· Private foundation
The Slemp Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $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 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $10,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
107 repeat relationships: 83 still active in FY2025, 24 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
How this is measured
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
- UOUNIV. OF VA COLLEGE AT WISE FDNone grant, 2021 · $240k
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.
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.
How this is measured
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 396 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 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 ↗
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 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Slemp Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Slemp Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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