· Public charity
United Way of Rockbridge Inc
To take a leadership role in improving the quality of life of people in rockbridge county, virginia by assessing needs, raising and allocating funds, and ensuring the appropriate use of those resources.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $152,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $195,828 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $43,328 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k3 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $131k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROCKBRIDGE AREA RELIEF ASSOCIATION | $36,500 |
| YELLOW BRICK ROAD CHILDCARE SERVICES | $35,000 |
| VALLEY PROGRAM FOR AGING SERVICES | $22,000 |
| ROCKBRIDGE AREA YMCA | $15,000 |
| BLUE RIDGE LEGAL SERVICES | $12,500 |
| ROCKBRIDGE AREA TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM | $10,000 |
| BLUE RIDGE CASA FOR CHILDREN | $8,000 |
| ROCKBRIDGE REGIONIAL LIBRARY | $7,500 |
| BOXERWOOD EDUCATIONAL CENTER | $6,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $664k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
12 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2023, 3 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 FY2023, 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
- RAROCKBRIDGE AREA RELIEF ASSOCIATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $279k · revenue +167%
- YBYELLOW BRICK ROAD EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $212k · revenue +99%
- VPVALLEY PROGRAM FOR AGING SERVICES8× · 2017–2024 · $115k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- RCROCKBRIDGE COUNTY SPCAgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +138%
- CFCEDAR FOREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTOone grant, 2020 · $9k
- RAROCKBRIDGE AREA OCCUPATIONAL CENTER INCone grant, 2017 · $8k
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.
Provide food & other holiday gifts to qualifying needy families in rockbridge county, lexington & buena vista, virginia
Provide affordable housing solutions for low-income families.
Community health center
To establish, equip, operate and maintain a noncommercial, education public communication system and to engage in all public telecommunication activities by any current or future technology.
To provide resources, activities and services that improve the quality of life for ogle county's older adults, the disadvantaged, caregivers and the greater community.
Provide academic services
The agency provides transportation services for the elderly, disabled, and general public.
Assist the disabled community
Blue ridge care delivers extraordinary care to improve life's journey
Housing for low-income elderly tenants.
We provide compassionate care and comfort to our neighbors living with serious illness so they and their families can enjoy life as long as possible.
To be an engaged community partner providing programs and services that bring people together, foster creativity, and encourage lifelong learning. mrl strives to be the welcoming heart of our community where all come to learn, discover,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rockbridge Area Transportation System Inc and the most unlike its peers is Washington and Lee University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 15 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 ROCKBRIDGE AREA RELIEF ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds YELLOW BRICK ROAD EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY PROGRAM FOR AGING SERVICES ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKBRIDGE AREA FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKBRIDGE AREA TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE CASA FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds BOXERWOOD EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ROCKBRIDGE COUNTY SPCA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY TABLE OF BUENA VISTA INC ↗
- Who funds Washington and Lee University ↗
- Who funds ROCKBRIDGE AREA OCCUPATIONAL CENTER INC ↗
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: Community Foundation for RockbridgeBath & Allegh · Carilion Rockbridge Community Hospital · Washington and Lee University · American Endowment Foundation · 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 organization United Way of Rockbridge 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.
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