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SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK TRUST
SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK TRUST supports the shenandoah national park through advocacy and by raising funds that protect shenandoah's magnificent natural and historic resources.
$694k
Granted FY2023
4
Grants
2
Communities
$285k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 63% of SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK TRUST’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
co-sponsor passthroughpassthrough portionportion netnet income
2020
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2021
prismblue ridgeinvasive plants
2022
land
2023
land
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2023 · 4 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $19k
- $250k+2 grants · $546k
$261,273
Median grant
2
States reached
$5.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
- SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK$285,054
- CONSERVATION LEGACY$261,273
- THE CONSERVATION FUND$19,019
- GROUNDWORK RVA$5,039
02The need
04
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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 6%. 100% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.0M · 6 repeat orgs$187k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +161% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
6
8
Total granted
$3.0M
$168k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+161%
+5%
Still filing today
83%
63%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EnvironmentEducationYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementOther
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
CONSERVATION LEGACY6× · 2018–2023 · $792k · revenue +161%- PEPIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL2× · 2018–2019 · $61k · revenue +161%
- SNSHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK ASSOCIATION3× · 2018–2020 · $52k · revenue +130%
Funded once
- BRBLUE RIDGE PRISM INCone grant, 2021 · $61k · revenue -3%
CORNELL UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF SPONSORED PROGRAMSone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +17%- DSDEMOLITION SERVICES INCone grant, 2022 · $20k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
Virginia Conservation Network
Support conservation in Virginia through public policy research, advocacy, education and capacity building for its member organizations.
Environment
2
Historic Virginia Land Conservancy
Promoting for the benefit of the general public, the preservation, protection and enjoyment of our natural resources, principally in the lower james, york, rappahannock, and chowan river watersheds.
Environment
3
Valley Conservation Council
To protect the natural and cultural resources of the greater shenandoah valley region through land conservation, education, and experiences to preserve the life-enriching benefits our land and water provide.
Environment
4
Virginia Zoological Society
The virginia zoological society inc (the "society") exempt from federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code. organized on september 21, 1979, its purpose is to act as an advisory and supportive organization to…
Animals
5
Alliance for the Shenandoah Valley
Alliance for the shenandoah valley informs and engages people to protect the natural resources, cultural heritages, and rural character of our region.
Community Improvement
6
Georgetown Trust for Conservation
Contribute to the sustainability of the georgetown-silver plume historic landmark district and its environs through the preservation and interpretation of the district's cultural, artistic and natural assets.
Arts & Culture
7
New River Conservancy
To protect the water woodlands and wildlife of the New River Watershed.
Environment
8
West Virginia Association of
Promotes the conservation of natural resources
Environment
9
Virginias United Land Trusts
Virginias United Land Trusts was founded to promote conservation statewide and to coordinate conservation planning and green infrastructure. The Organization offers training and educational programs, like our annual Virginia Land…
Environment
10
Northern Virginia Conservation Trust
NVCT conserves land that has natural, historical, and cultural value to our communities.
Environment
11
Virginia Outdoor Adventure Inc
Youth Development
12
Wild Virginia Incorporated
Protecting and connecting virginia's wild lands and waters.
Environment
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shenandoah National Park Assoc Inc and the most unlike its peers is Virginia Tech Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$2,015,634Youth Development$792,459Environment$296,854Recreation & Sports$51,794Education$38,995Community Improvement$10,048
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 CONSERVATION LEGACY ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE PRISM INC ↗
- Who funds SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CORNELL UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF SPONSORED PROGRAMS ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION FUND ↗
- Who funds POTOMAC APPALACHIAN TRAIL CLUB ↗
- Who funds GROUNDWORK RVA ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARCHEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF VIRGINIA ↗
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.
National Park FoundationDC13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: National Park Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 organisation SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK TRUST 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: BLUE RIDGE PRISM INC.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~6 months of operating runway; revenue held over 4 filed years.
Track record & reputation
medium risk
4 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 852512165 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on BLUE RIDGE PRISM INC, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 6 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 23% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Shenandoah National Park Trust?
Find your warmest path to Shenandoah National Park Trust through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines