Skip to content
The Bank of Clarke County Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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.

$273k
Granted FY2025still arriving
215
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$327kHealth$138kRecreation & Sports$131kEducation$93kHuman Services$71kPhilanthropy$55kCommunity Improvement$53kYouth Development$52kOther$0
02FY2025 · 215 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k211 grants · $220k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $53k
$500
Median grant
5
States reached
$88
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
CLARKE COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION$5,000
LOUDOUN EDUCATION FOUNDATION$5,000
LOVE OLD TOWN WARRENTON$5,000
WINCHESTER RESCUE MISSION$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
SINCLAIR HEALTH CLINIC INC$5,000
WINCHESTER CLARKE GARDEN CLUB$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
SHENANDOAH VALLEY DISCOVERY MUSEUM$5,000
TIMBER RIDGE SCHOOL$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%HIGHLAND SCHOOL: $3k → 6%GIRLS ON THE RUN PIEDMONT: $500 → 6%THE FAMILY ONE: $500 → 4%NORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICES: $750 → 6%LOUDOUN VOLUNTEER CAREGIVERS: $250 → 4%THE LAUREL CENTER: $5k → 16%THE SHENANDOAH AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $500 → 7%THE SHENANDOAH AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $500 → 7%LEADERSHIP LOUDOUN INC: $2k → 4%I CAN 2 INC: $500 → 7%BOULDER CREST FOUNDATION: $2k → 7%BOULDER CREST FOUNDATION: $500 → 7%VETERANS MOVING FORWARD: $750 → 4%KATIE TEETS BRADSHAW COMFORT HOUSE: $1k → 16%TREE OF LIFE MINISTRIES: $4k → 4%TREE OF LIFE MINISTRIES: $3k → 4%TREE OF LIFE MINISTRIES: $2k → 4%TREE OF LIFE MINISTRIES: $500 → 4%TREE OF LIFE MINISTRIES: $500 → 4%BLUE RIDGE HOSPICE: $1k → 16%TREE OF LIFE MINISTRIES: $400 → 4%TREE OF LIFE MINISTRIES: $400 → 4%UPSIDE DOWN MOMENTS: $500 → 4%VETERANS MOVING FORWARD: $1k → 4%CHEERS SCHOOLS FAMILY: $1k → 7%VETERANS MOVING FORWARD INC: $500 → 4%THE LAUREL CENTER: $500 → 16%WESTMINSTER CANTERBURY: $735 → 7%BLUE RIDGE HOSPICE: $500 → 16%CHEERS TO CHARITY: $300 → 16%FAMILIES REACHING OUT GROUP: $250 → 16%FAMILIES REACHING OUT GROUP: $100 → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

ME
NY
PA
CA
WV
VA
MD
AZ
DC
TX
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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$678k · 152 repeat orgs$489k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +8% since the first grant, against +0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

152
352

Total granted

$678k
$386k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+0%

Still filing today

45%
15%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $103k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationRecreation & SportsYouth 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

  • SA
    SHENANDOAH APPLE BLOSSOM FESTIVAL INCORPORATED
    5× · 2021–2025 · $77k · revenue +141%
  • SV
    SHENANDOAH VALLEY DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC
    3× · 2021–2025 · $68k · revenue +20%
  • LE
    LEARY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $35k · revenue +95%

Funded once

  • DM
    DISCOVERY MUSEUM
    one grant, 2023 · $35k
  • NA
    NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN BUSINESS OWNERS - GREATER DC
    one grant, 2024 · $15k
  • TR
    TIMBER RIDGE SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
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.

1
Loudoun Museum Inc

Discover, Conserve, Interpret and disseminate knowledge of Loudouns Culture and History.

Arts & Culture
2
Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy

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…

Animals
3
Virginia Outdoor Adventure Inc
Youth Development
4
Louisa County Historical Society

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.

—
5
GoochlandCares

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.

Health
6
Fauquier Chamber of Commerce

We are focused on, and a resource for, the business, government and community interests of local businesses in and around fauquier county, virginia.

—
7
Secretariat Heritage Center
Arts & Culture
8
Nokesville Volunteer Fire Department

Fire and rescue services

Public Safety & Disaster
9
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
10
Virginia Gold Cup Association Inc

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…

—
11
Washington Heritage Museums

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…

Arts & Culture
12
Alliance for the Shenandoah Valley

Alliance for the shenandoah valley informs and engages people to protect the natural resources, cultural heritages, and rural character of our region.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Epilepsy Foundation of Virginia Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

161 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. 161 of the 593 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
156/161
Grantees still filing
79/161
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $35,000 · OtherDISCOVERY MUSEUM+152 more: $524,454 · Other+152 moreSHENANDOAH APPLE BLOSSOM FESTIVAL INCORPORATED: $76,750 · Arts & CultureSHENANDOAH APPLE BLOSS…SHENANDOAH VALLEY DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC: $67,500 · Arts & CultureSHENANDOAH VALLEY DISC…BARNS OF ROSE HILL: $8,250 · Arts & CultureGEORGE C MARSHALL INTERNATIONAL CENTER INC: $8,000 · Arts & CultureTHE GLASS-GLEN BURNIE MUSEUM INC: $7,500 · Arts & Culture+8 more: $22,746 · Arts & Culture+8 moreLEARY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · HealthDR TERRY SINCLAIR HEALTH CLINIC INC: $10,000 · HealthTHE CATOCTIN FOUNDATION dba LOUDOUN FREE CLINIC: $7,500 · HealthSPECIAL LOVE INC: $7,250 · HealthDEMENTIAMATTERS: $4,000 · Health+2 more: $3,500 · HealthCLARKE COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $26,267 · EducationRENAISSANCE MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $5,500 · EducationSHENANDOAH VALLEY SCHOLARS LATINO INITIATIVE INC: $5,000 · EducationJohn Paul the Great Montessori Academy Inc: $3,000 · EducationFREMONT STREET NURSERY: $2,500 · EducationWINCHESTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · EducationBlue Swallow Farm Foundation: $2,000 · Education+2 more: $2,753 · EducationVBA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $24,000 · PhilanthropyBLUE RIDGE WILDLIFE CENTER: $8,500 · PhilanthropyLOUDOUN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyFAUQUIER FISH: $1,500 · PhilanthropyTOL Ministries Inc: $9,800 · Human ServicesLOUDOUN CARES: $7,500 · Human ServicesTHE LAUREL CENTER INTERVENTION FOR DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIOLENCE: $5,000 · Human ServicesLEGACY FARMS: $3,500 · Human ServicesBOULDER CREST FOUNDATION: $2,750 · Human ServicesHIGHLAND SCHOOL INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesVETERANS MOVING FORWARD INC: $2,450 · Human ServicesLEADERSHIP LOUDOUN INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesBLUE RIDGE HOSPICE INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesHOSPICE CUP INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN BUSINESS OWNERS - GREATER DC: $15,000 · Community ImprovementTHE BLUEMONT CITIZENS ASSOCIATION: $2,220 · Community ImprovementOPERATION HOMEFRONT INC: $2,000 · Community ImprovementOUR HEALTH INC: $1,925 · Community Improvement
Other$559,454Arts & Culture$190,746Health$67,250Education$49,520Philanthropy$39,000Human Services$38,500Community Improvement$21,145

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSHENANDOAH APPLE BLOSSOM FESTIVAL INCORPORATED: $76,750 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetSHENANDOAH VALLEY DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC: $67,500 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetLEARY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCLARKE COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $26,267 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetVBA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $24,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetFOUNDATION OF THE STATE ARBORETUM OF VIRGINIA: $17,200 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetWINCHESTER RESCUE MISSION: $17,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN BUSINESS OWNERS - GREATER DC: $15,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetWESTMORELAND DAVIS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $11,200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDR TERRY SINCLAIR HEALTH CLINIC INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTOL Ministries Inc: $9,800 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBLUE RIDGE WILDLIFE CENTER: $8,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBARNS OF ROSE HILL: $8,250 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetGEORGE C MARSHALL INTERNATIONAL CENTER INC: $8,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFrederick County Fair Association Inc: $7,753 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE GLASS-GLEN BURNIE MUSEUM INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CATOCTIN FOUNDATION dba LOUDOUN FREE CLINIC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLOUDOUN CARES: $7,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSPECIAL LOVE INC: $7,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetKEN & NANCY MCKEE FOUNDATION INC: $6,100 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetGORE VOLUNTEER FIRE AND RESCUE COMPANY: $6,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetFrench and Indian War Foundation: $5,956 over 4y, 9.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHERN SHENANDOAH VALLEY INC: $5,950 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetRENAISSANCE MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $5,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLOUDOUN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBACKPACK BUDDIES FOUNDATION OF LOUDOUN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetSHENANDOAH AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE LAUREL CENTER INTERVENTION FOR DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIOLENCE: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSHENANDOAH VALLEY SCHOLARS LATINO INITIATIVE INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCLARKE COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $4,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetDEMENTIAMATTERS: $4,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetAccess Independence Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLOUDOUN LAURELS: $3,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetAPPALACHIAN CHAMBER MUSIC CO: $3,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetLEGACY FARMS: $3,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetKIWANIS CLUB OF WINCHESTER: $3,455 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetDAKOTA'S DREAM ANIMAL RESCUEINC: $3,250 over 5y, 1.1% of budget2 for 2 Foundation Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNW WORKS INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJohn Paul the Great Montessori Academy Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAIDS RESPONSE EFFORT INC D/B/A/ COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE FUND: $2,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBOULDER CREST FOUNDATION: $2,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWINDY HILL FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHIGHLAND SCHOOL INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREMONT STREET NURSERY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFAUQUIER FAMILY SHELTER SERVICES: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDULLES SOUTH FOOD PANTRY INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWINCHESTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
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.

American Woodmark Fou…Community Foundation …United Way of Norther…The Community Foundat…The Community Foundat…The Clara Weiss FundAndrew U Ferrari Foun…Fauquier Health Found…The Brandt FoundationWise FoundationThe Community Foundat…The Woltz-Winchester …
American Woodmark Foundation IncVA71.3× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
35report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Bank of Clarke County Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Bank of Clarke County 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 593 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Bank of Clarke County’s filings →

More from the funding graph

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
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
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