· Public charity
Shenandoah National Park Trust
The SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK TRUST provides strategic investments in programs and initiatives that help protect, enhance, and preserve the resources of shenandoah national park for all to enjoy, for this and future generations.
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.
The 6 grants below total $526,632 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,453,655 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $927,023 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 $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $34k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $182k
- $250k+1 grant · $305k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK | $304,926 |
| CONSERVATION LEGACY | $182,250 |
| VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY | $13,096 |
| AMERICAN CONSERVATION EXPERIENCE | $11,066 |
| SOUL TRAK OUTDOORS | $10,000 |
| POTOMAC APPALACHIAN TRAIL CLUB | $5,294 |
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 (FY24–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +118% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
CONSERVATION LEGACY8× · 2018–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +124%- SNSHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK TRUST4× · 2017–2020 · $223k · revenue +113%
- TPTHE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL3× · 2017–2019 · $106k · revenue +161%
Funded once
- BRBLUE RIDGE PRISM INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $61k · revenue +198%
Cornell Universityone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +15%- DSDEMOLITION SERVICES INCone grant, 2022 · $20k
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.
Alliance for the shenandoah valley informs and engages people to protect the natural resources, cultural heritages, and rural character of our region.
To conserve and protect the natural and historic land and water resources of virginia's capital region for the benefit of current and future generations.
To promote trails and greenways and to ensure that people will always have access to the landscape of vermont.
Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.
To conserve the rural, natural, and cultural heritage of the new river region, protecting farms, forests, open spaces, and historic places.
To protect the natural and cultural resources of the greater shenandoah valley region through land conservation, education, and experiences to preserve the life-enriching benefits our land and water provide.
Our mission is to connect, strengthen and amplify a vibrant network of partners united to preserve, enhance and promote national historic & scenic trails.
The pacific crest trail association's mission is to advocate for the pacific crest trail as an inspirational outdoor experience, to connect people to the pct, and to conserve the trail.
Dlia will develop a model for research in biodiversity and will use the knowledge to develop and disseminate information to encourage the discovery, understanding, preservation, and enjoyment of natural resources.
To protect, restore, and inspire appreciation of the natural world.
The mission of the green mountain club is to make the vermont mountains play a larger part in the life of the people by protecting and maintaining the long trail system and fostering, through education, the stewardship of vermont's hiking…
The mission of the rockbridge area conservation council (rockbridge conservation or rc) is to promote and enhance the protection, sustainable use, and stewardship of our community's natural and cultural resources.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Groundwork Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Smithsonian Institution. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 24 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 CONSERVATION LEGACY ↗
- Who funds SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE PRISM INC ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds Potomac Appalachian Trail Club ↗
- Who funds Soul Trak Outdoors ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds American Conservation Experience ↗
- Who funds GROUNDWORK RVA INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS' CONSERVATION CORPS OF WV ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARCHEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds Kid Pan Alley ↗
- Who funds GROUNDWORK USA INC ↗
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: National Park Foundation · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · American Forests · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Shenandoah National Park Trust 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.