Which funders back the same organizations as The Virginia Foundation for Community College Education Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Virginia Early Childhood Foundation, Achieving the Dream Inc, Shentel Foundation.

The Virginia Foundation for Community College Education Inc

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· Public charity

The Virginia Foundation for Community College Education Inc

Q: What does The Virginia Foundation for Community College Education Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (63%), Employment (29%), Philanthropy (5%).

Q: Who are The Virginia Foundation for Community College Education Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: John Tyler Community College ($1.3M), Virginia Community College System ($1.2M), J Sargeant Reynolds Community College ($1.1M).

Q: Does The Virginia Foundation for Community College Education Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

The virginia foundation for community college education (vfcce) mission is building student success and the commonwealth's future by supporting virginia's community colleges.

$6.2M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$536k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$11MEmployment$5.0MPhilanthropy$931kRecreation & Sports$161kAnimals$159kPublic Safety & Disaster$154kFood & Nutrition$50k

02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 39 grants below total $4,152,663, the rows itemized in this filing. The $6,163,892 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,011,229 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k2 grants · $15k
$10k–50k14 grants · $308k
$50k–250k18 grants · $1.9M
$250k+5 grants · $2.0M

$77,674

Median grant

States reached

$17M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
LAUREL RIDGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION	$536,420
VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM	$401,042
WYTHEVILLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION	$379,836
BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION	$349,620
MOUNTAIN GATEWAY COMMUNITY COLLEGE REAL ESTATE FOUNDATION	$300,000
SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION	$175,675
TIDEWATER COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION	$155,450
BRIGHTPOINT COMMUNITY COLLEGE	$153,227
TIDEWATER COMMUNITY COLLEGE	$130,325
PAUL D CAMP COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION	$129,259
VIRGINIA WESTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION	$115,112
NEW RIVER COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION	$111,879
VIRGINIA HIGHLANDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION	$102,500
J SARGEANT REYNOLDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE	$96,274
MOUNTAIN GATEWAY COMMUNITY COLLEGE	$92,842

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 75% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

How this is measured

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.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$17M · 48 repeat orgs$306k to everyone else

48 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$17M

$6k

Still filing today

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationPhilanthropyOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

BR
BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $981k · revenue +111%
LR
LAUREL RIDGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC
7× · 2019–2025 · $908k · revenue +76%
PH
PATRICK & HENRY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
9× · 2017–2025 · $764k · revenue +126%

Funded once

RC
RAPPAHANNOCK COMMUNITY COLLEGE
one grant, 2020 · $6k

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.

04Its field

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.

West Virginia Northern Community College Foundation Inc

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

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

The Vance-Granville Community College Foundation Inc

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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Beaufort County Community College Foundation Inc

Provides scholarships for beaufort county community college students.

Education

Rainy River Community College Foundation

Investing in student success and our communitys future through scholarships and college development

Education

Montgomery Community College Foundation Inc

The purpose of the foundation is to foster public understanding and support for montgomery community college, and to solicit and promote donations of any kind for the exclusive use of montgomery community college.

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Johnston Community College Foundation Inc

The mission of the johnston community college foundation is to build partnerships and resources to enhance educational opportunities.

Education

The Foundation for Florida Gateway College Inc

The foundation provides academic scholarships and financial support to the college.

Education

Jefferson Community College Foundation Inc

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

Flathead Valley Community College Foundation Inc

Assist the flathead valley community college with fundraising and scholarships.

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Hudson Valley Community College Foundation

To receive and maintain funds to aid and advance the welfare, development, purposes and programs of hudson valley community college, its students and alumni.

Education

Greenfield Community College Foundation

Greenfield community college foundation supports greenfield community college (hereafter referred to as the college) by raising funds, developing resources and building philanthropic and community relationships to enhance programs and…

Philanthropy

How this is measured

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

04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 50 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

25/25

Grantees still filing

18/25

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$10,586,201Education$4,772,219Philanthropy$1,920,668

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.

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.

Virginia Early Childhood FoundationVA26.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Virginia Early Childhood Foundation · Achieving the Dream Inc · Shentel Foundation · Old Dominion University Research Foundation · Sentara Health · Delta Dental of Virginia Foundation · American Association of Community Colleges · Mid-Atlantic Broadband Communities Corporation · Centra Health Inc · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Folds of Honor Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Virginia Foundation for Community College Education Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Virginia Foundation for Community College Education Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home