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The Blankingship & Keith 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.

$4k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Crime & Legal$38kHuman Services$27kHousing & Shelter$10kFood & Nutrition$10kHealth$1kEmployment$175
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$28k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FACETS$2,870
CULMORE CLINIC$1,000
KOOL LANGUAGE SERVICES LLC$175
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%FACETS: $10k → 6%FACETS: $4k → 6%FACETS: $3k → 6%FACETS: $651 → 6%NORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Virginia Poverty Law Center Inc

Virginia poverty law center uses advocacy, education, and litigation to break down systemic barriers that keep low-income virginians in the cycle of poverty.

Crime & Legal
2
Legal Aid Justice Center

The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.

Crime & Legal
3
Virginia Legal Aid Society Inc

The mission of Virginia Legal Aid Society is to resolve serious legal problems of low-income people, promote economic and family stability, reduce poverty through effective legal assistance, and to champion equal justice.

Crime & Legal
4
Miller Home of Lynchburg Virginia
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5
Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service Inc

The mission of the maryland volunteer lawyers service (mvls) is to remove barriers to justice through free civil legal help, community engagement, and advocacy for equitable laws. (see schedule o for the complete mission statement.)

Crime & Legal
6
Capital Area Family Violence Intervention Center Inc

To end domestic violence in the capital area through serving victims of domestic violence, educating the public about domestic violence, and working to eliminate economic, social and cultural conditions and attitudes that contribute to…

Human Services
7
Latinos in Virginia Empowerment Center

Provide education, advocacy, and support to spanish speaking individuals affected by violence and injustice in virginia to ensure that they can access services to empower them to become happy, healthy, and self- sufficient.

Crime & Legal
8
Virginia Press Foundation Virginia Local News Project
Civil Rights
9
Virginia Housing Alliance

Tracing its roots to the 1980s, the virginia housing alliance (vha) is the statewide leader in expanding housing opportunities, strengthening the capacity of affordable housing and homelessness service organizations, and advancing…

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10
Transitions Family Violence Services

The mission of transitions family violence services (tfvs) is to build safe and healthy families on the virginia peninsula by providing services to adult and child victims of domestic violence and human trafficking. we work to increase…

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11
Philadelphia Vip Inc

Philadelphia vip leverages the powerful resources of the community to provide quality volunteer legal services and ensure access to justice for low-income philadelphians.

Crime & Legal
12
Greater Richmond Bar Foundation

The mission of the greater richmond bar foundation is to expand access to justice by mobilizing, training, and connecting attorneys to pro bono clients. in the commonwealth of virignia, grbf serves as a hub of pro bono service and outreach…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Legal Services of Northern Virginia Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Prince William County Bar Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 11 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Virginia Law Foundation: $25,000 · Crime & LegalVirginia Law FoundationLEGAL SERVICES OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC: $7,600 · Crime & LegalLEGAL SERVICES OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INCThe Prince William County Bar Foundation Inc: $2,000 · Crime & LegalThe Prince William County Bar Foundation IncFACETS CARES INC: $16,918 · Human ServicesFACETS CARES INCNORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICES INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesNORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICES I…THE LAMB CENTER: $10,000 · EnvironmentTHE LAMB CENT…CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionCAPITAL AREA …FAIRFAX BAR ASSOCIATION SELF HELP RESOURCE CENTER: $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,000 · OtherKOOL LANGUAGE SERVICES LLC: $175 · OtherBAILEY'S CROSSROADS HEALTH ACCESS PARTNE: $1,000 · Health
Crime & Legal$34,600Human Services$26,918Environment$10,000Food & Nutrition$10,000Other$3,175Health$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVirginia Law Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFACETS CARES INC: $16,918 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LAMB CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEGAL SERVICES OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC: $7,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBAILEY'S CROSSROADS HEALTH ACCESS PARTNE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings CompanyVA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · United Way of the National Capital Area · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Blankingship & Keith Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Blankingship & Keith Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Blankingship & Keith Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Blankingship & Keith Foundation 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.

    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 11 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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