GrantmakersVirginia

Community Foundation for Rockbridgebath & Allegh

Lexington, VA · EIN 27-3422429. Reported 77 grants totalling $1,828,339 to 42 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

42organizations funded
$11,000median reported grant
$1,828,339granted, 2021-2024
62%of grantees funded again the next year
29%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Community Foundation for Rockbridgebath & Allegh, the IRS classifies it under community improvement rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE S20) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 42 distinct organizations, with 29% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 62% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $11,000. Half of what it reported fell between $7,573 and $16,381; the smallest was $1,250 and the largest $468,552. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
Under $5,000
1 grant
$5,000 - $10,000
28 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
32 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
12 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
2 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
1 grant
$250,000 Or More
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Rockbridge Recovery CenterBuena Vista, VA$538,697222024
The Walker ProgramLexington, VA$222,791222023
Rockbridge Area Hospice IncLexington, VA$125,792442024
Rockbridge Area Relief Association IncorporatedLexington, VA$116,265332024
Rockbridge Area Free ClinicLexington, VA$111,402442024
Boys Home IncorporatedCovington, VA$55,295442024
Habitat for Humanity InternationalLexington, VA$51,210442024
Rockbridge RecoveryBuena Vista, VA$49,115112022
Rockbridge County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to AnimalsLexington, VA$44,372442024
Valley Program for Aging Services IncWaynesboro, VA$44,255442024
Hoofbeats Therapeutic Riding Center IncLexington, VA$43,878442024
Hulls Angels IncLexington, VA$39,750332024
Community Table of Buena Vista IncLexington, VA$35,010222024
Camp Mont ShenandoahMillboro, VA$31,600112024
Yellow Brick Road Early Learning Center IncLexington, VA$30,400112024
Project Horizon IncLexington, VA$29,437442024
Patrick Henry Family Services Operations IncLynchburg, VA$20,000222024
Shenandoah Community CapitaStaunton, VA$20,000112022
Feed the Need FoundationBuena Vista, VA$18,250222024
Grace Presbyterian ChurchLexington, VA$14,357222022
Shenandoah UniversityWinchester, VA$13,261112021
Remington CollegeDallas, TX$12,000112021
Southern Virginia UniversityBuena Vista, VA$12,000112021
Nature Camp Foundation IncorporatedBlacksburg, VA$11,610222024
Mountain Gateway Community CollegeClifton Forge, VA$11,000112024
Main Street LexingtonLexington, VA$10,760112022
Yellow Brick RoadLexington, VA$10,350112022
Carilion Rockbridge HospitalLexington, VA$10,000112022
Mountain Gateway Community College Educational FoundationClifton Forge, VA$10,000112023
Samuels SupperFairfield, VA$9,000112022
Rockbridge Area Transportation SystLexington, VA$8,500112024
Young Mens Christian Association of Virginias Blue Ridge IncRoanoke, VA$8,322112021
Concerned Citizens of Glasgow IncGlasgow, VA$7,500112024
Lexington Police Department FoundationLexington, VA$7,500112024
Buena Vista City SchoolsBuena Vista, VA$6,000112023
Radford UniversityRadford, VA$6,000112024
Nature Camp FoundationVesuvius, VA$5,904112022
Grace Episcopal ChurchLexington, VA$5,708112024
Lexington Police FoundationLexington, VA$5,465112022
The Community TableLexington, VA$5,284112022
Buena Vista Police FoundationBuena Vista, VA$5,200112024
Fast Track HealthcareRoanoke, VA$5,099112021

17 of 42 (40%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

It also reported 4 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 22 of 42 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Human Services
9 orgs
Education
4 orgs
Health Care
2 orgs
Crime & Legal
2 orgs
Mental Health
1 org
Animal Welfare
1 org
Arts & Culture
1 org
Food & Nutrition
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202116$266,159$12,000
202220$513,746$10,555
202317$288,009$11,043
202424$760,425$9,750

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

99% of its giving went to organizations in Virginia. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Virginia
$1.8M
Texas
$12K

Down to the city

Lexington, VA
$928K
Buena Vista, VA
$629K
Covington, VA
$55K
Waynesboro, VA
$44K
Millboro, VA
$32K
Clifton Forge, VA
$21K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Carilion Rockbridge Community Hospital12 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund9 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc8 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program5 shared recipientsAmerican Endowment Foundation3 shared recipientsDominion Energy Charitable Foundation3 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $11,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Virginia.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Community Foundation for Rockbridgebath & Allegh's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 20, Lexington, VA, 24450.

EIN 27-3422429 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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