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Denton Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k34 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $31k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EXPLORE MORE DISCOVERY MUSEUM | $30,670 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF HARRISONBURG-ROCKINGHAM COUNTY | $6,000 |
| HARRISONBURG DOWNTOWN RENAISSANCE | $5,001 |
| WOODBINE CEMETERY | $4,000 |
| OASIS FINE ARTS & CRAFTS | $3,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| HARRISONBURG RESCUE SQUAD | $2,400 |
| GROTTOES POOL PRESERVATION FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS | $2,000 |
| ANY GIVEN CHILD SHENANDOAH VALLEY | $1,500 |
| STILL MEADOWS ENRICHMENT CENTER & CAMP | $1,200 |
| ASSOCIATION OF FUNDRAISING VIRGINIA SHENANDOAH CHAPTER | $1,000 |
| RMH FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| SECOND HOME CHILDCARE CENTER | $900 |
| FIRST TEE PROGRAM | $800 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $78k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +41% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
58 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 11 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- OCOUR COMMUNITY PLACE3× · 2019–2021 · $49k · revenue +32%
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF HARRISONBURG ROCKINGHAM COUNTY INC6× · 2019–2024 · $43k · revenue +82%
- ODOPEN DOORS INC6× · 2018–2023 · $35k · revenue +409%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $2k
- VTVIRGINIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARYone grant, 2021 · $2k
- HRHARRISONBURG ROCKINGHAM CHILD DAY CARE CENTERS INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +92%
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 engage christian faith communities in ending family homelessness through neighboring relationships that demonstrate christ's love.
To be a leading provider of quality healthcare in the diverse community of harrisonburg and rockingham county, virginia. the organization provides discounted medical and dental services based on income eligibility.
The harrison county senior citizens center provides educational, social, healthful, and recreational programs and services for all senior citizens of harrison county, west virginia. the center does not discriminate on the basis of race,…
To foster an environment for community businesses to thrive.
Seeking to put god's love into action, central valley habitat for humanity, inc. brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
Mission is to comfort the body and heal the heart through compassionate quality care during end-of-life experiences, so patients and families may live each day with peace, comfort and dignity. we also serve the community by providing…
Vopa's mission is to stand to combat homelessness among veterans by providing support and services needed to promote an empowered life filled with strength and purpose.
Employment of handicapped and developmentally disabled individuals.
Harrisville fire department provides firefighting services for harrsiville, west virginia and surrounding communities as well as training for volunteer firefighters. hvfd also provides services in emergency situations.
Promotion of heathly living in the north central west virginia area
To improve care for those facing life-limiting illness through direct support of patients and their families, public education and public advocacy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Faith Mission Home Inc and the most unlike its peers is Breaking Free. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
56 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. 56 of the 157 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 OUR COMMUNITY PLACE ↗
- Who funds HARRISONBURG CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF HARRISONBURG ROCKINGHAM COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOORS INC ↗
- Who funds GENERATIONS CROSSING ↗
- Who funds HARRISONBURG DOWNTOWN RENAISSANCE ↗
- Who funds HARRISONBURG RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds WOODBINE CEMETERY COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STILL MEADOWS ENRICHMENT CENTER AND CAMP ↗
- Who funds VALLEY PROGRAM FOR AGING SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Way To Go Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF HARRISONBURG & ROCKINGHAM INC ↗
- Who funds HARRISONBURG-ROCKINGHAM FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds SENTARA RMH MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds FAITH MISSION HOME INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROBERTA WEBB CHILD CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKINGHAM EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HARRISONBURG ROCKINGHAM CHILD DAY CARE CENTERS 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: The Community Foundation of Harrisonburg & Rockingham County · United Way of Central Shenandoah Valley Inc · Sentara Health · The Houff Family Foundation · The Darrin-McHone Charitable Foundation · Winston O Weaver Family Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of the Central Blue Ridge · Houff Charitable Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Merck Foundation a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation · The J & E Berkley Foundation · 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 Denton Family Charitable 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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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