· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k30 grants · $652k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER (MEOC) | $155,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS | $150,000 |
| MOUNTAIN EMPIRE COMM COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| FAMILY CRISIS SUPPORT SERVICES | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF SWVA | $100,000 |
| VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION | $87,140 |
| MOUNTAIN EMPIRE COMM COLLEGE | $75,000 |
| WISE COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $55,000 |
| COEBURN MIDDLE SCHOOL | $51,000 |
| NORTON COMMUNITY HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| MOUNTAIN EMPIRE OLDER CITIZENS | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| WISE CO FOOD BANK | $40,000 |
| LONESOME PINE OFFICE ON YOUTH | $35,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $140k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 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 +146% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 28 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, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
- CICOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF APPALACHIAN HIGHLANDS3× · 2022–2024 · $294k · revenue +320%
- FCFAMILY CRISIS SUPPORT SERVICES INC4× · 2021–2025 · $245k · revenue +146%
- NHNAPOLEON HILL FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2025 · $75k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $175k
- SMST MARYS HEALTH WAGON INCone grant, 2023 · $57k · revenue 0%
- ACAPPALACHIAN COUNCIL FOR INNOVATIONone grant, 2022 · $33k
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.
Preparing students spiritually, academically, in accordance with their God-given potential to be equipped to stand firm for their beliefs and handle life with boldness
Emergency medical treatment
To engage and unite virginians to improve our natural and scenic environment
Promotion of heathly living in the north central west virginia area
To provide strong academic training. This is the primary focus of the organization and will be conducted 100% of the time.
Education assistance
The williams school builds with each child the foundation for academic, moral and social success. a williams school student embodies confidence, integrity and a love of learning.
New schools for virginia works with parents, students, educators and the community to improve educational outcomes by designing new schools and by supporting existing schools to improve outcomes.
To provide quality ambulance service to the residents of marion county, west virginia.
Cis mission is to surround students with a community of support empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life
Provide shelter, care, and treatment to homeless animals in the city of portsmouth community through permanent adoptions, spay/neuter programs, and community education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mountain Empire Older Citizens Inc and the most unlike its peers is Napoleon Hill Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 93 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 COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF APPALACHIAN HIGHLANDS ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CRISIS SUPPORT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN EMPIRE OLDER CITIZENS INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NAPOLEON HILL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DICKENSON COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ST MARYS HEALTH WAGON INC ↗
- Who funds WISE COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
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 Richard & Leslie Gilliam Foundation · The United Company Foundation · Speedway Children's Charities · The Columbus Phipps Foundation · The Genan Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Rapha 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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