· Private foundation
The Houff Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k37 grants · $111k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $192k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $107k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BLUE RIDGE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $106,500 |
| SAMARITON'S PURSE | $30,000 |
| ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| CENTRAL VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $20,000 |
| AUGUSTA HEALTH FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| ISAIAH 117 HOUSE | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| WARM SHELTER | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY OF HARRISONBURG | $10,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $10,000 |
| NATIONS OF COACHES | $10,000 |
| COMPASS | $10,000 |
| BRIDGEWATER HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| VILLAGE TO VILLAGE INC | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $93k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 43% 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.
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.
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 +53% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
67 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 4 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- BRBLUE RIDGE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $217k · revenue +133%
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE6× · 2020–2025 · $118k · revenue +106%
- BHBridgewater HealthCare Foundation Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $93k · revenue +143%
Funded once
- BMBRETHERN & MENNONITE HERITAGE CENTERone grant, 2024 · $5k
- OCOASIS CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $4k
- COCHURCH ON THE HILL INCone grant, 2018 · $4k
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.
Hopetree family services is a nonprofit human services organization providing behavioral health, child welfare, and community based support services to children, families, and adults. programs are designed to prevent unnecessary out of…
Union mission ministries, inc. is set apart by the spirit of god to preach the gospel and meet physical and emotional needs through out west virginia through the provision of shelter, clothing, food, counseling, and structured programs for…
Faith recovery is a dbhds licensed clinical christian addiction treatment program serving men ages 18 and up. our campus located in beautiful williamsburg, va has two dbhds accredited recovery residences where residents find hope and…
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…
Heart Bridge International exists to equip and empower Christians around the world to fulfill the Great Commission. The organization provides free ministry training, discipleship resources, and practical coaching to under-resourced…
We improve health every day through coordinating, promoting and planning for the provision of health services and the promotion of health, medical education, and the social, cultural, educational, and economic development of the community.
Biblical counseling
See schedule o.as part of sentara health's integrated health care system, we improve health every day through the establishment and operation of programs and services for the provision of health care and for health related purposes; the…
The union mission seeks to be a leader in gospel transforming ministry in hampton roads, providing a pathway to success for our homeless guests. we act to restore the lives of homeless neighbors by caring like christ.
The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…
As part of sentara health's integrated health care system, we improve health every day.
Since 1816, american bible society has been fulfilling its mission of making the bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford so all people may experience its life-changing message.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is Positive Paws K-9 Angels. 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 38 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
45 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. 45 of the 84 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 BLUE RIDGE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Bridgewater HealthCare Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SENTARA RMH MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEWATER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds REDEEMER CLASSICAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE CASA FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ISAIAH 117 HOUSE ↗
- Who funds ADVANCING NATIVE MISSIONS ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE TO VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOORS INC ↗
- Who funds ISAIAH 61 MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds NEW CREATION VA INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA FFA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF HARRISONBURG ROCKINGHAM COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WINGFIELD MINISTRIES 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 of Harrisonburg & Rockingham County · Denton Family Charitable Foundation · Sentara Health · United Way of Central Shenandoah Valley Inc · Houff Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of the Central Blue Ridge · The Community Foundation Inc · Truist Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Servant Foundation · Ge Aerospace 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 Houff Family 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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