· Private foundation
Velma F Dulaney Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BLUE RIDGE LITERACY | $50,000 |
| VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC | $20,000 |
| JEFFERSON CENTER FOUNDATION LTD | $15,000 |
| VIRGINIA WESTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOU | $10,000 |
| ROANOKE CULTURAL ENDOWMENT | $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 (FY22–23, $79k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
7 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- BRBLUE RIDGE LITERACY2× · 2021–2025 · $100k · revenue +107% · 28% of their budget
- BFBRADLEY FREE CLINIC OF ROANOKE VALLEY INC2× · 2020–2024 · $43k · revenue +63%
- CCCarilion Clinic Foundation2× · 2023–2024 · $35k · revenue +82%
Funded once
- TLThe Legal Aid Society of Roanoke Valleygraduatedone grant, 2021 · $45k · revenue +38%
- SVST VINCENT'S HOMEone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -55%
- OVONE VALLEY INCone grant, 2022 · $20k
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.
The Roanoke Symphony Orchestra provides a professional symphony orchestra of artistic excellence and integrity to enrich lives, to educate, and to entertain diverse audiences in western Virginia with the highest quality instrumental and…
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.
Virginia Voice is a non-profit audio reading and information service for individuals who are unable to read for themselves because of blindness, low vision, or other disabilities.
To serve the indigent.
The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.
VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.
The virginia opera association, inc. works to attract, educate, develop and engage a diverse base of audiences, volunteers and professionals through the promotion and production of quality performances in the commonwealth of virginia.
The mission of Virginia Legal Aid Society is to resolve serious legal problems of low-income people, promote economic and family stability, reduce poverty through effective legal assistance, and to champion equal justice.
The Chamber is a Business Advocate for the Roanoke Region.
The mission of roane family health care is to exceed the quality of care that our patients deserve and expect while surpassing community needs through innovative technology.
We produce vital works of classical and contemporary theatre, with Shakespeare as our foundation. We approach this work boldly with a resolve to ignite spirits, educate minds and defy expectation.
To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Carilion Clinic Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Lovable Services Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 16 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 BLUE RIDGE LITERACY ↗
- Who funds LOVABLE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds OPERA ROANOKE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S TRUST FOUNDATION ROANOKE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds The Legal Aid Society of Roanoke Valley ↗
- Who funds BRADLEY FREE CLINIC OF ROANOKE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds Carilion Clinic Foundation ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON CENTER FOUNDATION LTD ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT'S HOME ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STRAIGHT STREET ROANOKE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds ROANOKE CULTURAL ENDOWMENT ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE 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 Serving Western Virginia · Carilion Medical Center · Plymale Private Foundation · Sam & Marion Golden Helping Hand Foundation · Edgar a Thurman Fdn Children Nect · The Ceres Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Allstate Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Velma F Dulaney Foundation 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.