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The Appleseeds Foundation

Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$488k
Granted FY2018
6
Grants FY2018
1
States reached
$277k
Largest

Read this first · the figures below need context

98% of The Appleseeds Foundation’s FY2018 grant dollars went to The Community Foundation Of Harrisonburg & Rockingham County, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2018 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

9
17
1
18

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172018.

Philanthropy$581kArts & Culture$30kSocial Science$15kEducation$14kHealth$12kFood & Nutrition$10kYouth Development$6kHuman Services$5kOther$0
02FY2018 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k4 grants · $11k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
  • $250k+1 grant · $277k
$7,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HARRISONBURG AND ROCKINGHAM COUNTY$277,075
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HARRISONBURG AND ROCKINGHAM COUNTY$200,000
SHENANDOAH VALLEY ECONOMIC EDUCATION$7,500
THOMAS HARRISON MIDDLE SCHOOL$1,500
TURNER ASHBY HIGH SCHOOL$1,500
STUARTS DRAFT MIDDLE SCHOOL$500
02The need
03

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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 18% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY: $5k → 14%FRESH AIR FUND: $1k → 17%IAN TILLMAN FOUNDATION: $1k → 12%PACE CENTER FOR GIRLS: $5k → 14%BURNT ORANGES INC: $4k → 16%WILDLIFE CENTER OF VA: $1k → 8%SHENANDOAH VALLEY ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $8k → 11%THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $99k → 22%WILSON MEMORIAL MIDDLE SCHOOL: $2k → 8%SHENANDOAH VALLEY ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $8k → 11%THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 22%WILSON MEMORIAL HS: $1k → 8%BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS: $1k → 11%STUARTS DRAFT MIDDLE SCHOOL: $500 → 8%THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HARRISONBURG AND ROCKINGHAM COUNTY: $277k → 11%STUARTS DRAFT MIDDLE SCHOOL: $500 → 8%THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HARRISONBURG AND ROCKINGHAM COUNTY: $200k → 11%BLUE RIDGE FOOD BANK: $10k → 8%FREE CLINIC: $10k → 11%BRCC ENACTUS: $5k → 8%FIRST STEP: $2k → 11%THOMAS HARRISON MIDDLE SCHOOL: $2k → 11%THOMAS HARRISON MIDDLE SCHOOL: $1k → 11%TURNER ASHBY HIGH SCHOOL: $2k → 11%TURNER ASHBY HIGH SCHOOL: $2k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 45% of The Appleseeds Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

The Appleseeds Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 15% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

23%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$22k · 4 repeat orgs$73k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +116% since the first grant, against -11% for the ones you funded once.

4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
15

Total granted

$22k
$73k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+116%
-11%

Still filing today

25%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
Arts & CultureSocial ScienceYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • YE
    YOUR ECONOMIC SUCCESS
    2× · 2017–2018 · $15k · revenue +116%
  • TA
    TURNER ASHBY HIGH SCHOOL
    2× · 2017–2018 · $3k
  • TH
    THOMAS HARRISON MIDDLE SCHOOL
    2× · 2017–2018 · $3k

Funded once

  • HC
    HARRISONBURG CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC
    one grant, 2017 · $21k · revenue +24%
  • BR
    BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +51%
  • FC
    FREE CLINIC
    one grant, 2017 · $10k

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.

1
Via Art Fund Inc

Via art fund is a nonprofit organization where art patrons join forces as partners in a new model of philanthropy to support visionary initiatives in art.

Arts & Culture
2
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
3
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Twin Cities

Our mission is to create and support mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.

Youth Development
4
Florida Opportunity Fund Inc

The fund was created because the florida legislature found there was a need to increase the availability of seed capital and early stage venture equity capital for emerging companies in the state, including, without limitation, enterprises…

Community Improvement
5
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
6
The James Beard Foundation Inc

The james beard foundation believes in a vibrant, equitable, and sustainable independent restaurant industry that stands as a cornerstone of american culture, community, and economy - and drives towards a better food system. the james…

7
Baltimore Children and Youth Fund Inc

Baltimore children & youth fund stewards public funds to support children and youth in baltimore city. the fund awards grants to community-based, youth-serving organizations and provides capacity-building and technical assistance to…

Youth Development
8
America's Second Harvest of the Big Bend Inc

To advance change by feeding the hungry and educating and engaging the community in the fight to end hunger.

Food & Nutrition
9
American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture

The american farm bureau foundation for agriculture strives to build awareness, understanding, and a positive perception of agriculture through education. the foundation offers a varierty of fun and engaging standards-based programs and…

10
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Triangle Inc

Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth. the organization's vision is that all youth achieve their full potential.

Youth Development
11
Initiative for a Competitive Inner City Inc

Icic drives inclusive economic prosperity in under-resourced communities through innovative research and programs to create jobs, income, and wealth for local residents.

Housing & Shelter
12
An Open Book Foundation

An open book foundation (aob) connects washington, dc-area students with authors, illustrators, and their books to nurture a lifelong love of reading. we support educational justice by building equitable access to interactive literacy…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Harrisonburg & Rockingham County and the most unlike its peers is Burnt Oranges Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 21 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HARRISONBURG & ROCKINGHAM COUNTY — $477,075 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HARRISONBURG & ROCKINGHAM COUNTYTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $104,226 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INCBLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC — $10,000 · OtherFREE CLINIC — $10,000 · OtherNEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS INC — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherTURNER ASHBY HIGH SCHOOL — $3,000 · OtherTHOMAS HARRISON MIDDLE SCHOOL — $2,500 · OtherFIRST STEP — $2,000 · OtherWILSON MEMORIAL MIDDLE SCHOOL — $1,500 · Other+5 more — $5,000 · OtherHARRISONBURG CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $20,780 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureBURNT ORANGES INC — $4,000 · Arts & CultureYOUR ECONOMIC SUCCESS — $15,000 · Social SciencePACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRESH AIR FUND — $1,000 · Recreation & Sports
Philanthropy$581,301Other$44,000Arts & Culture$29,780Social Science$15,000Youth Development$5,000Recreation & Sports$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HARRISONBURG & ROCKINGHAM COUNTY — $477,075 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $104,226 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHARRISONBURG CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $20,780 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetYOUR ECONOMIC SUCCESS — $15,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetBLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBURNT ORANGES INC — $4,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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 The Appleseeds 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 2%
  • Pace Center for Girlsinc2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Appleseeds Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Appleseeds 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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