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The Community Foundation of the New River Valley Inc
The mission of the community foundation of the new river valley is to enrich our community by providing professional management services to donors for their charitable causes, awarding visionary grants and scholarships, and nurturing collaborations in our community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14 grants below total $220,614 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,073,959 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $853,345 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $135k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Bridges to Prosperity | $75,000 |
| Engineers in Action Univ Bridge Program | $59,928 |
| New River Community Action | $11,000 |
| Community Health Ctr of the NRV | $10,500 |
| New River Community College Educ Fdn | $9,280 |
| Springhouse Community School | $7,750 |
| Floyd Center for the Arts | $6,916 |
| Northern Va Comm College Educ Fdn | $6,500 |
| NRV CARES | $6,040 |
| Southwest VA Wildlife Center | $6,000 |
| Imagination Library of Mont Co VA | $6,000 |
| Giles Co Christian Service Mission | $5,500 |
| Floyd Friends of Asylum Seekers | $5,200 |
| Ascension Parish Library | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $126k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 100% of The Community Foundation of the New River Valley Inc’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 0% — 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 +56% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 6 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, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k 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
- EIENGINEERS IN ACTION INC3× · 2022–2024 · $95k · revenue +15%
- NRNEW RIVER COMMUNITY ACTION INC6× · 2018–2024 · $53k · revenue +56%
- LVLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF THE NEW RIVER VALLEY5× · 2018–2022 · $50k · revenue +309%
Funded once
- AFAdvertising Federation of the Roanoke Valley Incone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +8% · 32% of their budget
- FCFloyd County Humane Society Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +56%
- SMST MARYS ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $12k
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.
To provide on a not-for-profit basis a safe and supervised area for cultural, recreational, social and educational activities for the citizens of Nelson County, VA
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.
Provide food & other holiday gifts to qualifying needy families in rockbridge county, lexington & buena vista, virginia
VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.
New Virginia Majority is a grassroots organization that works with low income people in local communities through leadership development, trainings and workshops, issue education and advocacy.
The free clinic of franklin county, inc is founded on the belief that everyone should have access to quality, affordable, primary health care regardless of their socio-economic or insurance status.
Promoting for the benefit of the general public, the preservation, protection and enjoyment of our natural resources, principally in the lower james, york, rappahannock and chowan rivers and surrounding watersheds.
Working within the faith community to educate and mobilize citizen to create systemic social change for low income Virginians.
Local food hub is a nonprofit organization that partners with virginia farmers to increase community access to local food
To assist rural virginians in developing and advancing their agricultural, economic and social interests to enhance their quality of life.
Our mission is to unlock the potential of each child through individualized, broad-based education. We want to give children the means and opportunities with which to become well-rounded self-motivat
To promote locally owned retail establishments and service providers.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New River Valley Child Advocacy Resources Education & Services and the most unlike its peers is The June Bug Center Inc. 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 27 years old; the field is 23. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
56 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. 56 of the 70 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 ENGINEERS IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES TO PROSPERITY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW RIVER COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF THE NEW RIVER VALLEY ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC OF THE NEW RIVE ↗
- Who funds Plenty Inc ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds GILES COUNTY CHRISTIAN SERVICE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF THE NEW RIVER VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW RIVER COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RADFORD FAIRLAWN DAILY BREAD ↗
- Who funds Floyd Community Center for the Arts ↗
- Who funds NEW RIVER VALLEY CHILD ADVOCACY RESOURCES EDUCATION & SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Springhouse Community School ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and Sta ↗
- Who funds CALFEE COMMUNITY CENTER AND CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY MUSEUM & LEWIS MILLER ART CTR ↗
- Who funds Warm Hearth Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds RADFORD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The June Bug Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Free Clinic of the New River Valley Inc ↗
- Who funds BLACKSBURG CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds RENAISSANCE MUSIC ACADEMY OF VA ↗
- Who funds Advertising Federation of the Roanoke Valley Inc ↗
- Who funds GILES HEALTH AND FAMILY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Floyd County Humane Society Inc ↗
- Who funds VALLEY INTERFAITH CHILD CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FLOYD COMMUNITY EDUCATIONAL ASSOC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds Free Clinic of Pulaski County Inc ↗
- Who funds REFUGE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION 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: C E Richardson Benevolent Foundation · New River Valley Health Foundation · Celanese Foundation · Bauers-Wall Family Foundation · Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Carter and Kay Craigie Family Foundation · Randolph House of Pulaski Found · United Way of Southwest Virginia Inc · Corning Incorporated Foundation · Carilion New River Valley Medical Center · Lyerly Foundation
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 New River Valley Inc 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.