How much does Alliance for the Shenandoah Valley give?

Alliance for the Shenandoah Valley reported 10 itemized grants totaling $153,153, out of $206,862 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 5 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.

What does Alliance for the Shenandoah Valley fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (88%), Arts & Culture (8%), Food & Nutrition (3%).

Who are Alliance for the Shenandoah Valley's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Valley Conservation Council ($106k), Conservation Legacy ($40k), Shenandoah Valley Bicycle Coalition ($36k).

Does Alliance for the Shenandoah Valley fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Alliance for the Shenandoah Valley?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Amazonsmile Foundation.

Where is Alliance for the Shenandoah Valley based?

Alliance for the Shenandoah Valley is based in VA.

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Virginia · Public charity

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.

$207k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 10
Itemized grants FY2024: 5
Organizations funded FY2023: 40%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $153k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $10,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $40,000
Organizations funded a year: 1 to 5; FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 3
Total assets, FY2024: $3.2M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 40% of the organizations Alliance for the Shenandoah Valley funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EnvironmentRecreation & SportsArts & CultureOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	10	$153k	80%
FY2023	5	$90k	40%
FY2022	4	$46k	75%
FY2021	1	$22k	0%
FY2020	1	$9k	100%
FY2019	1	$8k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Environment$290kArts & Culture$28kFood & Nutrition$11k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Valley Conservation Council	$106,002	5	8%
Conservation Legacy	$40,000	1	0%
Shenandoah Valley Bicycle Coalition	$35,500	2	7%
Shenandoah Valley Black Heritage Project	$20,000	2	6%
James Madison University	$16,376	2	n/a
Friends of the North Fork of the Shenandoah River Inc	$11,390	1	5%
Friends of the Shenandoah River Inc	$8,862	1	5%
Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation	$7,500	1	0%
Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc	$7,178	1	0%
Friends of the Shenandoah Trail	$6,500	1	n/a

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($69k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Alliance for the Shenandoah Valley supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA9.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Alliance for the Shenandoah Valley

How much does Alliance for the Shenandoah Valley give?: Alliance for the Shenandoah Valley reported 10 itemized grants totaling $153,153, out of $206,862 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 5 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Alliance for the Shenandoah Valley fund?: By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (88%), Arts & Culture (8%), Food & Nutrition (3%).
Who are Alliance for the Shenandoah Valley's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Valley Conservation Council ($106k), Conservation Legacy ($40k), Shenandoah Valley Bicycle Coalition ($36k).
Does Alliance for the Shenandoah Valley fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Alliance for the Shenandoah Valley?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Alliance for the Shenandoah Valley based?: Alliance for the Shenandoah Valley is based in VA.