· Private foundation
Ridgeway Em-Charittuw
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $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 |
| BILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC | $10,625 |
| FERRUM COLLEGE | $10,625 |
| CONCERN HOTLINE | $2,125 |
| HEALTHY FAMILIES OF THE NORTHERN | $2,125 |
| BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK | $2,125 |
| ADULT CARE CENTER OF THE NORTHERN | $2,125 |
| HENRY & WILLIAM EVANS HOME INC | $2,125 |
| C-CAP OF WINCHESTER | $2,125 |
| THE LAUREL CENTER | $2,125 |
| BLUE RIDGE HOSPICE INC | $2,125 |
| TIMBER RIDGE SCHOOL | $2,125 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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 38 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ridgeway Em-Charittuw funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ridgeway Em-Charittuw. Bigger dots raise more.
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