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Capital Area Development Corporation of West Virginia

Capital Area Development Corporation of West Virginia dba Charleston Area Alliance serves as a catalyst for change for Charleston, Kanawha County, and the surrounding area, leading with innovative and collaborative approaches to shape a prosperous economy that fosters growth and attracts people and investment. We are a community and…

$4.1M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
3
Itemized grants FY2025
1
Organizations funded FY2024
100%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$3.9M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$1,000,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$2,829,347
Organizations funded a year
1 to 1
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$14M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Capital Area Development Corporation of West Virginia funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving3$3.9M100%
FY20241$50k100%
FY20201$241kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Employment$241kCommunity Improvement$50k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
West Virginia University Foundation Inc$2,829,34712%
West Virginia Department of Tourism$1,000,0001n/a
Infor (US) Inc$241,3721n/a
Spring Hill Cemetery Park Comm$25,0001n/a

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($50k), not named here.

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About Capital Area Development Corporation of West Virginia

How much does Capital Area Development Corporation of West Virginia give?
Capital Area Development Corporation of West Virginia reported 3 itemized grants totaling $3,854,347, out of $4,063,097 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 1 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Capital Area Development Corporation of West Virginia fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Employment (83%), Community Improvement (17%).
Who are Capital Area Development Corporation of West Virginia's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: West Virginia University Foundation Inc ($2.8M), West Virginia Department of Tourism ($1.0M), Infor (US) Inc ($241k).
Does Capital Area Development Corporation of West Virginia fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Capital Area Development Corporation of West Virginia based?
Capital Area Development Corporation of West Virginia is based in WV.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 5 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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