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Mw Armistead III Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$200k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$283kReligion$250kFood & Nutrition$165kHuman Services$84kAnimals$78kPublic Safety & Disaster$64kHousing & Shelter$50kEducation$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $57k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $83k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROANOKE AREA MINISTRIES$60,000
APPLE RIDGE FARM$20,000
GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPICE INC$19,000
BRADLEY FREE CLINIC$15,000
FREE CLINIC OF FRANKLIN COUNTY$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
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE ROANOKE$3,000
WARRIOR EXPEDITIONS$3,000
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 (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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 8%UNBRIDLED CHANGE: $2k → 13%UNBRIDLED CHANGE: $2k → 13%UNBRIDLED CHANGE: $2k → 13%UNBRIDLED CHANGE: $2k → 13%UNBRIDLED CHANGE: $2k → 13%SML GOOD NEIGHBORS INC: $3k → 8%SML GOOD NEIGHBORS INC: $2k → 8%SML GOOD NEIGHBORS: $2k → 8%SML GOOD NEIGHBORS: $2k → 8%SML GOOD NEIGHBORS INC: $2k → 8%SML GOOD NEIGHBORS: $2k → 8%SML GOOD NEIGHBORS: $2k → 8%WARRIOR EXPEDITIONS: $3k → 8%WARRIOR EXPEDITIONS: $3k → 8%WARRIOR EXPEDITIONS: $3k → 8%WARRIOR EXPEDITIONS: $3k → 8%WARRIOR EXPEDITIONS: $3k → 8%WARRIOR EXPEDITIONS: $3k → 8%WARRIOR EXPEDITIONS: $2k → 8%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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 33 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

33 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
6

Total granted

$1.1M
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
0%

Still filing today

67%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionOther
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

  • RA
    Roanoke Area Ministries
    8× · 2017–2025 · $250k · revenue +281%
  • FC
    FREE CLINIC OF FRANKLIN COUNTY INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $106k · revenue +5%
  • GS
    GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPICE INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +103%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • AS
    ARCH SERVICES DBA ARCH/TRUST HOUSE/BETHANY HALL
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue 0%
  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SW VA
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
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
Northern Virginia Emergency Medical Services Council Inc

Ems service: to coordinate and improve delivery of emergency medical services in northern virginia.

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2
Nokesville Volunteer Fire Department

Fire and rescue services

Public Safety & Disaster
3
GoochlandCares

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.

Health
4
Hospice of Southern West Virginia Inc

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…

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5
Southwest Virginia Community Health Systems Inc

Provide comprehensive primary medical care to the communites served.

Health
6
Clintwood Volunteer Rescue Squad Inc

Emergency medical treatment and transportation of ill or injured patients to hospitals.

Public Safety & Disaster
7
Habitat for Humanity of Northern Va

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…

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8
Valley Residential Services

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.

Health
9
Roanoke Valley Rescue Squad Inc

Provide emergency medical services, emergency medical trasportation, and search and rescue of missing persons.

Health
10
Danville Life Saving and First Aid Crew Inc

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…

Health
11
Bridgewater Village Inc

Retirement housing

Housing & Shelter
12
Bridgewater Home Inc

Assisted Living and Nursing Care

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brain Injury Services of Sw Va Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 39 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/27
Grantees still filing
19/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Roanoke Area Ministries: $249,500 · OtherRoanoke Area MinistriesFREE CLINIC OF FRANKLIN COUNTY INC: $106,000 · OtherFREE CLINIC OF FRANKLIN COUNTY INCAPPLE RIDGE FARM INC: $100,000 · OtherAPPLE RIDGE FARM INCBRADLEY FREE CLINIC OF ROANOKE VALLEY INC: $61,500 · OtherBRADLEY FREE CLINIC OF ROANOKE VALLEY INCST FRANCIS OF ASSIST SERVICE DOG: $51,800 · OtherST FRANCIS OF ASSIST SERVICE DOGLOA MEALS ON WHEELS: $39,500 · OtherScruggs Volunteer Fire & Rescue Squad: $35,600 · OtherGOOD NEIGHBORS FUND: $32,000 · Other+18 more: $152,500 · Other+18 moreGOOD SAMARITAN HOSPICE INC: $90,319 · HealthGOOD SAMARITA…BRAIN INJURY SERVICES OF SW VA INC: $24,000 · HealthBRAIN INJURY …Moneta Rescue Squad Inc: $21,300 · HealthMoneta Rescue…OAKLAND SCHOOL INC: $42,500 · EducationRANDOLPH-MACON COLLEGE: $6,000 · EducationWARRIOR EXPEDITIONS: $20,300 · Human ServicesSML GOOD NEIGHBORS INC: $12,000 · Human ServicesUNBRIDLED CHANGE: $9,000 · Human ServicesRenovation Alliance Inc: $23,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF FRANKLIN COUNTY VA INC: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterNATIONAL D-DAY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsSMITH MOUNTAIN LAKE MARINE VOL FIRE CO INC: $2,000 · Recreation & SportsFEEDING SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA: $19,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$828,400Health$135,619Education$48,500Human Services$41,300Housing & Shelter$28,000Recreation & Sports$22,000Food & Nutrition$19,000

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 budgetRoanoke Area Ministries: $249,500 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetFREE CLINIC OF FRANKLIN COUNTY INC: $106,000 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetAPPLE RIDGE FARM INC: $100,000 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN HOSPICE INC: $90,319 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBRADLEY FREE CLINIC OF ROANOKE VALLEY INC: $61,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetOAKLAND SCHOOL INC: $42,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetScruggs Volunteer Fire & Rescue Squad: $35,600 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetBRAIN INJURY SERVICES OF SW VA INC: $24,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetRenovation Alliance Inc: $23,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetMoneta Rescue Squad Inc: $21,300 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetWARRIOR EXPEDITIONS: $20,300 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL D-DAY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFEEDING SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA: $19,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTRI-RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $19,000 over 5y, 34% of budgetNew Freedom Farm Inc: $16,000 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetARCH INC: $13,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetSML GOOD NEIGHBORS INC: $12,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetGREENVALE SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUNBRIDLED CHANGE: $9,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetRANDOLPH-MACON COLLEGE: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA HUNTERS WHO CARE INC: $6,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF FRANKLIN COUNTY VA INC: $5,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetARCH SERVICES DBA ARCH/TRUST HOUSE/BETHANY HALL: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSMITH MOUNTAIN LAKE MARINE VOL FIRE CO INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE VALLEYS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 FEEDING SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA ↗
  • Who funds TRI-RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
  • 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 ARCH SERVICES DBA ARCH/TRUST HOUSE/BETHANY HALL ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
  • Who funds SMITH MOUNTAIN LAKE MARINE VOL FIRE CO INC ↗
  • Who funds CAMP VIRGINIA JAYCEE INC ↗
  • Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE VALLEYS INC ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Cartledge Charitable …Investco FoundationUnited Way of Virgini…Robertson Family Foun…The Amy Elizabeth Lau…James a Meador Founda…The Newbern FoundationEdgar a Thurman Fdn C…The Beirne Carter Fou…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Gordon C Willis Chari…
Community Foundation Serving Western VirginiaVA36.5× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Mw Armistead III Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mw Armistead III Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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

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    How do I get to Mw Armistead III Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Mw Armistead III Family Foundation 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 39 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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