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Mw Armistead III Family 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $57k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $83k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROANOKE AREA MINISTRIES | $60,000 |
| APPLE RIDGE FARM | $20,000 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPICE INC | $19,000 |
| FREE CLINIC OF FRANKLIN COUNTY | $15,000 |
| BRADLEY FREE CLINIC | $15,000 |
| ST FRANCIS OF ASSIST SERVICE DOG | $14,000 |
| GOOD NEIGHBORS FUND | $8,000 |
| LOA MEALS ON WHEELS | $7,500 |
| OAKLAND SCHOOL INC | $5,500 |
| SCRUGGS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $5,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $5,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA | $3,500 |
| SML GOOD NEIGHBORS INC | $3,000 |
| WARRIOR EXPEDITIONS | $3,000 |
| RENOVATION ALLIANCE | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 51% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +46% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 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 FY2025, 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
- RARoanoke Area Ministries8× · 2017–2025 · $250k · revenue +281%
- FCFREE CLINIC OF FRANKLIN COUNTY INC8× · 2017–2025 · $106k · revenue +5%
- GSGOOD SAMARITAN HOSPICE INC8× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +103%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $5k
- ASARCH SERVICES DBA ARCH/TRUST HOUSE/BETHANY HALLone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue 0%
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SW VAone grant, 2020 · $3k
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.
Ems service: to coordinate and improve delivery of emergency medical services in northern virginia.
Fire and rescue services
GoochlandCares (GC) provides basic human services for local individuals who need help with healthcare, housing, food, clothing, and domestic violence services, providing a safety net for 2,135 Goochland residents and their families in 2024.
To serve the needs of individuals suffering from life-limiting illness as well as to serve the individuals caring for them. to place emphasis on comfort and quality of life while fulfilling the physical, psychological, social and spiritual…
Provide comprehensive primary medical care to the communites served.
Emergency medical treatment and transportation of ill or injured patients to hospitals.
Habitat for humanity of northern virginia brings our community together to build decent, affordable houses - and hope - for people in need. habitat provides a "hand up" to home ownership through sweat equity, donor generosity, volunteer…
Valley Residential Services provides personalized support in safe, comfortable home environments for developmentally disabled individuals, residences for veterans with rehabilitation opportunities, and family assistance services.
Provide emergency medical services, emergency medical trasportation, and search and rescue of missing persons.
The organization is a nonprofit organization and is dedicated to the purpose of rendering emergency first aid to the injured and sick as well as providing training to individuals in administering emergency first aid and instructing safety…
Retirement housing
Assisted Living and Nursing Care
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brain Injury Services of Sw Va Inc and the most unlike its peers is Renovation Alliance Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund close more than the field — 11% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
27 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. 27 of the 39 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 Roanoke Area Ministries ↗
- Who funds FREE CLINIC OF FRANKLIN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds APPLE RIDGE FARM INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds BRADLEY FREE CLINIC OF ROANOKE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds OAKLAND SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Scruggs Volunteer Fire & Rescue Squad ↗
- Who funds BRAIN INJURY SERVICES OF SW VA INC ↗
- Who funds Renovation Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds Moneta Rescue Squad Inc ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR EXPEDITIONS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL D-DAY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRI-RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds New Freedom Farm Inc ↗
- Who funds ARCH INC ↗
- Who funds SML GOOD NEIGHBORS INC ↗
- Who funds GREENVALE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds UNBRIDLED CHANGE ↗
- Who funds RANDOLPH-MACON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA HUNTERS WHO CARE INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF FRANKLIN COUNTY VA INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds ARCH SERVICES DBA ARCH/TRUST HOUSE/BETHANY HALL ↗
- Who funds SMITH MOUNTAIN LAKE MARINE VOL FIRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP VIRGINIA JAYCEE INC ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE VALLEYS INC ↗
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: Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia · Cartledge Charitable Foundation Inc · Investco Foundation · United Way of Virginia's Blue Ridge Inc · Robertson Family Foundation Inc · The Amy Elizabeth Lauth Foundation Inc · James a Meador Foundation · The Newbern Foundation · Edgar a Thurman Fdn Children Nect · The Beirne Carter Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Gordon C Willis Charitable Trust
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 Mw Armistead III 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.
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