· Public charity
United Way of Central Virginia Inc
United way of central virginia enhances the quality of life of our local community by improving access to healthcare, advancing education, promoting financial stability, and addressing basic human needs.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $395k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $277k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YWCA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA | $99,600 |
| BETHUNE NURSERY SCHOOL INC | $91,000 |
| CENTRAL VIRGINIA ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY LIVING | $86,275 |
| FREE CLINIC OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC | $47,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY CORPS | $42,000 |
| CASA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC | $42,000 |
| THE ARC OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA | $42,000 |
| LYNCHBURG COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP INC | $40,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS BLUE RIDGE CHAPTER | $36,667 |
| VIRGINIA LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC | $34,000 |
| YMCA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA | $28,500 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA | $27,200 |
| HUMANKIND (FAMILY ALLIANCE) | $26,000 |
| BEDFORD AREA FAMILY YMCA | $20,000 |
| JUBILEE FAMILY DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $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 (FY17–25, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% 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.
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.
26 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- YOYWCA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +12%
- BNBETHUNE NURSERY SCHOOL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $845k · revenue +85% · 32% of their budget
- CVCENTRAL VIRGINIA ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY LIVING INC9× · 2017–2025 · $712k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- H(HUMANKIND (FAMILY ALLIANCE)one grant, 2017 · $178k
- NHNEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS OF AMHERST COUNTY INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +58%
- ALAppomattox Literacy Intervention Projectone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
Provision of food for the needy
Provide homemaker and case management services to home-bound seniors and disabled members in west virginia. provide, also, training and job assistance to those 55 and older on a limited income.
The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.
Dlcv's mission is to advance independence, choice and self-determination; protect legal, human, and civil rights; and eliminate abuse, neglect and discrimination of people with disabilities through zealous and uncompromising legal advocacy…
Central virginia legal aid society (cvlas) provides free civil (non-criminal) legal assistance to low income people who have legal problem arising in the cities of richmond, petersburg, hopewell, colonial heights and charlottesville; and…
To provide food and other related products primarily to member agencies for distribution to those in need, and also for direct distribution.
Virginia poverty law center uses advocacy, education, and litigation to break down systemic barriers that keep low-income virginians in the cycle of poverty.
Providing life-enriching services that promote well-being and build community.
Our mission is to provide an accessible, safe, and nurturing environment in which school-aged children learn, grow, and play to promote the development of the whole child.
Provide services to individuals with disabilities to enable them to become fully integrated into society and achieve personal independence.
The establishment and operation of a child learning/daycare facility for the use, benefit, and general welfare of the children of rappahannock county, virginia.
To advocate for low-income, vulnerable west virginians seeking equal access to justice and create system change in order to improve client safety, health, housing, income, and access to resources.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Virginia Alliance for Community Living Inc and the most unlike its peers is Neighbors Helping Neighbors of Amherst County Inc. 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 48 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 30 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
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 YWCA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds BETHUNE NURSERY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL VIRGINIA ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds FREE CLINIC OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds LYNCHBURG COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP I GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN HOMES & FAMILY SVCS ↗
- Who funds CASA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL VA ↗
- Who funds Virginia Legal Aid Society Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds BEDFORD AREA FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds ADULT CARE CENTER OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE FAMILY DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds ALTAVISTA AREA CAMPBELL COUNTY FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICABLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds LYNCHBURG SHELTERED INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds PARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds CAMPBELL COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds DAWN INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS OF AMHERST COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF VIRGINIA SKYLINE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Appomattox Literacy Intervention Project ↗
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: Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation · Centra Health Inc · The Al Stroobants Foundation · Easley Char Irr Tua 5019004715 · Bedford Community Health Foundation · Schewel Charitable Foundation · Foster Foundation · Centra Health Foundation · Bethea S Owen Irr Charitable Tr · Walter Payne Foundation · The Imperial Charitable Trust · M4k Lynchburg Inc
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 United Way of Central Virginia Inc 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.