· Private foundation
The Darrin-McHone Charitable 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JMU FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ARTS COUNCIL OF VALLEY | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN FRONTIER CULTURE FDN INC | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $750 |
| HARRISONBURG-ROCKINGHAM HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +47% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- JMJAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC4× · 2018–2025 · $20k · revenue +68%
- VQVIRGINIA QUILT MUSEUM2× · 2019–2021 · $8k · revenue +119%
- AFAMERICAN FRONTIER CULTURE FOUNDATION5× · 2018–2025 · $7k · revenue +100%
Funded once
- MRMASSANUTTEN REGIONAL LIBRARYone grant, 2017 · $5k
- DFDENTON FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $4k · revenue +5%
- SRSENTARA RMH MEDICAL CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +26%
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.
Provide direct financial support to agencies, organizations and governmental units in support of the fine arts in harrison county, wv
Creating spaces where contemporary art inspires connection, sparks creativity, and fosters innovation.
Vcca's mission is to provide time and space for national and international writers, visual artists, and composers of talent and promise to bring forth their finest works, because the arts are vital, diversity is a strength, and creativity…
Historical preservation
History is not the past; it is the story we tell about the past. every person in albemarle county and the city of charlottesville has a unique and powerful story to tell. through collecting, preserving, and interpreting the history of our…
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…
The museum is a regional museum of art, science, and local history serving the upper susquehanna valley region of ny and pa and is accreditted by the american alliance of museums, a member of the association of science and technology…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Washington Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Denton Family Charitable Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 42 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 THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HARRISONBURG CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA QUILT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRONTIER CULTURE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DENTON FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SENTARA RMH MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds ARTS COUNCIL OF THE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds ROBERTA WEBB CHILD CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SKYLINE LITERACY INC ↗
- Who funds HARRISONBURG-ROCKINGHAM HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK TRUST ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COUNSELING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Shenandoah Arts Council Inc ↗
- Who funds ROCKINGHAM EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC STAUNTON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHENANDOAH COUNCIL OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds OUR COMMUNITY PLACE ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Harrisonburg & Rockingham County · Denton Family Charitable Foundation · United Way of Central Shenandoah Valley Inc · Sentara Health · Truist Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Darrin-McHone Charitable 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.
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.