· Public charity
Roanoke Womens Foundation
To invest collaboratively in our communities and positively impact the areas quality of life
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $362k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Good Samaritan Hospice | $100,000 |
| Presbyterian Community Center | $70,000 |
| Blue Ridge Literacy | $70,000 |
| The Rescue Mission of Roanoke | $62,000 |
| Planned Parenthood-S Atlanti | $60,100 |
| Society of St Andrew | $30,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–23, $214k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 82% of those 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.
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.
Rockbridge Recovery supports individuals, families, and communities touched by addictive behaviors through support from peers, prevention, and education.
Renew Richmond strives to build healthier, more self-empowered communities by involving local youth in agriculture and environmental sustainability. We do this by partnering with local public schools.
The food bank purchases food and obtains donations of food from the united states department of agriculture, manufacturers, distributors, retailers, growers and community members for distribution to people in need in 25 counties and eight…
To enable staff and guests, especially the young, to develop their fullest potential in spirit, mind and body. ymca blue ridge assembly seeks to fulfill this purpose by: 1) serving ymca and other non-profit training events and conferences…
Our program is designed to help give back to the Southern Virginia community. We have weekly programs in place geared towards youth, young adults, families and senior citizens. We reach these individuals through feeding and group meetings…
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. blue ridge habitat for humanity adheres to…
The lebanon valley family ymca mission is to put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all. with a focus of being the leading non-profit organization in providing programs,…
Our mission is to empower formerly incarcerated persons, veterans, at-risk youth, substance abusers and those suffering from homelessness. We help these groups of people overcome barriers that hinder their effective transition following…
To empower homeless families with children to achieve sustainable independence through a community based response. building a community where every family has a home, livelihood and the chance to build a better future.
The mission of bald ridge lodge (brl) is to provide safe and stable support to young men in the group home, independent living program, and community based services, in a manner that nurtures the youth, strengthens healthy relationships,…
Our mission is to put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all. our focus is on youth development, healthy living and social responsibility. we help kids succeed, prepare teens…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Society of St Andrew Inc and the most unlike its peers is Renovation Alliance Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 21 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 GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds Renovation Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE LITERACY ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE RESCUE MISSION OF ROANOKE INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS SOAR ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF VIRGINIA'S BLUE RIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds MILL MOUNTAIN PLAYHOUSE CO INC DBA MILL MOUNTAIN THEATRE ↗
- Who funds ADULT CARE CENTER OF ROANOKE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds APPLE RIDGE FARM INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE SOCIETY OF ST ANDREW INC ↗
- Who funds DAN RIVER BASIN ASSOCIATION ↗
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: Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia · Robertson Family Foundation Inc · Cartledge Charitable Foundation Inc · Carilion Medical Center · United Way of Virginia's Blue Ridge Inc · Cp & Mg Lunsford Tuw · Edgar a Thurman Fdn Children Nect · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Helen C Cobbs Foundation · Sam & Marion Golden Helping Hand Foundation · The Newbern Foundation · Investco 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 Roanoke Womens 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.