· Private foundation
The Al Stroobants Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $94k
- $10k–50k41 grants · $795k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $887k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CVCC EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC | $243,463 |
| JOHNSON HEALTH CENTER | $107,995 |
| LYNCHBURG BEACON OF HOPE | $100,000 |
| PARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSION | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS - BLUE RIDGE CHAPTER | $80,000 |
| LYNCHBURG CITY SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $56,000 |
| THE SEDALIA CENTER | $50,000 |
| LYNCHBURG GROWS | $50,000 |
| EVINGTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $50,000 |
| AVOCA MUSEUM AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $50,000 |
| SWEET BRIAR COLLEGE | $49,480 |
| RED TRUCK MINISTRY | $45,500 |
| INTERFAITH OUTREACH ASSOCIATION | $45,000 |
| LYNCHBURG DAILY BREAD | $32,000 |
| VIRGINIA LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC | $30,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 54% 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 +27% since the first grant, against -3% for the ones you funded once.
72 repeat relationships — 60 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 9 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $216k 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
LYNCHBURG BEACON OF HOPE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $500k · revenue +17%- PVPARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $450k · revenue +18%
- JHJOHNSON HEALTH CENTER3× · 2022–2024 · $208k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- CHCENTRA HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $360k · revenue +21%
- CFCENTRA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $300k
- NDNATIONAL D-DAY MEMORIAL INCone grant, 2022 · $250k
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.
Provide services to individuals with disabilities to enable them to become fully integrated into society and achieve personal independence.
Furtherance of economic growth, education, training and development
VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.
Dlcv's mission is to advance independence, choice and self-determination; protect legal, human, and civil rights; and eliminate abuse, neglect and discrimination of people with disabilities through zealous and uncompromising legal advocacy…
Our mission is to ensure the availability, access, and affordability of locally produced food by connecting local farmers and all members of the community through programs, awareness, and advocacy.
The establishment and operation of a child learning/daycare facility for the use, benefit, and general welfare of the children of rappahannock county, virginia.
The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.
To advance programs, practices, and policies that nurture children, empower families, and support communities.
Virginia poverty law center uses advocacy, education, and litigation to break down systemic barriers that keep low-income virginians in the cycle of poverty.
The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.
Providing life-enriching services that promote well-being and build community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Aspire 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 28 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
75 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. 75 of the 104 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 LYNCHBURG BEACON OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds PARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EVINGTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC ↗
- Who funds BEDFORD AREA FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds LYNCHBURG GROWS ↗
- Who funds JOHNSON HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds AMAZEMENT SQUARE ↗
- Who funds The Sedalia Center Inc ↗
- Who funds RUSH HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds BROOK HILL RETIREMENT CENTER FOR HORSES INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKVILLE-TIMBERLAKE VOL FIRE DEPT ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE FAMILY DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds Virginia Legal Aid Society Inc ↗
- Who funds LYNCHBURG DAILY BREAD INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds VECTOR SPACE ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY CENTER OF THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds FREE CLINIC OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds LYNCHBURG SHELTERED INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds ROADS TO RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH OUTREACH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CASA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds CITY OF LYNCHBURG POLICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE UP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Challenged Sports Exchange Inc ↗
- Who funds SML GOOD NEIGHBORS 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: Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation · Centra Health Inc · Easley Char Irr Tua 5019004715 · Foster Foundation · Schewel Charitable Foundation · M4k Lynchburg Inc · Bedford Community Health Foundation · Centra Health Foundation · Carrington Family Foundation · Valentine Family Foundation · The Harry D Forsyth Foundation · Liberty University 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 organization The Al Stroobants 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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