How much does Beckley Area Foundation Inc give?

Beckley Area Foundation Inc reported 81 itemized grants totaling $1,778,788, out of $3,238,057 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 41 and 51 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Beckley Area Foundation Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (15%), Religion (14%), Human Services (11%).

Who are Beckley Area Foundation Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Humane Society of Raleigh County Inc ($524k), Beckley Presbyterian Church ($519k), City of Beckley - Bill Withers Project ($379k).

Does Beckley Area Foundation Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Beckley Area Foundation Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Carter Family Foundation, The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation, Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation.

Where is Beckley Area Foundation Inc based?

Beckley Area Foundation Inc is based in WV.

Beckley Area Foundation Inc

Beckley Area Foundation Inc at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Community foundation

Beckley Area Foundation Inc

To inspire and facilitate generous charitable giving that advances our community.

$3.2M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$142k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.1MReligion$1.0MHuman Services$797kArts & Culture$770kAnimals$673kFood & Nutrition$587kHealth$546kRecreation & Sports$299kOther$0

02FY2025 · 81 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 81 grants below total $1,778,788, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,238,057 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,459,269 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 · FY2025

Under $10k34 grants · $241k
$10k–50k40 grants · $948k
$50k–250k7 grants · $590k

$10,097

Median grant

States reached

$79M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
WEST VIRGINIA HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC	$35,000
THE NAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY	$35,000
BECKLEY VA MEDICAL CENTER	$35,000
THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF OAK HILL	$35,000

02The need

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$6.1M · 77 repeat orgs$902k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$6.1M

$255k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%

Still filing today

56%

27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $647k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsAnimalsCommunity ImprovementOther

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

HS
HUMANE SOCIETY OF RALEIGH COUNTY INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $524k · revenue +114%
HO
HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $370k · revenue +146%
CW
COMPREHENSIVE WOMENS SERVICE COUNCI
9× · 2017–2025 · $291k · revenue +16%

Funded once

IF
ITMANN FOOD BANKgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $14k · revenue +42%
BL
BECKLEY LITTLE LEAGUE INCgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $12k · revenue +82%
SS
SHADY SPRING HIGH SCHOOL
one grant, 2019 · $10k

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.

West Virginia Community Voices Inc

To improve the health and health care quality for the residents of west virginia.

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West Virginia Health Care Association Inc

To promote the general welfare through development and maintenance of high standards of professional care and administration in all long-term care facilities to establish and promote programs of education for maintaining high standards of…

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West Virginia Rural Health Association Inc

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,…

Health

Middleway Volunteer Fire Company

To provide volunteer fire, rescue and ambulance services to the residents of the counties of jefferson and berkeley, wv.

Public Safety & Disaster

West Virginia Rural Water Association Inc

The organization provides training and technical assistance to water and wastewater utility providers throughout the State of West Virginia through a variety of programs.

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Blue Ridge Mountain Volunteer Fire Co

To provide volunteer fire, rescue and ambulance service to the mountain area of jefferson county, wv and surrounding areas.

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Back Creek Valley Volunteer Fire Company Inc

`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.

Public Safety & Disaster

Philanthropy West Virginia Inc

Strengthening philanthropy in the mountain state.

Philanthropy

West Virginia Local Health Inc

Strengthening public health agencies and the broader public health and health care systems in west virginia.

Health

West Virginia Chamber of Commerce

The west virginia chamber of commerce provides opportunities for broad based prosperity throughout west virginia.

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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

Grandview Volunteer Fire Dept Inc

Providing public fire protection and emergency rescue services.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mount Hope Heritage & Hope Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

74 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

69/74

Grantees still filing

42/74

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$4,299,893Human Services$673,704Animals$631,130Arts & Culture$565,420Education$332,371Community Improvement$322,444Crime & Legal$219,700

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

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.

Carter Family FoundationWV47.3× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home