How much did WALTER PAYNE FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 69% of WALTER PAYNE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

meals

2020

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2021

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2022

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2023

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2024

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2025

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k14 grants · $86k
$10k–50k10 grants · $113k

$8,000

Median grant

States reached

$5.5M

Total assets

Largest grants

FACES FOOD PANTRY$15,000
LYNCHBURG DAILY BREAD$13,000
WOLFBANE PRODUCTIONS$12,000
VIRGINIA LEGAL AID SOCIETY$12,000
HOLIDAY LAKE 4-H EDUCATIONAL CENTER$11,000
PIEDMONT HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$10,000
APPOMATTOX COUNTY COMMUNITY PARK$10,000
CASA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA$10,000
VIRGINIA CHILDREN'S BOOK FESTIVAL$10,000
APPOMATTOX LITERACY INTERVENTION$10,000
PAMPLIN VOL FIRE DEPARTMENT$8,000
PROSPECT VOL FIRE DEPARTMENT$8,000
LONGWOOD CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS$8,000
PREGNANCY SUPPORT CENTER$8,000
IMPACT LIVING SERVICES$8,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–18, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.4M · 36 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against -30% for the ones you funded once.

36 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.4M

$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%

-30%

Still filing today

28%

20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionCrime & LegalCivil RightsHealthOther

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

LD
LYNCHBURG DAILY BREAD
8× · 2018–2025 · $86k · revenue +119%
VL
VIRGINIA LEGAL AID SOCIETY
8× · 2018–2025 · $80k · revenue +91%
WP
WOLFBANE PRODUCTIONS
8× · 2018–2025 · $75k · revenue +405%

Funded once

HF
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
one grant, 2018 · $8k
FL
FARMVILLE LIONS CLUB
one grant, 2020 · $6k
PC
PAMPLIN COMMUNITY CENTER
one grant, 2021 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Habitat for Humanity Virginia

Habitat for Humanity Virginia provides support to Virginia affiliates so that they can build or facilitate affordable housing by offering advocacy, organizational development, funding, and resource development

Housing & Shelter

Childrens Advocacy Center of Virginia

The Children's Advocacy Centers of Virginia (CACVA) promotes and supports the development, growth and continuation of child advocacy centers and multidisciplinary teams across the state in their service to child victims of abuse and…

Human Services

Central Virginia Legal Aid Society Inc

Cvlas provides free legal representation and community education to low income and elderly clients in many areas of civil (non-criminal) law.

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Virginia Voice Inc

Provide reading service to individuals who are blind or have low vision.

Human Services

The Virginia Home

Long-term care for persons with irreversible physical disabilities.

Health

The Virginia Holocaust Museum

Educating the community about the historical & personal realities of the Holocaust.

Arts & Culture

The Commonwealth Institute for

To use policy, research, and analysis to advance the well-being of Virginia communities, and improve the economic security and social opportunities of all Virginians.

Public Benefit

Virginia Affordable Housing Loan Fund

Housing loans to lower income persons

Community Improvement

Virginia Community Voice Inc

To equip neighbors in marginalized communities to realize their vision for their community and to prepare institutions to respond effectively.

Community Improvement

Legal Aid Society of Eastern Virginia

Legal aid society of eastern virginia provides non-criminal legal assistance to the indigent.

Crime & Legal

Virginia Living Museum Inc

Connecting people to nature through educational experiences that promote conservation.

Arts & Culture

Virginia Center for Inclusive

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

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa of Central Virginia Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wolfbane Productions. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

13/14

Grantees still filing

9/14

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,002,350Arts & Culture$98,500Food & Nutrition$86,000Crime & Legal$79,900Youth Development$76,000Civil Rights$63,500Health$23,300

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.

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.

Greater Lynchburg Community FoundationVA18× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation · Centra Health Inc · Centra Health Foundation · The Al Stroobants Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 organisation WALTER PAYNE 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.

2025

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0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: UNITED WAY OF PRINCE EDWARD.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

high risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 061789264 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on UNITED WAY OF PRINCE EDWARD, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 22% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Walter Payne Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Walter Payne Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

WALTER PAYNE FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Walter Payne Foundation?

More from the funding graph

WALTER PAYNE FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Walter Payne Foundation?

More from the funding graph