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Shentel 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k105 grants · $77k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $2,500 |
| VIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA | $2,500 |
| BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANKVERONA | $2,179 |
| MOUNTAINEER FOOD BANK INC | $1,250 |
| Feeding Kentucky Inc | $1,250 |
| FEEDING SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA | $1,250 |
| CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK | $1,250 |
| SHENANDOAH AREA GIRL SCOUTS | $1,250 |
| MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC | $1,250 |
| Foodbank of Southeast Virginia Inc | $1,250 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 55% of those 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
93 repeat relationships — 81 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 24 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- SCSHENANDOAH COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2024 · $12k · revenue +9%
- GCGARRETT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONINC ATTN CHERIE KRUG4× · 2020–2024 · $4k · revenue +108%
- WAWVU AT PARKERSBURG FOUNDATION INC4× · 2020–2024 · $4k · revenue ×18
Funded once
- SGSEE GRANTS ATTACHMENTone grant, 2021 · $76k
- VVVIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICAone grant, 2020 · $3k
- SASHENANDOAH AREA BOY SCOUTSone grant, 2020 · $3k
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.
Our mission is to ensure the availability, access, and affordability of locally produced food by connecting local farmers and all members of the community through programs, awareness, and advocacy.
Facilitating statewide collaboration among Virginia's food banks, partners, and neighbors to improve nutrition security and empower strong, healthy communities.
To fight hunger in fauquier county by providing our neighbors in need with nourishing food and encouraging self-sufficiency through vibrant community partnerships
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.
To assist rural virginians in developing and advancing their agricultural, economic and social interests to enhance their quality of life.
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.
Provide comprehensive primary medical care to the communites served.
Fire and rescue services
To promote health and wellness within the community by providing a medical home to reduce barriers to care and ensure access to a full range of coordinated health care and wellness services.
To distribute food effectively through collaborative efforts that minimize hunger, promote nutrition and encourage self-reliance through education.
Vsa represents sheriffs and their staff on criminal justice issues on a state level and provides information about emerging law enforcement issues, corrections and crime prevention to sheriff's offices and the public.
Represent the agriculture, forestry, and agribusiness community in virginia.
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.
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 35 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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
81 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. 81 of the 195 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 SHENANDOAH COUNTY FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds SHENANDOAH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN SHENANDOAH VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds SHENANDOAH COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GARRETT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONINC ATTN CHERIE KRUG ↗
- Who funds WVU AT PARKERSBURG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW RIVER COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WYTHEVILLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Response Inc ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA WESTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW RIVER COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOODSTOCK FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds STAUNTON POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW MARKET FIRE & RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds SHEN-PACO INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds STRASBURG COMMUNITY LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds WOODSTOCK LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds ORKNEY SPRINGS FIRE & RESCUE 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.
Open a dossier: Fraternal Order of Eagles 4264 Aerie · Shenandoah Community Foundation · The Virginia Foundation for Community College Education Inc · American Woodmark Foundation Inc · United Way of Northern Shenandoah Valley Inc · Lawrence L Lucas Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · Blue Ridge Area Food Bank Inc · Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · Give Back Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable 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 organization 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.
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% 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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