· Private foundation
Wythe-Bland 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $263k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $635k
- $250k+4 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BLAND MINISTRY CENTER DENTAL | $530,000 |
| WCC EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $344,486 |
| OPEN DOOR COMMUNITY | $306,000 |
| BROCK HUGHES FREE CLINIC | $300,334 |
| BLAND COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $215,100 |
| MILWALD THEATRE INC | $150,000 |
| WYTHE COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD | $141,178 |
| RURAL RETREAT FARMERS MARKET | $66,667 |
| Individual grant recipient | $62,091 |
| WYTHEVILLE FARMERS MARKET | $48,000 |
| BLAND COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER | $40,000 |
| BLAND COUNTY YOUTH SPORTS | $40,000 |
| WYTHEVILLE TRAINING SCHOOL CULTURAL | $38,668 |
| FEEDING AMERICA SOUTHWEST VA | $25,000 |
| SALT AND LIGHT | $22,500 |
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 (FY18–24, $261k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +24% since the first grant, against -18% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 5 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $137k 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
- BMBLAND MINISTRY CENTER8× · 2018–2025 · $3.3M · revenue +309% · 40% of their budget
- HOHELPING OVERCOME POVERTY'S EXISTENCE IN7× · 2018–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +81% · 27% of their budget
- WFWYTHEVILLE FARMERS MARKET8× · 2018–2025 · $288k · revenue +11% · 71% of their budget
Funded once
- WCWYTHEVILLE COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2018 · $419k
- WSWY SCHOOLSone grant, 2018 · $172k
- WFWCPS FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCEone grant, 2023 · $161k
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.
The purpose of the Buckingham County Vol. Fire Dept. is to provide fire protection to the citizens of Buckingham County and surrounding counties if needed. We also respond to automobile accidents as well as any other request for assistance.
Mission for burnsville vfd burnsville wv the burnsville vfd provides fire protection fire safety and emergency rescue services to the citizens in its designated area. bvfd serves in a safe efficient manner serving all stakeholders.
Our mission is to servce the citizens and visitors of our response district and surrounding fire districts as we provide mutual aid.
White Bluff VFD provides fire and medical services to the White Bluff development, approximately 3500 acres along with 700 homes, numerous retail facilities, and assistance to other area fire and medical response departments.
To provide fire department services for the community of wise, nc and surrounding areas
The organization provides emergency, medical, and fire fighting services to the citizens in and around the Burkeville, Virginia area.
To Provide Fire and Emergency Medical Service to the General Community at Large.
To provide fire protection to the dysartsville community of mcdowell county north carolina
Fire and rescue services
Volunteer fire department
None
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brock Hughes Free Clinic Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ivanhoe Civic League Inc. 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 22 years old; the field is 27. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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 56 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 BLAND MINISTRY CENTER ↗
- Who funds BROCK HUGHES FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING OVERCOME POVERTY'S EXISTENCE IN ↗
- Who funds MILLWALD THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds WYTHEVILLE FARMERS MARKET ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds WYTHE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WYTHEVILLE TRAINING SCHOOL CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WYTHE COUNTY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds IVANHOE CIVIC LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds LEAD MINES RESCUE SQUAD ↗
- Who funds RX DRUG ACCESS PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds BRAIN INJURY SERVICES OF SW VA 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: United Way of Wythe County 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 organization Wythe-Bland 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.