· Private foundation
Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k48 grants · $152k
- $10k–50k82 grants · $1.5M
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIR | $25,000 |
| TUCKER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| DISABILITY ACTION CENTER | $25,000 |
| CASA VOICES FOR CHILDREN | $25,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +24% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CRCOMMUNITY RESOURCES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $297k · revenue +15%
- BCBOYS CLUB OF PARKERSBURG INC7× · 2018–2024 · $282k · revenue +253%
- YMYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PAKERSBURG WEST VIRGINIA8× · 2017–2024 · $187k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- COCITY OF PARKERSBURGone grant, 2018 · $55k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON (THE BLENNone grant, 2020 · $53k
- WFWV FOSTER ADOPTIVE & KINSHIP PAREone grant, 2021 · $50k
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.
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.
How this is measured
171 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. 171 of the 372 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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