How much did BERNARD MCDONOUGH FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 66% of BERNARD MCDONOUGH FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

housingrenovationslowdinnersummer campfellowshipgala

2019

supwvu parkersburglatrobe streetstreet recoverysave kittyvolunteergood

2020

supcharleston blennvoadfounactors guildupreachmarion

2021

supkanawhahabitat humanitycommitteerural healthriverarmy parkersburg

2022

arcviennamid-ohio valleysistersfarmparkersburg foundatihealth right

2023

hope ministriesstarbelprebuckskin bsaviennasaveassociatio

2024

rescueresourceriverviennaarcfarmmid-ohio

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 132 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k48 grants · $152k
$10k–50k82 grants · $1.5M
$50k–250k2 grants · $100k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$45M

Total assets

Largest grants

MEMORIAL HEALTH FOUNDATION$50,000
MISSION WEST VIRGINIA$50,000
UNITED WAY ALLIANCE OF THE MID-OHIO$49,150
CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE MOV INC$47,338
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PARKERSBURG$42,000
UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON$40,000
COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC$35,000
ELY CHAPMAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION$30,500
WV INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERS$30,000
PHILANTHROPY WEST VIRGINIA INC$26,000
YMCA OF PARKERSBURG$26,000
WV HEALTH RIGHT$25,000
WHEELING HEALTH RIGHT INC$25,000
CASA VOICES FOR CHILDREN$25,000
TUCKER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$25,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 18% — the area typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$11M · 183 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

183 repeat relationships — 97 still active in FY2024, 86 since wound down; 35 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

183

158

Total granted

$11M

$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%

+24%

Still filing today

43%

19%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $356k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthEducationHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyAnimalsOther

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

CR
COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $297k · revenue +28%
TC
TUCKER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
8× · 2017–2024 · $200k · revenue +34%
UO
UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON
5× · 2018–2024 · $172k · revenue +16%

Funded once

CO
CITY OF PARKERSBURG
one grant, 2018 · $55k
UO
UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON (THE BLENN
one grant, 2020 · $53k
WF
WV FOSTER ADOPTIVE & KINSHIP PARE
one grant, 2021 · $50k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Community Care of West Virginia Inc

To provide high quality, accessible comprehensive and cost-effective healthcare services to our patients while serving as their medical home.

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Wayne County Community Services

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

Community Improvement

Wv Helping Hands

Human Services

West Virginia United Health System Inc

West Virginia United Health System is committed to improving the health of the communities it serves through quality, cost effective health care services support of health professional training and research.

Health

West Virginia University Medical Corporation

To support the West Virginia University School of Medicine in the furtherance of its charitable, scientific, and educational purposes.

Health

West Virginia University Hospitals Inc

WVU Hospitals exists to provide a quality healthcare system, including tertiary services, to the citizens of WV and the surrounding region.

Health

Women's Health Center of West Virginia

The mission of the women's health center is to provide and to advocate for access to affordable, high quality health services, addressing the special needs of women in a manner that respects their dignity, right of reproductive choice,…

Civil Rights

West Virginia Health Right Inc

To provide medical, dental, pharmaceutical, behavioral health, vision and health education service to the uninsured and underinsured poor of west virginia. wv health right also operates a charitable mail order pharmacy for west virginia…

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Wirt County Health Services

Provision of primary and preventive care services to the rural population of wirt and jackson counties in west virginia.

Health

Mountain Cap of West Virginia Inc

Mountain cap of west virginia, inc. provides services to the low income, underpriveleged and elderly citizens of west virginia through weatherization, medicaid waiver, low income housing, child services and other programs.

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Communityworks in West Virginia Inc

Communityworks in west virginia (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…

Housing & Shelter

Eastern West Virginia Community Action

Eastern West Virginia Community Action Agency serves the disadvantaged people by determining their needs; advocating for and providing programs that help remove them from the causes of poverty.

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc and the most unlike its peers is Marietta College. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 30 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%3/142

the rest of the field

1,024/10,797

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.

05the grantee network

127 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

121/127

Grantees still filing

96/127

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$8,961,009Human Services$1,143,365Health$648,039Education$615,000Philanthropy$446,250Arts & Culture$430,738Housing & Shelter$299,000

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.

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.

Parkersburg Area Community FoundationWV75.6× affinity35 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Parkersburg Area Community Foundation · Encova Foundation of West Virginia · Milan Puskar Foundation Inc · Sisters of St Joseph Charitable · Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation · Peoples Bank Foundation · The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation · Deitzler Foundation Inc · Pallottine Foundation of Huntington · Marietta Community Foundation Inc · Truist West Virginia Foundation Inc · Highmark 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 organisation BERNARD MCDONOUGH 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: BROUGHTON FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~2 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.3× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 311328628 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on BROUGHTON FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 2 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 26% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

BERNARD MCDONOUGH FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

127 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

BERNARD MCDONOUGH FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

127 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph