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Retail Merchants Foundation- Ima 41-7022592

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2k
Granted FY2022
1
Grants FY2022
1
Organizations funded FY2022
0%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$2,148
Largest grant, FY2022
$2,148
Organizations funded a year
1 to 29
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
1
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 0% of the organizations Retail Merchants Foundation- Ima 41-7022592 funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22
Human ServicesInternationalCommunity ImprovementHealthReligionYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20221$2k0%
FY20211$200100%
FY202029$95k62%
FY201919$6k53%
FY201820$7k45%
FY201725$7kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Community Improvement$91kFood & Nutrition$6kReligion$3kHealth$3kHuman Services$3kArts & Culture$2kYouth Development$2kEducation$2kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 33 grantees

Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($11k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Retail Merchants Foundation- Ima 41-7022592 supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCentral Virginia Business Coalition: $91,144 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMeals on Wheels Inc: $1,480 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLynchburg Daily Bread Inc: $1,400 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of Central Virginia Inc: $1,150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Up Foundation: $850 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Central Va: $800 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetProvidence Veterans Farm: $700 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetImpact Living Services: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Society of St Andrew Inc: $550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLynchburg Symphony Orchestra Inc: $550 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetInterfaith Outreach Association: $500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFreedom 4 24: $500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYWCA of Central Virginia: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRetail Merchants Association: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIron Lives Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOpera on the James: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSafe Surfin Foundation: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSports Outreach Institute Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMiriam's House Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFbi National Academy Associates Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGleaning for the World Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Virginia Alliance for Community Living Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBedford Hospice House Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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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 FoundationVA38.7× affinity16 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 · Carrington Family Foundation · Valtim Family Foundation Inc · M4k Lynchburg Inc · Bedford Community Health Foundation · Centra Health Foundation · Liberty University Inc

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.

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How do I get to Retail Merchants Foundation- Ima 41-7022592?

Find your warmest path to Retail Merchants Foundation- Ima 41-7022592 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.

About Retail Merchants Foundation- Ima 41-7022592

How much does Retail Merchants Foundation- Ima 41-7022592 give?
Retail Merchants Foundation- Ima 41-7022592 reported 1 grants totaling $2,148 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 29 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does Retail Merchants Foundation- Ima 41-7022592 fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Community Improvement (78%), Food & Nutrition (5%), Religion (3%).
Who are Retail Merchants Foundation- Ima 41-7022592's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: Central Virginia Business Coalition ($91k), Meals on Wheels Inc ($1k), Lynchburg Daily Bread Inc ($1k).
Does Retail Merchants Foundation- Ima 41-7022592 fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Retail Merchants Foundation- Ima 41-7022592 accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Retail Merchants Foundation- Ima 41-7022592?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation, Centra Health Inc, Easley Char Irr Tua 5019004715.
Where is Retail Merchants Foundation- Ima 41-7022592 based?
Retail Merchants Foundation- Ima 41-7022592 is based in VA.

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 63 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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