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Julian H & Ruth D Dymacek Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$29k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 49% of JULIAN H & RUTH D DYMACEK FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$464k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FAMILY FOUNDATION OF VIRGINIA$12,500
ELIJAH HOUSE ACADEMY$5,100
BREAKTHROUGH T1D JDRF$5,000
MIGHTY MABEL FOUNDATION$5,000
AMERICAN VALUES$1,000
CAPITOL COMMISSION$500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–21, $3k) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%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

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$164k · 10 repeat orgs$49k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
8

Total granted

$164k
$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+81%

Still filing today

70%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesReligionOther

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

  • TF
    The Family Foundation of Virginia
    4× · 2020–2024 · $53k · 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%
  • RC
    RICHMOND CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN STUDY
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -29%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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
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
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…

8
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
9
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.

10
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
11
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
12
Chesterton Academy of Saint John the Evangelist

The mission of Chesterton Academy is to help parents raise up a new generation of joyful leaders and saints, educated in the classical tradition and the truths of the Catholic faith.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Elijah House Academy and 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 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 20172025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
12/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ELIJAH HOUSE ACADEMY — $45,100 · OtherELIJAH HOUSE ACADEMYVERITAS SCHOOL — $26,226 · OtherVERITAS SCHOOLEXPLORE 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 INCBREAKTHROUGH T1D JDRF — $5,000 · OtherRICHMOND CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN STUDY — $5,000 · Other+3 more — $3,000 · OtherThe Family Foundation of Virginia — $52,500 · 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 — $5,000 · HealthTHE MIGHTY MA…The Virginia Home — $1,000 · HealthCHARLOTTESVILLE OPERA — $7,200 · Arts & CultureOPERA LOUISIANE INC — $2,500 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN VALUES — $2,000 · Arts & CultureSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $5,000 · ReligionBraver AngelsInc — $3,000 · Human Services
Other$108,826Education$68,500Health$26,000Arts & Culture$11,700Religion$5,000Human Services$3,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetThe Family Foundation of Virginia — $52,500 over 4y, 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 budgetCHARLOTTESVILLE OPERA — $7,200 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHIGH POINT UNIVERSITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MIGHTY MABEL FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBraver AngelsInc — $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOPERA LOUISIANE INC — $2,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN VALUES — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBelmont University — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Virginia Home — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

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

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 Julian H & Ruth D Dymacek 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your 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, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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