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.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.9M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $68M
What Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation does
Mission
To preserve, protect, and interpret the historic civil war battlefields, structures, and artifacts of the shenandoah valley.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Preservation and interpretation of civil war battlefield sites: this including preserving approximately 7,700 acres of battlefield land throughout the shenandoah valley, and 22 historic structures, historic collections and artifacts from the civil war era are protected, cared for and preserved. The foudadtion provides grants for organizations participating in battlefield preservation and interpretation. The foundation's offices are located on the second floor of the historic strayer house in downtown new market, virginia, in the heart of the shenandoah valley. A civil war orientation center small gift shop and visitor information center is located on the first floor. The foundation coordinates numerous volunteers who are engaged in the ongoing efforts. The foundation owns and operates a civil war museum in downtown winchester and a visitors center located at the third winchester battlefield.
$2,242,133 spentof which $12,000 as grants$153,052 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,242,133.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $40M to $52M (+30%).
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 (63% 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
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Keven Walker
CEO
Board chair
Mark D Perreault
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
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 9 states is 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.
Against its field
SHENANDOAH VALLEY BATTLEFIELDS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the 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.
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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 26 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing