How much did SHENTEL FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 83% of SHENTEL FOUNDATION’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

2020

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2021

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2022

after promshenandoahlibrarytownstrasburgfoodeducational

2023

stop soldiersoldier suicidefood bank-veronafireshenandoah freefree clinicjude's children's

2024

feedingtunnel towersshenandoahfirerescuewildlifemountain

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 106 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k105 grants · $77k
$10k–50k1 grant · $13k

$500

Median grant

States reached

$4.7M

Total assets

Largest grants

SHENANDOAH MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$12,500
SHENANDOAH COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC$6,140
UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN SHENANDOAH VALLEY$5,000
SHENANDOAH COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION$3,018
VPM PBS$2,500
VIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA$2,500
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA$2,500
BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANKVERONA$2,179
MOUNTAINEER FOOD BANK INC$1,250
Feeding Kentucky Inc$1,250
MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC$1,250
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK$1,250
FEEDING SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA$1,250
PROJECT SHARE OF CARLISLE$1,250
Foodbank of Southeast Virginia Inc$1,250

02The need

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:

Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 9%. 49% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$223k · 94 repeat orgs$276k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.

94 repeat relationships — 76 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$223k

$257k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%

+33%

Still filing today

36%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% 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

HealthEducationFood & NutritionHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCrime & LegalOther

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

SC
SHENANDOAH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
2× · 2023–2024 · $31k · revenue +14%
UW
UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN SHENANDOAH VALLEY
3× · 2022–2024 · $15k · revenue +42%
SC
SHENANDOAH COUNTY FREE CLINIC
2× · 2022–2023 · $11k · revenue +39%

Funded once

SA
SEE ATTACHMENT 9
one grant, 2020 · $169k
SG
SEE GRANTS ATTACHMENT
one grant, 2021 · $76k
NR
NEW RIVER COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
one grant, 2023 · $1k

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.

Virginia Community Food Connections

To create healthy, food-secure communities and strong, equitable regional food systems by ensuring fresh and local produce is accessible and affordable for all.

Food & Nutrition

Fauquier Community Food Bank & Thrift Store

To fight hunger in fauquier county by providing our neighbors in need with nourishing food and encouraging self-sufficiency through vibrant community partnerships

Food & Nutrition

Southwest Virginia Community Health

Provide comprehensive primary medical care to the communites served.

Health

The Virginia College Fund

Solicitation of public contributions on behalf of member colleges. provides foundations, businesses, and individuals a convenient way of supporting small colleges and universities in virginia.

Education

Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia

Leading the effort to eliminate hunger in our community.

Food & Nutrition

Shenandoah Dental Clinic Inc

Bridging gaps in healthcare while providing access to a wide variety of essential services to the whole community

Health

Feed More Inc

Feedmore's mission is to fight hunger in central virginia. we are the core hunger relief organization serving children, families, and seniors within our 34 city and county service area.

Food & Nutrition

Shenandoah Valley Partnership Inc

To facilitate regional and local economic development efforts.

Community Improvement

Federation of Virginia Food Banks

Facilitating statewide collaboration among virginia's food banks, partners, and neighbors to improve nutrition security and empower strong, healthy communities.

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Free Clinic of Central Virginia Inc

The primary exempt purpose of the free clinic of central virginia, inc. is to provide free medical, dental, and pharmaceutical care to indigent persons.

Health

Cherry Mountain Volunteer Fire

Fire and emergency services

Public Safety & Disaster

Flemington Volunteer Fire

To provide volunteer fire fighting services in the flemington, wv region.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feeding Southwest Virginia and the most unlike its peers is Staunton Police Foundation. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 33 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/61

the rest of the field

11%

5,477/50,407

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.

05the grantee network

56 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

56/56

Grantees still filing

44/56

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$420,122Philanthropy$31,704Education$21,300Health$14,699Food & Nutrition$5,453Crime & Legal$3,954Human Services$2,456

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.

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.

Fraternal Order of Eagles 4264 AerieVA22.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fraternal Order of Eagles 4264 Aerie · Shenandoah Community Foundation · United Way of Northern Shenandoah · American Woodmark Foundation Inc · Lawrence L Lucas Foundation · Blue Ridge Area Food Bank Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Share Our Strength · AbbVie Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Ge Foundation · Enterprise Holdings 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 SHENTEL 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

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: SHENANDOAH COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~2 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +88% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 541851150 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 SHENANDOAH COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION, 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

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 2 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 3% 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 Shentel Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Shentel Foundation 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.

SHENTEL FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

56 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Shentel Foundation?

More from the funding graph

SHENTEL FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

56 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Shentel Foundation?

More from the funding graph