· Private foundation
Bernard H and Blanche E Jacobson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Clay Center for Arts and Science | $20,000 |
| WV Symphony Orchestra | $20,000 |
| City of Charleston Beautif | $20,000 |
| Union Mission Ministries | $20,000 |
| WV Humanities Council | $20,000 |
| Boy Scouts Buckskin Council | $15,000 |
| Girl Scouts Black Diamond | $15,000 |
| REA of Hope Inc | $15,000 |
| Covenant House Inc | $15,000 |
| WV Health Right | $15,000 |
| Kanawha Valley Fellowship Home | $15,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- EEEAST END RESOURCE CENTER INCone grant, 2024 · $25k
- LFLibrary Foundtion of Kanawha Ctyone grant, 2024 · $25k
- CFCAMC FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +125%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
31 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. 31 of the 59 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 APPALACHIAN CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds EAST END RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CAMC FOUNDATION 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 ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS THERAPY CLINIC ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bernard H and Blanche E Jacobson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bernard H and Blanche E Jacobson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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