West Virginia · Private foundation
Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.7M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 132
- Grants FY2024
- 118
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 94 to 126
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Total assets, FY2024
- $34M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $176k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 129 | $1.7M | 27% |
| FY2023 | 118 | $1.7M | 25% |
| FY2022 | 94 | $1.7M | 22% |
| FY2021 | 126 | $1.7M | 27% |
| FY2020 | 102 | $1.4M | 39% |
| FY2019 | 122 | $1.4M | 36% |
| FY2018 | 109 | $1.4M | 43% |
| FY2017 | 118 | $1.3M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community Resources Inc | $297,100 | 8 | 2% |
| Boys Club of Parkersburg Inc | $282,400 | 7 | 9% |
| West Virginia Health Right Inc | $192,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Philanthropy West Virginia Inc | $188,000 | 8 | 10% |
| Young Mens Christian Association of Pakersburg West Virginia | $187,000 | 8 | 2% |
| The University of Charleston Inc | $172,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Ely Chapman Education Foundation | $166,500 | 8 | 7% |
| Golden Girl Inc | $165,400 | 8 | 1% |
| Artsbridge Inc | $165,000 | 8 | 12% |
| The Boys and Girls Club of Washington Co | $151,800 | 7 | 7% |
Show all 191 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 177 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 157 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
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About Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc
- How much does Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc give?
- Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc reported 132 grants totaling $1,724,861 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 94 and 126 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (22%), Health (15%), Education (11%).
- Who are Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Community Resources Inc ($297k), Boys Club of Parkersburg Inc ($282k), West Virginia Health Right Inc ($192k).
- Does Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Parkersburg Area Community Foundation Inc (Previously Pacf Inc), Sisters of St Joseph Charitable Fund Inc, Encova Foundation of West Virginia.
- Where is Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc based?
- Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc is based in WV.
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