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The Harvest Foundation of the Piedmont

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$14M
Granted FY2023
37
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$1.6M
Largest
01What it funds
0197% 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
02FY2023 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 37 grants below total $4,221,094, the rows itemized in this filing. The $13,708,365 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $9,487,271 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k15 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $253k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $847k
  • $250k+4 grants · $3.1M
$13,737
Median grant
2
States reached
$282M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
United Way of Henry County & Martinsville$25,000
West Piedmont Better Housing Coalition$25,000
The Family YMCA$25,000
United Way of Henry County & Martinsville$24,971
Pregnancy Care Center$23,200
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%THE COMMUNITY DREAM CENTER: $8k → 17%COMMUNITY DREAM CENTER: $5k → 17%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.
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$39M · 30 repeat orgs$3.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against -10% for those funded once.

30 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2023, 16 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
26

Total granted

$39M
$3.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
-10%

Still filing today

33%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentEducationReligionOther
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

  • PH
    PATRICK & HENRY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2018–2019 · $3.7M · revenue +116% · 90% of their budget
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF HENRY COUNTY & MARTINSVILLE
    6× · 2017–2023 · $1.2M · revenue +206% · 25% of their budget
  • DR
    DAN RIVER BASIN ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2017–2023 · $572k · revenue +118% · 46% of their budget

Funded once

  • MC
    MARTINSVILLE-HENRY CO ECONOMIC DEVE
    one grant, 2017 · $1.5M
  • BR
    Blue Ridge Regional Airport
    one grant, 2021 · $800k
  • PH
    PATRICK HENRY COMMUNITY COLLEGE ED
    one grant, 2017 · $425k
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
Secretariat Heritage Center
Arts & Culture
2
Virginia Community Development Corp

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.

Housing & Shelter
3
Smyth County Community Hospital

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.

Health
4
Habitat for Humanity Virginia

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

Housing & Shelter
5
Adult Day Care of Martinsville & Henry County

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…

Human Services
6
The Virginia Council

To preserve Virginias history and craft the most prosperous future for all of its citizens.

Education
7
Barrett-Peake Heritage Foundation

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.

Arts & Culture
8
Alleghany Historical Society

The Historical Society provides information to the public concerning the historical events in the area. The Society also helps with the restoration of historical

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9
Rockingham County Historical Society Museum and Archives

The preservation of the heritage and history of Rockingham County, North Carolina

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10
Caring Hearts Free Clinic of Patrick County Inc

To provide free, non-judgmental, quality healthcare to those in need by using a solid base of culturally diverse community resources.

Health
11
Petersburg Area Regional Tourism

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.…

Arts & Culture
12
Northern Virginia Health Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice of Surry County Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 76 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.

8
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
15/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MARTINSVILLE-HENRY CO ECONOMIC DEVELOP: $5,866,527 · OtherMARTINSVILLE-HENRY CO ECONOMIC DEVELOPM-HC Economic Development Corp: $5,420,682 · OtherM-HC Economic Development CorpHENRY COUNTY: $5,417,950 · OtherHENRY COUNTYPatrick Henry Community College: $4,890,733 · OtherPatrick Henry Community CollegeCITY OF MARTINSVILLE: $2,452,468 · OtherCITY OF MARTINSVILLEMARTINSVILLE HC FOR HEALTH AND WELLNESS: $2,237,695 · OtherMARTINSVILLE HC FOR HEALTH AND WELLNESSHENRY COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $1,514,082 · OtherMARTINSVILLE-HENRY CO ECONOMIC DEVE: $1,500,000 · Other+57 more: $6,781,962 · Other+57 morePATRICK & HENRY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $3,676,256 · PhilanthropyPATRICK &…+1 more: $5,000 · PhilanthropyPiedmont Virginia Dental Health Foundation: $883,351 · HealthVirginia Health Care Foundation: $98,500 · Health+1 more: $10,000 · HealthDAN RIVER BASIN ASSOCIATION: $572,032 · EnvironmentVirginia Legal Aid Society Inc: $378,428 · Crime & LegalCARLISLE SCHOOL: $173,130 · EducationFayette Area Historical Initiative: $99,675 · Arts & CultureHenry County Furniture Museum Inc: $35,900 · Arts & CultureFIELDALE HERITAGE INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$36,082,099Philanthropy$3,681,256Health$991,851Environment$572,032Crime & Legal$378,428Education$173,130Arts & Culture$145,575

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 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 budgetMOTORSPORTS CHARITIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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
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.

  • 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 ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY DREAM CENTER ↗

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Harvest Foundation of the Piedmont funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Harvest Foundation of the Piedmont. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to The Harvest Foundation of the Piedmont 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 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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