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Velma F Dulaney Foundation at a glance

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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.

$105k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$130kHealth$103kArts & Culture$100kCrime & Legal$95kEmployment$79kEnvironment$20kCommunity Improvement$15kYouth Development$12kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%LOVABLE SERVICES INC: $51k → 8%LOVABLE SERVICES INC: $28k → 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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$397k · 7 repeat orgs$142k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
6

Total granted

$397k
$122k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+38%

Still filing today

86%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesCrime & LegalHealthHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • BR
    BLUE RIDGE LITERACY
    2× · 2021–2025 · $100k · revenue +107% · 28% of their budget
  • BF
    BRADLEY FREE CLINIC OF ROANOKE VALLEY INC
    2× · 2020–2024 · $43k · revenue +63%
  • CC
    Carilion Clinic Foundation
    2× · 2023–2024 · $35k · revenue +114%

Funded once

  • TL
    The Legal Aid Society of Roanoke Valleygraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $45k · revenue +38%
  • SV
    ST VINCENT'S HOME
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -55%
  • OV
    ONE VALLEY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
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
Roanoke Symphony Orchestra

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…

Arts & Culture
2
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
3
Virginia Voice Inc

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.

Human Services
4
Roanoke Area Ministries

To serve the indigent.

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5
Voices for Virginia's Children

The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.

Civil Rights
6
Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities

VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.

Civil Rights
7
Virginia Opera Association Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
8
Virginia Legal Aid Society Inc

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.

Crime & Legal
9
Roanoke Regional Chamber of Commerce

The Chamber is a Business Advocate for the Roanoke Region.

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10
Roane County Family Health Care Inc

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.

Health
11
Richmond Shakespeare Fka Quill Theatre

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.

Arts & Culture
12
Vcu Investment Management Company

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Carilion Clinic Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 16 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
7/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Legal Aid Society of Roanoke Valley: $45,000 · OtherThe Legal Aid Society of Roanoke…BRADLEY FREE CLINIC OF ROANOKE VALLEY INC: $43,000 · OtherBRADLEY FREE CLINIC OF ROANOKE V…ST VINCENT'S HOME: $25,000 · OtherST VINCENT'S HOMEONE VALLEY INC: $20,000 · OtherONE VALLEY INCIVIES INCORPORATED OF THE ROANOKE VALLEY: $15,000 · OtherIVIES INCORPORATED OF THE ROANOK…VIRGINIA WESTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOU: $10,000 · OtherVIRGINIA WESTERN COMMUNITY COLLE…BLUE RIDGE LITERACY: $100,000 · EducationBLUE RIDGE LITERACYVIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · EducationVIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION…OPERA ROANOKE: $55,000 · Arts & CultureOPERA ROANOKEJEFFERSON CENTER FOUNDATION LTD: $35,000 · Arts & CultureJEFFERSON CENTER FOU…ROANOKE CULTURAL ENDOWMENT: $10,000 · Arts & CultureROANOKE CULTURAL END…LOVABLE SERVICES INC: $79,000 · Human ServicesLOVABLE SERVICES…CHILDREN'S TRUST FOUNDATION ROANOKE VALLEY INC: $50,000 · Crime & LegalCHILDREN'S…Carilion Clinic Foundation: $35,000 · HealthSTRAIGHT STREET ROANOKE VALLEY INC: $12,000 · Youth DevelopmentSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $5,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$158,000Education$120,000Arts & Culture$100,000Human Services$79,000Crime & Legal$50,000Health$35,000Youth Development$12,000Housing & Shelter$5,000

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 budgetBLUE RIDGE LITERACY: $100,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetOPERA ROANOKE: $55,000 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S TRUST FOUNDATION ROANOKE VALLEY INC: $50,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetThe Legal Aid Society of Roanoke Valley: $45,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetBRADLEY FREE CLINIC OF ROANOKE VALLEY INC: $43,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCarilion Clinic Foundation: $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJEFFERSON CENTER FOUNDATION LTD: $35,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetST VINCENT'S HOME: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTRAIGHT STREET ROANOKE VALLEY INC: $12,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $5,000 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.

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 Medical Cent…Plymale Private Found…Sam & Marion Golden H…Edgar a Thurman Fdn C…The Ceres Foundation …Ge Aerospace Foundati…The Allstate Foundati…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation Serving Western VirginiaVA28.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Velma F Dulaney Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Velma F Dulaney Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 16 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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