· Private foundation
Layman Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRIDGEWATER COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| YMCA OF ROANOKE VALLEY | $5,000 |
| ATTIC PRODUCTIONS | $2,500 |
| BLUE RIDGE PBS | $600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $350 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $350 |
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 (FY17–21, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 70% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against -11% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF VIRGINIA'S BLUE RIDGE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue +59%
- APATTIC PRODUCTIONS INC3× · 2022–2024 · $8k · revenue +60%
- BCBOTETOURT COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC3× · 2017–2020 · $3k · revenue +117%
Funded once
- VMVIRGINIA MUSEUM OF TRANSPORTAION INCone grant, 2017 · $614 · revenue -56%
- FFFINCASTLE FIRE DEPARTMENTone grant, 2017 · $600
- UOUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA-MEDICAL ALUMone grant, 2023 · $500
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.
Promoting for the benefit of the general public, the preservation, protection and enjoyment of our natural resources, principally in the lower james, york, rappahannock and chowan rivers and surrounding watersheds.
The association was organized to keep members informed of current events and regulations affecting the petroleum and convenience store industries.
Vsa represents sheriffs and their staff on criminal justice issues on a state level and provides information about emerging law enforcement issues, corrections and crime prevention to sheriff's offices and the public.
Fire prevention and protection in bluemont and surrounding areas
Vfa promotes stewardship and wise use of the commonwealth's forest resources for the economic and environmental benefits of all virginians.
The virginia association of museums is a statewide network serving the museum community. the association's mission statement is "the virginia association of museums helps our museum community succeed".
The west virginia chamber of commerce provides opportunities for broad based prosperity throughout west virginia.
Represent the agriculture, forestry, and agribusiness community in virginia.
Acec virginia brings together engineering firms of all sizes to provide business support and advocacy.
To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…
Preservation of historic sites
Solicitation of public contributions on behalf of member colleges. provides foundations, businesses, and individuals a convenient way of supporting small colleges and universities in virginia.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feeding Southwest Virginia and the most unlike its peers is Young Men's Christian Association of Virginia's Blue Ridge Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 37 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 BRIDGEWATER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF VIRGINIA'S BLUE RIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds ATTIC PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds BOTETOURT COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds BATH COUNTY ARTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE RESCUE MISSION OF ROANOKE INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF TRANSPORTAION INC ↗
- Who funds Bath County Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds TROUTVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT ↗
- Who funds SAINT FRANCIS SERVICE DOGS ↗
- Who funds SHENANDOAH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE FOR ANIMAL PROTECTION INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY CONSERVATION COUNCIL ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Ge Aerospace Foundation · Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia · Elbert H Evelyn J & Karen H Waldron Charitable Foundation · The Ceres Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · 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 Layman Family 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.