· Private foundation
Walter Payne Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $86k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $113k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FACES FOOD PANTRY | $15,000 |
| LYNCHBURG DAILY BREAD | $13,000 |
| VIRGINIA LEGAL AID SOCIETY | $12,000 |
| WOLFBANE PRODUCTIONS | $12,000 |
| HOLIDAY LAKE 4-H EDUCATIONAL CENTER | $11,000 |
| APPOMATTOX COUNTY COMMUNITY PARK | $10,000 |
| VIRGINIA CHILDREN'S BOOK FESTIVAL | $10,000 |
| CASA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA | $10,000 |
| APPOMATTOX LITERACY INTERVENTION | $10,000 |
| PIEDMONT HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $10,000 |
| PREGNANCY SUPPORT CENTER | $8,000 |
| LONGWOOD CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS | $8,000 |
| PROSPECT VOL FIRE DEPARTMENT | $8,000 |
| HUMANKIND | $8,000 |
| IMPACT LIVING SERVICES | $8,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $132k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
41 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 1 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- LDLYNCHBURG DAILY BREAD INC9× · 2017–2025 · $91k · revenue +128%
- WPWOLFBANE PRODUCTIONS9× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +405%
- VLVirginia Legal Aid Society Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $80k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- THTRI-RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue +775% · 73% of their budget
- PCPAMPLIN COMMUNITY CENTER INCone grant, 2021 · $5k
- ABAPPOMATTOX BANK BOOSTERSone grant, 2024 · $3k
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.
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 loans to lower income persons
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…
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.
Virginia poverty law center uses advocacy, education, and litigation to break down systemic barriers that keep low-income virginians in the cycle of poverty.
The ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, dignity, and freedom for all.
Central virginia legal aid society (cvlas) provides free civil (non-criminal) legal assistance to low income people who have legal problem arising in the cities of richmond, petersburg, hopewell, colonial heights and charlottesville; and…
Central virginia housing coalition improves the regional quality of life by providing affordable housing opportunities to low income families through coalition, education, counseling, and financial assistance.
Provision of housing for persons with disabilities in the Charlottesville community.
Build affordable housing for low wage earner families of middlesex county, virginia.
Provide library services to madison county.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Virginia Regional Library and the most unlike its peers is Appomattox Literacy Intervention Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 17 years old; the field is 18. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
19 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. 19 of the 50 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 LYNCHBURG DAILY BREAD INC ↗
- Who funds WOLFBANE PRODUCTIONS ↗
- Who funds Virginia Legal Aid Society Inc ↗
- Who funds HOLIDAY LAKE 4-H EDUCATIONAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds Appomattox Literacy Intervention Project ↗
- Who funds CASA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN HOMES & FAMILY SVCS ↗
- Who funds The United Way of Prince Edward Co Inc ↗
- Who funds Heart of Virginia Free Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds STEPS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL VIRGINIA REGIONAL LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds QUICKSTART TENNIS OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACT LIVING SERVICES ↗
- Who funds TRI-RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
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: 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
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 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.
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.