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Virgil L Frantz Charitable Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$40k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
42
Grants FY2024
39
Organizations funded FY2023
5%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$200
Largest grant, FY2024
$6,000
Organizations funded a year
39 to 54
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
18
Total assets, FY2024
$126k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 5% of the organizations Virgil L Frantz Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
PhilanthropyAnimalsEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving42$40k7%
FY202339$46k5%
FY202241$44k5%
FY202141$48k10%
FY202054$60kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$76kReligion$68kAnimals$23kCivil Rights$22kInternational$15kHuman Services$7kEducation$5kPhilanthropy$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
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IL
NY
MA
SD
OH
PA
CA
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
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NC
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Grace to You$16,4005n/a
Samaritan's Purse$14,42550%
Care Net$10,90050%
Prolife Across America$10,90050%
Good Samaritan Hospice Inc$9,40050%
The Shriners' Hospital for Children$9,40050%
Thomas Road Baptist Church$6,5005n/a
Cav Futures Foundation$5,00010%
Zola Levitt Ministries Inc$4,40050%
VMI Foundation$2,00010%
Show all 41 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($127k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Virgil L Frantz Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSamaritan's Purse: $14,425 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCare Net: $10,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetProlife Across America: $10,900 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGood Samaritan Hospice Inc: $9,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Shriners' Hospital for Children: $9,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCav Futures Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetZola Levitt Ministries Inc: $4,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVMI Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRoanoke Valley Horse Rescue Inc: $1,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Bible Society: $1,425 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $1,275 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetParalyzed Veterans of America: $1,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLifesong for Orphans Inc: $1,025 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House Global: $1,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLiberty University Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPaws for Purple Hearts: $950 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBlue Ridge Parkway Foundation: $900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGuiding Eyes for the Blind Inc: $800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNational Parks Conservation Association: $700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetArthritis Foundation Inc: $700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetChristian Appalachian Project Inc: $600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Lung Association: $600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $550 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVested Interest in K9s Inc: $450 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Kidney Fund Inc: $400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEaster Seals Inc: $350 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSaint Francis Service Dogs: $325 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Ability Experience: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Park Foundation: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Institute for Cancer Research: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPaws of Honor Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 36.

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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 Serving Western VirginiaVA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia · Verizon Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

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About Virgil L Frantz Charitable Trust

How much does Virgil L Frantz Charitable Trust give?
Virgil L Frantz Charitable Trust reported 42 grants totaling $39,850 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 39 and 54 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Virgil L Frantz Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (32%), Religion (29%), Animals (10%).
Who are Virgil L Frantz Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Grace to You ($16k), Samaritan's Purse ($14k), Care Net ($11k).
Does Virgil L Frantz Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Virgil L Frantz Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Virgil L Frantz Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia, Verizon Foundation, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc.
Where is Virgil L Frantz Charitable Trust based?
Virgil L Frantz Charitable Trust is based in VA.

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 65 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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