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The Harvest Foundation of the Piedmont

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$14M
Granted FY2023
37
Itemized grants FY2023
33
Organizations funded FY2023
58%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$4.2M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$13,737
Largest grant, FY2023
$1,648,963
Organizations funded a year
16 to 33
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
2
Total assets, FY2023
$282M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 58% of the organizations The Harvest Foundation of the Piedmont funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCrime & LegalFood & NutritionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202333$4.2M58%
FY202216$6.7M25%
FY202121$5.7M62%
FY201921$9.9M38%
FY201824$6.5M54%
FY201718$9.1Mn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Community Improvement$16MEducation$11MHealth$4.5MArts & Culture$3.2MRecreation & Sports$2.5MPhilanthropy$1.2MEmployment$728kEnvironment$582kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Patrick & Henry Community College Foundation$3,676,256290%
United Way of Henry County & Martinsville$1,179,718625%
Piedmont Virginia Dental Health Foundation$883,351564%
Dan River Basin Association$572,032446%
Piedmont Regional Community Services Board$520,0332n/a
Martinsville City Public Schools$467,6604n/a
Virginia Legal Aid Society Inc$378,42834%
Carlisle School$173,13041%
Hope Center Ministries Inc$109,41922%
Fayette Area Historical Initiative$99,675281%
Show all 27 grantees
All grantees of The Harvest Foundation of the Piedmont by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Patrick & Henry Community College Foundation$3,676,256290%
United Way of Henry County & Martinsville$1,179,718625%
Piedmont Virginia Dental Health Foundation$883,351564%
Dan River Basin Association$572,032446%
Piedmont Regional Community Services Board$520,0332n/a
Martinsville City Public Schools$467,6604n/a
Virginia Legal Aid Society Inc$378,42834%
Carlisle School$173,13041%
Hope Center Ministries Inc$109,41922%
Fayette Area Historical Initiative$99,675281%
Virginia Health Care Foundation$98,50030%
Henry County Furniture Museum Inc$35,900154%
Henry County Food Pantry Inc$34,750225%
West Piedmont Better Housing$25,000139%
The Community Dream Center$13,400214%
Smith River Singers$10,0001n/a
Solutions That Empower People Inc$10,00010%
Fieldale Heritage Inc$10,000110%
The Piedmont Arts Association$10,0001n/a
Boys and Girls Clubs of the Blue Ridge Inc$10,00011%
Tackfully Teamed Riding Academy Inc$10,000114%
Greater Bassett Area Community Incorporated$7,5001n/a
Quickstart Tennis of Central Virginia Inc$5,00017%
Martinsville Police Benevolent Fund Inc.$3,0001n/a
Hospice of Surry County Inc$1,50010%
MARC Workshop Inc$1,50011%
Bassett Community Center Inc$1,500112%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 48 recipients with no EIN on record ($34M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Harvest Foundation of the Piedmont supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPatrick & Henry Community College Foundation: $3,676,256 over 2y, 90% of budgetUnited Way of Henry County & Martinsville: $1,179,718 over 6y, 25% of budgetPiedmont Virginia Dental Health Foundation: $883,351 over 5y, 64% of budgetDan River Basin Association: $572,032 over 4y, 46% of budgetVirginia Legal Aid Society Inc: $378,428 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetCarlisle School: $173,130 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetHope Center Ministries Inc: $109,419 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetFayette Area Historical Initiative: $99,675 over 2y, 81% of budgetVirginia Health Care Foundation: $98,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHenry County Furniture Museum Inc: $35,900 over 1y, 54% of budgetHenry County Food Pantry Inc: $34,750 over 2y, 25% of budgetWest Piedmont Better Housing: $25,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetThe Community Dream Center: $13,400 over 2y, 14% of budgetSolutions That Empower People Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFieldale Heritage Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of the Blue Ridge Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTackfully Teamed Riding Academy Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetQuickstart Tennis of Central Virginia Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetHospice of Surry County Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARC Workshop Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBassett Community Center Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 12% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 21.

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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.

Community Foundation Serving Western VirginiaVA34.3× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia · United Way of Henry County & Martinsville · William Whidbee Sale & Virginia B Sale Foundation · Bassett Furniture Industries Foundation Inc · Marjorie Sutton Memorial Foundation · The Thomas B Stanley Jr and Ruth B Stanley Family Foundation Inc · Edgar a Thurman Fdn Children Nect · Eastman Foundation · Hooker Foundation · Hermes Family Foundation Co Gwendolyn H · Elster Foundation Agt · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund

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.

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About The Harvest Foundation of the Piedmont

How much does The Harvest Foundation of the Piedmont give?
The Harvest Foundation of the Piedmont reported 37 itemized grants totaling $4,221,094, out of $13,708,365 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 33 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Harvest Foundation of the Piedmont fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Community Improvement (23%), Education (16%), Health (6%).
Who are The Harvest Foundation of the Piedmont's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Patrick & Henry Community College Foundation ($3.7M), United Way of Henry County & Martinsville ($1.2M), Piedmont Virginia Dental Health Foundation ($883k).
Does The Harvest Foundation of the Piedmont fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 58% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Harvest Foundation of the Piedmont accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Harvest Foundation of the Piedmont?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia, United Way of Henry County & Martinsville, William Whidbee Sale & Virginia B Sale Foundation.
Where is The Harvest Foundation of the Piedmont based?
The Harvest Foundation of the Piedmont is based in VA.

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 76 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $9.4M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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