· Private foundation
Bernard H and Blanche E Jacobson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $315k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| West Virginia State Univ | $50,000 |
| West Virginia State Univ | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| Library Foundation | $25,000 |
| City of Charleston Beautif | $20,000 |
| WV Symphony Orchestra | $20,000 |
| WV Humanities Council | $20,000 |
| Clay Center for Arts and Science | $20,000 |
| Union Mission Ministries | $20,000 |
| Covenant House Inc | $15,000 |
| WV Health Right | $15,000 |
| REA of Hope Inc | $15,000 |
| Girl Scouts Black Diamond | $15,000 |
| Boy Scouts Buckskin Council | $15,000 |
| Kanawha Valley Fellowship Home | $15,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $114k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 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.
29 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 8 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, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $245k 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
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC5× · 2020–2025 · $200k · revenue +15%
- WVWEST VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC5× · 2020–2025 · $160k · revenue +19%
- KVKANAWHA VALLEY FELLOWSHIP HOME INC6× · 2020–2025 · $124k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- CFCAMC FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +125%
- LFLibrary Foundtion of Kanawha Ctyone grant, 2024 · $25k
- EEEAST END RESOURCE CENTER INCone grant, 2024 · $25k
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.
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.
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
Communityworks in west virignia (cwwv) creates housing and community development solutions for all west virginians through a network of member organizations. cwwv carries out its mission by providing effective training and technical…
The west virginia chamber of commerce provides opportunities for broad based prosperity throughout west virginia.
To improve the health and health care quality for the residents of west virginia.
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,…
The wvnpa is a membership association dedicated to serving west virginia's nonprofit sector by providing year-round programming, serving as a clearing house of information, tools and resources through our website, and connect the sector…
The wvhii is a statewide collaboration among multiple stakeholders focusing on improving the health and health care of the citizens of west virginia.
To serve the needs of individuals suffering from life-limiting illness as well as to serve the individuals caring for them. to place emphasis on comfort and quality of life while fulfilling the physical, psychological, social and spiritual…
The mission of ccwv is to help our communities live the healthiest lives possible by meeting their immediate and long-term healthcare needs. this mission is accomplished by providing high quality, accessible, comprehensive, culturally…
West virginia community action partnership is an alliance of community action agencies that supports and strengthens our members, advocates for low-income and families and promotes partnerships.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Virginia Health Right Inc and the most unlike its peers is Faith in Action Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 23. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 59 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 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds KANAWHA VALLEY FELLOWSHIP HOME INC ↗
- Who funds LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF KANAWHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA HEALTH RIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER GREENBRIER VALLEY ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR APPALACHIA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds UNION MISSION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds DAYMARK INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC ↗
- Who funds CAMC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EAST END RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds THE EDUCATION ALLIANCE-BUSINESS AND COMMUNITY FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds FAITH IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds McDowell County Commission on Aging 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 · Truist West Virginia Foundation Inc · Encova Foundation of West Virginia · The Daywood Foundationinc · The Martha Gaines & Russell Wehrle Memorial Foundation · Tgkvf Inc · Herscher Foundation Inc · Charles & Mary Fayne Glotfelty Foundation Inc · Bowles Rice Foundation · Pallottine Foundation of Huntington West Virginia · HB Wehrle Foundation Stephen D Wehrle TTEE · Charleston Retail Credit Associatio
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 Bernard H and Blanche E Jacobson Foundation 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.
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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