Virginia · Nonprofit
SHENANDOAH VALLEY BATTLEFIELDS FOUNDATION
SHENANDOAH VALLEY BATTLEFIELDS FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,276,630 to it, the largest being LEE JACKSON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ($1,369,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
SHENANDOAH VALLEY BATTLEFIELDS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Shenandoah Community Foundationlocal
- Virginia Historical Societyportfolio match
- The Roller-Bottimore Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 74% · 2018 51% · 2019 54% · 2020 8% · 2021 11% · 2022 45% · 2023 72% · 2024 56% · 2025 61%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of SHENANDOAH VALLEY BATTLEFIELDS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 9 funders, grant income fell $59k → $52k.
10 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of SHENANDOAH VALLEY BATTLEFIELDS FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
SHENANDOAH VALLEY BATTLEFIELDS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
36% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund SHENANDOAH VALLEY BATTLEFIELDS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 77% · 2019 61% · 2020 96% · 2021 83% · 2022 73% · 2023 32% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
20% of SHENANDOAH VALLEY BATTLEFIELDS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
74% of SHENANDOAH VALLEY BATTLEFIELDS FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $352k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 26 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Shenandoah Community FoundationlocalVA · funds 23 organizations near you
- Virginia Historical Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Roller-Bottimore Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Seilheimer Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Shaara Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The West Virginia Humanities Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Talbot County Arts Council InclocalMD · funds 14 organizations near you
- General Society of Colonial Warsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Slemp Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- South Carolina Humanities Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Beirne Carter Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- T & M Mitchell Fdn Dima-BlrklocalNJ · funds 20 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding SHENANDOAH VALLEY BATTLEFIELDS FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.5M on record.
- Department of the Interior$4.5M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like SHENANDOAH VALLEY BATTLEFIELDS FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 28 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SHENANDOAH VALLEY BATTLEFIELDS FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds SHENANDOAH VALLEY BATTLEFIELDS FOUNDATION?
- SHENANDOAH VALLEY BATTLEFIELDS FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,276,630 to it, the largest being LEE JACKSON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ($1,369,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SHENANDOAH VALLEY BATTLEFIELDS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $2,276,630 in grants to SHENANDOAH VALLEY BATTLEFIELDS FOUNDATION, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SHENANDOAH VALLEY BATTLEFIELDS FOUNDATION?
- LEE JACKSON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,369,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHENANDOAH VALLEY BATTLEFIELDS FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 26funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing