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Western Virginia Environmental and Social Trust Foundation at a glance

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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.

$23k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$28kFood & Nutrition$16kEnvironment$15kHousing & Shelter$8kHuman Services$8kReligion$8kCrime & Legal$1kArts & Culture$500Other$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$387k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Roanoke Area Ministries$2,000
Salvation Army$2,000
Roanoke Rescue Mission$2,000
Apple Ridge Farm$1,000
Feeding America SW Virginia$1,000
Children's Trust$1,000
Preserve Craig Inc$1,000
Johns Creek Volunteer Fire$500
Craig County Historical Society$500
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 65% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Pathfinders for Greenways: $5k → 8%Preserve Craig Inc: $1k → 12%Roanoke Area Ministries: $2k → 20%Masterpiece Alliance: $4k → 8%Craig County Historical Society: $500 → 12%Roanoke Area Ministries: $2k → 20%Masterpiece Alliance: $4k → 8%Johns Creek Volunteer Fire: $500 → 12%Roanoke Area Ministries: $2k → 20%Masterpiece Alliance: $3k → 8%Roanoke Area Ministries: $2k → 20%Salem Food Pantry: $2k → 8%Blue Ridge Land Conservancy: $3k → 20%Salem Food Pantry: $2k → 8%Child Health Investment Partnership: $2k → 20%Salem Food Pantry: $2k → 8%Child Health Investment Partnership: $2k → 20%Salem Food Pantry: $2k → 8%Blue Ridge Land Conservancy: $2k → 20%Feeding America SW Virginia: $1k → 8%Blue Ridge Land Conservancy: $2k → 20%Feeding America SW Virginia: $1k → 8%Child Health Investment Partnership: $2k → 20%Feeding America SW Virginia: $1k → 8%Bradley Free Clinic: $2k → 20%Feeding America SW Virginia: $1k → 8%Bradley Free Clinic: $2k → 20%Children's Trust: $1k → 8%Roanoke Rescue Mission: $2k → 20%Blue Ridge Land Conservancy: $2k → 20%Salvation Army: $2k → 20%Child Health Investment Partnership: $2k → 20%Salvation Army: $2k → 20%Bradley Free Clinic: $2k → 20%Salvation Army: $2k → 20%Bradley Free Clinic: $2k → 20%Roanoke Rescue Mission: $2k → 20%Apple Ridge Farm: $1k → 20%Salvation Army: $2k → 20%Apple Ridge Farm: $1k → 20%Roanoke Rescue Mission: $2k → 20%Apple Ridge Farm: $1k → 20%Roanoke Rescue Mission: $2k → 20%Apple Ridge Farm: $1k → 20%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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$76k · 10 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
1

Total granted

$76k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+554%

Still filing today

70%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’23’24
EnvironmentHealthFood & NutritionCrime & LegalOther
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

  • MA
    MASTERPIECE ALLIANCE
    3× · 2021–2024 · $12k · revenue +379%
  • RA
    Roanoke Area Ministries
    4× · 2020–2024 · $8k · revenue +157%
  • BF
    BRADLEY FREE CLINIC OF ROANOKE VALLEY INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $8k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • PF
    PATHFINDERS FOR GREENWAY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +554%
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
Roanoke Outside

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…

Recreation & Sports
2
Roanoke Valley Convention & Visitors Bureau

Regional Visitors Bureau, Destination Marketing Organization

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3
Historic Virginia Land Conservancy

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.

Environment
4
Roanoke Symphony Orchestra

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Roane County Family Health Care Inc

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.

Health
6
Virginia Foundation for Agriculture Innovation and Rural Sustainability

To assist rural virginians in developing and advancing their agricultural, economic and social interests to enhance their quality of life.

Environment
7
West Virginia Rural Health Association Inc

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,…

Health
8
Roanoke Regional Chamber of Commerce

The Chamber is a Business Advocate for the Roanoke Region.

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9
Roanoke Valley Rescue Squad Inc

Provide emergency medical services, emergency medical trasportation, and search and rescue of missing persons.

Health
10
Virginia Community Food Connections

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.

Food & Nutrition
11
Virginia Outdoor Adventure Inc
Youth Development
12
Roanoke Regional Partnership

To promote economic development of the roanoke region in virginia.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feeding Southwest Virginia; 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.
04the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Salem Food Pantry: $8,000 · OtherSalem Food PantrySalvation Army: $8,000 · OtherSalvation ArmyRoanoke Rescue Mission: $8,000 · OtherRoanoke Rescue MissionRoanoke Area Ministries: $8,000 · OtherRoanoke Area MinistriesBRADLEY FREE CLINIC OF ROANOKE VALLEY INC: $8,000 · OtherBRADLEY FREE CLINIC OF ROANOKE VALLEY INCCHILD HEALTH INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP DBA CHIP OF ROANOKE VALLEY: $8,000 · OtherCHILD HEALTH INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP DBA CHIP OF ROANOKE VALLEYAPPLE RIDGE FARM INC: $4,000 · OtherAPPLE RIDGE FARM INC+3 more: $2,000 · OtherLAND SAVERS UNITED: $8,500 · EnvironmentLAND SAVERS UNITEDPATHFINDERS FOR GREENWAY INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentPATHFINDERS FOR GR…MASTERPIECE ALLIANCE: $11,600 · HealthMASTERPIECE ALL…FEEDING SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA: $4,000 · Food & NutritionCHILDREN'S TRUST FOUNDATION ROANOKE VALLEY INC: $1,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$54,000Environment$13,500Health$11,600Food & Nutrition$4,000Crime & Legal$1,000

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 budgetMASTERPIECE ALLIANCE: $11,600 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetLAND SAVERS UNITED: $8,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetRoanoke Area Ministries: $8,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBRADLEY FREE CLINIC OF ROANOKE VALLEY INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD HEALTH INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP DBA CHIP OF ROANOKE VALLEY: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPATHFINDERS FOR GREENWAY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetAPPLE RIDGE FARM INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFEEDING SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S TRUST FOUNDATION ROANOKE VALLEY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCraig County Historical Society: $500 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

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 …Ge Aerospace Foundati…Muse Family Foundatio…Powell Charitable Fou…Edgar a Thurman Fdn C…The Beirne Carter Fou…Robertson Family Foun…Evelyn F James Founda…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation Serving Western VirginiaVA22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Western Virginia Environmental and Social Trust Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Western Virginia Environmental and Social Trust Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–5%
    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.

    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 15 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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