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Appalachian Area Agency on Aging

Pass through agency for senior centers in southern wv.

$8.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$1.2M
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Human Services$28MFood & Nutrition$1.6M
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$633,518
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RALEIGH COUNTY COMMISSION ON AGING INC$1,160,118
PUTNAM COUNTY AGING PROGRAM INC$829,899
BRAXTON COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER INC$763,441
COMMUNITY ACTION OF SOUTH EASTERN WEST VIRGINIA$750,944
MCDOWELL COUNTY COMMISSION ON AGING INC$719,585
NICHOLAS COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC$683,238
GREENBRIER COUNTY COMMITTE ON AGING$633,518
CLAY SENIOR AND COMMUNITY SERVICES INC$608,411
COUNCIL ON AGING INC$568,518
MONROE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC$487,014
WEBSTER COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS INC$478,344
POCAHONTAS COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS INC$430,502
SUMMERS COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING$419,770
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $18.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 18%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 18%MONROE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $534k → 15%NICHOLAS COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC: $748k → 19%RALEIGH COUNTY COMMISSION ON AGING INC: $1.2M → 20%POCAHONTAS COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $431k → 20%SUMMERS COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $420k → 23%WEBSTER COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $600k → 24%MCDOWELL COUNTY COMMISSION ON AGING INC: $723k → 25%MONROE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $487k → 15%NICHOLAS COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC: $683k → 19%RALEIGH COUNTY COMMISSION ON AGING INC: $1.0M → 20%POCAHONTAS COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $421k → 20%SUMMERS COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $385k → 23%WEBSTER COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $478k → 24%MCDOWELL COUNTY COMMISSION ON AGING INC: $720k → 25%MONROE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $478k → 15%GREENBRIER COUNTY: $503k → 18%NICHOLAS COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSH: $533k → 19%RALEIGH COUNTY COMMISSION ON AGING: $817k → 20%POCAHONTAS COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS: $362k → 20%SUMMERS COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $384k → 23%WEBSTER COUNTY: $405k → 24%MCDOWELL COUNTY COMMISSION ON AGING: $555k → 25%MONROE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $445k → 15%GREENBRIER COUNTY: $484k → 18%NICHOLAS COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSH: $503k → 19%RALEIGH COUNTY COMMISSION ON AGING: $781k → 20%POCAHONTAS COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS: $361k → 20%SUMMERS COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $365k → 23%WEBSTER COUNTY: $391k → 24%MCDOWELL COUNTY COMMISSION ON AGING: $534k → 25%COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $569k → 25%COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $512k → 25%COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $459k → 25%COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $454k → 25%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$30M · 14 repeat orgs$283k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
1

Total granted

$30M
$283k

Still filing today

93%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’23’24
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitOther

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

  • RC
    RALEIGH COUNTY COMMISSION ON AGING INC
    4× · 2017–2024 · $3.8M · revenue +84%
  • PC
    PUTNAM COUNTY AGING PROGRAM INC
    4× · 2017–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +126%
  • CA
    COMMUNITY ACTION OF SOUTH EASTERN WEST VIRGINIA INC
    4× · 2017–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • GL
    GOSPEL LIGHTHOUSE CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $283k

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

04Your field

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.

1
Jackson County Commission On Aging Inc

Establish, conduct, implement, operate, coordinate and finance programs for the benefit of the low income, minority, elderly, disadvantaged and handicapped citizens of jackson county through title iii and medicaid programs.

Human Services
2
Council of Senior Citizens of Gilmer County Inc

To study and document the needs of seniors, to encourage, promote and aid in the establishment of programs for seniors, to conduct programs of public education on programs on aging, to utilize opportunities to establish and implement…

Human Services
3
Jefferson County Council On Aging Inc

To provide in home services, para-nursing services, nutritional meals, transportation, and other various services to the elderly of Jefferson and Berkley Counties located in WV.

Human Services
4
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
5
Preston County Senior Citizens Inc

Preston county senior citizens, inc provides transportation, in-home care, nutrition, training and job assistance and other social services to the senior citizens of west virginia.

6
Clarion Area Agency on AgingInc

Program Services to Aging Population in Clarion County

Human Services
7
Laurel Valley Senior Citizens Center

Operation of three senior citizens centers with approximately 450 seniors citizens thru the Westmoreland County Area Agency on Aging.

8
Wirt County Committee On Aging

The agency was organized to operate programs for the elderly population of wirt county, west virginia.

Human Services
9
Barbour County Senior Center Inc

Organization operates a senior citizens center in barbour county west virginia. senior citizens are provided with transportation, nutrition, in-home care and personal and social services.

10
Jackson County Council On Aging

Provide services to local seniors to improve their quality of life and assist them in remaining in their homes

Human Services
11
Walton County Senior Citizens Council

Aging services contractor

Human Services
12
Commission on Aging Family Services Inc

To improve the qualiry of life of the senior citizens and their famiilies in grant county, west virginia.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Raleigh County Commission On Aging Inc and the most unlike its peers is Nicholas Community Action Partnership 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

13 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 15 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

RALEIGH COUNTY COMMISSION ON AGING INC — $3,780,465 · Human ServicesRALEIGH COUNTY COMMISSION ON AGING INCMcDowell County Commission on Aging Inc — $2,531,738 · Human ServicesMcDowell County Commission on Aging IncNICHOLAS COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC — $2,467,350 · Human ServicesNICHOLAS COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INCCOUNCIL ON AGING INC — $1,993,654 · Human ServicesCOUNCIL ON AGING INCMonroe County Council on Aging Inc — $1,944,664 · Human ServicesMonroe County Council on Aging IncWebster County Senior Citizens Inc — $1,873,890 · Human ServicesWebster County Senior Citizens IncPocahontas County Senior Citizens Inc — $1,574,281 · Human ServicesPocahontas County Senior Citizens IncSummers County Council on Aging Inc — $1,553,721 · Human ServicesSummers County Council on Aging IncGREENBRIER COUNTY COMMITTEE ON AGING INC — $986,812 · Human ServicesPUTNAM COUNTY AGING PROGRAM INC — $3,065,365 · OtherPUTNAM COUNTY AGING PROGRA…BRAXTON COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS — $2,299,286 · OtherBRAXTON COUNTY SENIOR CITI…GREENBRIER COUNTY COMMITTE ON AGING — $1,258,546 · OtherGREENBRIER COUNTY COMMITTE…GOSPEL LIGHTHOUSE CHURCH — $283,443 · OtherCOMMUNITY ACTION OF SOUTH EASTERN WEST VIRGINIA INC — $2,788,963 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY …CLAY SENIOR AND COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $1,579,491 · Public Benefit
Human Services$18,706,575Other$6,906,640Community Improvement$2,788,963Public Benefit$1,579,491

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRALEIGH COUNTY COMMISSION ON AGING INC — $3,780,465 over 4y, 15% of budgetPUTNAM COUNTY AGING PROGRAM INC — $3,065,365 over 4y, 17% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION OF SOUTH EASTERN WEST VIRGINIA INC — $2,788,963 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetMcDowell County Commission on Aging Inc — $2,531,738 over 4y, 38% of budgetNICHOLAS COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC — $2,467,350 over 4y, 19% of budgetBRAXTON COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS — $2,299,286 over 4y, 19% of budgetCOUNCIL ON AGING INC — $1,993,654 over 4y, 10% of budgetMonroe County Council on Aging Inc — $1,944,664 over 4y, 58% of budgetWebster County Senior Citizens Inc — $1,873,890 over 4y, 39% of budgetCLAY SENIOR AND COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $1,579,491 over 4y, 26% of budgetPocahontas County Senior Citizens Inc — $1,574,281 over 4y, 64% of budgetSummers County Council on Aging Inc — $1,553,721 over 4y, 37% of budgetGREENBRIER COUNTY COMMITTEE ON AGING INC — $986,812 over 2y, 65% of budget
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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA1.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Appalachian Area Agency on Aging 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government
    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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Appalachian Area Agency on Aging?

    Find your warmest path to Appalachian Area Agency on Aging through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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