· Public charity
United Way of Northern Shenandoah Valley Inc
The organization works to increase the organized capacity of people to care for one another.
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 28 grants below total $397,200 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $595,511 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $198,311 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 $10k8 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $285k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONGREGATIONAL COMMUNITY ACTION PROJECT | $50,000 |
| THE LAUREL CENTER | $27,500 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF SHENANDOAH COUNTY | $25,000 |
| SHENANDOAH COUNTY HEALTH CLINIC - MENTAL HEALTH | $25,000 |
| STRENGTH IN PEERS | $20,000 |
| CHOICES | $17,600 |
| BLUE RIDGE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $17,500 |
| PAGE ONE OF PAGE COUNTY | $17,000 |
| HIGHLAND FOOD PANTRY INC | $15,000 |
| WINCHESTER AREA TEMPORARY THERMAL SHELTER | $15,000 |
| CHILD SAFE CENTER | $15,000 |
| SHENANDOAH VALLEY LUTHERAN MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| JUST NEIGHBORS MINISTRY | $10,000 |
| CHRIST CHURCH CARES FOOD PANTRYCHRIST CHURCH MILLWOOD | $10,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF NSV | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $684k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of United Way of Northern Shenandoah Valley Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in VA; read by stated purpose it is 88% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 comprehensive primary medical care to the communites served.
To promote health and wellness within the community by providing a medical home to reduce barriers to care and ensure access to a full range of coordinated health care and wellness services.
Provide homemaker and case management services to home-bound seniors and disabled members in west virginia. provide, also, training and job assistance to those 55 and older on a limited income.
The ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, dignity, and freedom for all.
To promote and provide quality primary health care that is accessible, affordable, and community-based for the people of southwest virginia.
GoochlandCares (GC) provides basic human services for local individuals who need help with healthcare, housing, food, clothing, and domestic violence services, providing a safety net for 2,135 Goochland residents and their families in 2024.
Establish, conduct, implement, operate, coordinate and finance programs for the benefit of the low-income, minority, elderly, disadvantaged and handicapped citizens of wayne county, wv
The free clinic of franklin county, inc is founded on the belief that everyone should have access to quality, affordable, primary health care regardless of their socio-economic or insurance status.
The purpose of the Community Health Center of the New River Valley (CHCNRV) is to provide affordable and high quality medical, dental, behavioral, and preventive health care services to people of all ages and circumstances, regardless of…
The clinic provides primary healthcare in a spirit of compassion to limited income persons who are without adequate health insurance benefits in warren and vance counties, north carolina.
To promote intergenerational programming for all ages to improve interacton, diversity, health and wellness to all citizens of washington county, virginia. to educate and build a sense of community and responsibility for the care and…
SeniorNavigator and its family of websites are national models for aging, disability and veteran information. By combining online assistance with a network of community-based centers, the websites bring over 26,000 community resources,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shenandoah County Free Clinic Inc and the most unlike its peers is Response Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
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: American Woodmark Foundation Inc · The Bank of Clarke County Foundation · Valley Health System · The Community Foundation of the Northern Shenandoah Valley · The Community Foundation of Harrisonburg & Rockingham County · John L Harrell & Margaret T Harrell Charitable Trust C/O First Bank Trustee · Shenandoah Community Foundation · Shingleton Tuw · The Brandt Foundation · The Clara Weiss Fund · Feltner Community Foundation · The Woltz-Winchester 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 United Way of Northern Shenandoah Valley Inc 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.
- Hagerstown Goodwill Industries Inc — 31% of income from government
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.