Virginia · Private foundation
The Rapha Foundation
To support Norton Community Hospital, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, through funding and program efforts designed to ensure better access to healthcare and to improve the health of the residents of Wise County, VA and the surrounding areas. Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 59
- Grants FY2025
- 42
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $155,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 42
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $48M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations The Rapha Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $132k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 45 | $1.7M | 62% |
| FY2024 | 42 | $1.4M | 43% |
| FY2023 | 33 | $1.4M | 55% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $574k | 63% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $420k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mountain Empire Community College | $335,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Communities in Schools of Appalachian Highlands | $294,100 | 3 | 2% |
| Family Crisis Support Services Inc | $245,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Communities in Schools | $150,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mountain Empire Older Citizens Inc | $139,665 | 1 | n/a |
| Napoleon Hill Foundation | $75,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Synergy Foundation Inc | $75,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Dickenson County Food Bank | $57,000 | 3 | 40% |
| St Marys Health Wagon Inc | $56,995 | 1 | 1% |
| Wise County Christian School | $55,000 | 1 | 10% |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mountain Empire Community College | $335,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Communities in Schools of Appalachian Highlands | $294,100 | 3 | 2% |
| Family Crisis Support Services Inc | $245,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Communities in Schools | $150,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mountain Empire Older Citizens Inc | $139,665 | 1 | n/a |
| Napoleon Hill Foundation | $75,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Synergy Foundation Inc | $75,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Dickenson County Food Bank | $57,000 | 3 | 40% |
| St Marys Health Wagon Inc | $56,995 | 1 | 1% |
| Wise County Christian School | $55,000 | 1 | 10% |
| Appalachian Sustainable Development | $45,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Dickenson County Public Schools | $37,600 | 3 | n/a |
| Camp Bethel | $35,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Samaritan's Purse | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| William King Museum of Art | $17,700 | 1 | 0% |
| Girls Incorporated of Bristol | $15,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Norton Rescue Squad Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Bristol Regional Speech & Hearing Center | $15,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Lunchbox276 | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Wise Rescue Squad Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 2% |
| National Energy Education Development Project Inc | $6,500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 71 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Rapha Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About The Rapha Foundation
- How much does The Rapha Foundation give?
- The Rapha Foundation reported 59 grants totaling $1,824,605 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 42 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does The Rapha Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (46%), Health (15%), Human Services (7%).
- Who are The Rapha Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Mountain Empire Community College ($336k), Communities in Schools of Appalachian Highlands ($294k), Family Crisis Support Services Inc ($245k).
- Does The Rapha Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Rapha Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Rapha Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Richard & Leslie Gilliam Foundation, The United Company Foundation, Speedway Children's Charities.
- Where is The Rapha Foundation based?
- The Rapha Foundation is based in VA.
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