· Private foundation
Lacy Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SENIOR SERVICESMEALS ON WHEELS | $25,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH MANCHESTER | $23,100 |
| GRACE NETWORK OF MARTINSVILLEHENRY COUNTY | $20,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF MARTINSVILLEHENRY COUNTY (HOPE & SMART BEGINNINGS) | $20,000 |
| CRISIS CONTROL MINISTRY | $20,000 |
| EXPERIMENT IN SELF-RELIANCE | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITY STOREHOUSE | $10,000 |
| FAMILY YMCA BUILDING A HEALTHY COMMUNITY | $10,000 |
| SAFETYNET INC | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
11 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- TDTHE DERRYFIELD SCHOOL6× · 2020–2025 · $127k · revenue +25%
- GNGrace Network of Martinsville & Henry Co6× · 2020–2025 · $122k · revenue +15%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE BLUE RIDGE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $120k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- MHMARTINSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT AID FUNDone grant, 2020 · $3k
- SASALVATION ARMYone grant, 2021 · $1k
- GBGREATER BINGHAMTON HEALTH CENTER OFFICE OF MENTAL HEALTHone grant, 2020 · $300
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.
Feeding the hungry and providing food assistance to needy families.
NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community
To fight hunger in fauquier county by providing our neighbors in need with nourishing food and encouraging self-sufficiency through vibrant community partnerships
Provision of food for the needy
As a community organization we provide confidential, temporary food, clothing, and financial assistance to help economically and nutritionally insecure individuals and families return to self-sufficiency.
The organization operates a food bank which provides food for at risk households.
The Foodbank's mission is to provide food, and develop awareness of and creative solutions for food insecurity. Annually, the Foodbank distributes approximately 9.5 million pounds of food to 130 food pantries, soup kitchens, children's…
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.
To fight hunger and poverty by providing food, education, programs and resources to families in a dignified, personal and expeditious manner directly as a food pantry and as a food bank; without zip code restrictions.
Empowering neighbors to work to self-sustainability through provision of food and other essential items
Provide assistance to the needy
Provide food to families in need within the local area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crisis Control Ministry Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Derryfield School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 16 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 THE DERRYFIELD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Grace Network of Martinsville & Henry Co ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE BLUE RIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds CRISIS CONTROL MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds SAFETYNET INC ↗
- Who funds Experiment In Self-Reliance Inc ↗
- Who funds IMPRINTS CARES ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY STOREHOUSE ↗
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.
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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 Lacy 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.
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.
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