About Northern Piedmont Community Foundation

Northern Piedmont Community Foundation is an established 501 (c)(3) whose sole purpose is transforming the resources of our local citizens into real growth and strength for our community.

NPCF manages a wide variety of funds established by local individuals, families, businesses, or charitable institutions. Through our investment strategies, the returns from these funds are put back into the community through grant cycles, and scholarships, along with the personal causes the fund holder holds dear.

The staff at NPCF is committed to building deep bonds with our region’s nonprofits. We are dedicated to educating and supporting all nonprofits of the region in their health as businesses, and their resilience in their missions of supporting our most vulnerable. 

We believe that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link. By working on both sides of the equation in growing our citizens’ resources while maximizing local nonprofits’ use of those resources, NPCF is ensuring that each link in the chain is healthy, strong, and contributing to the wellness of the Northern Piedmont community. 

Serving Culpeper, Fauquier, Madison, and Rappahannock Counties

The Northern Piedmont Community Foundation (NPCF) began in December 2000 when nine concerned citizens from Virginia’s Piedmont region were searching for solutions to the charitable needs in Culpeper, Fauquier, Madison, and Rappahannock counties. With modest beginnings, our funds have grown to over $39 million in support of local charities, scholarships and community need in our northern piedmont region.

A community foundation connects people with causes they care about – human needs, education, environment, arts or any other area of concern. Because of generous donors, NPCF can award grants to nonprofits, scholarships to students and in the process, strengthen the core of our communities. We also run programs like the annual Give Local Piedmont campaign, held on the first Tuesday each May. This program connects our communities, increases awareness of our nonprofits and incentivizes giving. Our communities’ nine-year fundraising total is over $8 million!