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Alleghany Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $69k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $427k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF COVINGTON | $500,000 |
| ALLEGHANY COUNTY | $204,119 |
| ALLEGHANY HIGHLANDS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & TOURISM | $191,374 |
| THE MASONIC THEATRE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION | $184,119 |
| ALLEGHANY HIGHLANDS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND TOURISM | $112,861 |
| COVINGTON CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $107,127 |
| ALLEGHANY HIGHLANDS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND TOURISM | $101,349 |
| ALLEGHANY HIGHLANDS ARTS COUNCIL | $85,086 |
| ALLEGHANY HIGHLANDS YMCA | $54,247 |
| ALLEGHANY HIGHLANDS ARTS COUNCIL | $53,018 |
| ALLEGHANY HIGHLANDS YMCA | $51,772 |
| COMPASS FOR LIFE | $51,623 |
| ROCKBRIDGE AREA HOSPICE | $51,086 |
| CORA INCORPORATED | $48,213 |
| ALLEGHANY HIGHLANDS YMCA | $45,701 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $2.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Alleghany Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in VA; read by stated purpose it is 93% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +1% since the first grant, against -22% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $538k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- AHAlleghany Highlands Young Men's Christian Association5× · 2020–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +57%
- GAGreater Alleghany Highlands Chamber of Commerce5× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +80% · 35% of their budget
- MTMASONIC THEATRE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +165% · 57% of their budget
Funded once
- ACALLEGHANY COUNTY (ON BEHALF OF ALLEGHANY COUNTY UNITED FIRE AND RESCUE ASSOone grant, 2023 · $277k
- IDINDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY OF COVINGTON-ALLEGHANY COUNTY VIRGINIAone grant, 2021 · $272k
- CFCLIFTON FORGE MAIN STREET INCone grant, 2023 · $20k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Provide a comfortable, safe and normal living environment for persons with mental retardation
Allegheny ridge works with many invaluable partners to develop heritage-based recreation, environmental, and quality0of-life infrastructure projects throughout the allegheny ridge heritage area.
The Allegany County Library system enriches our community by providing information resources, services, and programs to promote reading, lifelong learning, and opportunity.
Scouting activities
HCBH provides mental health and substance abuse counseling.
Provides shelter, food, medical service and care for animal control services.
The Yadkin Valley Chamber of Commerce is an organization that promotes a positive business environment, community betterment and supports economic development
The Roanoke Symphony Orchestra provides a professional symphony orchestra of artistic excellence and integrity to enrich lives, to educate, and to entertain diverse audiences in western Virginia with the highest quality instrumental and…
Community health and wellness programs provided in a well equipped facility
Patient care and family support to the terminally ill.
Support the arts locally through local cultural experiences
To create an equitable and just community through high quality affordable housing and transformative resident services. We envision a community where an affordable home is available to everyone.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alleghany Community Services Board Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Compass for Life. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 43. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 12% startups (under 5 years old) — 15% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 5% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 32 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Alleghany Highlands Young Men's Christian Association ↗
- Who funds Greater Alleghany Highlands Chamber of Commerce ↗
- Who funds MASONIC THEATRE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Alleghany Highlands Arts Council ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHANY COMMUNITY SERVICES BOARD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Alleghany Historical Society ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHANY HIGHLANDS ARTS AND CRAFTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BATH COMMUNITY HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds The Clifton Forge Company ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHANY HIGHLANDS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GARTH NEWEL MUSIC CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROCKBRIDGE AREA HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHANY HIGHLANDS TRAILS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Compass For Life ↗
- Who funds JACKSON RIVER ENTERPRISES INC ↗
- Who funds Recover Virginia ↗
- Who funds SAFEHOME SYSTEMS INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Virginia Hot Springs Preservation Trust Inc · Smurfit Westrock US Foundation F/K/A Westrock Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Alleghany Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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