· Private foundation
The Slemp Foundation
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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k243 grants · $347k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $301k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $390k
- $250k+1 grant · $275k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF THE SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA MUSEUM HISTORICA | $275,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIAS COLLEGE AT WISE FOUNDA | $200,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIAS COLLEGE AT WISE FOUNDA | $100,000 |
| PRO-ART ASSOCIATION A CHAPTER OF THE VIRGINIA MUSE | $90,000 |
| WILLIAM KING MUSEUM OF ART | $38,500 |
| VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC | $35,000 |
| SYMPHONY OF THE MOUNTAINS | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $26,000 |
| MOUNTAIN EMPIRE OLDER CITIZENS INC | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA MUSEUM HISTORICA | $20,000 |
| PRO-ART ASSOCIATION A CHAPTER OF THE VIRGINIA MUSE | $18,000 |
| VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC | $18,000 |
| DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA MUSEUM HISTORICAL STATE PARK | $10,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
106 repeat relationships — 83 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 161 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $281k 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
- PAPRO ART ASSOCIATION4× · 2021–2025 · $368k · revenue +69% · 30% of their budget
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA'S COLLEGE AT WISE FOUNDATION INC2× · 2024–2025 · $340k · revenue +185%
- MEMOUNTAIN EMPIRE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $210k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- FOFriends of the Southwest VA Museum Hist State Parkone grant, 2023 · $295k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $274k
- UOUniversity of Virginia's College at Wise Fdone grant, 2023 · $240k
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 mission of the southeast volusia county historical society is to collect and exhibit objects and documents related to the history of southeast volusia county, with particular emphasis on the settlement in 1768 and seeks to promote…
Education assistance
The Roanoke Symphony Orchestra provides a professional symphony orchestra of artistic excellence and integrity to enrich lives, to educate, and to entertain diverse audiences in western Virginia with the highest quality instrumental and…
Honor those we serve by delivering the best possible care.Ballad Health is dedicated to improving the health of the 29-county Appalachian Highlands region.
Honor those we serve by delivering the best possible care.Ballad Health is dedicated to improving the health of the 29-county Appalachian Highlands region.
The organization's activities are centered around promoting the area in order to attract new business and tourism. all residents of the service area benefit from the activities of the organization.
The suffolk art league is a statewide partner of the virginia musuem of fine arts, richmond and was established 1.) to function as a community oriented fine arts organization and 2) to assist the virginia museum in fulfilling its…
Honor those we serve by delivering the best possible care.Ballad Health is dedicated to improving the health of the 29-county Appalachian Highlands region.
The mission of the edward via college of osteopathic medicine (vcom) is to prepare globally-minded, community-focused physicians to meet the needs of rural and medically underserved populations and promote research to improve human health.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mountain Empire Community College Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Project Soldiers & Skins. 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 33 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 397 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 PRO ART ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA'S COLLEGE AT WISE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN EMPIRE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM KING MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds Lonesome Pine Arts & Crafts Inc ↗
- Who funds SYMPHONY OF THE MOUNTAINS ↗
- Who funds STICKLEYVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN EMPIRE OLDER CITIZENS INC ↗
- Who funds STICKLEYVILLE SCHOOL COMMUNITY CENTER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ORIGIN PROJECT INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Boy Scouts of America Council 713 Sequoyah ↗
- Who funds THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN COMMUNITY ACTION & DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds DEPAUL COMMUNITY RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds Wise County Humane Society ↗
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 Genan Foundation · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · The Richard & Leslie Gilliam Foundation · Food City Charitable Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Slemp 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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