Grantmaking History

Greater Charlottesville

• 100 Black Men of Central Virginia: $20,000 to support the M-Cubed and High School Scholars programs.

• Albemarle Housing Improvement Program: $334,000 to support the rehabilitation of homes in the Greater Charlottesville Area.

• All Blessings Flow, Inc.: $30,000 to support All Blessings Flow's Rural Outreach Project Manager and Community Engagement Coordinator positions.

• Bennett's Village: $15,000 to support Bennett's Village's capital campaign for an all-abilities playground in Pen Park.

• Black Women Stitch (Fiscally sponsored by Congregate Charlottesville): $10,000 to support Black Women Stitch's operations.

• Blue Ridge Area Food Bank: $85,000 to support Blue Ridge Area Food Bank's Impact & Innovation Fund and the organization's general operations.

• Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Virginia: $25,000 to help purchase a new bus for the Southwood Club.

• Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Virginia: $25,000 to support the Albemarle Campus Club's operations.

• Building Goodness Foundation: $5,000 to support the construction of a greenhouse at CATEC. This project is part of Cultivate Charlottesville's Urban Agriculture Collective.

• Center for Nonprofit Excellence: $10,000 to provide capacity-building support for Sin Barreras.

• Center for Nonprofit Excellence: $5,000 to support the Cristine Nardi Fund.

• Central Virginia Farm Workers Initiative: $50,000 to support Central Virginia Farm Workers Initiative's Odd Fellows Hall Campaign.

• Charlottesville Area Community Foundation: $25,000 to support the Black Mothers Blooming program.

• Charlottesville Community Bikes: $20,000 to support staff salaries and increase organizational capacity.

• Charlottesville Community Food Co-op (Fiscally sponsored by Congregate Charlottesville): $10,000 to support Charlottesville Community Food Co-op's business start-up and community engagement activities.

• Charlottesville Inclusive Media (Fiscally sponsored by Charlottesville Tomorrow): $40,000 to support Charlottesville Inclusive Media's operations.

• Charlottesville Public Housing Association of Residents: $3,500 to support the 2024 Westhaven Community Day.

• Charlottesville Tomorrow: $10,000 to support Charlottesville Tomorrow's operations.

• Chesapeake Bay Foundation: $25,000 to support the Virginia Rivers and Streams education program in the Greater Charlottesville Area.

• Chris Long Foundation: $25,000 to support the EdZone program in Charlottesville City Schools.

• City of Promise: $75,000 to support the Dreambuilders Program.

• Community Climate Collaborative, Inc.: $60,000 to support the Youth Leadership Program.

• Community Investment Collaborative: $50,000 to support Community Investment Collaborative's operations.

• Emergency Food Network: $5,000 to support Emergency Food Network's operations.

• Feeding Greene, Inc.: $10,000 to support Feeding Greene, Inc.'s operations.

• Foothills Child Advocacy Center: 25,000 to support the multidisciplinary team that works with children who have experienced abuse and trauma.

• Fry's Spring Next Century: $5,000 to support Fry's Spring Next Century's operations.

• Giving Words VA: $10,000 to support Giving Words VA's operations.

• HER Sports: $10,000 to support HER Sports' operations.

• Hospice of the Piedmont: $25,000 to support Hospice of the Piedmont's Employee Assistance Fund.

• International Neighbors, Inc.: $5,000 to support International Neighbors' operations.

• Ivy Creek Foundation: $50,000 to support the Ivy Creek Foundation's operations.

• Jackson P. Burley Varsity Club: $8,000 to support the creation of a book about the history of segregated schools in Charlottesville and Albemarle County.

• Jefferson Area Board for Aging: $125,000 to support Jefferson Area Board for Aging's operations.

• Light House Studio: $30,000 to support operations, hold community workshops, and offer scholarships.

• Light House Studio: $5,000 to support Light House Studio's Youth Film Festival.

• Loaves & Fishes Food Pantry, Inc.: $40,000 to help Loaves & Fishes purchase fresh and nutritious food for distribution.

• Local Energy Alliance Program: $35,000 to support the Local Energy Alliance Program's Energy Analysts.

• New City Arts Initiative: $20,000 to support New City Arts Initiative's operations.

• New City Arts Initiative: $10,000 to support a feasibility study for an arts council in the Charlottesville/Albemarle region.

• On Our Own of Charlottesville: $150,000 to support On Our Own's peer professional services.

• On Our Own of Charlottesville: $20,046 to support programming in Louisa County.

• Piedmont Family YMCA: $120,000 to support Piedmont Family YMCA's Early Learning Center.

• Piedmont Housing Alliance: $250,000 to support the construction of the Kindlewood Early Learning Center.

• Piedmont Regional Dental Clinic: $25,000 to support care for uninsured and underinsured patients.

• PVCC Educational Foundation: $250,000 to support Network2Work, a workforce development program that connects job seekers in the area to skills, resources, and high-quality employment.

• Rockfish Wildlife Sanctuary: $20,000 to support Rockfish Wildlife Sanctuary's operations.

• St. John Family Life & Fitness Center: $17,500 to purchase exercise equipment and office supplies for the center.

• Stepping Stone: $5,000 to support a collective grant from the Early Childhood Funders Network Committee Advised Fund to Stepping Stone.

• The Arc of the Piedmont: $5,000 to support The Arc Studio.

• The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative: $55,000 to support The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative's operations.

• The Fountain Fund: $75,000 to support The Fountain Fund's Charlottesville Program Manager.

• The Women's Initiative: $175,000 to support The Women's Initiative's operations.

• Tonsler League (Fiscally sponsored by Jefferson School African American Heritage Center): $5,000 to support the Jr. Tonsler League.

• United Way of Greater Charlottesville: $271,265 to support the United Way of Greater Charlottesville's early childhood initiatives.

• Virginia Discovery Museum: $35,000 to support the Virginia Discovery Museum's Sponsored Admissions Program.

• Wartime Fitness Warriors: $10,000 to support Wartime Fitness Warriors' operations.

• Whole Woman's Health Alliance: $25,000 to support Whole Woman's Health Alliance's Charlottesville clinic.

• Wildlife Center of Virginia: $30,000 to support the construction of raptor pens to meet the growing need for rehabilitation spaces.

• Wildrock: $5,000 to support a collective grant from the Early Childhood Funders Network Committee Advised Fund to Wildrock.

Far Southwest Virginia

• American Climate Partners: $45,000 to support the Streamsweepers Clinch River cleanup project.

• American Red Cross: $150,000 to support disaster relief in Southwest Virginia.

• Appalachian Sustainable Development: $500,000 to support Appalachian Sustainable Development's capital campaign for an agricultural campus in Southwest Virginia.

• Appalachian Voices: $200,000 to support Appalachian Voices' work in Southwest Virginia.

• Birthplace of Country Music: $53,000 to support technology upgrades for Radio Bristol's Farm and Fun Time.

• Blue Ridge Discovery Center Inc.: $75,000 for capital improvements and education programming.

• Blue Ridge Public Television: $500,000 to support the construction of PBS Appalachia's studio.

• Boys & Girls Club of the Mountain Empire: $27,425 to provide scholarships and purchase supplies for the Abingdon and Bristol campuses.

• Bristol Virginia Public Schools Education Foundation: $60,300 to support the Bearcat PAWS Learning Lab.

• Bristol Virginia Public Schools Education Foundation: $25,000 to purchase playground equipment for the Bearcat PAWS Learning Lab.

• Cardinal Productions Inc.: $100,000 to support a reporter for the Bristol area.

• Communities in Schools of Appalachian Highlands: $100,000 to support programming in the Bristol, Virginia, and Washington County school systems.

• Cumberland Plateau Planning District Commission: $15,000 to support project planning for a regional telehealth ecosystem.

• EO: $300,000 to support EO's Regional Workforce and Child Development Hub.

• Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky: $25,000 to support the Appalachian Funders Network's Hurricane Helene Response Fund.

• Imagination Library of Bristol Virginia: $2,605 to support Dolly Parton's Imagination Library in Bristol, Virginia.

• Junior Appalachian Musicians: $8,973 to help Junior Appalachian Musicians expand its programming in Southwest Virginia.

• Mountain Empire Community College Foundation: $250,000 to support Mountain Empire Community College's Promise Program.

• Mountain Empire Older Citizens, Inc.: $20,000 to support Mountain Empire Older Citizens Inc.'s Southwest Virginia Children's Advocacy Center.

• SW Virginia Community College Educational Foundation, Inc.: $100,000 to support Southwest Virginia Community College's Honors Program.

• SW Virginia Community College Educational Foundation, Inc.: $113,258 to support Southwest Virginia Community College's Great Expectations Program.

• The Nature Conservancy in Virginia: $125,000 to support the Cumberland Forest Community Fund.

• The Nature Conservancy in Virginia: $350,000 to support property acquisition for The Nature Conservancy's Clinch Mountain Forest Conservation Corridor program.

• The Origin Project: $50,000 to support The Origin Project's work in Southwest Virginia.

• To The Brim: $20,000 to help To The Brim develop a formal business plan, fundraising roadmap, and legal framework for creating a community kitchen and small business incubator in Southwest Virginia.

• United Way of Southwest Virginia: $125,000 to support the United Way of Southwest Virginia's 2024 Disaster Relief Fund.

• University of Virginia School of Medicine: $100,000 to support the University of Virginia's Epilepsy Clinical Research Fellows.

• US National Whitewater Center Inc.: $230,000 to help US National Whitewater Center purchase a property adjacent to the Virginia Creeper Trail to develop recreational trails.

• Virginia Dental Association Foundation: $15,000 to support the 2024 Wise County Mission of Mercy event.

• Virginia Highlands Community College Educational Foundation: $200,000 to support the construction of the Paramont Applied Technology & Workforce Center.

• Virginia Humanities: $40,000 to support a regional humanities center at UVA Wise.

• Washington County Schools: $50,000 to support the school system's new child care and educational services courses for high school students.

Surry County

• First Connections Virginia: $68,000 to support the Surry County Backpack program.

• Girls on the Run of Hampton Roads: $15,600 to support Girls on the Run Hampton Roads in Surry County for the 2024-2025 school year.

• Horizon Health Services, Inc.: $224,000 to support the expansion of the Family Practice unit at Horizon Health Services' Surry County office.

• Preservation Virginia: $134,000 to support preservation and interpretive work at Smith's Fort.

• The Nature Conservancy in Virginia: $160,300 to support The Nature Conservancy's Virginia Pinelands Program.

Multi-Region

• Center for Nonprofit Excellence: $75,000 to support the Center for Nonprofit Excellence's We Build Community Campaign.

• George C. Marshall Research Foundation: $10,000 to support the participation of teachers from the Anne & Gene Worrell Foundation's Greater Charlottesville Area and Far Southwest Virginia coverage areas in the George C. Marshall Research Foundation's Teachers Institute.

• Miller Center Foundation: $750,000 to support the Obama Oral History project.

• University of Virginia School of Medicine: $200,000 to support the clinical care of epilepsy patients in the Greater Charlottesville Area and Southwest Virginia.