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The Community Foundation of the Dan River Region
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE DAN RIVER REGION will improve and enrich the lives of the region's residents by encouraging and facilitating donations; by managing, investing, and distributing these donations in accordance with donors' wishes while meeting community needs; and by ensuring these donations create a lasting legacy of growth…
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE DAN RIVER REGION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 93 grants below total $1,351,274 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,868,304 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $517,030 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k36 grants · $252k
- $10k–50k55 grants · $960k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $139k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF DANVILLE-PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY | $87,930 |
| DANVILLE CHURCH AND COMMUNITY TUTORIAL PROGRAM | $51,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $47,822 |
| CITY OF DANVILLE SOCIAL SERVICES | $41,669 |
| VIRGINIA LEGAL AID | $40,000 |
| GOD'S STOREHOUSE | $35,000 |
| GRACE DESIGN COMMUNITY CHURCH | $33,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY OF DANVILLE | $30,000 |
| DANVILLE-PITTSYLVANIA CANCER ASSOCIATION | $28,000 |
| DANVILLE PITT CO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $25,000 |
| AVERETT UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| COMPASSION HEALTH CARE | $25,000 |
| AVERETT UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| DANVILLE SPEECH & HEARING | $24,000 |
| WESTMORELAND NEIGHBORHOOD ORGANIZATION | $23,598 |
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 (FY17–25, $569k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of The Community Foundation of the Dan River Region’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 82% of the giving stays in VA; read by stated purpose it is 76% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +40% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
92 repeat relationships — 64 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $81k 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
- AUAVERETT UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $429k · revenue +42%
- DPDANVILLE PITTSYLVANIA CANCER ASSOCIATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $392k · revenue +216%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANVILLE AREA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $321k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- TBTEMPLE BETH SHOLOMone grant, 2017 · $97k
- TOTOWN OF SOUTH BOSTONone grant, 2017 · $50k
- DPDANVILLE PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY CHAMBER FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +445%
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.
Fire and rescue services
The mission of the DUNCANVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT, INC. is the delivery of life safety services. The department provides 24-hour emergency response to a variety of critical situations, primarily fires.
To provide fire protection to the dysartsville community of mcdowell county north carolina
Fire protection
Volunteer fire fighting and rescue serving the dry fork community of pittsylvania county
Community volunteer fire company providing fire protection and fire fighting services, ambulance and rescue service and other emergency services to the town of denton, md.
To provide charitable public service and fire prevention education, in the form of volunteer firefighters, to the village of dansville and the areas contracted outside the village.
Fire prevention and protection in bluemont and surrounding areas
To provide fire protection and emergency services to the citizens of madison and boone county west virginia.
Dacc is a non-profit, community-owned facility. the center provides a wholesome, healthy environment and pledges that no person will be denied membership or access to programs. the dacc provides for members of all ages, a wide variety of…
Fire protection services. the organization provides fire protection services for all of madison county, virginia, population approximately 14,000.
Fire protection services for dolphin, va and surrounding communities
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Danville Pittsylvania County Chamber Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Kuumba West African Dance Company. 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 30 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
90 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 90 of the 141 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 UNITED WAY OF DANVILLE-PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds AVERETT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DANVILLE PITTSYLVANIA CANCER ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANVILLE AREA INC ↗
- Who funds DANVILLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Danville Church and Community Tutorial Program ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY CITY OF DANVILLE AND PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds DANVILLE SPEECH AND HEARING CENTER ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN AREA AGENCY ON AGING ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION HEALTH CARE INC ↗
- Who funds DANVILLE SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds FREE CLINIC OF DANVILLE ↗
- Who funds DAN RIVER BASIN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GODS PIT CREW INC ↗
- Who funds Virginia Legal Aid Society Inc ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE FIRE AND RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds BLAIRS FIRE & RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY FD CT ↗
- Who funds DANVILLE NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PPL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DANVILLE LIFE SAVING AND FIRST AID CREW INC ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICABLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds JUST KIDS CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Casville Volunteer Fire Dept Inc ↗
- Who funds DANVILLE-PITTSYLVANIA COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT ACCESS TO HEALTH SERVICES 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: Jt-Minnie Maude Charitable Trust · Danville Regional Foundation · Womack Foundation · Alexander Berkeley Carrington Jr & Ruth Simpson Carrington Charitable Trust · Hughes Memorial Home · United Way of Danville-Pittsylvania County · Kiwanis Club of Danville Foundation · Center for Early Success · George and Sarah Buchanan Foundation · Foster Foundation · Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia · Centra Health 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 Community Foundation of the Dan River Region 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.
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
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.