· Public charity
The Donor Advised Fund of the Vbf
The organization was formed to be operated in perpetuity exclusively for charitable purposes.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 56% of The Donor Advised Fund of the Vbf’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 86% of the giving stays in VA; by stated purpose, 37%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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 -31%
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.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…
How this is measured
29 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. 29 of the 77 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 Arrabon Inc ↗
- Who funds EBENEZER CHRISTIAN CHILDRENS HOME ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Donor Advised Fund of the Vbf funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Donor Advised Fund of the Vbf. Bigger dots raise more.
- Usa Water Ski & Wake Sports Inc: 3% of income from government
How this is measured
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