Woodville Rosenwald School Foundation

What Woodville Rosenwald School Foundation does

The Woodville Rosenwald School Foundation is a Virginia nonstock corporation incorporated in 2012 that preserves, maintains, and administers the historic Woodville Rosenwald School in Hayes, Gloucester County, Virginia, in perpetuity for charitable and educational purposes. The underlying property is a two-teacher Rosenwald school originally built circa 1919 with funding secured by T.C. Walker from Julius Rosenwald; the foundation purchased the building from the Gloucester Economic Development Authority in 2019 after it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. The foundation's mission is to seek, share, and preserve the history of African American education in Gloucester County and beyond.

Core products include a museum and restored historic site (Open School Days on the first Saturday of each month, 10 AM-2 PM), guided historical tours, an archaeology program that has uncovered 47,920+ artifacts (some displayed at the Gloucester Museum of History and the Virginia Museum of History and Culture), oral history recordings from alumni, experiential learning programs for Gloucester County students developed with local schools, and a community event venue hosting annual Jazz Day, Juneteenth celebrations, family reunions, and meetings. The foundation operates as a heritage tourism and educational programming site with no digital product surface.

The revenue model is exclusively nonprofit: tax-deductible individual donations (accepted via PayPal, Venmo, and mail) at tiered levels from "Woodville Friend" to "Woodville Valedictorian" ($10,000), supplemented by grants from foundations and government sources. Disclosed grantors include The Cook Foundation ($75,000 matching grants in 2022 and 2023), the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Virginia Humanities, WHRO, the Virginia Outdoors Foundation, the Sanders Fund, the J. Edwin Treakle Foundation, the Jesse Ball DuPont Fund, and the Kellogg Foundation. The foundation is governed by a board of directors including founding directors emeriti and operates with a small staff supplemented by extensive volunteer support.

Name

Woodville Rosenwald School Foundation

Legal name

Woodville Rosenwald School Foundation

Website

https://woodvillerosenwaldschool.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

The Woodville Rosenwald School Foundation is a Virginia nonprofit that preserves the historic Woodville Rosenwald School in Gloucester County as a museum, educational site, and community venue, serving students, descendant communities, heritage tourists, and the general public through tours, archaeology, oral history, and experiential learning programs.

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akta.pro rank

Product category

Cultural Heritage and Museum Services

NAICS

Historical Sites (712120), Museums (712110), Educational Services (611)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Cultural Heritage, Arts & Archaeology Service Programs (EDAIAGAH)

Keywords

• Historic preservation services
• Museum and education programs
• Cultural heritage preservation
• Archaeological research services
• Community arts programming

Headquarters

HQ city

Hayes

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Donations and contributions: The foundation raises funds through individual donations, corporate matching programs (Amazon Smile), and bequests. All donations go directly to charitable and educational purposes relating to the African American experience in Gloucester County and are tax-deductible.
2. Grants: The foundation receives grants from foundations and government sources including the Cook Foundation ($75,000 matching grant), National Trust for Historic Preservation, Virginia Humanities, WHRO, Virginia Outdoors Foundation, and the Commonwealth of Virginia for specific preservation and programming projects.

Pricing tiers

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

The Woodville Rosenwald School Foundation preserves, restores, and operates the historic Woodville School in Gloucester County, Virginia as a museum and educational site. It offers guided historical tours, experiential learning programs for local students, oral history preservation, on-site archaeological investigations, and community event venue services (e.g., Open School Days, Juneteenth, Jazz Day). All charitable activities are tied to interpreting African American educational history in Gloucester County and the broader Rosenwald Schools legacy.

Product overview

The Woodville Rosenwald School Foundation operates a historic preservation and educational organization centered on the restored Woodville School, a two-teacher Rosenwald school built in 1919. The foundation offers multiple interconnected programs: the Woodville School Museum as the primary attraction featuring historical exhibits; guided Historical Tours of the restored building; Experiential Learning Programs for student field trips developed with Gloucester County educators; Oral History Recordings from alumni preserved and displayed; Community Event Venue rental for gatherings and celebrations including annual Jazz Day; an active Archaeology Program with over 47,000 artifacts recovered; and a Donation Platform accepting contributions via PayPal and Venmo. The foundation also hosts monthly Open School Days to welcome community visitors.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Woodville School Museum
• Historical Tours

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core and foundational.

• York County Rotary ClubcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMembers nearly completed restoration work on the large classroom, restoring original beadboard walls, replacing trim, and painting the classroom to its early 1900s appearance.
• Gloucester County Public SchoolscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnered with the foundation for the online screening of the Rosenwald documentary and panel discussion; ongoing partnership for student field trips and experiential curriculum development per strategic plan.
• Virginia Department of Historic ResourcescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnered with Data Investigation, LLC to support archaeological investigations at the Woodville School site prior to parking lot construction.
• William & MarycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerContributed volunteers (students and NEH Professor Michael Blakey) to archaeological excavation teams at the Woodville site.
• Gloucester Economic Development Authority (EDA)foundationalStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcquired the Woodville School from private owner in 2012 and organized the Woodville Rosenwald School Foundation. The foundation then purchased the school from the EDA in 2019.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves9 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• National Trust for Historic Preservation: The largest U.S. private historic preservation organization and a direct funder of Woodville's African American Cultural History Action Fund grant. Operates broadly across preservation policy, grants, and site stewardship rather than focused on a single Rosenwald School.
• Colonial Williamsburg Foundation: Large Virginia-based historic site operator and living-history museum with extensive educational programming and K-12 curriculum. Comparable as a regional benchmark for scale, school-trip programming, and operational complexity of a Virginia heritage site.
• Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture: The national Smithsonian museum dedicated to African American history, education, and culture. Relevant as the category-defining incumbent whose educational programming standards and donor base shape the broader African American heritage nonprofit sector Woodville operates in.

Direct peers

• Rosenwald Schools National Historical Park Campaign: The campaign advocating for a National Park Service unit dedicated to Rosenwald Schools. Directly relevant because Woodville is part of this network and any park designation would funnel tourism and federal support to participating sites.
• Gloucester Museum of History: Local county history museum already displaying Woodville's excavated artifacts. Directly comparable as a co-located heritage site sharing artifact custody and the local Gloucester County visitor audience.
• Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia: Virginia-based African American heritage museum and cultural center. Comparable as a regional peer focused on Black history preservation, exhibits, and educational programming in the same state.

Regional players

• The Fairfield Foundation: Virginia-based archaeology and historic preservation nonprofit operating in Gloucester County and the Middle Peninsula. Directly comparable because it runs archaeological fieldwork, public engagement, and descendant community programs on Virginia historic sites — the same operational model Woodville is building.
• Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation: Virginia state agency operating living-history museums at Jamestown and Yorktown with K-12 educational programming. Comparable because it is the dominant regional operator of school-group heritage tourism in the same state, competing for the same Virginia public-school field-trip market.
• Virginia Museum of History & Culture: State-level history museum that has already featured Woodville's oral histories in its "Better Life for Their Children" exhibit. Closely comparable as a Virginia African American heritage content partner and a potential outlet for traveling exhibits of Woodville's 47,920-artifact collection.

Others

• Association for the Study of African American Life and History: Founders of Black History Month and the national Rubric of Best Practices for teaching slavery that Woodville follows. Relevant as the professional umbrella body whose standards Woodville aligns with and whose network supports programming partnerships.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/watch?v=WmGQcoE3xvM
• Xx.com/woodvillerfound
• Facebookfacebook.com/woodvillerosenwaldgloucesterva

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Number of profiles

Profiles20 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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