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The Community Foundation of the Northern Shenandoah Valley

The community foundation enhances the quality of life in winchester and the northern shenandoah valley of virginia by inspiring philanthropy and civic engagement, empowering donors and community partners and providing stewardship of community resources.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$254k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0170% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

Health$403kPublic Benefit$392kAnimals$343kArts & Culture$263kEducation$234kPhilanthropy$168kHuman Services$119kReligion$100kHousing & Shelter$81kOther$904k
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 24 grants below total $991,639 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,240,172 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $248,533 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $62k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $156k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $269k
  • $250k+2 grants · $504k
$11,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WARREN COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC$254,359
LEASHES OF VALOR$250,000
SPECIAL LOVE$104,096
SAMUELS PUBLIC LIBRARY$63,006
BLUE RIDGE WILDLIFE CENTER$51,400
BARNS OF ROSE HILL$50,784
POWHATAN SCHOOL CO AMY SLUSS$35,000
CHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION$30,000
WARREN COUNTY PARKS AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT$25,000
FRONT ROYAL WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER$12,892
ST LUKE COMMUNITY CLINIC$12,000
SALVATION ARMY FRONT ROYAL$11,000
SERENITY FARM VIRGINIA$10,000
HANDUPLOANS$10,000
PEACEFUL FIELDS SANCTUARY$10,000
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:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $87k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 5%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 5%OPERATION WARM: $17k → 6%OPERATION WARM: $15k → 6%FRONT ROYAL WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $17k → 10%FRONT ROYAL WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $13k → 10%PHOENIX PROJECT: $11k → 10%FOUNDATION FOR REHABILITATION EQUIPMENT & ENDOWMENT: $8k → 16%FRONT ROYAL WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $6k → 10%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.

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.6M · 28 repeat orgs$395k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +58% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.

28 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
21

Total granted

$2.6M
$301k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
-2%

Still filing today

93%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $94k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesAnimalsEducationArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • WC
    Warren County Habitat for Humanity
    2× · 2024–2025 · $509k · revenue ×47 · 34% of their budget
  • BO
    BARNS OF ROSE HILL
    5× · 2021–2025 · $244k · revenue +21%
  • BR
    BLUE RIDGE WILDLIFE CENTER
    2× · 2022–2025 · $154k · revenue +88%

Funded once

  • FV
    FORT VALLEY VOL FIRE DEPT INC
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -24% · 34% of their budget
  • FC
    FREDERICK COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2017 · $35k
  • WC
    WARREN COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTH COALITION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -22%

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
Warwick Valley Humane Society Inc

Operation of Animal Shelter

Animals
2
Windham County Humane Society

Windham County Humane Society is dedicated to ensuring the safety and well being of animals, as well as enhancing the relationship between individuals and pets through adoption, education, advocacy, compassion and promotion of animal…

Animals
3
Warren-Vance Community Health Center Inc

The clinic provides primary healthcare in a spirit of compassion to limited income persons who are without adequate health insurance benefits in warren and vance counties, north carolina.

Health
4
Vermont Companion Animal Neutering Inc

Provide low-cost spay and neuter services to low-income and homeless animals to reduce pet overpopulation.

Animals
5
Free Clinic of Franklin County Inc

The free clinic of franklin county, inc is founded on the belief that everyone should have access to quality, affordable, primary health care regardless of their socio-economic or insurance status.

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6
Williams County Humane Society

To spay and neuter animals and provide shelter

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7
Wayne County Humane Society

Finding committed, permanent homes for companion animals in our community; measurably reducing companion animal overpopulation; educating and promoting humane values.

Animals
8
Franklin County Humane Society

Franklin County Humane Society dba Franklin County Animal Rescue (FCAR)promotes the health, welfare, and humane treatment of animal in Northwestern Vermont and provides temporary shelter for them with the goal of finding them good,…

Animals
9
Humane Association of Warren County -Ohio

To partner with the community to eliminate and prevent cruelty, neglect and homelessness, in order to achieve humane care and quality of life for all companion animals.

Animals
10
Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center of Roanoke Inc

SWVA Wildlife Center's mission is to conserve Virginia's wildlife through rehabilitation and release while teaching care and respect of native species. We advocate for the protection of wildlife and wild places to ensure these magnificent…

Animals
11
Southwest Virginia Community Health Systems Inc

Provide comprehensive primary medical care to the communites served.

Health
12
The Wildlife Center of Virginia

Treatment and rehabilitation of ill or injured wild animals and educational programs for various environmental issues.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Barns of Rose Hill and the most unlike its peers is 1455 Inc. 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 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr16%11%5–10yr21%11%10–20yr14%30%20–35yr12%26%35–55yr15%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr16%17%5–10yr21%24%10–20yr14%28%20–35yr12%20%35–55yr15%10%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%2/55
the rest of the field
12%
113/966

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.

04the grantee network

44 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. 44 of the 57 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/44
Grantees still filing
28/44
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Warren County Habitat for Humanity — $509,359 · OtherWarren County Habitat for HumanitySHENANDOAH AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $59,446 · OtherCONGREGATIONAL COMMUNITY ACTION PROJECT INC — $49,829 · OtherPROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA — $45,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY — $43,250 · OtherOperation Warm Inc — $55,584 · OtherFORT VALLEY VOL FIRE DEPT INC — $100,000 · OtherFORT VALLEY VOL FIRE DEPT INCWINCHESTER AREA TEMPORARY THERMAL SHELTER INC — $47,494 · Other+22 more — $294,212 · Other+22 moreSPECIAL LOVE INC — $204,096 · HealthSPECIAL LOVE IN…ST LUKE COMMUNITY CLINIC INC — $45,500 · HealthST LUKE COMMUNI…LEARY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $40,644 · HealthLEARY EDUCATION…ABBACARE INC — $32,500 · HealthABBACARE INCCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION — $30,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S TUMO…WARREN COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTH COALITION INC — $25,000 · HealthWARREN COUNTY C…DR TERRY SINCLAIR HEALTH CLINIC INC — $19,900 · Health+1 more — $5,000 · HealthLEASHES OF VALOR — $350,000 · Public BenefitLEASHES OF VAL…HIGHLAND FOOD PANTRY — $41,780 · Public BenefitHIGHLAND FOOD …Peaceful Fields Sanctuary Corporation — $119,500 · AnimalsPeaceful Fie…HUMANE SOCIETY OF WARREN COUNTY INC — $107,736 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIE…SERENITY FARM VIRGINIA — $100,000 · AnimalsSERENITY FAR…+2 more — $15,700 · AnimalsBARNS OF ROSE HILL — $243,851 · Arts & CultureBARNS OF …+3 more — $18,693 · Arts & Culture+3 moreSAMUELS LIBRARY INCORPORATED — $84,506 · EducationPOWHATAN SCHOOL INC — $78,000 · EducationLITERACY VOLUNTEERS - WINCHESTER AREA INC — $55,974 · EducationFREMONT STREET NURSERY — $10,000 · Education+1 more — $6,000 · EducationBLUE RIDGE WILDLIFE CENTER — $154,300 · PhilanthropyWarren County Educational Endowment Inc — $7,073 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE FOX VALLEY REGION INC — $6,507 · Philanthropy
Other$1,204,174Health$402,640Public Benefit$391,780Animals$342,936Arts & Culture$262,544Education$234,480Philanthropy$167,880

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWarren County Habitat for Humanity — $509,359 over 2y, 34% of budgetLEASHES OF VALOR — $350,000 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetBARNS OF ROSE HILL — $243,851 over 5y, 9.0% of budgetSPECIAL LOVE INC — $204,096 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetBLUE RIDGE WILDLIFE CENTER — $154,300 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetPeaceful Fields Sanctuary Corporation — $119,500 over 3y, 58% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF WARREN COUNTY INC — $107,736 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetSERENITY FARM VIRGINIA — $100,000 over 3y, 58% of budgetFORT VALLEY VOL FIRE DEPT INC — $100,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetSAMUELS LIBRARY INCORPORATED — $84,506 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetPOWHATAN SCHOOL INC — $78,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSHENANDOAH AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $59,446 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetLITERACY VOLUNTEERS - WINCHESTER AREA INC — $55,974 over 7y, 5.2% of budgetOperation Warm Inc — $55,584 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCONGREGATIONAL COMMUNITY ACTION PROJECT INC — $49,829 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetWINCHESTER AREA TEMPORARY THERMAL SHELTER INC — $47,494 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetST LUKE COMMUNITY CLINIC INC — $45,500 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetHIGHLAND FOOD PANTRY — $41,780 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetLEARY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $40,644 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE FRONT ROYAL WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER INC — $36,404 over 3y, 26% of budgetABBACARE INC — $32,500 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetWARREN COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTH COALITION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetWINCHESTER RESCUE MISSION — $22,017 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetWINCHESTER DAY NURSERY INC — $20,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetDR TERRY SINCLAIR HEALTH CLINIC INC — $19,900 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBLUE RIDGE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $17,736 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPHOENIX PROJECT INC — $11,200 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetISLAND WORKFORCE HOUSING — $11,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetFRONT ROYAL - WARREN COUNTY C-CAP — $10,731 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetSPCA OF WINCHESTER FREDERICK AND CLARKE COUNTIES — $10,700 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFREMONT STREET NURSERY — $10,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHE LAUREL CENTER INTERVENTION FOR DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIOLENCE — $8,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFREE FOUNDATION FOR REHABILITATION EQUIPMENT & ENDOWMENT — $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budget1455 INC — $7,443 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE FOX VALLEY REGION INC — $6,507 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGEWATER COLLEGE — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GLASS-GLEN BURNIE MUSEUM INC — $5,950 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHENANDOAH VALLEY DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC — $5,300 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR DENTAL AESTHETICS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% 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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

American Woodmark Fou…United Way of Norther…The Bank of Clarke Co…The Community Foundat…John L Harrell & Marg…The Clara Weiss FundAndrew U Ferrari Foun…The Woltz-Winchester …Valley Health SystemShingleton TuwWindcrest Foundation …The Monford D and Luc…
American Woodmark Foundation IncVA48.9× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Woodmark Foundation Inc · United Way of Northern Shenandoah Valley Inc · The Bank of Clarke County Foundation · The Community Foundation of Harrisonburg & Rockingham County · John L Harrell & Margaret T Harrell Charitable Trust C/O First Bank Trustee · The Clara Weiss Fund · Andrew U Ferrari Foundation · The Woltz-Winchester Foundation · Valley Health System · Shingleton Tuw · Windcrest Foundation Inc · The Monford D and Lucy L Custer 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 Community Foundation of the Northern Shenandoah Valley 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report 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

    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.

    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 57 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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