· Private foundation
The Imperial Charitable Trust
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k28 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $69k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $2.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE ICT DAFGIVING360 FUND | $2,267,880 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON PATRICK C GRANEY III MEMORIAL FUND | $50,000 |
| VIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT COLLEGES | $18,500 |
| DECORATIVE ARTS TRUST | $10,000 |
| COKER UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| ACADEMY CENTER OF THE ARTS | $10,000 |
| VIRGINIA EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA | $10,000 |
| THE CORPORATION FOR JEFFERSON'S POPLAR FOREST | $5,000 |
| NC BOTANICAL GARDEN FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE LYNCHBURG PUBLIC LIBRARY | $2,900 |
| CENTRA HEALTH FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| EWVCF | $2,500 |
| VIRGINIA CENTER FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS | $2,500 |
| WEST VIRGINIA INDEPENDENT COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES | $2,500 |
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 (FY20–25, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +16% since the first grant, against -11% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2025, 7 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, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M 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
- VFVA FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT COLLEGES6× · 2020–2025 · $111k · revenue +138%
- ACACADEMY CENTER OF THE ARTS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $67k · revenue +250%
- TDTHE DECORATIVE ARTS TRUST6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- YOYMCA OF KANAWHA VALLEY INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -11%
- LFLIBRARY FOUNDATION OF KANAWHA COUNTY INCone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -55%
- CACOMMONWEALTH ALLIANCE FOR RURAL COLLEGESone grant, 2024 · $2k
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.
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…
Furtherance of economic growth, education, training and development
The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.
Foster and promote the progress and general welfare of its member colleges, with special concern for the pluralistic nature of the system of higher education in virginia.
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.
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…
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…
The virginia association of museums is a statewide network serving the museum community. the association's mission statement is "the virginia association of museums helps our museum community succeed".
To assist rural virginians in developing and advancing their agricultural, economic and social interests to enhance their quality of life.
The mission of laurel ridge community college is to provide a positive, caring and dynamic learning environment that inspires student success, values diversity and promotes community vitality. in support of that mission, the laurel ridge…
To foster and promote the growth, progress and general welfare of the southside virginia community college and the virginia college system.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Va Foundation for Independent Colleges and the most unlike its peers is Coker University. 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 50 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 50 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 VA FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT COLLEGES ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY CENTER OF THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE DECORATIVE ARTS TRUST ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds COKER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE CORPORATION FOR THOMAS JEFFERSON'S POPLAR FOREST ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA BOTANICAL GARDEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA CENTER FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds FREE CLINIC OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds LYNCHBURG CITY SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LYNCHBURG GROWS ↗
- Who funds JAMES RIVER DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL VA ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LYNCHBURG ↗
- Who funds THE VIRGINIA COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds LYNCHBURG BEACON OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF KANAWHA VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds PATRICK HENRY FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LYNCHBURG PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF VIRGINIA SKYLINE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF KANAWHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BOONSBORO VOLUNTEER FIRE & RESCUE COMPANY 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 · The Al Stroobants Foundation · Centra Health Inc · Schewel Charitable Foundation · Easley Char Irr Tua 5019004715 · Liberty University Inc · The Harry D Forsyth Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · Old Dominion Box Co Foundation Inc · M4k Lynchburg Inc · Foster Foundation · American Electric Power 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 Imperial Charitable Trust 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.