· Private foundation
Virginia Hot Springs Preservation Trust Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 56% of VIRGINIA HOT SPRINGS PRESERVATION TRUST INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOODLORE PROVISIONS | $10,000 |
| BATH COUNTY ARTS ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| ALLEGHANY MOUNTAIN SPRING PROJECT | $7,500 |
| ALLEGHANY HIGHLANDS TRAILS ALLIANCE | $6,000 |
| BATH COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION INC | $5,000 |
| BATH COUNTY CHRISTMAS MOTHER INC | $5,000 |
| PRESERVATION BATH | $4,000 |
| MILLBORO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| WILLIAM AND MARY | $2,500 |
| VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE | $2,500 |
| BATH COUNTY SOCCER CAMP | $2,500 |
| OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
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 (FY19–25, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 9 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, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
- GNGARTH NEWEL MUSIC CENTER FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2025 · $45k · revenue +28%
- BCBATH COUNTY CHRISTMAS MOTHER INC6× · 2019–2025 · $40k · revenue +26%
- BCBATH COUNTY ARTS ASSOCIATION5× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +327%
Funded once
- AHALLEGHENY HIGHLANDS TRIAL CLUBone grant, 2022 · $10k
- FFFIRESIDE FARMone grant, 2022 · $10k
- SSSAFEHOME SYSTEMS INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -22%
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.
To extinguish fires and provide first aid medical response to the community when needed.
To foster, encourage, participate in, finance, own, operate, promote and advance the development of housing projects and related facilities affordable by primarily low income persons and families; to provide affordable financial and…
Support programs for town of bath
To discover, collect, preserve, and share the history of bartholomew county for the enrichment of present and future generations
To encourage, advocate, preserve, protect, promote and financially support the historic aspects and architectural heritage of the town of bath and surrounding area.
Advance energy efficiency
Music education and performance
The Historical Society provides information to the public concerning the historical events in the area. The Society also helps with the restoration of historical
Volunteer fire department
Braxton County Memorial Hospital serves as the gateway for the healthcare needs of the citizens of Braxton County and the surrounding areas. Its mission is Caring for You Close to Home.
Returning Historic Bath High School to a place of honor and service to the greater community.
Promote economic development and tourism in the Alleghany Highlands
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bath Community Hospital and the most unlike its peers is Doris L Via Cancer Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 36 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 GARTH NEWEL MUSIC CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BATH COUNTY CHRISTMAS MOTHER INC ↗
- Who funds BATH COUNTY ARTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds BATH COMMUNITY HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHANY HIGHLANDS TRAILS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SAFEHOME SYSTEMS INC ↗
- Who funds DORIS L VIA CANCER FUND ↗
- Who funds Bath County Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA HIGHLANDS YOUTH GOLF ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHENY MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE ↗
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: Guilford Foundation · Harris Foundation co Hiter Harris III · Pistell Family Foundation · Alleghany Foundation · 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 Virginia Hot Springs Preservation Trust 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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