How much does Shentel Foundation give?

Shentel Foundation reported 106 grants totaling $89,762 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 103 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does Shentel Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (25%), Education (17%), Philanthropy (15%).

Who are Shentel Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Shenandoah County Free Clinic Inc ($101k), United Way of Northern Shenandoah Valley Inc ($20k), Shenandoah County Library Foundation ($12k).

Does Shentel Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Shentel Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Where is Shentel Foundation based?

Shentel Foundation is based in VA.

Shentel Foundation

Shentel Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Shentel Foundation

Q: Which funders back the same organizations as Shentel Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fraternal Order of Eagles 4264 Aerie, Shenandoah Community Foundation, The Virginia Foundation for Community College Education Inc.

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.

$90k

Granted FY2024still arriving

106

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$13k

Largest

01What it funds

0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$126kEducation$84kPhilanthropy$76kYouth Development$24kPublic Safety & Disaster$22kFood & Nutrition$16kHuman Services$15kCrime & Legal$6kOther$0

02FY2024 · 106 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

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

$500

Median grant

States reached

$2.6M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
VIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA	$2,500
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA	$2,500
BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANKVERONA	$2,179
Feeding Kentucky Inc	$1,250
PROJECT SHARE OF CARLISLE	$1,250
MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC	$1,250
FEEDING SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA	$1,250
MOUNTAINEER FOOD BANK INC	$1,250
SHENANDOAH AREA GIRL SCOUTS	$1,250
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK	$1,250

02The need

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 (FY22–24, $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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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

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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$315k · 99 repeat orgs$118k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

99 repeat relationships: 82 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$315k

$103k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%

+19%

Still filing today

44%

35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationHuman ServicesFood & NutritionAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther

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

SC
SHENANDOAH COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION
4× · 2020–2024 · $12k · revenue +9%
WC
WYTHEVILLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC
4× · 2020–2024 · $4k · revenue +43%
GC
GARRETT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONINC ATTN CHERIE KRUG
4× · 2020–2024 · $4k · revenue +108%

Funded once

SG
SEE GRANTS ATTACHMENT
one grant, 2021 · $76k
VV
VIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA
one grant, 2020 · $3k
SA
SHENANDOAH AREA BOY SCOUTS
one grant, 2020 · $3k

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.

Virginia Community Food Connections

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.

Food & Nutrition

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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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

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

Virginia Foundation for Agriculture Innovation and Rural Sustainability

To assist rural virginians in developing and advancing their agricultural, economic and social interests to enhance their quality of life.

Environment

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

Southwest Virginia Community Health Systems Inc

Provide comprehensive primary medical care to the communites served.

Health

Nokesville Volunteer Fire Department

Fire and rescue services

Public Safety & Disaster

Shenandoah Valley Medical System I

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.

Health

Virginia Peninsula Foodbank

To distribute food effectively through collaborative efforts that minimize hunger, promote nutrition and encourage self-reliance through education.

Food & Nutrition

Virginia Sheriffs' Association Inc

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.

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Virginia Agribusiness Council

Represent the agriculture, forestry, and agribusiness community in virginia.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feeding Southwest Virginia; 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.

04the grantee network

81 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. 81 of the 183 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

81/81

Grantees still filing

51/81

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$274,860Health$109,924Philanthropy$57,135Education$30,512Food & Nutrition$6,803Crime & Legal$5,317Human Services$4,500

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

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Fraternal Order of Eagles 4264 AerieVA28.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Shentel Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shentel Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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

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How do I get to Shentel Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Shentel 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.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

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The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home