Locus Impact Fund
Christiansburg, VA · EIN 54-1754009. Reported 27 grants totalling $2,035,240 to 27 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
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:
- What kind of organization it is. For Locus Impact Fund, the IRS classifies it under community improvement rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE S40) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 27 distinct organizations, with 25% 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.
- How much its list changes. 0% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $50,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $100,000; the smallest was $8,100 and the largest $500,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
1 of those grants was non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $10,000 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cameo Street LLC | $500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 | |
| Vcc Bank | $354,635 | 1 | 1 | 2021 | |
| Georgia Minority Outreach Network Corp | Darien, GA | $100,239 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Commons at Whitefield LLC | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 | |
| Cool Lane Apartments | Richmond, VA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Fc Phase 1 LLC | Charlottesville, VA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mhv Preservation Partners Lp | Washington, DC | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Poplar Creek | South Boston, VA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Scdhc-High Street LLC | Richmond, VA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Winchester Forrest II | Richmond, VA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Braddock Four Lp | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 | |
| Grande Oak Va LLC | Williamsburg, VA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Pinecrest Preservation LLC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 | |
| Urban Ministry Housing Development Corp | Norfolk, VA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Clinch Valley Litho LLC | $37,662 | 1 | 1 | 2021 | |
| Acorn Sign Graphics Inc | $17,869 | 1 | 1 | 2021 | |
| Mishpocha Inc | $16,773 | 1 | 1 | 2021 | |
| Valcon Masonry Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 | |
| The Jury's Inn LLC | $13,512 | 1 | 1 | 2021 | |
| Diamond Hair Salon Inc | $11,450 | 1 | 1 | 2021 | |
| Anne Vaug Design | Floyd, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Beagle Ridge Herb Farm | Wytheville, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Orange Bandana | Christianburg, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| River Street Education Inc | Petersburg, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Pakalachian | Abindgon, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Virginia Mountain Vineyards | Fincastle, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Yme Reality LLC | $8,100 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
0 of 27 (0%) 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.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Cameo Street LLC
CAPITAL MAGNET GRANT TO SUPPORT AFFORDABLE HOUSING - Vcc Bank
SMALL BUSINESS DEBT RELIEF PROGRAM - COVID 19 - Georgia Minority Outreach Network Corp
SE REGIONAL FOOD BUSINESS CENTER SUBAWARD EXPENSES - Scdhc-High Street LLC
SUPPORT FOR MULTFAMILY HOUSING DEVELOPMENT - River Street Market Education Inc
GRANT TO SUPPORT THE PROPOSED PETERSBURG REGION FOOD HUB AND COMMERCIAL KITC - The Pakalachian
SWVA REGIONAL BRISTOL CASINO PITCH CONTEST
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 2 of 27 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.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 13 | $1,225,001 | $37,662 |
| 2022 | 11 | $600,000 | $50,000 |
| 2023 | 1 | $10,000 | $10,000 |
| 2024 | 2 | $200,239 | $100,119 |
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
77% 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.
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How to approach this grantmaker
- 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.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $50,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Virginia.
- 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.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Locus Impact Fund'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.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 1 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 1 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 110 Peppers Ferry Road Nw, Christiansburg, VA, 24073.
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