· Public charity
Snowshoe Foundation Inc
The mission of the snowshoe foundation is to seek to enhance the quality of life in our local communities through assisting local organizaitons and/or individuals in areas of health, human services, education, recreation, the arts,
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 16 grants below total $170,704 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $377,655 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $206,951 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $131k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| POCAHONTAS COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL | $20,700 |
| TYGART VALLEY MIDDLEHIGH SCHOOL | $15,500 |
| ELKINS HIGH SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| WEBSTER COUNTY 4-H LEADERS ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| DAVIS & ELKINS COLLEGE | $14,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF RANDOLPH COUNTY | $11,000 |
| RANDOLPH COUNTY TECHNICAL CENTER | $10,000 |
| COWEN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $10,000 |
| TYGARTS VALLEY HOMESTEAD ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| HILLSBORO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| WEST VIRGINIA WOOD TECHNOLOGY CENTER | $8,000 |
| TYRAND COOPERATIVE MINISTRIES | $7,500 |
| POCAHONTAS COUNTY 4-H | $7,500 |
| MIDLAND ELEMENTARY | $5,604 |
| CHALLENGED ATHLETES OF WV | $5,500 |
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 (FY20–24, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 18%. 44% 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.
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 +16% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 6 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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
- DSDISABLED SPORTS USA-CHALLENGED ATHLETES OF WV4× · 2021–2024 · $26k · revenue +38%
- TVTygart Valley Homestead Association Inc2× · 2021–2024 · $20k · revenue +14%
- PCPocahontas County Senior Citizens Inc2× · 2020–2023 · $16k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- RIROTARY INTERNATIONAL ELKINS ROTARY CLUBone grant, 2017 · $25k
- TOTOWN OF MARLINTONone grant, 2018 · $25k
- PGPHIL GAINER COMMUNITY CENTERone grant, 2021 · $20k
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.
To serve as the primary planning and coordinating body to promote
Local volunteer fire department providing fire protection and rescue services to the citizens of romney wv and surrounding areas.
The purpose of the Buckingham County Vol. Fire Dept. is to provide fire protection to the citizens of Buckingham County and surrounding counties if needed. We also respond to automobile accidents as well as any other request for assistance.
Volunteer fire company providing fire protection and emergency rescue services to hardy county, wv
None
Providing public fire protection and emergency rescue services.
Mission for burnsville vfd burnsville wv the burnsville vfd provides fire protection fire safety and emergency rescue services to the citizens in its designated area. bvfd serves in a safe efficient manner serving all stakeholders.
The department provides volunteer fire and EMS service to approximately 3800 residents (and those passing through on I-40) in East Roane County Tennessee.
WVFD provides fire suppression and rescue services to the communities of Nicholas County, WV and surrounding areas.
Fire protection for the City of Lewisburg, WV and surrounding areas
To provide emergency medical services to the citizens of Elkton, McGaheysville and Massanutten Village and the surrounding areas of Rockingham County. These services are provided by an all volunteer agency who responded to more than 3,000…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Refuge Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rotary International Elkins Rotary Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 18 years old; the field is 18. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% 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.
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 45 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 DISABLED SPORTS USA-CHALLENGED ATHLETES OF WV ↗
- Who funds ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ELKINS ROTARY CLUB ↗
- Who funds Tygart Valley Homestead Association Inc ↗
- Who funds 4-H CLUBS ASSOCIATION OF WEBSTER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Pocahontas County Senior Citizens Inc ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN STATE FOREST FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds DAVIS & ELKINS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds POCAHONTAS COUNTY FAMILY RESOURCE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF RANDOLPH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds COWEN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT ↗
- Who funds Randolph County Family Resource Network Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HIGH ROCKS EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Webster Springs VFD Inc ↗
- Who funds THE OLD BRICK PLAYHOUSE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Tyrand Cooperative Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY REFUGE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Child and Youth Advocacy Center ↗
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: United Way of the Greenbrier Valley Inc · Pallottine Foundation of Buckhannon West Virginia · Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 organization Snowshoe Foundation Inc 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.
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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