· Private foundation
Ridgeway Em-Charittuw
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $77k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED METHODIST HOMES INC | $18,622 |
| VIRGINIA UNITED METHODIST FAMILY | $16,198 |
| NATIONAL SOCIETY DAUGHTERS OF THE | $10,625 |
| GENERAL BOARD OF GLOBAL MINISTRIES OF | $10,625 |
| FERRUM COLLEGE | $10,625 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,625 |
| SINCLAIR HEALTH CLINIC | $2,125 |
| ADULT CARE CENTER OF THE NORTHERN | $2,125 |
| C-CAP OF WINCHESTER | $2,125 |
| BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK | $2,125 |
| HENRY & WILLIAM EVANS HOME INC | $2,125 |
| BLUE RIDGE HOSPICE INC | $2,125 |
| TIMBER RIDGE SCHOOL | $2,125 |
| CONCERN HOTLINE | $2,125 |
| HEALTHY FAMILIES OF THE NORTHERN | $2,125 |
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 (FY23–25, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 8% 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.
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 +44% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- CHCONCERN HOTLINE INC8× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +44%
- TLTHE LAUREL CENTER INTERVENTION FOR DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIOLENCE8× · 2017–2025 · $11k · revenue +47%
- BRBLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC8× · 2017–2025 · $10k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $10k
- TKTHE KIDS CLUB OF NORTHERN SHENANDOAHone grant, 2024 · $1k
- TYTHE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER INCone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue 0%
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.
Community health center
Providing life-enriching services that promote well-being and build community.
Assisted Living and Nursing Care
St john's home for children is a leader in delivering innovative and therapeutic services, in collaboration with our community partners and resources, to promote healing and growth for our children and family prosperity and resilience.
The mission of goodwin house incorporated ("ghi") is to support, honor and uplift the lives of older adults and the people who care for them through a faith-based, nonprofit organization affiliated with the episcopal church.
To promote health and wellness within the community by providing a medical home to reduce barriers to care and ensure access to a full range of coordinated health care and wellness services.
The Virginia Home provides compassionate and professional residential care to adult Virginians with irreversible physical disabilities, ensuring that their lifelong comfort and security will never be compromised, regardless of the ability…
The ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, dignity, and freedom for all.
Valley healthcare system shall improve our community's health by delivering the highest quality behavioral healthcare guided by our consumer's needs.
Retirement housing
To collectively strengthen integrated behavioral and primary healthcare system by providing a continuum of services to the community that is responsive, accessible, and high-quality.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Youth Development Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ferrum College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 38 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 FERRUM COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA UNITED METHODIST HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SOCIETY DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ↗
- Who funds CONCERN HOTLINE INC ↗
- Who funds WINCHESTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE LAUREL CENTER INTERVENTION FOR DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds LEARY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DR TERRY SINCLAIR HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds HENRY & WILLIAM EVANS HOME INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER 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: American Woodmark Foundation Inc · John L Harrell & Margaret T Harrell Charitable Trust C/O First Bank Trustee · United Way of Northern Shenandoah Valley Inc · The Bank of Clarke County Foundation · Andrew U Ferrari Foundation · The Monford D and Lucy L Custer Foundation · The Community Foundation of the Northern Shenandoah Valley · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Ridgeway Em-Charittuw 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.