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COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CENTRAL BLUE RIDGE

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CENTRAL BLUE RIDGE (Virginia) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,158,247 to it, the largest being PROTEUS FOUNDATION ($717,500). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CENTRAL BLUE RIDGE administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.

$3.9M
Revenue FY2024
15
Funders on record
$2.2M
Grants received
$41M
Net assets
11/15 repeat funders

Hosts funds for others

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CENTRAL BLUE RIDGE administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CENTRAL BLUE RIDGE runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.

Paid out

$12M

Recipients

172

Contributions on record

$2.2M

Donors on record

15

Payments out run 5.4x the contributions on record, which says the incoming side is incomplete rather than that the vehicle is unusually busy: most donors to a fund like this are individuals, who file no return for us to read.

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.1M) Expenses 100 ($1.3M) Net assets 100 ($25M)2018 Revenue 129 ($4.0M) Expenses 151 ($2.0M) Net assets 92 ($23M)2019 Revenue 160 ($5.0M) Expenses 114 ($1.5M) Net assets 117 ($30M)2020 Revenue 164 ($5.1M) Expenses 260 ($3.4M) Net assets 128 ($33M)2021 Revenue 157 ($4.9M) Expenses 170 ($2.2M) Net assets 148 ($38M)2022 Revenue 283 ($8.8M) Expenses 238 ($3.1M) Net assets 148 ($38M)2023 Revenue 108 ($3.4M) Expenses 317 ($4.1M) Net assets 157 ($40M)2024 Revenue 124 ($3.9M) Expenses 270 ($3.5M) Net assets 163 ($41M)
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Revenue (124)Expenses (270)Net assets (163)

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.8M
17
$2.0M
18
$3.5M
19
$1.7M
20
$2.7M
21
$5.7M
22
$774k
23
$346k
24
16
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 10 funders, grant income fell $575k → $318k.

11 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)66% 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CENTRAL BLUE RIDGE’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.

Where its funders are

66% of COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CENTRAL BLUE RIDGE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $737k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from Virginia funders.

NY
VA
DE

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

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23
Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 15 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 14%Fundraising 2%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

59%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CENTRAL BLUE RIDGE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CENTRAL BLUE RIDGE?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CENTRAL BLUE RIDGE (Virginia) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,158,247 to it, the largest being PROTEUS FOUNDATION ($717,500). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CENTRAL BLUE RIDGE administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
How many funders does COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CENTRAL BLUE RIDGE have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $2,158,247 in grants to COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CENTRAL BLUE RIDGE, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CENTRAL BLUE RIDGE?
PROTEUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $717,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CENTRAL BLUE RIDGE 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 15funders 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 September 23, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing