· Private foundation
John L Harrell & Margaret T Harrell Charitable Trust C/O First Bank Trustee
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $94k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $42k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FREDERICK COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $11,000 |
| WINCHESTER PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $11,000 |
| WINCHESTER DAY PRESCHOOL | $10,000 |
| FREMONT STREET NURSERY | $10,000 |
| WINCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION - SHENANDOAH ONCOLOGY ANGEL FUND | $8,000 |
| SINCLAIR HEALTH CLINIC | $8,000 |
| HENRY AND WILLIAM EVANS HOME | $8,000 |
| THE LAUREL CENTER INTERVENTION FOR DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIOLENCE | $7,000 |
| BLUE RIDGE HOSPICE | $6,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $6,000 |
| C-CAP (CONGREGATIONAL COMMUNITY ACTION PROJECT) | $6,000 |
| DENTAL CLINIC OF NORTHERN SHENANDOAH VALLEY | $5,000 |
| WINCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION - CAMP FOLLOW THE LEADER | $5,000 |
| FREDERICK COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS - BRIGHT FUTURES PROGRAM | $5,000 |
| FAMILIES REACHING OUT GROUP | $4,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $118k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those 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 97% of John L Harrell & Margaret T Harrell Charitable Trust C/O First Bank Trustee’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 97% of the giving stays in VA; by stated purpose, 5%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
33 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FSFREMONT STREET NURSERY9× · 2017–2025 · $75k · revenue +196%
- TLTHE LAUREL CENTER INTERVENTION FOR DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIOLENCE9× · 2017–2025 · $55k · revenue +47%
- BRBLUE RIDGE HOSPICE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $54k · revenue +92%
Funded once
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSS OF SHENANDOAH VIRGINIAone grant, 2017 · $4k
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
The ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, dignity, and freedom for all.
To provide affordable, quality childcare, preschool, & family resources. a united way agency.
To provide safe emergency and transitional shelter throughout the New River Valley connecting families with supportive services that empower them to make behavioral changes that promote self sufficiency and stability.
The organization is operated as a emergency shelter and home for abused, neglected and troubled children of southwest virginia. it provides services for the local departments of social services. it is paid on a fee for service basis by…
Domestic violence shelter provides 24 hour a day crisis intervention and advocacy along with emergency food, clothing, and shelter to those in situations related to domestic violence and sexual assault.
Shelter service for abused women and children in mingo and logan counties in west virginia.
Little hands virginia's mission is to ensure young children in need in central virginia have essentials from day one to improve outcomes for life.
Womens Daytime Drop-In Center (WDDC) addresses the needs of unhoused women andchildren to ensure they have access to all available services, where they receivefree meals, hygiene products, support groups and other resources to…
Crisis counseling and shelter
To provide short term shelter, transitional housing and comprehensive services, means, and guidance to homeless and potentially homesless families in our community.
Shelter House's mission is to prevent and end homelessness and domestic violence by engaging the community, building effective relationships and providing crisis intervention, safe housing and supportive services.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 35 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 FREMONT STREET NURSERY ↗
- Who funds DR TERRY SINCLAIR HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN SHENANDOAH VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds THE LAUREL CENTER INTERVENTION FOR DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds DENTAL CLINIC OF NORTHERN SHENANDOAH VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds WINCHESTER DAY NURSERY INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds HENRY & WILLIAM EVANS HOME INC ↗
- Who funds SHENANDOAH VALLEY DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CONGREGATIONAL COMMUNITY ACTION PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WINCHESTER AREA TEMPORARY THERMAL SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES REACHING OUT GROUP ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE NORTHERN SHENANDOAH VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds WINCHESTER RESCUE MISSION ↗
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: United Way of Northern Shenandoah Valley Inc · American Woodmark Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of the Northern Shenandoah Valley · The Bank of Clarke County Foundation · The Woltz-Winchester Foundation · The Community Foundation of Harrisonburg & Rockingham County · Dorothy M Overcash Charitable Trust First Bank Trustee · Andrew U Ferrari Foundation · The Brandt Foundation · The Clara Weiss Fund · Feltner Community Foundation · Ridgeway Em-Charittuw
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John L Harrell & Margaret T Harrell Charitable Trust C/O First Bank Trustee funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John L Harrell & Margaret T Harrell Charitable Trust C/O First Bank Trustee. Bigger dots raise more.