· Private foundation
Lyerly Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
71% of Lyerly Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Virginia Tech Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 18 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Lyerly Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 21 organizations, $719k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k28 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $63k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $105k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SALEM ACADEMY & COLLEGE | $500,000 |
| VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC | $105,000 |
| UNC ARTS AND SCIENCES FOUNDTION INC - LYERLY STUDENT FUND | $26,000 |
| PRESBYTERIAN MISSION | $17,000 |
| RADFORD CITY SCHOOLS - PARTNERS FOR EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION INC | $10,100 |
| FEEDING AMERICA SOUTHWEST VA | $10,000 |
| RADFORD FAIRLAWN DAILY BREAD | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN SOCIETY OF TROPICAL MEDICINE & HYGIENE | $5,000 |
| BEANS AND RICE | $5,000 |
| RADFORD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| HEIFER INTERNATIONAL | $5,000 |
| SCIENCE MUSEUM OF WESTERN VIRGINIA | $5,000 |
| RADFORD ELF SHELF | $2,500 |
| GLENCOE MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| RADFORD CLOTHING BANK | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
44 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2023, 17 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SASALEM ACADEMY AND COLLEGE4× · 2020–2024 · $545k · revenue +14%
- TVTHE VIRGINIA BIOSCIENCE FOUNDATION2× · 2021–2022 · $201k · revenue +870%
- RCRADFORD CITY SCHOOLS PARTNERS FOR EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION INC5× · 2017–2023 · $138k · revenue +7% · 89% of their budget
Funded once
- RURADFORD UNIVERSITY BIOLOGY SPEAKER FUNDone grant, 2019 · $50k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL H ARTS & SCIENCES FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -23%
- PMPRESBYTERIAN MISSION AGENCYone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
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.
The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…
To assist rural virginians in developing and advancing their agricultural, economic and social interests to enhance their quality of life.
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.
To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…
The university of virginia law school foundation's primary purpose is to receive, manage and expend funds for the benefit of the university of virginia school of law.
Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.
The jefferson scholars foundation (foundation) provides academic merit-based scholarship, fellowship and professorship support to students and faculty at the university of virginia (uva).
Foundation for food and agriculture research connects funders, researchers and farmers through public-private partnerships to support audacious research addressing the biggest food and agriculture challenges.
To foster and support research at west virginia university (wvu) and to provide evaluation, development, patenting, management and marketing services for inventions by the faculty, staff, and students of wvu.
To support and foster vcu health and vcu health sciences through philanthropy, stewardship, innovation, communication, and collaboration.
The mission of vt-arc is to extend the impact of the virginia tech research and innovation enterprise, delivering superior analytic and technology solutions to government and non-government customers.
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…
How this is measured
38 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. 38 of the 78 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SALEM ACADEMY AND COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds RADFORD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE VIRGINIA BIOSCIENCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RADFORD CITY SCHOOLS PARTNERS FOR EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW RIVER COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds RADFORD FAIRLAWN DAILY BREAD ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE MUSEUM OF WESTERN VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL H ARTS & SCIENCES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RADFORD ELF SHELF INC RADFORD ELF SHELF INC ↗
- Who funds Beans and Rice Inc ↗
- Who funds Radford Clothing Bank ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOME OF THE HIGHLANDS INC ↗
- Who funds CHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF THE NEW RIVER VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds The Community Foundation of the New River Valley Inc ↗
- Who funds SAINT FRANCIS SERVICE DOGS ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICABLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS COUNCIL ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of the New River Valley Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · New River Valley Health Foundation · Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia · Celanese Foundation · United Way of Southwest Virginia Inc · C E Richardson Benevolent Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Charities Aid Foundation America
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lyerly Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lyerly Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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