· Private foundation
Sam & Marion Golden Helping Hand Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of SAM & MARION GOLDEN HELPING HAND FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 52 grants below total $642,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,285,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $643,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k32 grants · $129k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $314k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Carilion Clinic Foundation | $150,000 |
| Roanoke Area Ministries | $50,000 |
| Family Promise of Greater Roanoke | $40,000 |
| Jewish Community Preschool | $36,000 |
| Blue Ridge Zoological Society | $25,000 |
| Apple Ridge Farm | $20,000 |
| Family Services of Roanoke Valley | $20,000 |
| Jefferson Center Foundation | $20,000 |
| Roanoke Jewish Federation 1 B'nai B'rith Athletic Achievement Award | $17,500 |
| Mill Mountain Theatre | $15,000 |
| Western VA Foundation for Arts and Sciences | $15,000 |
| Rescue Mission of Roanoke | $15,000 |
| Lovable Services, Inc. | $15,000 |
| Roanoke Jewish Federation 3 Triumph of Hope | $12,500 |
| Grandin Theatre Foundation | $12,500 |
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.
32 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $137k 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
- CCCarilion Clinic Foundation2× · 2022–2023 · $325k · revenue +43%
- RARoanoke Area Ministries2× · 2022–2023 · $100k · revenue +187%
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY PRESCHOOL INC2× · 2022–2023 · $68k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- RJRoanoke Jewish Foundationone grant, 2022 · $20k
- BABoys and Girls Club of SW Virginiaone grant, 2022 · $18k
- BBB'nai B'rith Athletic Achievement Awardone grant, 2022 · $4k
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.
The Roanoke Symphony Orchestra provides a professional symphony orchestra of artistic excellence and integrity to enrich lives, to educate, and to entertain diverse audiences in western Virginia with the highest quality instrumental and…
Roanoke College develops students as whole persons and prepares them for responsible lives of learning, service, and leadership by promoting their intellectual, ethical, spiritual and personal growth.
The mission of roane family health care is to exceed the quality of care that our patients deserve and expect while surpassing community needs through innovative technology.
The organization's mission is to cultivate a legacy of stability, engagement, and vitality for arts and cultures in the city of roanoke through grant making. through a strategic partnership with the city of roanoke, the organization will…
The establishment and operation of a child learning/daycare facility for the use, benefit, and general welfare of the children of rappahannock county, virginia.
Mission is to comfort the body and heal the heart through compassionate quality care during end-of-life experiences, so patients and families may live each day with peace, comfort and dignity. we also serve the community by providing…
We produce vital works of classical and contemporary theatre, with Shakespeare as our foundation. We approach this work boldly with a resolve to ignite spirits, educate minds and defy expectation.
To be a catalyst in Richmond for learning and living through art.
Education to children in the field of dance. primary instructional focus on ballet. serving needs of community through education, outreach and performance.
The rescue mission foundation, inc. is an endowment fund organized for the support of the charitable purposes of the rescue mission of roanoke, inc., a related 501 (c)(3) organization, which seeks to minister to the whole person and…
The Chamber is a Business Advocate for the Roanoke Region.
The mission is to provide quality care that reflects Christian love respect and concern for the aged of the church and community. The primary objective is to meet the physical mental and spiritual needs of the residents.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Roanoke Childrens Theatre Inc dba Virginia Childrens Theatre and the most unlike its peers is Apple Ridge Farm Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
28 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. 28 of the 57 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 Carilion Clinic Foundation ↗
- Who funds Roanoke Area Ministries ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER ROANOKE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY PRESCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON CENTER FOUNDATION LTD ↗
- Who funds APPLE RIDGE FARM INC ↗
- Who funds MILL MOUNTAIN PLAYHOUSE CO INC DBA MILL MOUNTAIN THEATRE ↗
- Who funds GRANDIN THEATRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN NEUMANN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds LOVABLE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE RESCUE MISSION OF ROANOKE INC ↗
- Who funds ADULT CARE CENTER OF ROANOKE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds TAUBMAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds Henry Fork Service Center ↗
- Who funds ROANOKE CHILDRENS THEATRE INC dba VIRGINIA CHILDRENS THEATRE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL D-DAY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROANOKE HIGHER EDUCATION CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IMPACT LIVING SERVICES ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Edgar a Thurman Fdn Children Nect · Robertson Family Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Newbern Foundation · Carilion Medical Center · The Ceres Foundation Inc · Evelyn F James Foundation · Cartledge Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way of Virginia's Blue Ridge Inc · Muse Family Foundation Co Elizabeth Muse · Roanoke Womens 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.
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