Virginia · Private foundation
Houff Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $282k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 60
- Grants FY2025
- 62
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 36 to 62
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.7M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 16% of the organizations Houff Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $91k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 59 | $280k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 62 | $715k | 16% |
| FY2023 | 46 | $279k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 52 | $272k | 23% |
| FY2021 | 55 | $514k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 44 | $203k | 36% |
| FY2019 | 44 | $204k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 36 | $232k | 39% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Verona Community Center Inc | $164,600 | 9 | 20% |
| Bridgewater HealthCare Foundation Inc | $122,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Verona Community Food Pantry | $80,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Ruritan Charities of Mt Sidney Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 87% |
| Young Life | $46,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Bridgewater College | $45,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Baltimore Children's Museum Inc | $42,500 | 9 | 0% |
| The Staunton Augusta Art Center Inc | $28,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Blue Ridge Area Food Bank Inc | $24,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Boys Home Inc | $24,500 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 67 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 63 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Houff Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 51 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 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
How this is measured
About Houff Charitable Foundation
- How much does Houff Charitable Foundation give?
- Houff Charitable Foundation reported 60 grants totaling $281,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 36 and 62 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Houff Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (23%), Religion (17%), Health (13%).
- Who are Houff Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Verona Community Center Inc ($165k), Bridgewater HealthCare Foundation Inc ($123k), Verona Community Food Pantry ($80k).
- Does Houff Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Houff Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Houff Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of the Central Blue Ridge, The Community Foundation of Harrisonburg & Rockingham County, The Houff Family Foundation.
- Where is Houff Charitable Foundation based?
- Houff Charitable Foundation is based in VA.
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