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Alliance for the Shenandoah Valley
ALLIANCE FOR THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY informs and engages people to protect the natural resources, cultural heritages, and rural character of our region.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $153,153 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $206,862 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $53,709 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $115k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONSERVATION LEGACY | $40,000 |
| GAP VALLEY FARM | $36,100 |
| SHENANDOAH VALLEY CONSERVANCY | $18,400 |
| CEDAR HEIGHTS FARM LLC | $10,555 |
| SHENANDOAH VALLEY BLACK HERITAGE | $10,000 |
| HESED HILL LLC | $9,426 |
| FRIENDS OF THE SHENANDOAH RIVER | $8,862 |
| CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION | $7,178 |
| SHENANDOAH VALLEY SOIL & WATER | $6,868 |
| TWIN CREEK FARM LLC | $5,764 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 96% of your 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.
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.
4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 8 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, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k 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
- VCVALLEY CONSERVATION COUNCIL5× · 2020–2024 · $106k · revenue -13%
- SVShenandoah Valley Bicycle Coalition2× · 2022–2023 · $36k · revenue +5%
- SVSHENANDOAH VALLEY BLACK HERITAGE PROJECT2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF THE NORTH FORK OF THE SHENANDOAH RIVER INCone grant, 2023 · $11k · revenue -9%
- SVSHENANDOAH VALLEY BATTLEFIELDS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue +105%
- FOFriends of the Shenandoah Trailgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue +130%
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.
Alliance for the shenandoah valley informs and engages people to protect the natural resources, cultural heritages, and rural character of our region.
Promoting for the benefit of the general public, the preservation, protection and enjoyment of our natural resources, principally in the lower james, york, rappahannock and chowan rivers and surrounding watersheds.
To serve as a steward for the natural and cultural communities in the upper Penns Creek Watershed. We seek to preserve and Honor the agricultural roots of Penns Valley by protecting and conserving its waters, farmland, forests and rural…
To restore, protect and promote the Herring Run stream valley as a place where nature and neighbors thrive.
Protect land along rivers, lakes and wetlands of vt; protect public access, wildlife habitat, scenic natural beauty, and ecological integrity.
To engage and unite virginians to improve our natural and scenic environment
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Shenandoah Valley Bicycle Coalition. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 15 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 VALLEY CONSERVATION COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION LEGACY ↗
- Who funds Shenandoah Valley Bicycle Coalition ↗
- Who funds SHENANDOAH VALLEY BLACK HERITAGE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE NORTH FORK OF THE SHENANDOAH RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE SHENANDOAH RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds SHENANDOAH VALLEY BATTLEFIELDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Shenandoah Trail ↗
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: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Alliance for the Shenandoah Valley 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.
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
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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