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Roaring Gap Foundation Inc

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.

$278k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2024
12
Organizations funded FY2023
25%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$12,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$145,500
Organizations funded a year
2 to 14
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$288k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Roaring Gap Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23
EducationCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving9$278k33%
FY202312$223k25%
FY202210$143k20%
FY202114$127k57%
FY202010$138k80%
FY20192$60kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$580kFood & Nutrition$138kYouth Development$65kHuman Services$52kArts & Culture$36kHealth$25kReligion$18kCommunity Improvement$15kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Alleghany Educational Foundation In$400,300519%
Solid Rock Food Closet$138,122524%
The Western Youth Network Inc$60,00031%
Alleghany County Schools$32,3252n/a
Alleghany Cares Inc$30,10032%
Alleghany Wellness Center Inc$24,14534%
Alleghany Partnership for Children$22,09241%
Alleghany Jam$21,00044%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill$19,5003n/a
Blue Ridge Business Development Cen$15,000211%
Show all 13 grantees
All grantees of Roaring Gap Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Alleghany Educational Foundation In$400,300519%
Solid Rock Food Closet$138,122524%
The Western Youth Network Inc$60,00031%
Alleghany County Schools$32,3252n/a
Alleghany Cares Inc$30,10032%
Alleghany Wellness Center Inc$24,14534%
Alleghany Partnership for Children$22,09241%
Alleghany Jam$21,00044%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill$19,5003n/a
Blue Ridge Business Development Cen$15,000211%
Springtown United Methodist Church$10,0001n/a
Limestone University$6,00010%
North Carolina Wesleyan University Inc$1,00010%

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($190k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Roaring Gap Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAlleghany Educational Foundation In: $400,300 over 5y, 19% of budgetSolid Rock Food Closet: $138,122 over 5y, 24% of budgetThe Western Youth Network Inc: $60,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetAlleghany Cares Inc: $30,100 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetAlleghany Wellness Center Inc: $24,145 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetAlleghany Partnership for Children: $22,092 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetAlleghany Jam: $21,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetBlue Ridge Business Development Cen: $15,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetLimestone University: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Carolina Wesleyan University Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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.

The Little Farm FoundationVA20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Little Farm Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Roaring Gap Foundation Inc

How much does Roaring Gap Foundation Inc give?
Roaring Gap Foundation Inc reported 9 grants totaling $278,210 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 14 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Roaring Gap Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (60%), Food & Nutrition (14%), Youth Development (7%).
Who are Roaring Gap Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Alleghany Educational Foundation In ($400k), Solid Rock Food Closet ($138k), The Western Youth Network Inc ($60k).
Does Roaring Gap Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Roaring Gap Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Roaring Gap Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Little Farm Foundation, The Winston-Salem Foundation, Triangle Community Foundation Inc.
Where is Roaring Gap Foundation Inc based?
Roaring Gap Foundation Inc is based in VA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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