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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.

$196k
Granted FY2023
9
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$37k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2023.

Public Safety & Disaster$279kEducation$269kHuman Services$259kCrime & Legal$94kHealth$68kEnvironment$40kCivil Rights$35kFood & Nutrition$26kOther$0
02FY2023 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $152,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $195,828 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $43,328 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 · FY2023

  • Under $10k3 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $131k
$12,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$166k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ROCKBRIDGE AREA RELIEF ASSOCIATION: $53k → 12%ROCKBRIDGE AREA RELIEF ASSOCIATION: $40k → 12%ROCKBRIDGE AREA RELIEF ASSOCIATION: $38k → 12%ROCKBRIDGE AREA RELIEF ASSOCIATION: $38k → 12%ROCKBRIDGE AREA RELIEF ASSOCIATION: $38k → 12%ROCKBRIDGE AREA RELIEF ASSOCIATION: $37k → 12%ROCKBRIDGE AREA RELIEF ASSOCIATION: $36k → 12%YELLOW BRICK ROAD CHILDCARE SERVICES: $35k → 12%YELLOW BRICK ROAD CHILD CARE CENTER: $35k → 12%YELLOW BRICK ROAD CHILDCARE SERVICES: $30k → 12%YELLOW BRICK ROAD CHILDCARE SERVICES: $30k → 12%YELLOW BRICK ROAD CHILD CARE CENTER: $30k → 12%YELLOW BRICK ROAD CHILDCARE SERVICES: $29k → 12%YELLOW BRICK ROAD CHILD CARE CENTER: $23k → 12%ROCKBRIDGE AREA TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM: $14k → 12%ROCKBRIDGE AREA TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM: $10k → 12%ROCKBRIDGE AREA TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM: $9k → 12%ROCKBRIDGE AREA TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM: $7k → 12%ROCKBRIDGE AREA TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM: $7k → 12%ROCKBRIDGE AREA TRANSPORTATION SERVICES: $7k → 12%ROCKBRIDGE AREA TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM: $6k → 12%VALLEY PROGRAM FOR AGING SERVICES: $22k → 12%VALLEY PROGRAM FOR AGING SERVICES: $18k → 12%VALLEY PROGRAM FOR AGING SERVICES: $18k → 12%VALLEY PROGRAM FOR AGING SERVICES: $17k → 12%VALLEY PROGRAM FOR AGING SERVICES: $15k → 12%VALLEY PROGRAM FOR AGING SERVICES: $15k → 12%VALLEY PROGRAM FOR AGING SERVICES: $11k → 12%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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 12 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
3

Total granted

$1.1M
$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+99%
+138%

Still filing today

83%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesCrime & LegalHealthCivil RightsFood & NutritionEducationOther
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

  • RA
    ROCKBRIDGE AREA RELIEF ASSOCIATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $279k · revenue +167%
  • YB
    YELLOW BRICK ROAD EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $212k · revenue +99%
  • VP
    VALLEY PROGRAM FOR AGING SERVICES
    8× · 2017–2024 · $115k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • RC
    ROCKBRIDGE COUNTY SPCAgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +138%
  • CF
    CEDAR FOREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO
    one grant, 2020 · $9k
  • RA
    ROCKBRIDGE AREA OCCUPATIONAL CENTER INC
    one grant, 2017 · $8k
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
Rockbridge Christmas Basket Inc

Provide food & other holiday gifts to qualifying needy families in rockbridge county, lexington & buena vista, virginia

Human Services
2
Rockbridge Area Habitat for Humanity Inc

Provide affordable housing solutions for low-income families.

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3
Blue Ridge Health Center Inc

Community health center

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4
Blue Ridge Public Television Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
5
Rock River Center Inc

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.

—
6
Blue Ridge Education Center Inc

Provide academic services

Education
7
River Bend Transit

The agency provides transportation services for the elderly, disabled, and general public.

Public Benefit
8
Blue Ridge Independent Living Center Inc

Assist the disabled community

Human Services
9
Blue Ridge Hospice Inc

Blue ridge care delivers extraordinary care to improve life's journey

Human Services
10
Rouse-Brokenstraw Associates Corporation

Housing for low-income elderly tenants.

—
11
Rockbridge Area Hospice Inc

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.

Human Services
12
Rockingham Library Association

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,…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rockbridge Area Transportation System Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
11/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROCKBRIDGE AREA RELIEF ASSOCIATION INC: $278,857 · Human ServicesROCKBRIDGE AREA RELIEF ASSOCIATION INCYELLOW BRICK ROAD EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC: $211,800 · Human ServicesYELLOW BRICK ROAD EARLY LEARNING CENTER INCVALLEY PROGRAM FOR AGING SERVICES: $114,700 · Human ServicesVALLEY PROGRAM FOR AGING SERVICESROCKBRIDGE AREA TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM INC: $59,000 · Human ServicesROCKBRIDGE AREA TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM INCROCKBRIDGE AREA YMCA: $84,950 · OtherROCKBRIDGE AREA YMC…ROCKBRIDGE REGIONAL LIBRARY: $57,200 · OtherROCKBRIDGE REGIONAL…CEDAR FOREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO: $9,460 · OtherROCKBRIDGE AREA OCCUPATIONAL CENTER INC: $8,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY TABLE OF BUENA VISTA INC: $15,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY TABLE OF …Washington and Lee University: $10,500 · OtherWashington and Lee …BLUE RIDGE LEGAL SERVICES INC: $78,000 · Crime & LegalROCKBRIDGE AREA FREE CLINIC INC: $68,000 · HealthBLUE RIDGE CASA FOR CHILDREN INC: $51,000 · Civil RightsBOXERWOOD EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $40,062 · Arts & CultureROCKBRIDGE COUNTY SPCA: $15,062 · Animals
Human Services$664,357Other$185,110Crime & Legal$78,000Health$68,000Civil Rights$51,000Arts & Culture$40,062Animals$15,062

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetROCKBRIDGE AREA RELIEF ASSOCIATION INC: $278,857 over 8y, 15% of budgetYELLOW BRICK ROAD EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC: $211,800 over 8y, 4.2% of budgetVALLEY PROGRAM FOR AGING SERVICES: $114,700 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetBLUE RIDGE LEGAL SERVICES INC: $78,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetROCKBRIDGE AREA FREE CLINIC INC: $68,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetROCKBRIDGE AREA TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM INC: $59,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetBLUE RIDGE CASA FOR CHILDREN INC: $51,000 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetBOXERWOOD EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $40,062 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetROCKBRIDGE COUNTY SPCA: $15,062 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetWashington and Lee University: $10,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROCKBRIDGE AREA OCCUPATIONAL CENTER INC: $8,000 over 1y, 3.4% 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 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 ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Carilion Rockbridge C…Washington and Lee Un…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation for RockbridgeBath & AlleghVA24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 United Way of Rockbridge Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Rockbridge Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to United Way of Rockbridge Inc?

    Find your warmest path to United Way of Rockbridge Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 15 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $101k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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