· Private foundation
Houff Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k52 grants · $142k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW HOPE WEYERS CAVE YOUTH SPORTS | $50,000 |
| VERONA COMMUNITY CENTER | $30,000 |
| WARM INC | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| VALLEY MISSION INC | $10,000 |
| BRIDGEWATER HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| WEYERS CAVE REC ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| VERONA COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY | $10,000 |
| PLEASANT VALLEY CHURCH | $7,000 |
| WEYERS CAVE FIRE DEPARTMENT | $7,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $5,000 |
| BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $131k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 31% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +46% for the ones you funded once.
82 repeat relationships — 49 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- VCVerona Community Center Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $165k · revenue +39%
- BHBridgewater HealthCare Foundation Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $123k · revenue +143%
- VCVERONA COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY9× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- RCRURITAN CHARITIES OF MT SIDNEY INCone grant, 2024 · $50k · 87% of their budget
- SGSAVING GRACE DBA THE BUTTERFLYone grant, 2021 · $25k
- MBMEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $12k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.
To provide assistance to improve the quality of life for persons with intellectual disabilities, mental illness or substance abuse.
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.
The Children's Advocacy Centers of Virginia (CACVA) promotes and supports the development, growth and continuation of child advocacy centers and multidisciplinary teams across the state in their service to child victims of abuse and…
The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.
To advocate for and with people with disabilities to promote full participation in society.
To serve the indigent.
To assist rural virginians in developing and advancing their agricultural, economic and social interests to enhance their quality of life.
Provide shelter for homeless animals and prevent animal cruelty
The Virginia Home provides compassionate and professional residential care to adult Virginians with irreversible physical disabilities, ensuring that their lifelong comfort and security will never be compromised, regardless of the ability…
To provide food and other related products primarily to member agencies for distribution to those in need, and also for direct distribution.
Provide food & other holiday gifts to qualifying needy families in rockbridge county, lexington & buena vista, virginia
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Margarets Saving Grace Bully Rescue 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 33 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
58 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. 58 of the 132 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 Verona Community Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Bridgewater HealthCare Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds VERONA COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds RURITAN CHARITIES OF MT SIDNEY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEWATER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE BALTIMORE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE STAUNTON AUGUSTA ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS HOME INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds EQUIPPING THE SAINTS ↗
- Who funds Weyers Cave Ruritan Club ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF AUGUSTA ↗
- Who funds VISION APPALACHIA ↗
- Who funds National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association ↗
- Who funds Monacan Nation Cultural Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds KINGSWAY PRISON AND FAMILY OUTREACH ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Central Blue Ridge · The Community Foundation of Harrisonburg & Rockingham County · The Houff Family Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Augusta Health Care Inc · Sentara Health · Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · Greater Williamsburg Community Trust · Blue Ridge Area Food Bank Inc · Denton Family Charitable Foundation · The Ronald West Family Foundation · Peninsula Community Foundation of Virginia Inc
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 Houff Charitable 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.
- The Baltimore Children's Museum Inc — 33% of income from government
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.