· Private foundation
Appalachian Stewardship Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k7 grants · $162k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| Canaan Valley Institute | $50,000 |
| Friends of the Cheat | $40,000 |
| Three Rivers Waterkeeper | $25,000 |
| WV Rivers Coalition | $25,000 |
| Solar United Neighbors | $25,000 |
| Allegheny Blue Ridge Alliance | $20,000 |
| WV Highlands Conservancy | $15,000 |
| Radford University | $12,000 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +109% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 4 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, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $117k 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
- AMAPPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN ADVOCATES INC5× · 2017–2021 · $170k · revenue +69%
- WVWEST VIRGINIA RIVERS COALITION INC6× · 2017–2024 · $158k · revenue +311%
- WVWILD VIRGINIA INCORPORATED6× · 2018–2023 · $140k · revenue +109%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $50k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $50k
- DSDownstream Strategiesone grant, 2023 · $50k
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.
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.
Protect land along rivers, lakes and wetlands of vt; protect public access, wildlife habitat, scenic natural beauty, and ecological integrity.
To protect the water woodlands and wildlife of the New River Watershed.
Appalachian voices brings people together to protect the land, air, and water of central and southern appalachia and advance a just transition to a generative and equitable clean energy economy.
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.
Promotes the conservation of natural resources
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…
The mission of the james river association is to be guardian of the james river. we provide a voice for the river and take action to promote conservation and responsible stewardship of its natural resources.
Virginias United Land Trusts was founded to promote conservation statewide and to coordinate conservation planning and green infrastructure. The Organization offers training and educational programs, like our annual Virginia Land…
To initiate actions that will improve economic conditions, enhance and/or preserve natural resources and balance land and water management activities in a widely divergent geographic area of North Carolina.
The endowment's mission is to improve the quality of the environment by using its capital, expertise, and resources to fund projects and programs that encourage all sectors to work together to prevent pollution, improve water quality,…
To improve and protect the water quality in the james river watershed and table rock lake.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Virginia Rivers Coalition Inc and the most unlike its peers is Solar United Neighbors Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 40 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 ALLEGHENY-BLUE RIDGE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA RIVERS COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds CANAAN VALLEY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds WILD VIRGINIA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds GREEN FORESTS WORK INC ↗
- Who funds THREE RIVERS WATERKEEPER ↗
- Who funds Solar United Neighbors Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHEAT INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO RIVER VALLEY ENVIRONMENTAL COALITION ↗
- Who funds THE WEST VIRGINIA LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds POTOMAC VALLEY AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN HEADWATERS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BLACKWATER INC ↗
- Who funds West Virginia Highlands Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF DECKERS CREEK INC ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE MUSEUM OF WESTERN VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds ENERGY EFFICIENT WEST VIRGINIA ↗
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: Patagoniaorg · The Dunn Foundation Inc · Rockefeller Family Fund Inc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Nonprofit Partners Inc · Tortuga Charitable Foundation · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Common Stream Inc #0745935 · The New World Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · Charlottesville Area Community 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 Stewardship Foundation 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.
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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