAN RENSSELAER CHAR 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CAMP HOLIDAY TRAILS INC.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~17 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.6× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 540922028 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on CAMP HOLIDAY TRAILS INC, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 17 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 0% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to Helen R Van Rensselaer Char?
Find your warmest path to Helen R Van Rensselaer Char through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines