· Community foundation
Beckley Area Foundation Inc
To inspire and facilitate generous charitable giving that advances our community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 81 grants below total $1,778,788 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,238,057 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,459,269 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k34 grants · $241k
- $10k–50k40 grants · $948k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $590k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF BECKLEY - BILL WITHERS PROJECT | $141,525 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF RALEIGH COUNTY | $117,158 |
| RALEIGH COUNTY VETERANS MUSEUM | $88,805 |
| HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA INC | $71,184 |
| BECKLEY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $63,670 |
| WEST VIRGINIA PUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDATION | $58,097 |
| ST ANDREWS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $50,000 |
| AWAY | $43,735 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $39,609 |
| THREE RIVERS AVIAN CENTER | $36,908 |
| HELPING HANDS RESOURCE CENTER | $35,638 |
| BECKLEY VA MEDICAL CENTER | $35,000 |
| THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF OAK HILL | $35,000 |
| THE NAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY | $35,000 |
| WEST VIRGINIA HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC | $35,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $364k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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 +16% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
77 repeat relationships — 51 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 27 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, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $647k 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
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF RALEIGH COUNTY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $524k · revenue +114%
- HOHOSPICE OF SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $370k · revenue +93%
- CWCOMPREHENSIVE WOMENS SERVICE COUNCI9× · 2017–2025 · $291k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- IFITMANN FOOD BANKgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $14k · revenue +42%
- BLBECKLEY LITTLE LEAGUE INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $12k · revenue +82%
- SSSHADY SPRING HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $10k
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.
The west virginia rural health association (wvrha) advocates for empowering all west virginians to advance their quality of life, their well-being, and their access to excellence in rural health care. our mission is to unite people,…
To improve the health and health care quality for the residents of west virginia.
The organization provides training and technical assistance to water and wastewater utility providers throughout the State of West Virginia through a variety of programs.
The west virginia chamber of commerce provides opportunities for broad based prosperity throughout west virginia.
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
Strengthening philanthropy in the mountain state.
`the primary mission of the back creek valley volunteer fire company is to protect the lives and property of the inhabitants in the area from the adverse affects of fire, sudden medical emergencies and exposure to dangerous conditions.
To provide volunteer fire, rescue and ambulance services to the residents of the counties of jefferson and berkeley, wv.
To provide volunteer fire, rescue and ambulance service to the mountain area of jefferson county, wv and surrounding areas.
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.
Strengthening public health agencies and the broader public health and health care systems in west virginia.
Mountain state justice provides free legal services to low income people in west virginia and assures that low income people have access to the court system.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The West Virginia Humanities Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is Operation Underdog Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
74 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 74 of the 141 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 HUMANE SOCIETY OF RALEIGH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds COMPREHENSIVE WOMENS SERVICE COUNCI ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION O SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC ↗
- Who funds JUST FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN WV INC ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA PUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDA ↗
- Who funds GREENBRIER REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds BECKLEY CONCERT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BRIANS SAFEHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PINEY CREEK WATERSHED ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN BIBLE COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds THREE RIVERS AVIAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BECKLEY HEALTH RIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds THEATRE ARTS OF WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds RALEIGH COUNTY COMMISSION ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds BECKLEY DREAM CENTER INC DBA FISHES AND LOAVES ↗
- Who funds Southern Appalachian Labor School Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY ↗
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: Carter Family Foundation · The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation · Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation · United Way of Southern Wv Inc · Truist West Virginia Foundation Inc · Encova Foundation of West Virginia · American Water Charitable Foundationinc · Peoples Bank Foundation · Skewes Family Foundation · The West Virginia Humanities Council Inc · Milan Puskar Foundation Inc · American Electric Power 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 Beckley Area Foundation 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.
- Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc — 46% of income from government
- Naval Aviation Museum Foundation Inc — 13% 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.