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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

$79k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$65kPublic Benefit$60kInternational$50kPublic Safety & Disaster$36kHuman Services$25kHousing & Shelter$22kEnvironment$20kHealth$5k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $57,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $79,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $22,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $47k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$36M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%ALDERSON HOSPITALITY HOUSE: $17k → 18%ALDERSON HOSPITALITY HOUSE: $5k → 18%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

48%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$137k · 5 repeat orgs$146k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
9

Total granted

$137k
$116k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+10%

Still filing today

60%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalFood & NutritionHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
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

  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $35k · revenue +63%
  • AH
    ALDERSON HOSPITALITY HOUSE LAND TRU
    2× · 2023–2024 · $22k · revenue +3%
  • WO
    WELLSPRING OF GREENBRIER INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • MF
    MOUNTAINEER FOOD BANK INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $35k · revenue -11%
  • CR
    CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES
    3× · 2020–2022 · $35k
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $15k · revenue +3%
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.

1
Wv Helping Hands
Human Services
2
Feed My Sheep Food Outreach Inc

It is our mission to provide food, clothing, household cleaning supplies, and personal hygiene products to low income seniors, veterans, homeless, children, and families.

Food & Nutrition
3
Faith Feeding Freedom Foundation

Feed over 7,500 Homeless and Hungry Individuals in Berkeley County, West Virginia

Food & Nutrition
4
Greenwood Volunteer Fire Department

Fire and rescue services

Public Safety & Disaster
5
Helpful Harvest Food Bank

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.

Food & Nutrition
6
Fairview Food Bank

Providing food for those in need.

Food & Nutrition
7
Northern Pittsylvania County Fd Ct

Distribute free food to the poor

Human Services
8
United Food Operation Inc

Donations to buy food for 12 Food Pantries in Kanawha and Putnam Counties

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9
Fairmont Marion Food Pantry Inc

Provide food staples to the needy.

Food & Nutrition
10
West Virginia 211 Inc

To provide accurate and comprehensive resources to individuals needing social services in the state of west virginia.

Human Services
11
House of Hope Inc

Distribution of food

Human Services
12
West Virginia Prevention Solutions Inc
Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mountaineer Food Bank Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 16 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GREENBRIER VALLEY COMM FOUNDATION: $60,000 · OtherGREENBRIER VALLEY COMM FOUNDATIONCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES: $35,000 · OtherCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICESLEWISBURG FAIRLEA FOOD LOCKER: $10,000 · OtherLEWISBURG FAIRLEA FOOD LOCKERMANNA MEAL INC: $10,000 · OtherMANNA MEAL INCWELLSPRING OF GREENBRIER INC: $10,000 · OtherWELLSPRING OF GREENBRIER INCREACHH: $5,300 · OtherALDERSON FOOD PANTRY: $5,000 · Other+1 more: $500 · OtherInternational Rescue Committee INC: $35,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue…Save The Children Federation Inc: $10,000 · InternationalSave The Children Fe…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTI…MOUNTAINEER FOOD BANK INC: $35,075 · Food & NutritionMOUNTAINEER FOOD…RONCEVERTE FOOD PANTRY INC: $5,000 · Food & NutritionRONCEVERTE FOOD …ALDERSON HOSPITALITY HOUSE LAND TRU: $22,000 · Human ServicesALDERSON HOSPI…THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA INC: $15,225 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S…YEW MOUNTAIN CENTER: $20,000 · Environment
Other$135,800International$50,000Food & Nutrition$40,075Human Services$37,225Environment$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMOUNTAINEER FOOD BANK INC: $35,075 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALDERSON HOSPITALITY HOUSE LAND TRU: $22,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetYEW MOUNTAIN CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA INC: $15,225 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMANNA MEAL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWELLSPRING OF GREENBRIER INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEWISBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

The Greater Kanawha V…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Greater Kanawha Valley FoundationWV13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Appalachian Headwaters Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Appalachian Headwaters Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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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How do I get to Appalachian Headwaters Inc?

Find your warmest path to Appalachian Headwaters Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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