· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $54k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Evergreen Heritage Center Foundation Inc | $13,500 |
| Passages of the W Potomac Heritage Area | $10,000 |
| Hardy County Convention and Visitors Bureau | $10,000 |
| Woodlands Development Group | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 80% of its 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 26% of Appalachian Forest Heritage Area Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 78% of the giving stays in WV; by stated purpose, 42%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WDWoodlands Development Group Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $23k · revenue -32%
- AHARTHURDALE HERITAGE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $16k · revenue -25%
- GVGREENBRIER VALLEY ARCHAEOLOGY INC2× · 2023–2024 · $16k
Funded once
- MHMOUNTAIN HERITAGE TRAILS INCone grant, 2023 · $10k
- COCity of Frostburgone grant, 2023 · $8k
- AMALLEGANY MUSEUM INCone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue -10%
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.
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.
To promote sustainable economic development by facilitating reuse of commercial, industrial, and mining sites and providing long-term management of key risks from legacy environmental concerns.
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.
Our mission is dedicated to preserving the greenbank mill national historical district as a public museum and expanding public knowledge of red clay vally industrial, agricultural and social hstory through on site educational and…
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The collection, preservation and interpretation of all materials pertaining to the history of Forest County, PA.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 16 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 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 THE HIGH ROCKS EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Hardy Co Convention&Visitor Bureau ↗
- 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 ↗
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: Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Appalachian Forest Heritage Area Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Appalachian Forest Heritage Area Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Evergreen Heritage Center Foundatio: 6% of income from government
How this is measured
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