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Tr John C Echols Memorial Fund at a glance

· Private foundation

Tr John C Echols Memorial Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$14k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Religion$25kEducation$23kHuman Services$20kFood & Nutrition$16kHousing & Shelter$10kAnimals$9kHealth$200Other$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$255k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MEALS ON WHEELS OF GTR LYNCHBURG AREA$2,500
JAMES RIVER DAY SCHOOL$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$2,000
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$2,000
LYNCHBURG HUMANE SOCIETY$1,500
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$1,500
FRIENDS OF THE LYNCHBURG PUBLIC LIBRARY$500
02The need
03

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 (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%TUSCULUM COLLEGE: $300 → 17%WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $200 → 15%THE SALVATION ARMY: $4k → 14%COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES: $300 → 7%VIRGINIA CONGRESS OF PARENTS: $2k → 6%FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $5k → 8%ST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURC: $400 → 12%THE SALVATION ARMY: $3k → 13%LYNCHBURG HUMANE SOCIETY: $2k → 20%THE SALVATION ARMY: $2k → 14%FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $4k → 8%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $2k → 13%LYNCHBURG HUMANE SOCIETY: $2k → 20%THE SALVATION ARMY: $2k → 14%FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $3k → 8%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $2k → 13%LYNCHBURG HUMANE SOCIETY: $2k → 20%FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $3k → 8%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $2k → 13%LYNCHBURG HUMANE SOCIETY: $2k → 20%FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $3k → 8%FRIENDS OF THE LYNCHBURG PUBLIC LIBRARY: $500 → 13%LYNCHBURG HUMANE SOCIETY: $1k → 20%FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $3k → 8%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $2k → 13%LYNCHBURG HUMANE SOCIETY: $1k → 20%PAUL MUNRO ELEMENTARY: $3k → 8%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $2k → 13%LYNCHBURG HUMANE SOCIETY: $1k → 20%JAMES RIVER DAY SCHOOL: $2k → 8%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $1k → 13%JAMES RIVER DAY SCHOOL: $2k → 8%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $500 → 13%FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $2k → 8%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $500 → 13%JAMES RIVER DAY SCHOOL: $2k → 8%JAMES RIVER DAY SCHOOL: $2k → 8%JAMES RIVER DAY SCHOOL: $2k → 8%JAMES RIVER DAY SCHOOL: $2k → 8%FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $2k → 8%PAUL MUNRO ELEMENTARY: $2k → 8%JAMES RIVER DAY SCHOOL: $2k → 8%PAUL MUNRO ELEMENTARY: $2k → 8%PAUL MUNRO ELEM SCHOOL: $2k → 8%PAUL MUNRO ELEM SCHOOL: $1k → 8%PAUL MUNRO ELEM SCHOOL: $1k → 8%JAMES RIVER DAY SCHOOL: $1k → 8%PAUL MUNRO ELEM SCHOOL: $500 → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$104k · 10 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +172% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
8

Total granted

$104k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+172%
+11%

Still filing today

40%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationAnimalsHealthOther
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

  • JR
    JAMES RIVER DAY SCHOOL INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $15k · revenue +21%
  • TH
    TRI-RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $10k · revenue +775%
  • LH
    LYNCHBURG HUMANE SOCIETY INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $9k · revenue +172%

Funded once

  • SE
    Stafford Elementary PTA
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue -2%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
    one grant, 2018 · $600
  • SJ
    ST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURC
    one grant, 2018 · $400
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.

1
University of Lynchburg

The mission of the University is to inspire independent thinkers who become trustworthy, effective leaders that shape caring communities. The vision of the University of Lynchburg is to cultivate a world that is innovative, authentic, and…

Education
2
Hampden-Sydney College

Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.

Education
3
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
4
Roanoke College

Roanoke College develops students as whole persons and prepares them for responsible lives of learning, service, and leadership by promoting their intellectual, ethical, spiritual and personal growth.

Education
5
Eastern Mennonite University

A leader among faith-based universities Eastern Mennonite University emphasizes peace-building creation care experiential learning and intercultural engagement. Founded in 1917 in Harrisonburg Virginia EMU is an educational institution of…

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6
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
7
Roger Williams University School of Law

The only law school in Rhode Island, Roger Williams University School of Law offers future attorneys a rigorous, hands-on legal education in a supportive, personalized environment. Preparing students for success in the public and private…

Education
8
Union Institute & University

Union Institute & University educates highly motivated adults who seek academic programs to engage, enlighten, and empower them to pursue professional goals and a lifetime of learning and service. Offering accredited bachelors, masters,…

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9
Washington and Lee University

Mission statement of washington and lee university: washington and lee university provides a liberal arts education that develops students' capacity to think freely, critically, and humanely and to conduct themselves with honor, integrity,…

Education
10
Franklin University

Since 1902, Franklin University has been a pioneer in meeting the needs of adult students who have the ambition to continue their education in combination with other responsibilities, receiving its status as a tax exempt organization in…

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11
Daemen University

Private, independent university providing higher education to students. The mission of Daemen University is to prepare creative, ethically-minded leaders for a diverse and interconnected world by integrating the intellectual strengths…

Education
12
Washington University of Virginia

Provides seminary, under-graduate, graduate, doctoral, and other continuing education programs

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Carilion Rockbridge Community Hospital; the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. 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

9 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. 9 of the 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $24,400 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHJAMES RIVER DAY SCHOOL INC: $15,000 · OtherJAMES RIVER DAY SCHOOL INCTHE SALVATION ARMY: $12,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYTRI-RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $9,600 · OtherTRI-RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $8,500 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS INCTHE SALVATION ARMY: $7,500 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYMEALS ON WHEELS OF GTR LYNCHBURG AREA: $7,000 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS OF GTR LYNCHBURG AREAIndividual grant recipient: $6,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPAUL MUNRO ELEM SCHOOL: $4,000 · Other+5 more: $3,800 · OtherLYNCHBURG HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $9,000 · AnimalsLYNCHBURG…TUSCULUM UNIVERSITY: $300 · EducationVMI Foundation: $300 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $200 · EducationCarilion Rockbridge Community Hospital: $200 · Health
Other$98,300Animals$9,000Education$800Health$200

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJAMES RIVER DAY SCHOOL INC: $15,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTRI-RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $9,600 over 8y, 15% of budgetLYNCHBURG HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $9,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $8,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTUSCULUM UNIVERSITY: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVMI Foundation: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCarilion Rockbridge Community Hospital: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 JAMES RIVER DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds TRI-RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
  • Who funds LYNCHBURG HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
  • Who funds Stafford Elementary PTA ↗
  • Who funds TUSCULUM UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds VMI Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Carilion Rockbridge Community Hospital ↗
  • Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗

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.

The Blackbaud Giving …Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Blackbaud Giving FundSC10.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Tr John C Echols Memorial Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tr John C Echols Memorial Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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