How much did THE IMPERIAL CHARITABLE TRUST grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 47% of THE IMPERIAL CHARITABLE TRUST’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

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2021

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2022

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2023

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2024

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2025

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k31 grants · $49k
$10k–50k6 grants · $69k

$1,600

Median grant

States reached

$2.7M

Total assets

Largest grants

VIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT COLLEGES$19,000
VIRGINIA EPISCOPAL SCHOOL$10,000
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA$10,000
DECORATIVE ARTS TRUST$10,000
ACADEMY CENTER OF THE ARTS$10,000
COKER UNIVERSITY$10,000
NC BOTANICAL GARDEN FOUNDATION INC$5,000
THE CORPORATION FOR JEFFERSON'S POPLAR FOREST$5,000
VIRGINIA CENTER FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS$2,500
BUCKSKIN COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA$2,500
THE LYNCHBURG POLICE FOUNDATION$2,500
MESDA$2,500
WEST VIRGINIA INDEPENDENT COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES$2,500
EWVCF$2,500
CENTRA HEALTH FOUNDATION$2,500

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$545k · 40 repeat orgs$12k to everyone else

40 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$545k

$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%

+22%

Still filing today

48%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationHealthYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther

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

VF
VIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT COLLEGES
5× · 2020–2024 · $92k · revenue +37%
DA
DECORATIVE ARTS TRUST
5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +131%
CU
COKER UNIVERSITY
3× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +25%

Funded once

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YMCA OF KANAWHA VALLEY
one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +22%
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THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF KANAWHA COUNTY
one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -43%
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THE EDUCATION ALLIANCE
one grant, 2022 · $1k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Virginia Association of Community Banks

To provide undiluted advocacy, targeted education and quality collaboration for virginia's community banks.

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Virginia Commonwealth University

Virignia commonwealth university intellectual property foundation's mission is to foster a culture of innovation at virginia commonwealth university (vcu) and to protect and commercialize inventions created by the vcu research enterprise…

Health

Virginia Community Food Connections

To create healthy, food-secure communities and strong, equitable regional food systems by ensuring fresh and local produce is accessible and affordable for all.

Food & Nutrition

Virginia Association of Museums

The virginia association of museums is a statewide network serving the museum community. the association's missions statement is "the virginia association of museums helps our museum community succeed".

Arts & Culture

Vcu Investment Management Company

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…

Education

Southside Virginia Community

To foster and promote the growth, progress and general welfare of the southside virginia community college and the virginia college system.

Education

University of Virginia Law School Alumni

The university of virginia law school alumni association's primary exempt purpose is to provide alumni with access to the university of virginia school of law, its facilities, resources, and people and to foster an interest in its…

Education

Historic Virginia Land Conservancy

Promoting for the benefit of the general public, the preservation, protection and enjoyment of our natural resources, principally in the lower james, york, rappahannock, and chowan river watersheds.

Environment

Virginia Chamber of Commerce

The virginia chamber of commerce was established to encourage the growth and success of business and industry in the commonwealth of virginia.

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Virginia Peninsula Chamber of Comme

Chamber mission: we are a catalyst for business growth on the virginia peninsula, and a collaborative partner for economic development within the region.

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Virginia Capital Trail Foundation

The virginia capital trail foundation exists to protect, promote, and enhance the virginia capital trail and engage communities around it.

Recreation & Sports

Virginia Agribusiness Council

Represent the agriculture, forestry, and agribusiness community in virginia.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ymca of Kanawha Valley Inc 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.

Your grantees are a median of 51 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/24

the rest of the field

10%

406/3,911

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.

05the grantee network

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

23/23

Grantees still filing

13/23

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$262,500Education$143,500Arts & Culture$106,500Health$19,050Youth Development$17,000Human Services$6,000Philanthropy$2,500

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.

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.

Greater Lynchburg Community FoundationVA33.2× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation · Centra Health Inc · The Al Stroobants Foundation · Easley Char Irr Tua 5019004715 · The Community Foundation Inc · The Minnie and Bernard Lane Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · Old Dominion Box Co · M4k Lynchburg Inc · The Harry D Forsyth Foundation · Schewel Charitable Foundation · Centra Health 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 organisation 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: VIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT COLLEGES.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~10 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 540554396 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on VIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT COLLEGES, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 10 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Imperial Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to The Imperial Charitable Trust through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE IMPERIAL CHARITABLE TRUST

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Imperial Charitable Trust?

More from the funding graph

THE IMPERIAL CHARITABLE TRUST

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Imperial Charitable Trust?

More from the funding graph