How much does Albert Schenk III & Kathleen H Schenk Charitable Trust give?

Albert Schenk III & Kathleen H Schenk Charitable Trust reported 23 grants totaling $396,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 33 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

Who are Albert Schenk III & Kathleen H Schenk Charitable Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Oglebay Foundation Inc ($315k), Youth Services System Inc ($180k), The House of the Carpenter Inc ($149k).

Does Albert Schenk III & Kathleen H Schenk Charitable Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Albert Schenk III & Kathleen H Schenk Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Albert Schenk III & Kathleen H Schenk Charitable Trust

Albert Schenk III & Kathleen H Schenk Charitable Trust at a glance

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Albert Schenk III & Kathleen H Schenk Charitable Trust

Q: What does Albert Schenk III & Kathleen H Schenk Charitable Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (25%), Recreation & Sports (14%), Food & Nutrition (10%).

Q: Which funders back the same organizations as Albert Schenk III & Kathleen H Schenk Charitable Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley Inc, August J & Thelma S Hoffmann Foundation, Francis J and Edith Jackson Founda Security National Trust Company.

Q: Where is Albert Schenk III & Kathleen H Schenk Charitable Trust based?

Albert Schenk III & Kathleen H Schenk Charitable Trust is based in WV.

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$396k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$80k

Largest

01What it funds

0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$572kRecreation & Sports$320kFood & Nutrition$222kEducation$200kYouth Development$187kHealth$185kArts & Culture$162kCivil Rights$123kOther$0

02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k12 grants · $44k
$10k–50k9 grants · $223k
$50k–250k2 grants · $130k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$9.7M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
OGLEBAY FOUNDATION INC	$80,000
NORTHWOOD HEALTH SYSTEMS	$50,000
YOUTH SERVICES SYSTEM	$45,000
HOLY FAMILY CHILD CARE CENTER	$30,000
HOUSE OF THE CARPENTER	$30,000
MOUNTAINEER FOOD BANK	$25,000
EASTER SEALS	$25,000
WHEELING HEALTH RIGHT	$25,000
SOUP KITCHEN OF GREATER WHG	$20,000
KING'S DAUGHTERS CHILD CARE	$12,500
WHEELING SYMPHONY SOCIETY	$10,000
UNITED WAY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY	$5,000
Individual grant recipient	$5,000
BETHLEHEM ALLIANCE CHURCH	$5,000
ARC OF OHIO COUNTY	$5,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $683k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.9M · 36 repeat orgs$375k to everyone else

36 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.9M

$244k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%

+25%

Still filing today

47%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $131k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesHealthEducationFood & NutritionEmploymentRecreation & SportsOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

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OGLEBAY FOUNDATION INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $315k · revenue +81%
YS
YOUTH SERVICES SYSTEM INC
4× · 2020–2025 · $180k · revenue +20%
HS
HOH SHARE INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $123k · revenue +52%

Funded once

EH
ELMHURST HOUSE OF FRIENDSHIP INCgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +27%
OC
OHIO COUNTY HEALTH DEPT
one grant, 2020 · $25k
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THE EDUCATION ALLIANCE-BUSINESS AND COMMUNITY FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +58%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Wayne County Community Services Organization

Establish, conduct, implement, operate, coordinate and finance programs for the benefit of the low-income, minority, elderly, disadvantaged and handicapped citizens of wayne county, wv

Community Improvement

Ohio Valley Goodwill Industries

The mission of ohio valley goodwill industries rehabilitation center, inc. is to provide vocational rehabilitation, training, and employment services to individuals with either disabilities or social and economic barriers to full employment

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Whole Life Services Inc

Whole life services, inc.'s daily operations are motivated by and driven by persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities (id/dd), their families, and others in the community supporting their lives. in order to empower people to…

Human Services

Hospice Care Corporation D/B/a West Virginia Caring

To improve care for those facing life-limiting illness through direct support of patients and their families, public education and public advocacy.

—

Central West Virginia Aging Services Inc

Provide homemaker and case management services to home-bound seniors and disabled members in west virginia. provide, also, training and job assistance to those 55 and older on a limited income.

Human Services

Southeastern Ohio Center for Independent Living

Provide services to people with disabilities. such services include assistance with housing, employment, transportation and recreational issues.

Human Services

Westchester Institute for Human Development

The westchester institute for human development (wihd) creates better futures for people with disabilities, for vulnerable children, and for their families and caregivers. wihd accomplishes its mission through professional education,…

Health

St John's - St Vincent's Home for Chil

St john's home for children is a leader in delivering innovative and therapeutic services, in collaboration with our community partners and resources, to promote healing and growth for our children and family prosperity and resilience.

—

Meals On Wheels of Chester County

To provide nutritious meals and personal interaction to homebound adults living in chester county to help them live independently in their own homes.

Human Services

Meals On Wheels Inc

Meals on wheels of greater lynchburg addresses the hunger, isolation, and unique needs of the homebound. driven by volunteers who embody compassionate care, meals on wheels strengthens our community by delivering hot, nutritious meals,…

—

Valley Comprehensive Community Health Center Inc

Valley healthcare system shall improve our community's health by delivering the highest quality behavioral healthcare guided by our consumer's needs.

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Helping the Aging Needy and Disabled Inc

To nourish and enrich the lives of the homebound and other people in need through programs that promote dignity and independent living.

—

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of the Upper Ohio Valley Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hoh Share Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 69 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

36/36

Grantees still filing

21/36

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$795,465Human Services$683,425Recreation & Sports$315,000Health$147,000Environment$115,000Food & Nutrition$99,500Education$98,175

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley IncWV48.9× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley Inc · August J & Thelma S Hoffmann Foundation · Francis J and Edith Jackson Founda Security National Trust Company · Elizabeth Stifel Kline Foundation · Raymond A & Gertrude D Hyer Foundation · Hess Family Foundation · Encova Foundation of West Virginia · The Driehorst Family Foundation · Eqt Foundation · Rosemary M Front Charitable Trust · Robinson S Parlin Trust · Vna Home Support Services Inc

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Albert Schenk III & Kathleen H Schenk Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Albert Schenk III & Kathleen H Schenk Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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