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Helen R Van Rensselaer Char at a glance

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Helen R Van Rensselaer Char

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.

$21k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$65kHuman Services$37kEducation$32kRecreation & Sports$18kAnimals$13kPublic Benefit$5kReligion$5kPhilanthropy$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$6,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$457k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BRADLEY FREE CLINIC OF ROANOKE VALLEY$10,000
CAMP HOLIDAY TRAILS$6,000
SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE RESCUE MISSION OF ROANOKE INC: $5k → 20%RESCUE MISSION OF ROANOKE INC: $10k → 20%RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES: $7k → 20%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$144k · 9 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
6

Total granted

$144k
$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+33%

Still filing today

89%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BF
    BRADLEY FREE CLINIC OF ROANOKE VALLEY INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $38k · revenue +63%
  • TR
    THE RESCUE MISSION OF ROANOKE INC
    3× · 2018–2024 · $22k · revenue +31%
  • BH
    BOYS HOME INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $20k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • ES
    EASTER SEALS INC
    one grant, 2019 · $9k · revenue 0%
  • EU
    EASTERSEALS UCP NC VA INC
    one grant, 2024 · $6k
  • RV
    ROANOKE VALLEY SPEECH AND
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Sentara Rmh Medical Center

As part of sentara health's integrated health care system, we improve health every day.

Health
2
Edward Via Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine

The mission of the edward via college of osteopathic medicine (vcom) is to prepare globally-minded, community-focused physicians to meet the needs of rural and medically underserved populations and promote research to improve human health.

Education
3
Sentara Enterprises

As part of sentara health's integrated health care organization, we improve health everyday through the provision of health care facilities and services for sick, injured, disabled, indigent, and aged persons.

Health
4
Sentara Health

We improve health every day through coordinating, promoting and planning for the provision of health services and the promotion of health, medical education, and the social, cultural, educational, and economic development of the community.

Health
5
East Carolina Health

To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.

Health
6
Sentara Hospitals

As part of sentara health's integrated health care system, we improve health every day.

Health
7
University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina Inc

To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.

Health
8
Sentara Medical Group

See schedule o.as part of sentara health's integrated health care system, we improve health every day through the establishment and operation of programs and services for the provision of health care and for health related purposes; the…

Health
9
Sentara Princess Anne Hospital

As part of sentara health's integrated health care system, we improve health every day.

Health
10
Carolina Medicorp Enterprises Inc

Mission novant health exists to improve the health of our communities, one person at a time. vision we, the novant health team, will deliver the most remarkable patient experience, in every dimension, every time. values -compassion: we…

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11
Martha Jefferson Hospital

As part of sentara health's integrated delivery system, we improve health every day.

Health
12
The Outer Banks Hospital Inc

To enhance the quality of life for the residents and visitors of dare county and the surrounding region by promoting wellness and providing the highest quality healthcare services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Easter Seals Ucp North Carolina & Virginia Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 16 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BRADLEY FREE CLINIC OF ROANOKE VALLEY INC: $38,000 · OtherBRADLEY FREE CLINIC OF ROANOKE VALLEY INCEASTER SEALS UCP NORTH CAROLINA: $12,500 · OtherEASTER SEALS UCP NORTH CAROLINAST VINCENT'S HOME: $12,000 · OtherST VINCENT'S HOMEEASTER SEALS INC: $9,000 · OtherEASTER SEALS INCEASTERSEALS UCP NC VA INC: $6,000 · OtherEASTERSEALS UCP NC VA INCROANOKE VALLEY SPEECH AND: $5,000 · OtherROANOKE VALLEY SPEECH ANDSECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $5,000 · OtherSECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH+1 more: $2,500 · OtherBOYS HOME INC: $20,000 · EducationBOYS HOME INCELMIRA COLLEGE: $12,375 · EducationELMIRA COLLEGETHE RESCUE MISSION OF ROANOKE INC: $22,375 · Human ServicesTHE RESCUE MI…CAMP HOLIDAY TRAILS: $18,000 · Recreation & SportsCAMP HOLIDA…EASTER SEALS UCP NORTH CAROLINA & VIRGINIA INC: $5,000 · HealthEASTER SE…ROANOKE VALLEY SPEECH & HEARING CENTER INC: $5,000 · HealthROANOKE V…American Heart Association Inc: $5,000 · HealthAmerican …UNITED WAY OF VIRGINIA'S BLUE RIDGE INC: $3,750 · Philanthropy
Other$90,000Education$32,375Human Services$22,375Recreation & Sports$18,000Health$15,000Philanthropy$3,750

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBRADLEY FREE CLINIC OF ROANOKE VALLEY INC: $38,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE RESCUE MISSION OF ROANOKE INC: $22,375 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS HOME INC: $20,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCAMP HOLIDAY TRAILS: $18,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetELMIRA COLLEGE: $12,375 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST VINCENT'S HOME: $12,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEASTER SEALS INC: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEASTER SEALS UCP NORTH CAROLINA & VIRGINIA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROANOKE VALLEY SPEECH & HEARING CENTER INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF VIRGINIA'S BLUE RIDGE INC: $3,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Community Foundation …Edgar a Thurman Fdn C…Robertson Family Foun…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Enterprise Holdings F…American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation Serving Western VirginiaVA19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia · Edgar a Thurman Fdn Children Nect · Robertson Family Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Helen R Van Rensselaer Char funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Helen R Van Rensselaer Char. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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