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Shenandoah Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$180k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$673kEducation$660kInternational$188kArts & Culture$90kPublic Safety & Disaster$20kPhilanthropy$20kEnvironment$15kReligion$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $150k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$4.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KENT SCHOOL$40,000
TRINITY COLLEGE$25,000
VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART$20,000
RIVERSIDE THEATRE OF VERO BEACH$20,000
STAMFORD HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$15,000
LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL$10,000
GLADNEY FOUNDATION$10,000
ST JOHN'S COLLEGE$10,000
QUOGUE JUNIOR THEATRE TROUPE INC$5,000
CHURCH OF THE ATONEMENT$5,000
COMMUNITY CHURCH OF VERO BEACH$5,000
SEVERN RIVER ASSOCIATION$5,000
PARENTS UNITE$5,000
BUCKLEY INSTITUTE$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 56% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL: $35k → 8%NANCY'S LIST: $60k → 8%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $30k → 17%GLADNEY FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART: $20k → 12%SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $25k → 13%KENT SCHOOL: $75k → 9%STAMFORD HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $30k → 9%LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL: $70k → 11%THE 100 CLUB OF ARIZONA: $20k → 11%PATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL: $24k → 8%NANCY'S LIST: $60k → 8%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $30k → 17%VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART: $20k → 12%KENT SCHOOL: $40k → 9%LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL: $35k → 11%NANCY'S LIST: $60k → 8%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $30k → 17%POPULATION ACTION INTERNATIONAL: $30k → 14%RIVERSIDE THEATRE OF VERO BEACH: $20k → 12%KENT SCHOOL: $35k → 9%LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL: $35k → 11%NANCY'S LIST: $60k → 8%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $30k → 17%POPULATION ACTION INTERNATIONAL: $30k → 14%RIVERSIDE THEATRE OF VERO BEACH: $20k → 12%KENT SCHOOL: $35k → 9%LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL: $35k → 11%ST JOHN'S COLLEGE: $70k → 6%NANCY'S LIST: $25k → 8%ENGENDER HEALTH INSTITUTE: $20k → 17%POPULATION ACTION INTERNATIONAL: $30k → 14%KENT SCHOOL: $35k → 9%LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL: $30k → 11%ST JOHN'S COLLEGE: $35k → 6%ENGENDER HEALTH INSTITUTE: $20k → 17%POPULATION ACTION INTERNATIONAL: $20k → 14%KENT SCHOOL: $35k → 9%ST JOHN'S COLLEGE: $35k → 6%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $20k → 17%TRINITY COLLEGE: $25k → 11%ST JOHN'S COLLEGE: $35k → 6%ENGENDER HEALTH INSTITUTE: $20k → 17%TRINITY COLLEGE: $20k → 11%ST JOHN'S COLLEGE: $30k → 6%HISPANIC MUSEUM AND LIBRARY: $20k → 17%POPULATION COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 17%POPULATION COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
CT
CA
MD
AZ
DC
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 21 repeat orgs$91k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
7

Total granted

$1.8M
$91k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
0%

Still filing today

57%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureInternationalSocial ScienceHealthPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • KS
    KENT SCHOOL
    6× · 2019–2025 · $255k · revenue +12%
  • TL
    THE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL
    6× · 2019–2025 · $215k · revenue +36%
  • SJ
    ST JOHN'S COLLEGE
    6× · 2019–2025 · $215k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -13%
  • 1C
    100 CLUB OF ARIZONA
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
  • TP
    THE POPULATION INSTITUTE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $16k · revenue +354%
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.

04Its field

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.

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The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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4
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
5
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
6
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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7
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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8
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
9
Pew Research Center

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…

Social Science
10
Pact Institute

Pact institute works to achieve strategic objectives that improve the lives of people around the world who are poor and marginalized through innovation, the exploration of new approaches and partnerships, and funding diversification. it is…

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11
Ibis Reproductive Health Inc

Ibis reproductive health drives change through bold, rigorous research and principled partnerships that advance sexual and reproductive autonomy, choices and health worldwide.

Health
12
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Population Action International; 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.
04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 28 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
10/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NANCY'S LIST: $265,000 · OtherNANCY'S LISTPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $140,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODSTAMFORD HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $99,000 · OtherSTAMFORD HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONENGENDER HEALTH INSTITUTE: $93,000 · OtherENGENDER HEALTH INSTITUTEIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientRIVERSIDE THEATRE OF VERO BEACH: $40,000 · OtherHISPANIC MUSEUM AND LIBRARY: $40,000 · Other+4 more: $56,000 · Other+4 moreKENT SCHOOL: $255,000 · EducationKENT SCHOOLTHE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL: $215,000 · EducationTHE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE…ST JOHN'S COLLEGE: $215,000 · EducationST JOHN'S COLLEGETRINITY COLLEGE: $45,000 · EducationTRINITY COLLEGE+2 more: $25,000 · EducationPOPULATION ACTION INTERNATIONAL: $110,000 · HealthTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $25,000 · HealthPATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL: $59,000 · InternationalTHE POPULATION COUNCIL INC: $4,000 · InternationalVERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureQUOGUE JUNIOR THEATER TROUPE INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureSPOTLIGHT YOUTH THEATRE: $5,000 · Arts & CultureThe Gladney Foundation: $30,000 · PhilanthropyPopulation Reference Bureau Inc: $15,000 · Social SciencePOPULATION CONNECTION: $6,000 · Social ScienceTHE SEVERN RIVER ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 · Environment
Other$783,000Education$755,000Health$135,000International$63,000Arts & Culture$55,000Philanthropy$30,000Social Science$21,000Environment$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKENT SCHOOL: $255,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL: $215,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetST JOHN'S COLLEGE: $215,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPOPULATION ACTION INTERNATIONAL: $110,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetPATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL: $59,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRINITY COLLEGE: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Gladney Foundation: $30,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SEVERN RIVER ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budget100 CLUB OF ARIZONA: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE POPULATION INSTITUTE INC: $16,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPopulation Reference Bureau Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBUCKLEY INSTITUTE INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetQUOGUE JUNIOR THEATER TROUPE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetParents Unite Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetSPOTLIGHT YOUTH THEATRE: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE POPULATION COUNCIL INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
  • Who funds The Gladney Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds THE SEVERN RIVER ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds 100 CLUB OF ARIZONA ↗
  • Who funds THE POPULATION INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds Population Reference Bureau Inc ↗
  • Who funds BUCKLEY INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds QUOGUE JUNIOR THEATER TROUPE INC ↗
  • Who funds Parents Unite Inc ↗
  • Who funds POPULATION CONNECTION ↗
  • Who funds SPOTLIGHT YOUTH THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds THE POPULATION COUNCIL 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.

Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN12× affinity8 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Shenandoah Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shenandoah Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Shenandoah Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Shenandoah Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 28 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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