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Wellspring Foundation of Southwest Virginia

The organization is organized for the purpose of receiving, maintaining and administering assets exclusively for charitable or educational purposes, including, but not limited to the recognizable and unmet healthcare, wellness, economic and educational needs of the communities which the corporation serves, and to use the whole or any…

$4.9M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
21
Grants FY2025
21
Organizations funded FY2024
95%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$36,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$2,000,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 21
FY2023 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$180M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 95% of the organizations Wellspring Foundation of Southwest Virginia funded were first-time grantees, receiving 96% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving21$4.9M0%
FY202421$4.9M95%
FY20237$584kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Philanthropy$4.2MEducation$3.3MHealth$1.5MRecreation & Sports$636kHousing & Shelter$400kHuman Services$89kCommunity Improvement$72kCrime & Legal$40kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Eo Companies$4,000,000214%
US National Whitewater Center Inc$636,00021%
Ballad Health$468,99820%
Fairview Housing Management Corp$400,00022%
Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation$72,0002n/a
Mount Rogers Regional Partnership$50,00023%
Blue Ridge Discovery Center Inc$36,61024%
Medical Debt Resolution Inc$26,79020%
Isaiah 117 House$25,00010%
Bristol Regional Speech & Hearing Center$25,00023%
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All grantees of Wellspring Foundation of Southwest Virginia by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Eo Companies$4,000,000214%
US National Whitewater Center Inc$636,00021%
Ballad Health$468,99820%
Fairview Housing Management Corp$400,00022%
Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation$72,0002n/a
Mount Rogers Regional Partnership$50,00023%
Blue Ridge Discovery Center Inc$36,61024%
Medical Debt Resolution Inc$26,79020%
Isaiah 117 House$25,00010%
Bristol Regional Speech & Hearing Center$25,00023%
Path Partnerships$20,00021%
Depaul Community Resources$10,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.6M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Wellspring Foundation of Southwest Virginia supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEo Companies: $4,000,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetUS National Whitewater Center Inc: $636,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBallad Health: $468,998 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFairview Housing Management Corp: $400,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetMount Rogers Regional Partnership: $50,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetBlue Ridge Discovery Center Inc: $36,610 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetMedical Debt Resolution Inc: $26,790 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIsaiah 117 House: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBristol Regional Speech & Hearing Center: $25,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetPath Partnerships: $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetDepaul Community Resources: $10,000 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 11.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA1.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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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How do I get to Wellspring Foundation of Southwest Virginia?

Find your warmest path to Wellspring Foundation of Southwest Virginia through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Wellspring Foundation of Southwest Virginia

How much does Wellspring Foundation of Southwest Virginia give?
Wellspring Foundation of Southwest Virginia reported 21 grants totaling $4,885,853 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 21 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.
What does Wellspring Foundation of Southwest Virginia fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (41%), Education (31%), Health (15%).
Who are Wellspring Foundation of Southwest Virginia's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: Eo Companies ($4.0M), US National Whitewater Center Inc ($636k), Ballad Health ($469k).
Does Wellspring Foundation of Southwest Virginia fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 95% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Wellspring Foundation of Southwest Virginia 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 Wellspring Foundation of Southwest Virginia?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Wellspring Foundation of Southwest Virginia based?
Wellspring Foundation of Southwest Virginia 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 27 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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