· Public charity
Appalachian Headwaters Inc
Appalachian headwaters is a non-profit organization created to improve streams, forests and communities, and to conduct environmental education throughout central appalachia
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $57,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $79,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $22,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $47k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YEW MOUNTAIN CENTER | $20,000 |
| ALDERSON HOSPITALITY HOUSE | $17,000 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| WELLSPRING OF GREENBRIER INC | $5,000 |
| LEWISBURG FAIRLEA FOOD LOCKER | $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 (FY23–24, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- IRInternational Rescue Committee INC3× · 2020–2022 · $35k · revenue +63%
- AHALDERSON HOSPITALITY HOUSE LAND TRU2× · 2023–2024 · $22k · revenue +3%
- WOWELLSPRING OF GREENBRIER INC2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- MFMOUNTAINEER FOOD BANK INC3× · 2020–2022 · $35k · revenue -11%
- CRCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES3× · 2020–2022 · $35k
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA INC3× · 2020–2022 · $15k · revenue +3%
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.
It is our mission to provide food, clothing, household cleaning supplies, and personal hygiene products to low income seniors, veterans, homeless, children, and families.
Feed over 7,500 Homeless and Hungry Individuals in Berkeley County, West Virginia
Fire and rescue services
Helpful Harvest is dedicated to alleviating hunger and hardship in southern West Virginia by providing free access to food furniture diapers clothing medical supplies education and other vital resources.
Providing food for those in need.
Distribute free food to the poor
Donations to buy food for 12 Food Pantries in Kanawha and Putnam Counties
Provide food staples to the needy.
To provide accurate and comprehensive resources to individuals needing social services in the state of west virginia.
Distribution of food
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mountaineer Food Bank Inc and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 16 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 MOUNTAINEER FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds ALDERSON HOSPITALITY HOUSE LAND TRU ↗
- Who funds YEW MOUNTAIN CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds MANNA MEAL INC ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING OF GREENBRIER INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds RONCEVERTE FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds LEWISBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT 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: The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Headwaters Inc 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
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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