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The Blaydes Family Foundation at a glance

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The Blaydes Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$17k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$27kEducation$26kReligion$8kHuman Services$1kYouth Development$550Public Safety & Disaster$500Recreation & Sports$500Arts & Culture$100Other$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$176k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ORDER OF ST JOHN$7,883
WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL$2,500
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY$1,800
SACRED HEART CHURCH$1,500
BLUEFIELD COLLEGE$1,000
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION$1,000
UVA MEDICAL ASSOCIATION$500
WADE CENTER$300
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF VIRGINIAS$100
APPALACHIAN ARTIST ASSOCIATION$100
CLASS OF 1981 PRINCETON UNIVERSITY$60
UNITED WAY CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA$50
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ORDER OF ST JOHN: $8k → 14%CHATHOLIC SHARING APPEAL: $500 → 15%UNITED WAY CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA: $50 → 18%SHILOH BAPTIST CHURCH: $5k → 20%SACRED HEART CHURCH: $2k → 21%CLASS OF 1981 PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $120 → 11%PRISON FELLOWSHIP: $50 → 4%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $3k → 11%BLUEFIELD COLLEGE: $2k → 18%ORDER OF ST JOHN: $6k → 14%CHATHOLIC SHARING APPEAL: $500 → 15%HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN WV: $250 → 20%SACRED HEART CHURCH: $2k → 21%CLASS OF 1981 PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $60 → 11%UVA MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: $1k → 8%WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $3k → 11%BLUEFIELD COLLEGE: $1k → 18%ORDER OF ST JOHN: $5k → 14%CITY OF BLUEFIELD: $500 → 21%CLASS OF 1981 PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $60 → 11%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $3k → 11%BLUEFIELD COLLEGE: $1k → 18%ORDER OF ST JOHN: $5k → 14%WADE CENTER: $500 → 21%CLASS OF 1981 PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $60 → 11%UVA MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: $500 → 8%WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $3k → 11%BLUEFIELD COLLEGE: $1k → 18%ORDER OF ST JOHN: $250 → 14%WADE CENTER: $300 → 21%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%BLUEFIELD LIONS CLUB: $300 → 18%WADE CENTER: $250 → 21%UVA MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: $500 → 8%BLUE RIDGE JUNIOR GOLF TOUR: $250 → 18%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF VIRGINIAS: $130 → 21%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%BLUE RIDGE JUNIOR GOLF TOUR: $250 → 18%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF VIRGINIAS: $125 → 21%BLUEFIELD LIONS CLUB: $250 → 18%BIBLE IN THE SCHOOLS: $100 → 21%APPALACHIAN ARTIST ASSOCIATION: $100 → 18%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF VIRGINIAS: $100 → 21%4 PALS: $500 → 21%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$58k · 13 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
7

Total granted

$58k
$7k

Still filing today

46%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • PI
    PRIORY IN THE USA OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSP / ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM
    5× · 2020–2024 · $24k · revenue +48%
  • WF
    WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL
    4× · 2021–2024 · $10k · revenue +35%
  • BU
    BLUEFIELD UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $5k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • SB
    SHILOH BAPTIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • 4P
    4 PALS
    one grant, 2023 · $500
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $500
How this is measured

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

04Its field
04the grantee network

6 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. 6 of the 22 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
4/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PRIORY IN THE USA OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSP / ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM: $24,433 · HealthPRIORY IN THE USA OF THE MOST VENERABLE OR…WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $10,000 · EducationWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOLThe Trustees of Princeton University: $6,400 · EducationThe Trustees of Princeton UniversityBLUEFIELD UNIVERSITY: $4,540 · EducationBLUEFIELD UNIVERSITYSHILOH BAPTIST CHURCH: $5,000 · OtherSHILOH BAPTIST CHURCHSACRED HEART CHURCH: $3,000 · OtherSACRED HEART CHURCHUVA MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: $2,000 · OtherUVA MEDICAL ASSOCIATIONWADE CENTER: $1,050 · OtherWADE CENTERIndividual grant recipient: $1,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBLUEFIELD LIONS CLUB: $550 · Other+10 more: $2,482 · Other+10 moreTHE COLLEGE FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $4,000 · PhilanthropyBlue Ridge Junior Golf Tour Inc: $500 · Recreation & Sports
Health$24,433Education$20,940Other$15,082Philanthropy$4,000Recreation & Sports$500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPRIORY IN THE USA OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSP / ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM: $24,433 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $6,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBLUEFIELD UNIVERSITY: $4,540 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLLEGE FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBlue Ridge Junior Golf Tour Inc: $500 over 2y, 0.7% 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.

  • Who funds PRIORY IN THE USA OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSP / ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM ↗
  • Who funds WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
  • Who funds BLUEFIELD UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE COLLEGE FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ↗
  • Who funds Blue Ridge Junior Golf Tour Inc ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Blaydes Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Blaydes Family 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 22 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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