The Community Foundation of the Northern
Winchester, VA · EIN 26-0008332. Reported 66 grants totalling $1,735,496 to 41 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For The Community Foundation of the Northern, the IRS classifies it as a community foundation (NTEE T31).
- How spread out its giving is. 41 distinct organizations, with 15% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 50% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $9,500. Half of what it reported fell between $7,000 and $25,000; the smallest was $5,200 and the largest $255,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Warren County Habitat for Humanity Inc | Front Royal, VA | $255,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Barns of Rose Hill | Berryville, VA | $193,067 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Peaceful Fields Sanctuary Corporation | Winchester, VA | $109,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Humane Society of Warren County Inc Orporated | Front Royal, VA | $107,736 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Blue Ridge Wildlife Center | Boyce, VA | $102,900 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Fort Valley Volunteer Fire Dept Inc | Fort Valley, VA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Leashes of Valor | Fredericksbrg, VA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Special Love Inc | Winchester, VA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Serenity Farm Virginia | Berryville, VA | $90,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Congregational Community Action Project Inc | Winchester, VA | $49,829 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Powhatan School | Boyce, VA | $43,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Winchester Area Temporary Thermal Shelter | Winchester, VA | $42,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Leary Educational Foundation Inc | Winchester, VA | $40,644 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Literacy Volunteers - Winchester Area Inc | Winchester, VA | $37,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America | S Yarmouth, MA | $33,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| The Salvation Army | Brookhaven, GA | $32,250 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| St Luke Community Clinic Inc | Front Royal, VA | $27,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Warren County Community Health Coalition Inc | Front Royal, VA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Front Royal Womens Resource Center Inc | Front Royal, VA | $23,512 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Operation Warm Inc | Glen Mills, PA | $23,364 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Samuels Library Inc | Front Royal, VA | $21,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Youth Development Center | Winchester, VA | $19,300 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Winchester Union Rescue Mission Inc | Winchester, VA | $16,017 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Abbacare Inc | Winchester, VA | $14,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Dr Terry Sinclair Health Clinic Inc | Winchester, VA | $12,100 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Phoenix Project | Front Royal, VA | $11,200 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Island Workforce Housing | Deer Isle, ME | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Front Royal-Warren County C-Cap | Front Royal, VA | $10,731 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hilda J Barbour Elementary School | Front Royal, VA | $7,930 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Free Foundation for Rehabilitation Equipment & Endowment | Roanoke, VA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New Hope Bible Church | Front Royal, VA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| 1455 Inc | Winchester, VA | $7,443 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Highland Food Pantry Inc | Winchester, VA | $7,250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Laurel Ridge Community College | Middletown, VA | $6,750 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc | Appleton, WI | $6,507 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Able Forces Foundation | Front Royal, VA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bridgewater College | Bridgewater, VA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Im Just Me Movement | Winchester, VA | $5,666 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Habitat for Humanity International Inc | Winchester, VA | $5,300 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Shenandoah Valley Discovery Museum Inc | Winchester, VA | $5,300 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| SPCA of Winc & Fred & Clarke C | Winchester, VA | $5,200 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
16 of 41 (39%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Barns of Rose Hill
ROBERT & GENEVIEVE BOXLEY BARNS OF ROSE HILL FUND, JACK AND PAGE CARTER FUND - Congregational Community Action Project of Winchester (ccap)
COMMUNITY CONSULTING AND ASSISTANCE PROGRAM, GRETCHEN T. BYRD AND HARRY F. BYRD, JR. FAMILY FUND, PAUL AND MARTHA REES FUND - Island Workforce Housing
JACK AND PAGE CARTER FUND - St Luke Community Clinic
DR. CRAIG ZUNKA AND JOELLEN MCNEAL FAMILY FUND, PAUL AND MARTHA REES FUND - Cunningham Chapel Parish
GRETCHEN T. BYRD AND HARRY F. BYRD, JR. FAMILY FUND, JACK AND PAGE CARTER FUND - Abbacare
GERALD AND KAYE SMITH FAMILY GIFT FUND, COCHRAN FAMILY YOUTH FUND
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 29 of 41 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 10 | $132,141 | $7,750 |
| 2022 | 22 | $579,942 | $9,750 |
| 2023 | 16 | $414,882 | $10,600 |
| 2024 | 18 | $608,531 | $10,618 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
94% of its giving went to organizations in Virginia. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $9,500 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Virginia.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The Community Foundation of the Northern's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 18 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 107 Youth Development Court, Winchester, VA, 22602.
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