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Shenandoah Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $275k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $275k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KENT SCHOOL | $75,000 |
| LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL | $70,000 |
| ST JOHN'S COLLEGE | $70,000 |
| NANCY'S LIST | $60,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $30,000 |
| STAMFORD HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| POPULATION ACTION INTERNATIONAL | $30,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN | $25,000 |
| GLADNEY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| THE 100 CLUB OF ARIZONA | $20,000 |
| VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART | $20,000 |
| RIVERSIDE THEATRE OF VERO BEACH | $20,000 |
| ENGENDER HEALTH INSTITUTE | $20,000 |
| TRINITY COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| HISPANIC MUSEUM AND LIBRARY | $20,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 55% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
12 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k 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
- KSKENT SCHOOL5× · 2019–2024 · $215k · revenue +12%
- TLTHE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL5× · 2019–2024 · $205k · revenue +36%
- SJST JOHN'S COLLEGE5× · 2019–2024 · $205k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- TPTHE POPULATION INSTITUTE INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $16k · revenue +354%
- PRPopulation Reference Bureau Incone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue -7%
POPULATION CONNECTIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue +97%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Population Action International and the most unlike its peers is The Gladney Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 28 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 KENT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN'S COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds POPULATION ACTION INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds PATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds 100 CLUB OF ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds The Gladney Foundation ↗
- Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE POPULATION INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Population Reference Bureau Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SEVERN RIVER ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BUCKLEY INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds POPULATION CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds SPOTLIGHT YOUTH THEATRE ↗
- Who funds Parents Unite Inc ↗
- Who funds QUOGUE JUNIOR THEATER TROUPE INC ↗
- Who funds THE POPULATION COUNCIL 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.
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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 Shenandoah 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- St John's College — 2% of income from government
- Trinity College — 0% of income from government
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.
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