· Private foundation
The Houff Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| NATIONS OF COACHES | $10,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $10,000 |
| VILLAGE TO VILLAGE INC | $10,000 |
| BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| COMPASS | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY OF HARRISONBURG | $10,000 |
| BRIDGEWATER HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| WARM SHELTER | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +75%
Funded once
- BMBRETHERN & MENNONITE HERITAGE CENTERone grant, 2024 · $5k
- OCOASIS CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $4k
- COCHURCH ON THE HILL INCone grant, 2018 · $4k
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.
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
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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.
How this is measured
45 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. 45 of the 84 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 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 VILLAGE TO VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds ADVANCING NATIVE MISSIONS ↗
- 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 ↗
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 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Houff Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Houff Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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