The Community Foundation of the Northern
Winchester, VA · EIN 26-0008332. Reported 90 grants totalling $2,727,135 to 49 organizations across tax years 2021-2025, 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. 49 distinct organizations, with 19% 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. 56% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 56% median for grantmaking charities -- lower than the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $7,000 and $33,644; 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 | $509,359 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Leashes of Valor | Fredericksbrg, VA | $350,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Barns of Rose Hill | Berryville, VA | $243,851 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Special Love Inc | Winchester, VA | $204,096 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Blue Ridge Wildlife Center | Boyce, VA | $154,300 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Peaceful Fields Sanctuary Corporation | Winchester, VA | $119,500 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Humane Society of Warren County Inc Orporated | Front Royal, VA | $107,736 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Fort Valley Volunteer Fire Dept Inc | Fort Valley, VA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Serenity Farm Virginia | Berryville, VA | $100,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Samuels Library Inc | Front Royal, VA | $84,506 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Powhatan School | Boyce, VA | $78,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Congregational Community Action Project Inc | Winchester, VA | $49,829 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Winchester Area Temporary Thermal Shelter | Winchester, VA | $47,494 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| The Salvation Army | Brookhaven, GA | $43,250 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Literacy Volunteers - Winchester Area Inc | Winchester, VA | $42,974 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Leary Educational Foundation Inc | Winchester, VA | $40,644 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| St Luke Community Clinic Inc | Front Royal, VA | $39,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Front Royal Womens Resource Center Inc | Front Royal, VA | $36,404 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America | New York, NY | $33,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Childrens Tumor Foundation | New York, NY | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Warren County Community Health Coalition Inc | Front Royal, VA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Warren County Parks and Recreation Department | Front Royal, VA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Operation Warm Inc | Glen Mills, PA | $23,364 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Winchester Union Rescue Mission Inc | Winchester, VA | $22,017 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Youth Development Center | Winchester, VA | $19,300 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Abbacare Inc | Winchester, VA | $14,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Habitat for Humanity International Inc | Winchester, VA | $12,236 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| 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 |
| Handuploans | Winchester, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Winchester, VA | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| The Laurel Center Intervention for Domestic & Sexual Violence | Winchester, VA | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Wesley Housing Development Corporation | Alexandria, VA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| 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 |
| E Wilson Morrison Elementary School | Front Royal, VA | $6,748 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| 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 |
| Glass-Glen Burnie Museum Inc | Winchester, VA | $5,950 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Im Just Me Movement | Winchester, VA | $5,666 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| 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 |
22 of 49 (45%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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 the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 33 of 49 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- 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 |
| 2025 | 24 | $991,639 | $10,500 |
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
95% 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
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
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 $10,000 -- 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 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 0 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 24 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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