· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF SWVA | $100,000 |
| MOUNTAIN EMPIRE COMM COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| FAMILY CRISIS SUPPORT SERVICES | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION | $87,140 |
| MOUNTAIN EMPIRE COMM COLLEGE | $75,000 |
| WISE COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $55,000 |
| COEBURN MIDDLE SCHOOL | $51,000 |
| MOUNTAIN EMPIRE OLDER CITIZENS | $50,000 |
| NORTON COMMUNITY HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| WISE CO FOOD BANK | $40,000 |
| LONESOME PINE OFFICE ON YOUTH | $35,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +146% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 93 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 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 ↗
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 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Rapha Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Rapha Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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