· Private foundation
Western Virginia Environmental and Social Trust Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 64% of Western Virginia Environmental and Social Trust Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Masterpiece Alliance | $3,000 |
| Blue Ridge Land Conservancy | $2,500 |
| Bradley Free Clinic | $2,000 |
| Salem Food Pantry | $2,000 |
| Child Health Investment Partnership | $2,000 |
| Salvation Army | $2,000 |
| Roanoke Area Ministries | $2,000 |
| Roanoke Rescue Mission | $2,000 |
| Children's Trust | $1,000 |
| Preserve Craig Inc | $1,000 |
| Apple Ridge Farm | $1,000 |
| Feeding America SW Virginia | $1,000 |
| Johns Creek Volunteer Fire | $500 |
| Craig County Historical Society | $500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 65% of your 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.
10 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- MAMASTERPIECE ALLIANCE3× · 2021–2024 · $12k · revenue +379%
- RARoanoke Area Ministries4× · 2020–2024 · $8k · revenue +157%
- BFBRADLEY FREE CLINIC OF ROANOKE VALLEY INC4× · 2020–2024 · $8k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- PFPATHFINDERS FOR GREENWAY INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +554%
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.
To make outdoor recreation and environmental stewardship a core component of the roanoke region lifestyle through activities such as educating citizens about benefits of outdoor recreational activities, educating citizens about…
Regional Visitors Bureau, Destination Marketing Organization
Promoting for the benefit of the general public, the preservation, protection and enjoyment of our natural resources, principally in the lower james, york, rappahannock and chowan rivers and surrounding watersheds.
The Roanoke Symphony Orchestra provides a professional symphony orchestra of artistic excellence and integrity to enrich lives, to educate, and to entertain diverse audiences in western Virginia with the highest quality instrumental and…
The mission of roane family health care is to exceed the quality of care that our patients deserve and expect while surpassing community needs through innovative technology.
To assist rural virginians in developing and advancing their agricultural, economic and social interests to enhance their quality of life.
The west virginia rural health association (wvrha) advocates for empowering all west virginians to advance their quality of life, their well-being, and their access to excellence in rural health care. our mission is to unite people,…
The Chamber is a Business Advocate for the Roanoke Region.
Provide emergency medical services, emergency medical trasportation, and search and rescue of missing persons.
Our mission is to ensure the availability, access, and affordability of locally produced food by connecting local farmers and all members of the community through programs, awareness, and advocacy.
To promote economic development of the roanoke region in virginia.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feeding Southwest Virginia and the most unlike its peers is Apple Ridge Farm Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 15 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 MASTERPIECE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds LAND SAVERS UNITED ↗
- Who funds Roanoke Area Ministries ↗
- Who funds BRADLEY FREE CLINIC OF ROANOKE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD HEALTH INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP DBA CHIP OF ROANOKE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds PATHFINDERS FOR GREENWAY INC ↗
- Who funds APPLE RIDGE FARM INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S TRUST FOUNDATION ROANOKE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds Craig County Historical Society ↗
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 · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Muse Family Foundation Co Elizabeth Muse · Powell Charitable Foundation · Edgar a Thurman Fdn Children Nect · The Beirne Carter Foundation · Robertson Family Foundation Inc · Evelyn F James Foundation · 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 Western Virginia Environmental and Social Trust Foundation 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.