· Private foundation
Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MISSION WEST VIRGINIA | $50,000 |
| MEMORIAL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $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 |
| WHEELING HEALTH RIGHT INC | $25,000 |
| WV HEALTH RIGHT | $25,000 |
| CASA VOICES FOR CHILDREN | $25,000 |
| TUCKER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +31% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
180 repeat relationships — 94 still active in FY2024, 86 since wound down; 35 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $356k 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
- CRCOMMUNITY RESOURCES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $297k · revenue +28%
- BCBOYS CLUB OF PARKERSBURG INC7× · 2018–2024 · $282k · revenue +253%
- YMYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PAKERSBURG WEST VIRGINIA8× · 2017–2024 · $187k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- COCITY OF PARKERSBURGone grant, 2018 · $55k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON (THE BLENNone grant, 2020 · $53k
- WFWV FOSTER ADOPTIVE & KINSHIP PAREone grant, 2021 · $50k
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.
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
To provide primary medical care service in a rural community.
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…
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…
Valley healthcare system shall improve our community's health by delivering the highest quality behavioral healthcare guided by our consumer's needs.
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.
To improve the health and health care quality for the residents of west virginia.
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.
To improve care for those facing life-limiting illness through direct support of patients and their families, public education and public advocacy.
Central west virginia community action association, inc.s mission is to provide pathways to economic independence for all families by leading community initiatives that address the root causes of poverty.
To provide quality healthcare to all individuals, emphasizing outreach to those who are underserved. valley health strives to ensure that quality healthcare is readily accessible to everyone and serves patients regardless of their ability…
Provide comprehensive primary medical care to the communites served.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc and the most unlike its peers is Clary Garden Foundation. 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 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
171 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. 171 of the 372 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS CLUB OF PARKERSBURG INC ↗
- Who funds TUCKER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA HEALTH RIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds PARKERSBURG AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC (PREVIOUSLY PACF INC) ↗
- Who funds PHILANTHROPY WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PAKERSBURG WEST VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC ↗
- Who funds Ely Chapman Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN GIRL INC ↗
- Who funds ARTSBRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WASHINGTON CO ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SERVICES SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF PARKERSBURG ↗
- Who funds SW RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF PLEASANTS CO ↗
- Who funds THE DISABILITY ACTION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BIG CREEK PEOPLE IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAINEER FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN PKB INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds WHEELING HEALTH RIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds OLD MAN RIVERS MISSION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE MOV INC ↗
- Who funds McDowell County Commission on Aging Inc ↗
- Who funds O'NEILL SENIOR CENTER 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: Parkersburg Area Community Foundation Inc (Previously Pacf Inc) · Sisters of St Joseph Charitable Fund Inc · Encova Foundation of West Virginia · Peoples Bank Foundation · Milan Puskar Foundation Inc · Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation · Truist West Virginia Foundation Inc · Pallottine Foundation of Huntington West Virginia · The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation · Highmark Foundation · Deitzler Foundation Inc · Bowles Rice 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 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.
- Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc — 46% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Comfort Cases Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% 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.
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