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Shenandoah Valley Black Heritage Project

Our mission is to learn, share, and illuminate the rich african american history in the shenandoah valley while promoting equity across all aspects of life.

$63k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$33k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$193kMembership Benefit$9kEducation$7kInternational$5k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $32,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $62,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $30,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$32,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$148k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BROOKLYN ARTS EXCHANGE$32,500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Groundswellorg: $8k → 14%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.
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 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.

1
The Studio Theatre Inc

Studio Theatre produces exceptional contemporary theatre in deliberately intimate spaces, fostering a more thoughtful, more empathetic, and more connected community, in Washington DC and beyond.

Arts & Culture
2
Performance Space 122 Inc

See schedule operformance space new york is committed to promoting the arts (including performance, visual and all other contemporary arts), fostering artistic development (including through direct grants), advancing diversity in the field…

Arts & Culture
3
The Tank Ltd

The Tank is a small, Manhattan-based non-profit arts presenter and producer serving emerging artists. Our goal is to remove economic barriers from the creation of new work for artists launching their careers or experimenting within their…

Arts & Culture
4
Soho Repertory Theatre Inc

Soho repertory provides radical theater makers with productions of the highest caliber and tailor-made development at key junctures in their artistic practice. we elevate artists as thought leaders and citizens who change the field and…

Arts & Culture
5
Los Angeles Performance Practice

As creative producers, we are devoted to the production and presentation of groundbreaking experiences in contemporary performance that use innovative approaches to collaboration, technology, and social engagement. As a service…

Arts & Culture
6
The City Theatre Company Inc

To provide an artistic home for the development and production of contemporary plays that engage and challenge a diverse audience.

Arts & Culture
7
Undermain Theatre

Undermain theatre is a company of artists seeking to inspire, educate and challenge audiences and artists through its production of innovative theater with particular interest in poetic and language-driven work.

Arts & Culture
8
Watertower Theatre Inc

To create innovative, diverse theatre that builds community by fostering empathy and dialogue.

Arts & Culture
9
The Actors Center Inc

Creative residency programs, artist development workshops, advanced training opportunities, and mentorship for professional actors and people who wish to participate in the performing arts.

Arts & Culture
10
Big Dance Theater Inc

To create original dance/theater works which mix and re-mix dance, visual design, music, literary and found text.

Arts & Culture
11
En Garde Arts Inc

To produce bold theatre experiences that reach across artistic, physical and social boundries. We aim to increase empathy and open-mindedness by illuminating nuanced perspectives and unspoken truths behind the salient issues of our time.…

Arts & Culture
12
Center Stage Associates Inc

See schedule o.inspired by our home city, baltimore center stage acts as a cultural catalyst for all communities to access theater in every form and engage in compelling conversations. programming: capture the collective imagination and…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Joyce Theater Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Windhover 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.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 11 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BROOKLYN ARTS EXCHANGE INC: $60,000 · Arts & CultureBROOKLYN ARTS EXCHANGE INCJOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC: $33,000 · Arts & CultureJOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INCNEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CORPORATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureNEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CORPORATIONSchoolhouse Theatre Foundation Inc: $10,000 · Arts & CultureSchoolhouse Theatre Foundation IncINDIESPACE INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTheater of War Productions: $62,000 · OtherTheater of War ProductionsFairview Cemetery: $9,035 · OtherFairview CemeteryWINDHOVER FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · OtherWINDHOVER FOUNDATION INCGROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECTINC: $8,000 · Human ServicesSouthern Methodist University: $7,000 · EducationGIVE2ASIA: $5,000 · International
Arts & Culture$118,000Other$76,035Human Services$8,000Education$7,000International$5,000

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 budgetBROOKLYN ARTS EXCHANGE INC: $60,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetJOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC: $33,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSchoolhouse Theatre Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetGROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECTINC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIVE2ASIA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWINDHOVER FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetINDIESPACE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA5.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Valley Black Heritage Project funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shenandoah Valley Black Heritage Project. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 18%
  • Windhover Foundation Inc: 18% of income from government
  • New Jersey Performing Arts Center Corporation: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Shenandoah Valley Black Heritage Project 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 11 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 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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