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Houff Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Houff Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$282k
Granted FY2025still arriving
60
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$668kReligion$492kHealth$374kCommunity Improvement$301kEducation$232kFood & Nutrition$184kHuman Services$169kArts & Culture$107kOther$0
02FY2025 · 60 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k52 grants · $142k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $90k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$2,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW HOPE WEYERS CAVE YOUTH SPORTS$50,000
VERONA COMMUNITY CENTER$30,000
BRIDGEWATER HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION$10,000
WEYERS CAVE REC ASSOCIATION$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
VALLEY MISSION INC$10,000
WARM INC$10,000
VERONA COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY$10,000
PLEASANT VALLEY CHURCH$7,000
WEYERS CAVE FIRE DEPARTMENT$7,000
TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH$5,000
AUGUSTA REGIONAL DENTAL CLINIC$5,000
STAUNTON AUGUSTA ART CENTER$5,000
VERONA UMC FOOD PANTRY$5,000
BRIDGEWATER COLLEGE$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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%VISION APPALACHIA: $5k → 11%AVALON CENTER: $1k → 7%THE AGAPE CENTER: $2k → 8%PATRICK HENRY FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 20%VISION APPALACHIA: $5k → 11%AVALON CENTER: $1k → 7%THE AGAPE CENTER: $1k → 8%PATRICK HENRY FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 20%VISION APPALACHIA: $5k → 11%AVALON CENTER: $1k → 7%PATRICK HENRY FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 20%AVALON CENTER: $1k → 7%PATRICK HENRY FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 20%AVALON CENTER: $1k → 7%PATRICK HENRY FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 20%FISH: $1k → 7%FISH: $1k → 7%KINGSWAY PRISON & FAMILY OUTREACH: $2k → 11%KINGSWAY PRISON & FAMILY OUTREACH: $2k → 11%KINGSWAY PRISON & FAMILY OUTREACH: $2k → 11%KINGSWAY PRISON & FAMILY OUTREACH: $2k → 11%KINGSWAY PRISON & FAMILY OUTREACH: $1k → 11%KINGSWAY PRISON & FAMILY OUTREACH: $1k → 11%KINGSWAY PRISON & FAMILY OUTREACH: $1k → 11%KINGSWAY PRISON & FAMILY OUTREACH: $1k → 11%KINGSWAY PRISON & FAMILY OUTREACH: $1k → 11%VERONA COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $10k → 8%VERONA COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $10k → 8%VERONA COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $10k → 8%VERONA COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $10k → 8%VERONA COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $10k → 8%VERONA COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $10k → 8%VERONA COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $10k → 8%VERONA COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $5k → 8%VERONA COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $5k → 8%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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 82 repeat orgs$279k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +46% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

82
38

Total granted

$2.6M
$205k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+46%

Still filing today

45%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • VC
    Verona Community Center Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $165k · revenue +39%
  • BH
    Bridgewater HealthCare Foundation Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $123k · revenue +75%
  • VC
    VERONA COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • RC
    RURITAN CHARITIES OF MT SIDNEY INC
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · 87% of their budget
  • SG
    SAVING GRACE DBA THE BUTTERFLY
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • MB
    MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $12k
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
Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities

VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.

Civil Rights
2
Valley Area Community Support Inc Dba Valley Supportive Housing

To provide assistance to improve the quality of life for persons with intellectual disabilities, mental illness or substance abuse.

Human Services
3
Virginia Community Food Connections

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.

Food & Nutrition
4
Childrens Advocacy Center of Virginia

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…

Human Services
5
Voices for Virginia's Children

The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.

Civil Rights
6
Appalachian Independence Center

To advocate for and with people with disabilities to promote full participation in society.

Community Improvement
7
Roanoke Area Ministries

To serve the indigent.

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8
Virginia Foundation for Agriculture Innovation and Rural Sustainability

To assist rural virginians in developing and advancing their agricultural, economic and social interests to enhance their quality of life.

Environment
9
Cumberland Valley Animal Shelter Inc

Provide shelter for homeless animals and prevent animal cruelty

Animals
10
The Virginia Home

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…

Health
11
Feeding Southwest Virginia

To provide food and other related products primarily to member agencies for distribution to those in need, and also for direct distribution.

Food & Nutrition
12
Rockbridge Christmas Basket Inc

Provide food & other holiday gifts to qualifying needy families in rockbridge county, lexington & buena vista, virginia

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

58 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. 58 of the 132 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/58
Grantees still filing
45/58
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $426,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSHENANDOAH DISTRICT CHURCH BRETHREN: $210,000 · OtherSHENANDOAH DISTRICT CHURCH BRETHRENAUGUSTA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $150,000 · OtherAUGUSTA HEALTH FOUNDATIONWEYERS CAVE REC ASSOCIATION: $138,750 · OtherWEYERS CAVE REC ASSOCIATIONPLEASANT VALLEY CHURCH: $135,000 · OtherPLEASANT VALLEY CHURCHWEYERS CAVE COMMUNITY CENTER: $114,000 · OtherBLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $82,500 · Other+95 more: $908,747 · Other+95 moreVerona Community Center Inc: $164,600 · Community Improvement+2 more: $6,000 · Community ImprovementBridgewater HealthCare Foundation Inc: $122,500 · HealthNAMI National: $10,000 · HealthULMAN FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · HealthAUGUSTA REGIONAL CLINIC INC: $5,000 · Health+1 more: $2,500 · HealthVERONA COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $80,000 · Human ServicesVISION APPALACHIA: $15,000 · Human ServicesKINGSWAY PRISON AND FAMILY OUTREACH: $13,000 · Human ServicesPATRICK HENRY FAMILY SERVICES INC: $12,500 · Human ServicesAVALON A CENTER FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $5,000 · Human Services+2 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesBRIDGEWATER COLLEGE: $45,000 · EducationVIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · EducationBOYS HOME INC: $24,500 · EducationJAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 · EducationOUR COMMUNITY PLACE: $5,000 · EducationChild Development Resources: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $750 · EducationTHE BALTIMORE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $42,500 · Arts & CultureTHE STAUNTON AUGUSTA ART CENTER INC: $28,000 · Arts & CultureMonacan Nation Cultural Foundation Inc: $14,000 · Arts & CultureBRETHREN & MENNONITE HERITAGE CENTER: $5,000 · Arts & CultureJAMESTOWN-YORKTOWN FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $4,500 · Arts & CultureRURITAN CHARITIES OF MT SIDNEY INC: $50,000 · Public Benefit
Other$2,164,997Community Improvement$170,600Health$145,000Human Services$130,500Education$118,250Arts & Culture$99,000Public Benefit$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVerona Community Center Inc: $164,600 over 9y, 20% of budgetBridgewater HealthCare Foundation Inc: $122,500 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetVERONA COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $80,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetRURITAN CHARITIES OF MT SIDNEY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 87% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $46,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGEWATER COLLEGE: $45,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BALTIMORE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $42,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetVIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STAUNTON AUGUSTA ART CENTER INC: $28,000 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetBLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC: $24,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS HOME INC: $24,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetVALLEY MISSION INC: $23,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetEQUIPPING THE SAINTS: $18,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF AUGUSTA: $15,000 over 5y, 19% of budgetNational Court Appointed Special Advocate Association: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVISION APPALACHIA: $15,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetMonacan Nation Cultural Foundation Inc: $14,000 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetKINGSWAY PRISON AND FAMILY OUTREACH: $13,000 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetPATRICK HENRY FAMILY SERVICES INC: $12,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAUGUSTA REGIONAL SPCA INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetVALLEY ASSOCIATES FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNAMI National: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCKINGHAM COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION INC: $8,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAugusta County Fair: $8,000 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetJAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MADEE PROJECT INC: $8,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetFRIENDSHIP INDUSTRIES INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPOSITIVE PAWS K-9 ANGELS: $6,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetAUGUSTA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $6,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetRide With Pride Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetOUR COMMUNITY PLACE: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetULMAN FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBRETHREN & MENNONITE HERITAGE CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAVALON A CENTER FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHousing Partnerships Inc: $5,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetChild Development Resources: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJAMESTOWN-YORKTOWN FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAUGUSTA REGIONAL CLINIC INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRENEWING HOMES OF GREATER AUGUSTA INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetAGAPE CENTER CORPORATION INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetKARIS INC: $3,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetLittle League Baseball INC: $2,500 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetCreative Works Farm Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFISH INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRONTIER CULTURE FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMargarets Saving Grace Bully Rescue Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES-USA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 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.

  • 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 BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS HOME 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 National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association ↗
  • Who funds VISION APPALACHIA ↗
  • Who funds Monacan Nation Cultural Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds KINGSWAY PRISON AND FAMILY OUTREACH ↗

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 …The Community Foundat…The Houff Family Foun…Dominion Energy Chari…Augusta Health Care I…Sentara HealthCharlottesville Area …Greater Williamsburg …Blue Ridge Area Food …Denton Family Charita…The Ronald West Famil…Peninsula Community F…
Community Foundation of the Central Blue RidgeVA38.3× affinity16 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Houff Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Houff Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 33%
  • The Baltimore Children's Museum Inc: 33% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 132 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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