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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.

$122k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
12
Itemized grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$101k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$9,494
Largest grant, FY2024
$13,500
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$577k
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$132kRecreation & Sports$24kEducation$7kEnvironment$7kCommunity Improvement$6kYouth Development$5k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Woodlands Development Group Inc$22,50020%
Arthurdale Heritage Inc$16,33822%
Greenbrier Valley Archaeology Inc$16,0002n/a
Randolph County Park & Recreation Board 4-H Clubs & Affiliated 4-H$16,0002n/a
Future Generations University Corporation$15,18820%
Evergreen Heritage Center Foundatio$13,50012%
The High Rocks Educational Corporation$10,00010%
University of Maryland College Park$10,0001n/a
Mountain Heritage Trails Inc$10,0001n/a
Hardy Co Convention&Visitor Bureau$10,00015%
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All grantees of Appalachian Forest Heritage Area Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Woodlands Development Group Inc$22,50020%
Arthurdale Heritage Inc$16,33822%
Greenbrier Valley Archaeology Inc$16,0002n/a
Randolph County Park & Recreation Board 4-H Clubs & Affiliated 4-H$16,0002n/a
Future Generations University Corporation$15,18820%
Evergreen Heritage Center Foundatio$13,50012%
The High Rocks Educational Corporation$10,00010%
University of Maryland College Park$10,0001n/a
Mountain Heritage Trails Inc$10,0001n/a
Hardy Co Convention&Visitor Bureau$10,00015%
City of Frostburg$8,1251n/a
Allegany Museum Inc$7,92512%
Greenbrier Repertory Theatre Company$7,50011%
Friends of Blackwater Inc$6,78811%
Woodlands Community Lenders Inc$5,87511%
Experience Learning Inc$5,42111%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Appalachian Forest Heritage Area Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWoodlands Development Group Inc: $22,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetArthurdale Heritage Inc: $16,338 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetFuture Generations University Corporation: $15,188 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEvergreen Heritage Center Foundatio: $13,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetThe High Rocks Educational Corporation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHardy Co Convention&Visitor Bureau: $10,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetAllegany Museum Inc: $7,925 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetGreenbrier Repertory Theatre Company: $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFriends of Blackwater Inc: $6,788 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWoodlands Community Lenders Inc: $5,875 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetExperience Learning Inc: $5,421 over 1y, 0.6% of budget

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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 11.

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.

Claude Worthington Benedum FoundationPA17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Appalachian Forest Heritage Area Inc

How much does Appalachian Forest Heritage Area Inc give?
Appalachian Forest Heritage Area Inc reported 12 itemized grants totaling $101,466, out of $121,522 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does Appalachian Forest Heritage Area Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (73%), Recreation & Sports (13%), Education (4%).
Who are Appalachian Forest Heritage Area Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2024: Woodlands Development Group Inc ($23k), Arthurdale Heritage Inc ($16k), Greenbrier Valley Archaeology Inc ($16k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Appalachian Forest Heritage Area Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Appalachian Forest Heritage Area Inc based?
Appalachian Forest Heritage Area Inc is based in WV.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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