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The Bank of Clarke County Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k211 grants · $220k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHENANDOAH APPLE BLOSSOM FESTIVAL | $20,000 |
| NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN BUSINESS OWNERS | $12,500 |
| SHENANDOAH VALLEY DISCOVERY MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| WESTMORELAND DAVIS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SHENANDOAH VALLEY DISCOVERY MUSEUM | $8,750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| WINCHESTER RESCUE MISSION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| CLARKE COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| LOUDOUN EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SINCLAIR HEALTH CLINIC INC | $5,000 |
| SHENANDOAH VALLEY DISCOVERY MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| WINCHESTER CLARKE GARDEN CLUB | $5,000 |
| TIMBER RIDGE SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| LOVE OLD TOWN WARRENTON | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 25% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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 +8% since the first grant, against +0% for the ones you funded once.
152 repeat relationships — 98 still active in FY2025, 54 since wound down; 88 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $103k 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
- SASHENANDOAH APPLE BLOSSOM FESTIVAL INCORPORATED5× · 2021–2025 · $77k · revenue +141%
- SVSHENANDOAH VALLEY DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC3× · 2021–2025 · $68k · revenue +20%
- LELEARY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC4× · 2021–2025 · $35k · revenue +95%
Funded once
- DMDISCOVERY MUSEUMone grant, 2023 · $35k
- NANATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN BUSINESS OWNERS - GREATER DCone grant, 2024 · $15k
- TRTIMBER RIDGE SCHOOLSone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
Discover, Conserve, Interpret and disseminate knowledge of Loudouns Culture and History.
Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy inspires, motivates, and engages people to protect, preserve, and restore wildlife habitat in Loudoun County, Virginia.We accomplish our mission through our advocacy, education, citizen science, and habitat…
The Society seeks to preserve and present the history of Louisa County, Virginia. The Society operates a museum and offers educational programs to the public.
GoochlandCares (GC) provides basic human services for local individuals who need help with healthcare, housing, food, clothing, and domestic violence services, providing a safety net for 2,135 Goochland residents and their families in 2024.
We are focused on, and a resource for, the business, government and community interests of local businesses in and around fauquier county, virginia.
Fire and rescue services
To assist rural virginians in developing and advancing their agricultural, economic and social interests to enhance their quality of life.
The virginia gold cup association was organized in 1923 to stimulate interest in and to promote steeplechase racing in virginia. the association strives to provide an environment for social recreation, where observers can enjoy the…
The mission of washington heritage museums is to preserve, promote and maintain its five 18th century properties in fredericksburg, virginia and develop dynamic educational resources and programs to engage and inspire the intrest of…
Alliance for the shenandoah valley informs and engages people to protect the natural resources, cultural heritages, and rural character of our region.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Epilepsy Foundation of Virginia Inc and the most unlike its peers is Phil Taylor Memorial Scholarship. 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 20 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
161 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. 161 of the 593 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 APPLE BLOSSOM FESTIVAL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SHENANDOAH VALLEY DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds LEARY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CLARKE COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VBA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF THE STATE ARBORETUM OF VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds WINCHESTER RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN BUSINESS OWNERS - GREATER DC ↗
- Who funds WESTMORELAND DAVIS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DR TERRY SINCLAIR HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds TOL Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE WILDLIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds BARNS OF ROSE HILL ↗
- Who funds GEORGE C MARSHALL INTERNATIONAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Frederick County Fair Association Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CATOCTIN FOUNDATION dba LOUDOUN FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds LOUDOUN CARES ↗
- Who funds THE GLASS-GLEN BURNIE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds KEN & NANCY MCKEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GORE VOLUNTEER FIRE AND RESCUE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds French and Indian War Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN SHENANDOAH VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds RENAISSANCE MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
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: American Woodmark Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Loudoun and Northern Fauquier Counties · United Way of Northern Shenandoah Valley Inc · The Community Foundation of Harrisonburg & Rockingham County · The Community Foundation of the Northern Shenandoah Valley · The Clara Weiss Fund · Andrew U Ferrari Foundation · Fauquier Health Foundation Dba the Path Foundation · The Brandt Foundation · Wise Foundation · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · The Woltz-Winchester 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 Bank of Clarke County 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.
- Maryland Humanities Council Inc — 60% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Downtown Frederick Partnership Inc — 2% 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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