Virginia · Private foundation
Walter Payne Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $199k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2025
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 4%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $8,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 31
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 4% of the organizations Walter Payne Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 24 | $199k | 4% |
| FY2024 | 25 | $200k | 4% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $195k | 4% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $188k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $176k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $161k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $161k | 10% |
| FY2018 | 31 | $149k | 23% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lynchburg Daily Bread Inc | $91,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Wolfbane Productions | $80,000 | 9 | 4% |
| Virginia Legal Aid Society Inc | $79,900 | 8 | 0% |
| Holiday Lake 4-H Educational Center Inc | $77,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Piedmont Habitat for Humanity Inc | $74,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Appomattox Literacy Intervention Project | $72,500 | 8 | 52% |
| Casa of Central Virginia Inc | $63,500 | 8 | 2% |
| Presbyterian Homes & Family Svcs | $57,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Pamplin Area Legacy Supporters | $42,010 | 9 | n/a |
| The United Way of Prince Edward Co Inc | $37,500 | 4 | 22% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lynchburg Daily Bread Inc | $91,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Wolfbane Productions | $80,000 | 9 | 4% |
| Virginia Legal Aid Society Inc | $79,900 | 8 | 0% |
| Holiday Lake 4-H Educational Center Inc | $77,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Piedmont Habitat for Humanity Inc | $74,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Appomattox Literacy Intervention Project | $72,500 | 8 | 52% |
| Casa of Central Virginia Inc | $63,500 | 8 | 2% |
| Presbyterian Homes & Family Svcs | $57,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Pamplin Area Legacy Supporters | $42,010 | 9 | n/a |
| The United Way of Prince Edward Co Inc | $37,500 | 4 | 22% |
| Heart of Virginia Free Clinic Inc | $29,300 | 5 | 8% |
| Missionary Food Bank | $28,500 | 7 | n/a |
| Appomattox County Historical Society Inc | $25,000 | 4 | n/a |
| The American Civil War Museum | $24,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Courtland Park Foundation Inc | $20,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Steps Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Arc of Central Virginia | $18,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Central Virginia Regional Library | $14,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Prospect Historical Society | $12,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Quickstart Tennis of Central Virginia Inc | $9,000 | 2 | 11% |
| Impact Living Services | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Tri-River Habitat for Humanity Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 73% |
| Appomattox 1865 Foundation | $5,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Pamplin Community Center Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Fork Union Military Academy | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| The Appomattox Assembly Inc | $2,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Carver Price Legacy Museum | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($669k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Walter Payne Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 16 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation · The Al Stroobants Foundation · Centra Health Inc · Easley Char Irr Tua 5019004715 · Foster Foundation · Schewel Charitable Foundation · Jamerson Family Foundation · United Way of Central Virginia Inc · Bedford Community Health Foundation · Centra Health Foundation · The Titmus Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
About Walter Payne Foundation
- How much does Walter Payne Foundation give?
- Walter Payne Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $199,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 31 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Walter Payne Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (16%), Food & Nutrition (15%), Arts & Culture (13%).
- Who are Walter Payne Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lynchburg Daily Bread Inc ($91k), Wolfbane Productions ($80k), Virginia Legal Aid Society Inc ($80k).
- Does Walter Payne Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Walter Payne Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Walter Payne Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation, The Al Stroobants Foundation, Centra Health Inc.
- Where is Walter Payne Foundation based?
- Walter Payne Foundation is based in VA.
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