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Julian H & Ruth D Dymacek Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Julian H & Ruth D Dymacek Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$38k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$19k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Education$140kHealth$31kReligion$30kArts & Culture$13kInternational$5kHuman Services$3kPublic Benefit$1kRecreation & Sports$500
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $29k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$480k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FAMILY FOUNDATION OF VIRGINIA$19,000
BREAKTHROUGH T1D JDRF$10,000
MIGHTY MABEL FOUNDATION$5,000
INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN VALUES$2,500
CHARLOTTESVILLE OPERA$1,500
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 (FY19–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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%INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN VALUES: $3k → 17%INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN VALUES: $1k → 17%INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN VALUES: $1k → 17%INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN VALUES: $1k → 17%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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$212k · 12 repeat orgs$39k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
8

Total granted

$212k
$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+81%

Still filing today

67%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesReligionOther
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

  • TF
    The Family Foundation of Virginia
    5× · 2020–2025 · $72k · revenue +37%
  • EH
    ELIJAH HOUSE ACADEMY
    7× · 2017–2024 · $45k · revenue +89%
  • NE
    NEEDLE'S EYE MINISTRIES INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $12k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • BT
    BREAKTHROUGH T1Dgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +35%
  • HP
    HIGH POINT UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +81%
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSEgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +163%
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
Regents School of Charlottesville Inc

Regents' mission is to provide a classical and christian education, founded upon and informed by a biblical worldview, that equips our students to know, love, and practice that which is true, good, and the beautiful and challenges them to…

Education
2
Portersville Christian School

The mission of portersville christian school is to glorify god by preparing students to serve christ and instilling high standards spiritually, academically, socially, and physically. the school provides a high-quality academic program, a…

Education
3
Walnut Grove Christian School

We are a k-12 christian school founded under the following (4) pillars: academics: we provide an amazing accredited academic program utilizing 100% certified teachers. schedule: we provide our students and their families an opportunity on…

Education
4
Hunter Classical Christian School

Provide an education to children in lower and middle school using classical christian methodology.

Education
5
Explore God Network
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6
Victory Christian Academy

The mission of victory christian academy, in partnership with christian parents, is to provide a loving, christ-centered environment of educational excellence so that the students may develop their gifts, knowledge, skills and energies to…

Education
7
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
8
Eastern Mennonite University

A leader among faith-based universities Eastern Mennonite University emphasizes peace-building creation care experiential learning and intercultural engagement. Founded in 1917 in Harrisonburg Virginia EMU is an educational institution of…

—
9
Bethel Classical Academy

The fundamental purpose of BCA, as a school, is to educate with excellence. We believe that truly outstanding education can never be accomplishedapart from a central recognition of God as Truth and the source of all wisdom. The wisdom of…

Education
10
Good Shepherd Episcopal School

The mission of Good Shepherd Episcopal School is to inspire each child to achieve academic excellence within a diverse, nurturing community that builds character and fosters respect for one another and our shared environment, locally and…

Education
11
Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry Inc

To glorify god by equipping the church with proper christian doctrine and to help non-believers come to a saving knowledge of jesus christ.

—
12
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Elijah House Academy; the most unlike its peers is The Mighty Mabel Foundation 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

16 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. 16 of the 21 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
14/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ELIJAH HOUSE ACADEMY: $45,100 · OtherELIJAH HOUSE ACADEMYVERITAS SCHOOL: $26,226 · OtherVERITAS SCHOOLBREAKTHROUGH T1D JDRF: $15,000 · OtherBREAKTHROUGH T1D JDRFEXPLORE GOD (FORMERLY KNOWN AS WE INC): $12,500 · OtherEXPLORE GOD (FORMERLY KNOWN AS WE INC)NEEDLE'S EYE MINISTRIES INC: $12,000 · OtherNEEDLE'S EYE MINISTRIES INCRICHMOND CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN STUDY: $5,000 · Other+3 more: $3,000 · OtherThe Family Foundation of Virginia: $71,500 · EducationThe Family Foundation of VirginiaLOUISA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationLOUISA EDUCATION FOUNDATIONHIGH POINT UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · EducationHIGH POINT UNIVERSITY+1 more: $1,000 · EducationBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $20,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH …THE MIGHTY MABEL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · HealthTHE MIGHTY MA…+1 more: $1,000 · HealthCHARLOTTESVILLE OPERA: $8,700 · Arts & CultureOPERA LOUISIANE INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN VALUES: $2,000 · Arts & CultureBraver AngelsInc: $5,500 · Human ServicesSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $5,000 · Religion
Other$118,826Education$87,500Health$31,000Arts & Culture$13,200Human Services$5,500Religion$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Family Foundation of Virginia: $71,500 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetELIJAH HOUSE ACADEMY: $45,100 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEXPLORE GOD (FORMERLY KNOWN AS WE INC): $12,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNEEDLE'S EYE MINISTRIES INC: $12,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTHE MIGHTY MABEL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetCHARLOTTESVILLE OPERA: $8,700 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBraver AngelsInc: $5,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHIGH POINT UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERA LOUISIANE INC: $2,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN VALUES: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Virginia Home: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBelmont University: $1,000 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.

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.

The Community Foundat…Servant FoundationNatl Christian Charit…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Community Foundation IncVA19.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Julian H & Ruth D Dymacek Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Julian H & Ruth D Dymacek Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Julian H & Ruth D Dymacek Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Julian H & Ruth D Dymacek Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 21 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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