· Private foundation
Bernice Pickens Parsons Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $5,500 |
| RAVENSWOOD SENIOR CENTER | $3,192 |
| FAMILY REFUGE CENTER | $2,500 |
| DAYMARK INC | $2,500 |
| WV HEALTH RIGHT INC | $2,500 |
| WOMENS HEALTH CENTER | $2,500 |
| KANAWHA VALLEY FELLOWSHIP HOME INC | $2,500 |
| PEAK LIVING SERVICES | $1,500 |
| RAVENSWOOD SENIOR QUILTERS | $1,500 |
| RIPLEY SENIOR CLUB | $1,100 |
| BOMAR CLUB | $1,000 |
| JACKSON COUNTY READ ALOUD | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $1,000 |
| SANDYVILLE SENIOR CENTER | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 100% 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.
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.
34 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- KVKANAWHA VALLEY FELLOWSHIP HOME INC9× · 2017–2025 · $16k · revenue +131%
- JCJackson County Public Library Association7× · 2017–2023 · $11k · revenue +24%
- DIDAYMARK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $10k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF KANAWHAone grant, 2023 · $1k
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.
The southern west virginia fellowship home is here to serve all in need of a better life apart from drugs and alcohol. we have a confident expectation that a whole new life "a better life" exists for all.
Shelter service for abused women and children in mingo and logan counties in west virginia.
The ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, dignity, and freedom for all.
Our mission is to help those who are struggling with homelessness, by providing resources to help rebuild their lives.
Rockbridge Recovery supports individuals, families, and communities touched by addictive behaviors through support from peers, prevention, and education.
Anchor homes operates a faith-based recovery program and believes in helping people of all races, nationality, social class, religion, gender, and language with recovery programming and housing. we believe that the answer to addiction is…
Renewal house is a not-for-profit corporation whose mission is to provide transitional housing for men and women 58 years of age or older who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. the organization also refers clients to needed…
A faith-based, sober living house, for men who are serious about maintaining a life of sobriety from addictive substances.
To provide independent living skills, increased self-esteem, and provide hot noon meals for two senior centers.
Our slogan Its only a season, reflects the idea that recovery is not a lifelong struggle but a temporary process. Our goal is to provide the resources and support needed to help our residents navigate this season and come out stronger on…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Peak Living Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ravenswood Senior Quilters. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 37 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
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 WEST VIRGINIA HEALTH RIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds KANAWHA VALLEY FELLOWSHIP HOME INC ↗
- Who funds Jackson County Public Library Association ↗
- Who funds DAYMARK INC ↗
- Who funds KANAWHA PASTORAL COUNSELING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY REFUGE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RAVENSWOOD SENIOR QUILTERS ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS THERAPY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds THE BOMAR CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds MANNA MEAL INC ↗
- Who funds PEAK LIVING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ROARK SULLIVAN LIFEWAY CENTER ↗
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: The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation · The Daywood Foundationinc · Truist West Virginia Foundation Inc · Encova Foundation of West Virginia · Charles & Mary Fayne Glotfelty Foundation Inc · Bernard H and Blanche E Jacobson Foundation · HB Wehrle Foundation Stephen D Wehrle TTEE · Herscher Foundation Inc · Sisters of St Joseph Charitable Fund Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Bernice Pickens Parsons Foundation 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.
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.