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THE DONOR ADVISED FUND OF THE VBF
The organization manages individuals' irrevocable contributions to a donor advised fund by directing distributions of the funds to the individuals' charity of choice.
$1.8M
Granted FY2024
42
Grants
7
Communities
$256k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 91% of THE DONOR ADVISED FUND OF THE VBF’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
btsrscholarships
2020
warm hearthwaterhousingnursingfoodgod's love
2021
ebenezerroad baptistenvironmentelijahaccessibleclassroomspiritual physical
2022
ebenezerfoodenvironmentelijahaccessibleclassroomfoster
2023
genderwomen childrenministryaroundelijahaccessiblesucceed
2024
researchtreatmentministryaroundelijahaccessiblecultivates
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 42 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $71k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $384k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $879k
- $250k+1 grant · $256k
$18,250
Median grant
7
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
- POPLAR SPRINGS BAPTIST CHURCH$255,732
- EVERBLESS FOUNDATION$198,927
- BONSACK BAPTIST CHURCH$146,177
- YOUTH LIFE FOUNDATION OF RICHMOND$112,500
- VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION (HIGHTY TIGHTY)$79,174
- WILKESBORO BAPTIST CHURCH$65,000
- FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF ASHLAND$59,000
- SALEM BAPTIST CHURCH$56,063
- KEDRON BAPTIST CHURCH$55,314
- PROVIDENCE BAPTIST CHURCH$53,764
- INTERNATIONAL MISSION BOARD$52,720
- GOSPEL COMMUNITY CHURCH$40,768
- COOPERATIVE BAPTIST FELLOWSHIP$33,388
- HOPETREE FAMILY FOUNDATION$26,080
- RIVER CITY BAPTIST CHURCH$25,000
02The need
04
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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $201k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 10%. 24% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 56% of THE DONOR ADVISED FUND OF THE VBF’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, 86% of the giving stays in VA; read by stated purpose it is 37% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
THE DONOR ADVISED FUND OF THE VBFlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient addressRecipient 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.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.7M · 44 repeat orgs$411k to everyone else
44 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
44
24
Total granted
$5.7M
$258k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+26%
+37%
Still filing today
25%
50%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $153k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesReligionEducationRecreation & SportsArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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
- YLYOUTH LIFE FOUNDATION OF RICHMOND2× · 2021–2024 · $129k · revenue +17%
- VBVIRGINIA BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME AND FAMILY SERVICES6× · 2019–2024 · $105k · revenue +25%
- EHELIJAH HOUSE ACADEMY4× · 2021–2024 · $75k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- VIVBF INCone grant, 2017 · $38k · revenue +24%
- TWTIPI WAKEN CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $20k
- BABON AIR BAPTIST CHURCH -THE VILLAGEone grant, 2018 · $15k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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Trinity University
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
Education
2
Trinity International University
Trinity international university offers undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degrees through four schools at locations in illinois, florida, and california.
Education
3
The Williamsburg Christadelphian
Religion
4
Christian Brothers University
Christian brothers university is a private, catholic comprehensive university committed to preparing students of all faiths and backgrounds to excel in their professional and public lives by providing challenging educational opportunities…
Education
5
William Carey University
As a christian university which embraces its baptist heritage and namesake, william carey university provides quality educational programs within a caring christian academic community, which challenge the individual student to excel in…
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6
Wheaton College
Wheaton College serves Jesus Christ and advances his Kingdom through excellence in liberal arts and graduate programs that educate the whole person to build the church and benefit society worldwide.
Education
7
The Virginia Home
Long-term care for persons with irreversible physical disabilities.
Health
8
Kentucky Christian University
Higher education for christian leadership and service in the church and in professions.
Education
9
The Christian Century
Publication of religious magazine.
Arts & Culture
10
Trinity College
Trinity is a comprehensive institution offering a broad range of educational programs that prepare students across the lifespan for the intellectual, ethical, and spiritual dimensions of contemporary work, civic and family life.
Education
11
Tyndale House Ministries
Minister to the spiritual needs of people, primarily through the publication of literature consistent with Biblical principles and through grants to other charitable entities.
Religion
12
Northeastern Seminary
Rooted in biblical and historic christian faith, northeastern seminary prepares christ-centered men and women for faithful, effective ministry to the church and world.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769) and the most unlike its peers is Bluefield University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 58 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 25% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
1%1/77
the rest of the field
11%
5,476/50,391
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.
06the grantee network
29 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
26/29
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$5,563,475Human Services$210,500Religion$163,071Education$78,730Recreation & Sports$22,250Youth Development$18,000International$10,000
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 YOUTH LIFE FOUNDATION OF RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ELIJAH HOUSE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds RELATIONSHIP FOUNDATION OF VA ↗
- Who funds FULL CIRCLE GRIEF CENTER ↗
- Who funds BLUEFIELD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SAMARITANS PURSE ↗
- Who funds VBF INC ↗
- Who funds INTERVARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds ARRABON INC ↗
- Who funds EBENEZER CHRISTIAN CHILDRENS HOME ↗
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.
The Community Foundation IncVA29.7× affinity14 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation Inc · The Brown Foundation · The Stone Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Honey Foundation · Chattanooga Christian Community · Bon Secours - Richmond Health System Inc · Feed More Inc · Carmax Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Servant 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 organisation THE DONOR ADVISED FUND OF THE VBF 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
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
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: FULL CIRCLE GRIEF CENTER.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~2 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +90% since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 263324192 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on FULL CIRCLE GRIEF CENTER, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 2 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 6% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines