How much does The Better Living Foundation give?

The Better Living Foundation reported 35 grants totaling $251,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 42 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.

What does The Better Living Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (24%), Food & Nutrition (22%), Health (12%).

Who are The Better Living Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Blue Ridge Area Food Bank Inc ($80k), Loaves & Fishes Food Pantry Inc ($35k), Charlottesville Free Clinic ($32k).

Does The Better Living Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Better Living Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Better Living Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Charlottesville Area Community Foundation, Manning Family Foundation, Perry Foundation Inc.

Where is The Better Living Foundation based?

The Better Living Foundation is based in VA.

Foundation Dossiers

Virginia · Private foundation

The Better Living Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$252k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 35
Grants FY2024: 32
Organizations funded FY2023: 0%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $5,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $60,000
Organizations funded a year: 32 to 42; FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 1
Total assets, FY2024: $1.2M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations The Better Living Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	35	$252k	6%
FY2023	32	$151k	0%
FY2022	36	$145k	14%
FY2021	37	$134k	0%
FY2020	34	$127k	0%
FY2019	42	$150k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Human Services$235kFood & Nutrition$207kHealth$113kPublic Safety & Disaster$99kYouth Development$88kPhilanthropy$60kEducation$42kRecreation & Sports$29kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Blue Ridge Area Food Bank Inc	$80,000	6	0%
Loaves & Fishes Food Pantry Inc	$35,000	6	0%
Charlottesville Free Clinic	$32,000	6	0%
Emergency Food Network	$32,000	6	2%
Fluvanna Meals on Wheels	$31,000	6	3%
Soho Center for Arts and Education Inc	$30,000	6	0%
Piedmont Family YMCA Inc	$30,000	6	0%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Virginia	$30,000	6	0%
Big Brothers and Big Sisters of the Central Blue Ridge Inc	$30,000	6	1%
Readykids Inc	$30,000	6	0%

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All grantees of The Better Living Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Blue Ridge Area Food Bank Inc	$80,000	6	0%
Loaves & Fishes Food Pantry Inc	$35,000	6	0%
Charlottesville Free Clinic	$32,000	6	0%
Emergency Food Network	$32,000	6	2%
Fluvanna Meals on Wheels	$31,000	6	3%
Soho Center for Arts and Education Inc	$30,000	6	0%
Piedmont Family YMCA Inc	$30,000	6	0%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Virginia	$30,000	6	0%
Big Brothers and Big Sisters of the Central Blue Ridge Inc	$30,000	6	1%
Readykids Inc	$30,000	6	0%
Jefferson Area Board for Aging Inc	$30,000	6	0%
Meals on Wheels Inc	$28,500	6	0%
Camp Holiday Trails	$26,000	6	1%
Madison House	$22,000	6	1%
Shelter for Help in Emergency Inc	$20,000	4	0%
American Cancer Society Inc	$20,000	4	0%
Charlottesville-Albemarle Rescue Squad	$19,000	6	0%
Innisfree Incorporated	$18,000	6	0%
Building Goodness Foundation	$17,000	5	0%
People and Congregations Engaged in Ministry	$16,500	6	1%
Hospice of the Piedmont Inc	$16,000	6	0%
Literacy Volunteers of Charlottesville Albemarle	$11,500	6	1%
Piedmont Casa Inc	$10,000	6	0%
American Heart Association Inc	$7,500	3	0%
Virginia Discovery Museum Inc	$6,000	6	0%
Virginia Institute of Autism Inc	$6,000	6	0%
University of Virginia Health Foundation	$5,000	1	0%
Senior Center Inc	$5,000	2	0%
Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc	$4,000	4	0%
Fellowship of Christian Athletes	$3,000	6	0%
Foothills Children's Advocacy Center	$2,000	1	0%
The Bridge Ministry Inc	$1,500	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($303k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Better Living Foundation supplied at peak.

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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 32.

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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.

Charlottesville Area Community FoundationVA58× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · Manning Family Foundation · Perry Foundation Inc · Caplin Foundation · The Charles Fund Inc · The Genan Foundation · Whitney and Anne Stone Foundation · The Watterson Foundation · United Way of Greater Charlottesville · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation · I J and Hilda M Breeden Foundation · The J & E Berkley Foundation

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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About The Better Living Foundation

How much does The Better Living Foundation give?: The Better Living Foundation reported 35 grants totaling $251,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 42 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does The Better Living Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (24%), Food & Nutrition (22%), Health (12%).
Who are The Better Living Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Blue Ridge Area Food Bank Inc ($80k), Loaves & Fishes Food Pantry Inc ($35k), Charlottesville Free Clinic ($32k).
Does The Better Living Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Better Living Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Better Living Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Charlottesville Area Community Foundation, Manning Family Foundation, Perry Foundation Inc.
Where is The Better Living Foundation based?: The Better Living Foundation is based in VA.