· Private foundation
Winston O Weaver Family Foundation Inc
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
94% of Winston O Weaver Family Foundation Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The Community Foundation Of Harrisonburg & Rockingham County, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Winston O Weaver Family Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $37k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k7 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VIRGINIA MENNONITE RETIREMENT COMMUNITY | $10,000 |
| BLUE RIDGE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $7,000 |
| HARRISONBURG CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER | $6,000 |
| EAST GATE MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| PLEASANT VIEW INC | $5,000 |
| HARRISONBURG ROCKINGHAM HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| HOUSE OF YODER | $1,000 |
| PCCA EDUCATION & RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC | $250 |
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 (FY23–23, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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 +33% since the first grant, against -17% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2023, 17 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- VMVIRGINIA MENNONITE RETIREMENT COMMUNITY INC3× · 2017–2023 · $36k · revenue +86%
THE PORTLAND PLAYHOUSE4× · 2017–2021 · $30k · revenue +23%- BRBLUE RIDGE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC2× · 2023–2024 · $12k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- HCHARRISONBURG CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INCone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue -24%
- SVSHENANDOAH VALLEY ECONOMIC EDUCATIONone grant, 2017 · $5k
- BRBLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +54%
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 provide quality education with a christian foundation.
Harrison medical center provides acute medical and surgical services, emergency services and a range of general and specialized services to residents of the kitsap peninsula and adjacent areas.
To use the power of media to educate, entertain and inspire, using public television and public radio to make a positive impact on the communities throughout central virginia, charlottesville, the shenandoah valley, the northern neck and…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
To provide a christian grade school education for those desiring it in hudsonville, mi and surrounding areas.
Hampshire country school is a place of possibilities for high-ability, neurodiverse students enrolling in later elementary or middle school who have not found success in traditional educational environments. hampshire country school offers…
See schedule othe harrisburg university of science and technology offers innovative academic and research programs in science and technology that respond to local and global needs. the institution fosters a diverse community of learners,…
The mission of harrells christian academy is to prepare each student for higher education within an environment that instills judeo-christian values, fosters self-discipline, enhances creativity, and promises a love and respect for…
To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.
Virginia chance school is an independent school that serves children ages 2 through 5th grade. as a diverse community of learners, we commit to excellence and respect through a joyful, challenging and progressive program. with an…
Williamsburg christian academy provides college preparatory instruction in a culture of grace through personalized learning in academics, arts, and athletics while building relationships that inspire students to serve their community and…
In partnership with students, educators, businesses and our diverse communities, hacc foundation fosters excellence in the educational, cultural, workforce development and economic growth of the college's service areas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Harrisonburg & Rockingham County and the most unlike its peers is Harrisonburg Rescue Squad 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 47 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 39 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 THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HARRISONBURG & ROCKINGHAM COUNTY ↗
- Who funds EASTERN MENNONITE HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA MENNONITE RETIREMENT COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE PORTLAND PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HARRISONBURG CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds HARRISONBURG CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EAST GATE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds PLEASANT VIEW INC ↗
- Who funds HARRISONBURG-ROCKINGHAM HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds HARRISONBURG ROCKINGHAM CHILD DAY CARE CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEWATER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds HARRISONBURG RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds FORT HARRISON INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds PCCA EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Harrisonburg & Rockingham County · Denton Family Charitable Foundation · Sentara Health · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Winston O Weaver Family Foundation 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.
- The Portland Playhouse — 11% 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.