· Private foundation
The Harvest Foundation of the Piedmont
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 37 grants below total $4,221,094 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $13,708,365 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $9,487,271 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 · FY2023
- Under $10k15 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $253k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $847k
- $250k+4 grants · $3.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| M-HC Economic Development Corp | $1,648,963 |
| Patrick Henry Community College | $846,266 |
| West Piedmont Workforce Invesment Board | $302,508 |
| MHC Coalition for Health and Wellness | $276,773 |
| Dan River Basin Assn | $200,000 |
| United Way of Henry County & Martinsville | $200,000 |
| Virginia Legal Aid Society, Inc. | $178,428 |
| Piedmont Community Services Board | $137,780 |
| Hope Center Ministries | $130,668 |
| Edwards Adult Day Care | $41,256 |
| West Piedmont Better Housing Coalition | $25,000 |
| United Way of Henry County & Martinsville | $25,000 |
| The Family YMCA | $25,000 |
| United Way of Henry County & Martinsville | $24,971 |
| Pregnancy Care Center | $23,200 |
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 (FY17–18, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those 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 +30% since the first grant, against -10% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2023, 16 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $181k 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
- PHPATRICK & HENRY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION2× · 2018–2019 · $3.7M · revenue +116% · 90% of their budget
- UWUNITED WAY OF HENRY COUNTY & MARTINSVILLE6× · 2017–2023 · $1.2M · revenue +206% · 25% of their budget
- DRDAN RIVER BASIN ASSOCIATION4× · 2017–2023 · $572k · revenue +118% · 46% of their budget
Funded once
- MCMARTINSVILLE-HENRY CO ECONOMIC DEVEone grant, 2017 · $1.5M
- BRBlue Ridge Regional Airportone grant, 2021 · $800k
- PHPATRICK HENRY COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDone grant, 2017 · $425k
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.
VCDC delivers vital financial resources and support while collaborating with local organizations dedicated to social impact, ensuring the creation of affordable homes in vibrant neighborhoods where everyone can thrive.
Honor those we serve by delivering the best possible care.Ballad Health is dedicated to improving the health of the 29-county Appalachian Highlands region.
Habitat for Humanity Virginia provides support to Virginia affiliates so that they can build or facilitate affordable housing by offering advocacy, organizational development, funding, and resource development
To enrich lives of adults, age 18 and over,who are limited due to illness, accident, old age or birth defect, by providing daytime assistance with a combination of social, cognitive and recreation services so they can remain at home with…
To preserve Virginias history and craft the most prosperous future for all of its citizens.
The Barrett-Peake Heritage Foundation, Inc., is a nonprofit preservation organization whose mission is preserving Civil War era cemeteries and historic properties in the City of Hampton.
The Historical Society provides information to the public concerning the historical events in the area. The Society also helps with the restoration of historical
The preservation of the heritage and history of Rockingham County, North Carolina
To provide free, non-judgmental, quality healthcare to those in need by using a solid base of culturally diverse community resources.
Petersburg area regional tourism ("part") implements and manages the tourism initiative for the counties of chesterfield, dinwiddie and prince george virginia as well as the cities of colonial heights, petersburg and hopewell virginia.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice of Surry County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fayette Area Historical Initiative. 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 21 years old; the field is 21. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 80 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 PATRICK & HENRY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF HENRY COUNTY & MARTINSVILLE ↗
- Who funds Piedmont Virginia Dental Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds DAN RIVER BASIN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Virginia Legal Aid Society Inc ↗
- Who funds CARLISLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Hope Center Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Fayette Area Historical Initiative ↗
- Who funds Virginia Health Care Foundation ↗
- Who funds Henry County Furniture Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds Henry County Food Pantry Inc ↗
- Who funds West Piedmont Better Housing ↗
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: 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
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 Harvest Foundation of the Piedmont 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.
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