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Powell Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k39 grants · $179k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $296k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $75,000 |
| FAITH CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $40,000 |
| STAR COMMUNITY | $35,000 |
| VALLEY BIBLE CHURCH | $27,500 |
| E&H COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| STAR CITY SOCCER FOUNDATION | $17,500 |
| RALLY FOR THE VALLEY | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $14,500 |
| ANDREW LEWIS MIDDLE SCHOOL | $12,000 |
| EAST SALEM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $12,000 |
| WEST SALEM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $12,000 |
| GW CARVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $12,000 |
| SOUTH SALEM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $12,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $11,000 |
| BLUE RIDGE WOMEN'S CENTER | $10,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $315k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +50% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
61 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $108k 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
- SCSTAR COMMUNITY INC7× · 2017–2024 · $275k · revenue +50%
- FCFaith Christian School Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $255k · revenue +21%
- RCROANOKE CULTURAL ENDOWMENT6× · 2019–2024 · $70k · revenue +170%
Funded once
- FUFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $25k
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSEone grant, 2020 · $25k
- SSSALEM SPORTS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $15k
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.
The rescue mission foundation, inc. is an endowment fund organized for the support of the charitable purposes of the rescue mission of roanoke, inc., a related 501 (c)(3) organization, which seeks to minister to the whole person and…
The Roanoke Symphony Orchestra provides a professional symphony orchestra of artistic excellence and integrity to enrich lives, to educate, and to entertain diverse audiences in western Virginia with the highest quality instrumental and…
The mission of roane family health care is to exceed the quality of care that our patients deserve and expect while surpassing community needs through innovative technology.
Provide food, shelter, rehabilitation and christian ministry to the poor and homeless
Provide emergency medical services, emergency medical trasportation, and search and rescue of missing persons.
Believing every individual has sacred value, we equip people to impact the world for good through the love of jesus christ.
The mission is to bring compassion to health care and to be good to those in need, especially those who are poor and dying. as a system of caregivers, we commit ourselves to help bring people and communities to health and wholeness.
Redemption Ridge is dedicated to bringing hope and healing to young girls rescued from the horrendous world of sex trafficking. We are committed to redeeming lives, restoring dignity and placing purpose in hearts of these precious children.
The Chamber is a Business Advocate for the Roanoke Region.
Roane County Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
First fruit ministries shares the unconditional love of god through outreach and supportive housing for people experiencing homelessness or trafficking in southeastern north carolina.
We unite to create a safe place to achieve a crucial mission: to restore the hope and dignity of adults who have been sexually abused in childhood through specialized and affordable therapy, community education and public advocacy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Star Community Inc and the most unlike its peers is Valley Select. 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 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 107 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 STAR COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds Faith Christian School Inc ↗
- Who funds ROANOKE CULTURAL ENDOWMENT ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MASTERPIECE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE RESCUE MISSION OF ROANOKE INC ↗
- Who funds BONHOEFFER HAUS ↗
- Who funds RESTORATION HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds Roanoke Area Ministries ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HEALING STRIDES OF VIRGINIA ↗
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 · Robertson Family Foundation Inc · Farrell Foundation · Edgar a Thurman Fdn Children Nect · United Way of Virginia's Blue Ridge Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · James a Meador Foundation · The Newbern Foundation · Western Virginia Environmental and Social Trust Foundation · The Helen C Cobbs Foundation · Investco Foundation · Muse Family Foundation Co Elizabeth Muse
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 Powell Charitable 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.
- Star Community Inc — 2% of income from government
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.