How much did UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN SHENANDOAH grant in FY2023?

Health$758kHuman Services$651kHousing & Shelter$283kEducation$222kCrime & Legal$153kArts & Culture$74kPublic Benefit$61kEmployment$40kCommunity Improvement$22kOther$882k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

diabetesdrugvanassessmentsdigital literacyclinicaccess

2020

vanhealthylivingneededscreeningsorderenrichment

2021

digital literacylfccsucceedtraininghealthylivingmedical

2022

belowenrichment

2023

warrenviolence survivors

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k8 grants · $57k
$10k–50k24 grants · $421k

$12,630

Median grant

States reached

$2.3M

Total assets

Largest grants

SHENANDOAH COUNTY FREE CLINIC$40,000
SINCLAIR HEALTH CLINIC$35,000
BLUE RIDGE HOSPICE$30,000
FAITHWORKS INC$30,000
CHILD SAFE CENTER$25,000
COMMUNITY CARE & LEARNING CENTER$20,000
FAMILY PROMISE OF SHENANDOAH$20,000
WINCHESTER DAY NURSERY$18,000
ST LUKE COMMUNITY CLINIC$17,000
BLUE RIDGE LEGAL SERVICES$16,000
NW WORKS$15,000
CHOICES$15,000
WINCHESTER RESCUE MISSION$15,000
COLLINS CENTER$15,000
JUST NEIGHBORS MINISTRY$15,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $503k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — 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 10% of UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN SHENANDOAH’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 84% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN SHENANDOAHlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 5.9% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.9M · 44 repeat orgs$204k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.

44 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2023, 19 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.9M

$134k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%

+30%

Still filing today

89%

73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalArts & CultureOther

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

SC
SHENANDOAH COUNTY FREE CLINIC
6× · 2018–2023 · $228k · revenue +39%
SH
SINCLAIR HEALTH CLINIC
6× · 2018–2023 · $206k · revenue +18%
HF
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
5× · 2018–2022 · $185k · revenue +38%

Funded once

CD
CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF ARLINGTON
one grant, 2022 · $20k
PF
PAGE FREE CLINICgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $19k · revenue +77%
PA
PAGE ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY ACTIONgraduated
2× · 2019–2020 · $13k · revenue +249%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Southwest Virginia Community Health

Provide comprehensive primary medical care to the communites served.

Health

Shenandoah Women's Center Inc

To provide a safe environment and shelter of victims of domestic violence, and to provide educational programs and counseling on such matters.

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St Charles Health Council Inc

To promote and provide quality primary health care that is accessible, affordable, and community-based for the people of southwest virginia.

—

GoochlandCares

GoochlandCares provides basic human services and healthcare to our Goochland County neighbors in need.

Health

West Virginia Community Action Partnersh

West virginia community action partnership is an alliance of community action agencies that supports and strengthens our members, advocates for low-income and families and promotes partnerships.

Community Improvement

Roanoke Area Ministries

To serve the indigent.

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Fredericksburg Community Health Center

To provide a safe Christcentered environment that gives our patients quality coordinated and affordable healthcare

Health

Central West Virginia Aging Services Inc

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.

Human Services

Wirt County Health Services

Provision of primary and preventive care services to the rural population of wirt and jackson counties in west virginia.

Health

Shenandoah Housing Corporation

To provide housing for low income families.

Housing & Shelter

Women's Health Center of West Virginia

The mission of the women's health center is to provide and to advocate for access to affordable, high quality health services, addressing the special needs of women in a manner that respects their dignity, right of reproductive choice,…

Civil Rights

Free Clinic of Franklin County Inc

Provide quality primary medical care, medications, and wellness education for low-income uninsured adults in franklin county, va

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shenandoah County Free Clinic Inc and the most unlike its peers is James Madison University Foundation Inc. 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 37 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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%1/72

the rest of the field

129/1,403

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.

06the grantee network

64 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

62/64

Grantees still filing

46/64

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,004,595Health$758,236Human Services$650,623Housing & Shelter$283,361Education$221,952Crime & Legal$152,891Arts & Culture$73,612

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.

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.

American Woodmark Foundation IncVA61.4× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Woodmark Foundation Inc · Valley Health System · The Community Foundation of the Northern · The Bank of Clarke County Foundation · The Community Foundation of Harrisonburg · Shenandoah Community Foundation · John L Harrell & Margaret T Harrell · Shingleton Tuw · Adams Family Foundation · The Clara Weiss Fund · Fraternal Order of Eagles 4264 Aerie · Shentel 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 organisation UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN SHENANDOAH 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: PAGE FREE CLINIC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~12 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +77% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 271421176 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on PAGE FREE CLINIC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 12 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 19% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to United Way of Northern Shenandoah?

Find your warmest path to United Way of Northern Shenandoah through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN SHENANDOAH

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

64 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to United Way of Northern Shenandoah?

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UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN SHENANDOAH

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

64 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to United Way of Northern Shenandoah?

More from the funding graph