· Private foundation
Alleghany Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of Alleghany Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in VA; by stated purpose, 93%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +1% since the first grant, against -22% for those 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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Alleghany Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alleghany Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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