· Private foundation
The Harry D Forsyth Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VIRGINIA ORGANIZING FOR BELOVED COMMUNITY CVILLE | $7,250 |
| LYNCHBURG DAILY BREAD | $7,000 |
| BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| HAITI MISSION FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| RICHMOND CYCLING CORPS | $5,000 |
| POLLEN INITIATIVE | $5,000 |
| ACADEMY CENTER OF THE ARTS | $5,000 |
| GREATER LYNCHBURG HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $5,000 |
| HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| VIRGINIA CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS | $2,500 |
| WASHINGTON & LEE UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| BROOKLYN COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–23, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 46% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
26 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 2 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- CKCamp Kum-Ba-Yah Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $30k · revenue +509%
- HMHAITI MISSION FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $24k · revenue +9%
- VCVIRGINIA CENTER FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS6× · 2019–2025 · $19k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- JFJUBILEE FAMILY DEVELOPMENTone grant, 2024 · $6k
- VAVISUAL ARTS CENTERone grant, 2022 · $5k
- LCLYNCHBURG CITY SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +41%
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.
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.
Dlcv's mission is to advance independence, choice and self-determination; protect legal, human, and civil rights; and eliminate abuse, neglect and discrimination of people with disabilities through zealous and uncompromising legal advocacy…
The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.
The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.
To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…
Provision of safe and affordable housing.
The mission of the University is to inspire independent thinkers who become trustworthy, effective leaders that shape caring communities. The vision of the University of Lynchburg is to cultivate a world that is innovative, authentic, and…
The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…
To assist rural virginians in developing and advancing their agricultural, economic and social interests to enhance their quality of life.
To fight hunger in fauquier county by providing our neighbors in need with nourishing food and encouraging self-sufficiency through vibrant community partnerships
Virginia community action partnership (vacap) is the statewide membership association for virginia's thirty-one non-profit and public community action agencies. vacaps mission is to build the capacity and competencies of virginias…
Loaves & fishes provides nourishing food with respect and dignity to all who seek assistance, while offering robust opportunities for community engagement through volunteerism, partnerships, and nutrition education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Pollen Initiative. 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 35 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 43 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 Camp Kum-Ba-Yah Inc ↗
- Who funds BEACON OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds HAITI MISSION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA CENTER FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF VIRGINIA SKYLINE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE CYCLE INC ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETH'S EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LYNCHBURG DAILY BREAD INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER LYNCHBURG HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds PARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY CENTER OF THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Pollen Initiative ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GLEANING FOR THE WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds Washington and Lee University ↗
- Who funds MIRIAM'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH OUTREACH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LYNCHBURG CITY SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PIERCE STREET GATEWAY ↗
- Who funds MOREHOUSE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE CLINIC FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds FREE CLINIC OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER LYNCHBURG COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LYNCHBURG ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds LYNCHBURG GROWS ↗
- Who funds ROADS TO RECOVERY 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: Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation · Centra Health Inc · Foster Foundation · The Al Stroobants Foundation · Easley Char Irr Tua 5019004715 · Valentine Family Foundation · Schewel Charitable Foundation · M4k Lynchburg Inc · Kva Foundation · Centra Health Foundation · Carrington Family Foundation · Old Dominion Box Co Foundation 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 Harry D Forsyth Foundation 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.
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