· Private foundation
Albert Schenk III & Kathleen H Schenk Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $223k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $130k
| 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 |
| EASTER SEALS | $25,000 |
| MOUNTAINEER FOOD BANK | $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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| BETHLEHEM ALLIANCE CHURCH | $5,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY | $5,000 |
| SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $131k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- OFOGLEBAY FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $315k · revenue +81%
- YSYOUTH SERVICES SYSTEM INC4× · 2020–2025 · $180k · revenue +20%
- HSHOH SHARE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $123k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- EHELMHURST HOUSE OF FRIENDSHIP INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +27%
- OCOHIO COUNTY HEALTH DEPTone grant, 2020 · $25k
- TETHE EDUCATION ALLIANCE-BUSINESS AND COMMUNITY FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +58%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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
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
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…
To improve care for those facing life-limiting illness through direct support of patients and their families, public education and public advocacy.
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.
Provide services to people with disabilities. such services include assistance with housing, employment, transportation and recreational issues.
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,…
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.
To provide nutritious meals and personal interaction to homebound adults living in chester county to help them live independently in their own homes.
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 healthcare system shall improve our community's health by delivering the highest quality behavioral healthcare guided by our consumer's needs.
To nourish and enrich the lives of the homebound and other people in need through programs that promote dignity and independent living.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of the Upper Ohio Valley Inc and 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.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 26. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds OGLEBAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SERVICES SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOUSE OF THE CARPENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOH SHARE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SOUP KITCHEN OF GREATER WHEELING INC ↗
- Who funds OGLEBAY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds WHEELING COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GROW OHIO VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds Northwood Health Systems ↗
- Who funds ELMHURST HOUSE OF FRIENDSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds LAUGHLIN COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAINEER FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds WHEELING HEALTH RIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds WHEELING SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HOLY FAMILY CHILD CARE & DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEAL REHABILITATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds WEST LIBERTY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE EDUCATION ALLIANCE-BUSINESS AND COMMUNITY FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDRENS HOME OF WHEELING INC ↗
- Who funds BELCO WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA LEVY LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE HUB INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Albert Schenk III & Kathleen H Schenk Charitable Trust funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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