How much did RETAIL MERCHANTS FOUNDATION- grant in FY2022?

Community Improvement$91kFood & Nutrition$2kReligion$1kHuman Services$900Health$850Arts & Culture$800Youth Development$600Housing & Shelter$250Crime & Legal$250Other$19k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

hungerrelieffoodoutreach

2019

memory

2020

groupfarmbedford

2021

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2022

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2022 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,148

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants

CENTRAL VIRGINIA BUSINESS COALITION$2,148

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–20, $900) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 12%. 72% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$108k · 23 repeat orgs$9k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2022, 22 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$108k

$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%

+44%

Still filing today

43%

25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesReligionFood & NutritionArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalOther

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

CV
CENTRAL VIRGINIA BUSINESS COALITION
2× · 2020–2022 · $91k · revenue +7%
MO
MEALS ON WHEELS
4× · 2017–2020 · $1k · revenue +171%
LD
LYNCHBURG DAILY BREAD
4× · 2017–2020 · $1k · revenue +119%

Funded once

CU
CRAFTS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
one grant, 2017 · $500
LB
LYNCHBURG BAPTIST ASSOCIATION
one grant, 2017 · $500
RA
RISE AGAINST HUNGER
one grant, 2018 · $500

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Virginia Community Food Connections

To create healthy, food-secure communities and strong, equitable regional food systems by ensuring fresh and local produce is accessible and affordable for all.

Food & Nutrition

Feeding Southwest Virginia

To provide food and other related products primarily to member agencies for distribution to those in need, and also for direct distribution.

Food & Nutrition

Church United in West Virginia Inc

To work with government and business organizations to improve quality of life for citizens

Religion

Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy

Working within the faith community to educate and mobilize citizen to create systemic social change for low income Virginians.

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Virginia Legal Aid Society Inc

Virginia Legal Aid Society, Inc. is a non-profit organization organized to provide legal assistance in non-criminal proceedings or matters to persons financially unable to afford legal assistance.

Crime & Legal

Lynchburg Covenant Fellowship Incorporated

Provision of safe and affordable housing.

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Wiliamsburg Area Meals On Wheels

Deliver hot meals in williamsburg va area to aged, convalescent, and handicapped individuals who are unable to prepare nutritious meals for themselves.

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Local Food Hub Inc

Partnering with virginia farmers to increase community access to local food

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The Lord's Pantry of Shinnston

The organization's mission is to help alleviate hunger in west virginia by operating a local food pantry.

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Virginia Center for Inclusive

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

Civil Rights

Virginia Association of Community Banks

To provide undiluted advocacy, targeted education and quality collaboration for virginia's community banks.

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Roanoke Area Ministries

To serve the indigent.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Central Virginia Inc and the most unlike its peers is Safe Surfin Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

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 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1/25

the rest of the field

10%

130/1,329

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.

05the grantee network

22 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

20/22

Grantees still filing

14/22

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Community Improvement$91,144Other$20,310Food & Nutrition$1,950Religion$1,250Human Services$900Health$850Arts & Culture$800

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.

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.

Greater Lynchburg Community FoundationVA33.2× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 organisation RETAIL MERCHANTS 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.

2025

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: BROOKVILLE HIGH SCHOOL.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

high risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 311672126 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on BROOKVILLE HIGH SCHOOL, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Retail Merchants Foundation-?

Find your warmest path to Retail Merchants Foundation- through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

RETAIL MERCHANTS FOUNDATION-

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

22 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Retail Merchants Foundation-?

More from the funding graph

RETAIL MERCHANTS FOUNDATION-

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

22 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Retail Merchants Foundation-?

More from the funding graph