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M4k Lynchburg Inc

To raise money to improve the quality of life for local children through individual fundraising and partnering with local charities and businesses during a mustache growing event.

$524k
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$34k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Youth Development$462kHuman Services$319kRecreation & Sports$317kEducation$253kCrime & Legal$223kArts & Culture$129kHousing & Shelter$105kHealth$80kOther$0
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 24 grants below total $464,210, the rows itemized in this filing. The $524,495 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $60,285 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $440k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$13k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PARK VIEW MISSION$33,560
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LYNCHBURG$31,500
CENTRAL VIRGINIA UNITED$30,750
JUBILEE FAMILY DEVELOPMENT$30,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL VA$30,000
MILLER HOME$30,000
CASA$30,000
NEW VISTAS SCHOOLS$28,900
ELIZABETHS EARLY LEARNING CENTER$25,000
LYNCHBURG BEACON OF HOPE$20,000
MIRIAMS HOUSE$20,000
LYNCHBURG GROWS$15,000
LYNCHBURG POLICE FOUNDATION$15,000
CAMP KUM-BA-YAH$15,000
IRON LIVES$15,000
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 (FY21–24, $135k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%ELIZABETHS EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $25k → 8%PARK VIEW MISSION: $40k → 13%UNIFIED POTENTIAL: $7k → 8%PARK VIEW MISSION: $34k → 13%PARK VIEW MISSION: $30k → 13%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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 21 repeat orgs$113k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
8

Total granted

$1.8M
$46k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+81%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Recreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureCrime & LegalOther
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

  • JF
    JUBILEE FAMILY DEVELOPMENT CENTER
    5× · 2020–2024 · $187k · revenue +113%
  • CO
    CASA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $180k · revenue +17%
  • MH
    MIRIAM'S HOUSE INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $105k · revenue +124%

Funded once

  • BN
    BETHUNE NURSERY SCHOOL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +46%
  • AF
    ASPIRE FOUNDATIONLYNCHBURG IMAGINATION LIBRARY
    one grant, 2021 · $8k
  • FF
    FARRR FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +236%
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
Boys & Girls Club of Lynn Inc

To inspire and enable all young people, especially those from disadvantaged circumstances, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.

Youth Development
2
Lynchburg Area Center for Independent Living Inc

Provide services to individuals with disabilities to enable them to become fully integrated into society and achieve personal independence.

Human Services
3
Fauquier Community Child Care Inc

Our mission is to provide an accessible, safe, and nurturing environment in which school-aged children learn, grow, and play to promote the development of the whole child.

Human Services
4
Piedmont Child Care Center Inc

To provide quality early childhood care and education through: 1) offering developmentally-appropriate educational programs, 2) providing for the social, emotional, physical, and cognitive development of each child, and 3) encouraging…

Human Services
5
Impact Living Services

Impact living services (ils) provides unique and varied services to the virginia community. ils is a licensed child placing agency providing transitional living services focused on assisting youth in foster care by promoting…

Youth Development
6
Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities

VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.

Civil Rights
7
Lynchburg Daily Bread Inc

Provision of food for the needy

Food & Nutrition
8
Lynchburg Covenant Fellowship Incorporated

Provision of safe and affordable housing.

—
9
Prevent Child Abuse Virginia

To advance programs, practices, and policies that nurture children, empower families, and support communities.

—
10
For Children's Sake of Virginia Inc

For children's sake is dedicated to promoting positive environments for children and families that develop trust, stability and independence.

Human Services
11
Voices for Virginia's Children

The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.

Civil Rights
12
Culpeper Baptist Child Development Center Inc

The establishment and operation of a daycare facility for the use, benefit and general welfare of the children of culpeper county, virginia.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Club of Greater Lynchburg; the most unlike its peers is Farrr 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

32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 34 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
20/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL VA: $185,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL VAMILLER HOME OF LYNCHBURG VIRGINIA: $165,335 · OtherMILLER HOME OF LYNCHBURG VIRGINIAIRON LIVES INC: $96,000 · OtherIRON LIVES INCST VINCENT'S HOME: $35,000 · OtherMIRIAM'S HOUSE INC: $105,000 · OtherMIRIAM'S HOUSE INCCITY OF LYNCHBURG POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $42,500 · OtherTHE CLAIRE PARKER FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 · OtherTHE CLAIRE PARKER FOUNDATION INCDowntown Lynchburg Association: $40,000 · Other+9 more: $83,500 · Other+9 moreJUBILEE FAMILY DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $187,248 · Recreation & SportsJUBILEE FAMILY DEV…CENTRAL VIRGINIA UNITED SOCCER INC: $91,650 · Recreation & SportsCENTRAL VIRGINIA U…Camp Kum-Ba-Yah Inc: $35,000 · Recreation & SportsCamp Kum-Ba-Yah In…+1 more: $3,000 · Recreation & SportsBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LYNCHBURG: $185,345 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS C…LYNCHBURG GROWS: $31,000 · Youth DevelopmentLYNCHBURG GROW…FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $25,800 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHIP OF …KIDFIT: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentCASA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC: $180,000 · Civil RightsCASA OF CE…PARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSION INC: $103,560 · Human ServicesELIZABETH'S EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesISAIAH 117 HOUSE: $15,000 · Human ServicesUNIFIED POTENTIAL INC DBA MOVEUP: $6,740 · Human ServicesNew Vistas School of Central Virginia Inc: $66,400 · EducationLYNCHBURG BEACON OF HOPE INC: $65,000 · EducationAMAZEMENT SQUARE: $119,000 · Arts & CultureACADEMY CENTER OF THE ARTS INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$797,335Recreation & Sports$316,898Youth Development$252,145Civil Rights$180,000Human Services$150,300Education$131,400Arts & Culture$129,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJUBILEE FAMILY DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $187,248 over 5y, 9.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LYNCHBURG: $185,345 over 5y, 7.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL VA: $185,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetCASA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC: $180,000 over 5y, 8.7% of budgetMILLER HOME OF LYNCHBURG VIRGINIA: $165,335 over 5y, 13% of budgetAMAZEMENT SQUARE: $119,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetMIRIAM'S HOUSE INC: $105,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetPARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSION INC: $103,560 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetIRON LIVES INC: $96,000 over 5y, 28% of budgetCENTRAL VIRGINIA UNITED SOCCER INC: $91,650 over 4y, 6.9% of budgetNew Vistas School of Central Virginia Inc: $66,400 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetLYNCHBURG BEACON OF HOPE INC: $65,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetTHE CLAIRE PARKER FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetCITY OF LYNCHBURG POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $42,500 over 3y, 25% of budgetDowntown Lynchburg Association: $40,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetCamp Kum-Ba-Yah Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetST VINCENT'S HOME: $35,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLYNCHBURG GROWS: $31,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $25,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetELIZABETH'S EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetONE COMMUNITY ONE VOICE LYNCHBURG INC: $25,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetISAIAH 117 HOUSE: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALL ARE ABLE INC: $12,500 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetACADEMY CENTER OF THE ARTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINTERFAITH OUTREACH ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetKIDFIT: $10,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetBETHUNE NURSERY SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetFARRR FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE LYNCHBURG PUBLIC LIBRARY: $3,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetChallenged Sports Exchange Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetKIDS' HAVEN A CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $3,000 over 1y, 7.1% 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.

Greater Lynchburg Community FoundationVA55.5× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation · Foster Foundation · The Al Stroobants Foundation · Easley Char Irr Tua 5019004715 · Centra Health Inc · Schewel Charitable Foundation · The Harry D Forsyth Foundation · Carrington Family Foundation · Kva Foundation · Centra Health Foundation · Valentine Family Foundation · The Imperial Charitable Trust

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 M4k Lynchburg Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from M4k Lynchburg Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%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
    9report 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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to M4k Lynchburg Inc?

    Find your warmest path to M4k Lynchburg Inc 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 34 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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