· Public charity
Appalachian Forest Heritage Area Inc
The Appalachian Forest Heritage Area integrates central Appalachian forest history, culture, natural history, products, and forestry management into a heritage tourism initiative to promote rural community development.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $101,466 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $121,522 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $20,056 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 $10k7 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $54k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Evergreen Heritage Center Foundation Inc | $13,500 |
| Hardy County Convention and Visitors Bureau | $10,000 |
| Woodlands Development Group | $10,000 |
| Passages of the W Potomac Heritage Area | $10,000 |
| High Rocks Educational Corporation | $10,000 |
| Arthurdale Heritage Inc | $9,494 |
| Future Generations Univ Corp | $8,388 |
| Friends of Blackwater | $6,788 |
| Greenbrier Valley Archaeology Inc | $6,000 |
| Randolph Co Park and Rec dba Camp Pioneer | $6,000 |
| Woodlands Community Lenders | $5,875 |
| Experience Learning Inc | $5,421 |
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 (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 80% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 26% of Appalachian Forest Heritage Area Inc’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, 78% of the giving stays in WV; read by stated purpose it is 42% — 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.
5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 7 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, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k 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
- WDWoodlands Development Group Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $23k · revenue -32%
- AHARTHURDALE HERITAGE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $16k · revenue -25%
- RCRANDOLPH COUNTY PARK & RECREATION BOARD 4-H CLUBS & AFFILIATED 4-H2× · 2023–2024 · $16k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- MHMOUNTAIN HERITAGE TRAILS INCone grant, 2023 · $10k
- COCity of Frostburgone grant, 2023 · $8k
- AMALLEGANY MUSEUM INCone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue -10%
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.
Economic Development and Tourism Promotion in Eastern Kentucky
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Preservation and promotion of the history, traditions, and culture of westmoreland county, virginia and preservation of historical records of the county.
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To protect and promote rural american culture, local history and sustainability of agriculture and natural resources through education, conservation and the economic opportunities of tourism.
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.
Embracing our past, empowering our people, and unlocking our future by developing a tourism industry cluster, and revitalizing our communities in the coalfields of eastern kentucky
To conserve and steward lands and waters of Westmoreland County that harbor ecological, cultural or recreational qualities to offer a healthier and more sustainable future for all.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arthurdale Heritage Inc and the most unlike its peers is Allegany Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 16 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 Woodlands Development Group Inc ↗
- Who funds ARTHURDALE HERITAGE INC ↗
- Who funds RANDOLPH COUNTY PARK & RECREATION BOARD 4-H CLUBS & AFFILIATED 4-H ↗
- Who funds FUTURE GENERATIONS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds EVERGREEN HERITAGE CENTER FOUNDATIO ↗
- Who funds Hardy Co Convention&Visitor Bureau ↗
- Who funds THE HIGH ROCKS EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ALLEGANY MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds GREENBRIER REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BLACKWATER INC ↗
- Who funds Woodlands Community Lenders Inc ↗
- Who funds EXPERIENCE LEARNING 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: Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation · 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 Appalachian Forest Heritage Area Inc 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.
- Evergreen Heritage Center Foundatio — 6% 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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