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BLUE GRASS RESOURCE CENTER

BLUE GRASS RESOURCE CENTER (Virginia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $651,888 to it, the largest being The Charles Pinckney Jones Charitable Trust ($225,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$185k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$652k
Net assets
$1.7M
7/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 82%
01What it does

What Blue Grass Resource Center does

Mission

Enhancement of quality of life for highland county, virginia, residents, through historic preservation and educational programs

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Review of HUD/CPF training modules, registration with HUD computer system and introduced to our HUD project manager. Completed Environmental Review required by HUD and ARC. Submission of Historic Tax Credit application to DHR. Signed the ARC contract and began the process of working with DHCD to understand project management expectations and timeline, to go under contract with DHCD for project management. Architect and Historic Tax Credit consultant working to make final changes to the Architectural plans as required by DHR.

    $39,320 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $39,320.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($331k) Expenses 100 ($51k) Net assets 100 ($300k)2020 Revenue 170 ($563k) Expenses 113 ($58k) Net assets 268 ($805k)2021 Revenue 80 ($263k) Expenses 131 ($67k) Net assets 334 ($1.0M)2022 Revenue 88 ($292k) Expenses 244 ($126k) Net assets 389 ($1.2M)2023 Revenue 133 ($440k) Expenses 163 ($84k) Net assets 508 ($1.5M)2024 Revenue 36 ($120k) Expenses 133 ($68k) Net assets 523 ($1.6M)2025 Revenue 56 ($185k) Expenses 149 ($76k) Net assets 559 ($1.7M)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (56)Expenses (149)Net assets (559)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $616k to $1.1M (+81%).

$616k
$1.1M
$1.3M
$1.5M
$1.8M
$1.9M
$2.0M
2019202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 85% · 2020 36% · 2021 64% · 2022 61%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

88% of BLUE GRASS RESOURCE CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 25,057 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$279k
’19
$505k
’20
$196k
’21
$166k
’22
$356k
’23
$52k
’24
$108k
’25
110
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Board chair

Robin Sullenberger

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed6667666
Joined·+0+0+1+0+0+0
No longer listed·000100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $17k → $62k.

3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of BLUE GRASS RESOURCE CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

BLUE GRASS RESOURCE CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

36% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BLUE GRASS RESOURCE CENTER.

35%
largest funder
70%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 54% · 2021 69% · 2022 40% · 2023 87% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

80% of BLUE GRASS RESOURCE CENTER's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 88% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

100% of BLUE GRASS RESOURCE CENTER's grant income comes from Virginia funders.

VA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’20
’21
’22
’23
Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $232k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BLUE GRASS RESOURCE CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,450 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin59% · top quartile
Months of reserve109.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−9% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,450 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding BLUE GRASS RESOURCE CENTER receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.5M on record.

Federal$1.5M
grants $1.5Mcontracts $0
24
25
Top agencies
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development$812k
  • Appalachian Regional Commission$700k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like BLUE GRASS RESOURCE CENTER

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Virginia

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

51% of spending goes to programs.

Program 51%Management 37%Fundraising 12%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

79%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

VA

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Questions and answers

Who funds BLUE GRASS RESOURCE CENTER?
BLUE GRASS RESOURCE CENTER (Virginia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $651,888 to it, the largest being The Charles Pinckney Jones Charitable Trust ($225,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BLUE GRASS RESOURCE CENTER have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $651,888 in grants to BLUE GRASS RESOURCE CENTER, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BLUE GRASS RESOURCE CENTER?
The Charles Pinckney Jones Charitable Trust is the largest funder on record, with $225,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BLUE GRASS RESOURCE CENTER find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 8 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing