· Public charity
The Donor Advised Fund of the Vbf
The organization was formed to be operated in perpetuity exclusively for charitable purposes.
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 42 grants below total $1,589,409 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,848,846 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $259,437 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 · $71k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $384k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $879k
- $250k+1 grant · $256k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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, $201k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 24% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 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.
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.
43 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 10 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $153k 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
- FFFATHERHOOD FOUNDATION OF VIRGINIA8× · 2017–2024 · $74k · revenue +72%
- FCFULL CIRCLE GRIEF CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $70k · revenue +90%
- BUBLUEFIELD UNIVERSITY4× · 2018–2022 · $54k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- TWTIPI WAKEN CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $20k
- BABON AIR BAPTIST CHURCH -THE VILLAGEone grant, 2018 · $15k
- WHWarm Hearth Foundation Incone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -23%
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.
We are a k-12 christian school founded under the following (4) pillars: academics: we provide an amazing accredited academic program utilizing 100% certified teachers. schedule: we provide our students and their families an opportunity on…
The mission of portersville christian school is to glorify god by preparing students to serve christ and instilling high standards spiritually, academically, socially, and physically. the school provides a high-quality academic program, a…
Our desire is to provide balanced, biblical direction to the child as a support to the home and to train each student to be self-disciplined and biblically directed in their walk with god and their fellow man. it is also our desire to meet…
Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…
The mission of victory christian academy, in partnership with christian parents, is to provide a loving, christ-centered environment of educational excellence so that the students may develop their gifts, knowledge, skills and energies to…
Regents' mission is to provide a classical and christian education, founded upon and informed by a biblical worldview, that equips our students to know, love, and practice that which is true, good, and the beautiful and challenges them to…
Colorado christian academy provides an innovative christ-centered education that prioritizes academic achievements and individual development of the whole child. in relationship with parents, we will build healthy foundations that result…
In partnership with the church, the purpose of william jessup university is to educate transformational leaders for the glory of god.
God's word is the foundation for all learning. our curriculum and teaching method provides students a comprhensive application of scripture in all disciplines. our goal is to assist each student in developing a biblical world view by…
Provides seminary, under-graduate, graduate, doctoral, and other continuing education programs
As a support to evangelical christian families, the mission of christian community school is to provide an academically excellent, biblically integrated education which promotes christ-like character, preparing students to serve god and…
Northeastern seminary strives to be a vibrant source for christian theological formation whose students are formed in a biblical vision of gracious christianity and impact wholeness to the world in an expansive array of vocations and…
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 Neighbors Outreach Worldwide. 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.
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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 77 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 YOUTH LIFE FOUNDATION OF RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ELIJAH HOUSE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds FATHERHOOD FOUNDATION OF VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds FULL CIRCLE GRIEF CENTER ↗
- Who funds BLUEFIELD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds THE DONOR ADVISED FUND OF THE VBF ↗
- Who funds InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA ↗
- Who funds EBENEZER CHRISTIAN CHILDRENS HOME ↗
- Who funds Arrabon 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: The Community Foundation Inc · The Brown Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · First Baptist Church Endowment Fund Incorporated · The Stone Foundation · Coleman a Hunter - Irr Tr Chari · The William H - John G - Emma Scott Foundation · Honey Foundation · Herndon Foundation · Feed More Inc · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Lilly Endowment 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 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.
- Usa Water Ski & Wake Sports Inc — 3% 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.
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