How much did THE VIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY grant in FY2023?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 63% of THE VIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

expectations ruralhorseshoe workforceexpectations workforce

2020

great expectationexpectations ruralhorseshoe workforce

2021

emergency greatstudent emergencyemergency workforcemellonexpectations ruralhorseshoe workforceexpectations workforce

2022

hunger reliefrelief ruralrelief workforcemellonhorseshoe workforceexpectations workforce

2023

horseshoe iniativeiniative studentstudent emergencycapsemergency workforceexpectations studentmellon

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k3 grants · $28k
$10k–50k15 grants · $411k
$50k–250k13 grants · $1.1M
$250k+1 grant · $306k

$47,502

Median grant

States reached

$15M

Total assets

Largest grants

BRIGHTPOINT COMMUNITY COLLEGE$306,395
VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM$196,099
J SARGEANT REYNOLDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE$159,354
SOUTHSIDE VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$111,364
RAPPAHANNOCK COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$90,295
EASTERN SHORE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$84,005
SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$72,051
VIRGINIA HIGHLANDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$67,500
MOUNTAIN EMPIRE COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$67,195
PATRICK HENRY COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION$51,451
GERMANNA COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$50,000
CENTRAL VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE$50,000
NEW RIVER COMMUNITY COLLEGE$50,000
TIDEWATER COMMUNITY COLLEGE$50,000
NEW RIVER COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$49,412

02The need

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 8%. 75% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$9.0M · 41 repeat orgs$122k to everyone else

41 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2023, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$9.0M

$103k

Still filing today

51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationPhilanthropyOther

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

PH
PATRICK HENRY COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION
6× · 2018–2023 · $474k · revenue +116%
SV
SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
5× · 2018–2023 · $425k · revenue +26%
BR
BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
6× · 2018–2023 · $415k · revenue +192%

Funded once

VW
VIRGINIA WESTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE
one grant, 2020 · $82k
DC
DANVILLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
one grant, 2019 · $8k
ES
EASTERN SHORE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
one grant, 2018 · $7k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Central Virginia Community College

To provide for scholarships, faculty & staff development and instructor equipment

Education

West Virginia Northern Community College

West virginia northern community college foundation seeks, receives and manages private funds to increase west virginia northern community college's capabilities in the areas of institutional development, professional development, capital…

Education

Everett Community College Foundation

To assist in making available accessible learning opportunities for everyone.

Education

The Virginia College Fund

Solicitation of public contributions on behalf of member colleges. provides foundations, businesses, and individuals a convenient way of supporting small colleges and universities in virginia.

Education

Whatcom Community College Foundation

Promote, support, develop, increase, and extend the educational offerings of whatcom community college.

Education

The Vance-Granville Community College

Vance-Granville Community College Foundation, Inc., purpose is to receive contributions and to use such contributions to provide funds to Vance-Granville Community College to be used to acquire or purchase real or personal property, to pay…

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Hudson Valley Community College

Supporting the mission, the students, and the alumni of the hudson valley community college.

Education

Flathead Valley Community College

Assist the flathead valley community college with fundraising and scholarships

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Jefferson Community College

The mission of the jefferson community college foundation is to work in partnership with the college, the community and alumni to enhance the educational opportunities provided by the college.

Education

Northeast State Community College

The northeast state community college foundation promotes and supports academic and educational scholarship, community service, and other programs offered by the college in an effort to provide the resources necessary for students to have…

Education

Baltimore City Community College

To advance the mission of bccc by strengthening philanthropic giving to the college.

Philanthropy

Greenfield Community College Foundation

Educational endowment fund supporting greenfield community college and its students.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Virginia Western Community College and the most unlike its peers is Rappahannock Community College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

21/21

Grantees still filing

16/21

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$5,737,698Education$2,140,508Philanthropy$1,290,165

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.

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.

Sentara HealthVA17.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sentara Health · Old Dominion University Research · American Association of Community · Delta Dental of Virginia Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · Hampton Roads Community Foundation · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 organisation THE VIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SOUTHSIDE VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~14 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.1× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 521238450 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on SOUTHSIDE VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 14 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 14% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Virginia Foundation for Community?

Find your warmest path to The Virginia Foundation for Community through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE VIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Virginia Foundation for Community?

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THE VIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Virginia Foundation for Community?

More from the funding graph