· Private foundation
Cecil I Walker Charitable Tr
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $235k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $115k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON | $65,000 |
| FUND FOR THE ARTS | $50,000 |
| WEST VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $35,000 |
| CLAY CENTER FOR THE ARTS & SCIENCES | $30,000 |
| ST FRANCES ANIMAL CENTER | $30,000 |
| BASILICA OF THE CO-CATHEDRAL OF THE | $25,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF BLACK DIAMOND COUNCIL | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| REA OF HOPE FELLOWSHIP HOME INC | $25,000 |
| BUCKSKIN COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| THE CHARLESTON LIGHT OPERA GUILD | $10,000 |
| WV INDEPENDENT COLLEGES & | $10,000 |
| WV STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE CHARLESTON CHAMBER MUSIC | $5,000 |
| WV PUBLIC BORADCASTING FOUNDATION | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 98% of your 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.
15 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC4× · 2021–2025 · $325k · revenue +10%
- WVWEST VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC4× · 2021–2025 · $168k · revenue +45%
- CCCLAY CENTER FOR THE ARTS & SCIENCES OF WV INC4× · 2021–2025 · $144k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- FRFREEDOM READERS INCone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
- KHKANAWHA-CHARLESTON HUMANE ASSOCIATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +72%
- BCBUCKSKIN COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICAone grant, 2021 · $10k
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 Roanoke Symphony Orchestra provides a professional symphony orchestra of artistic excellence and integrity to enrich lives, to educate, and to entertain diverse audiences in western Virginia with the highest quality instrumental and…
The virginia opera association, inc. works to attract, educate, develop and engage a diverse base of audiences, volunteers and professionals through the promotion and production of quality performances in the commonwealth of virginia.
The west virginia rural health association (wvrha) advocates for empowering all west virginians to advance their quality of life, their well-being, and their access to excellence in rural health care. our mission is to unite people,…
Vcca's mission is to provide time and space for national and international writers, visual artists, and composers of talent and promise to bring forth their finest works, because the arts are vital, diversity is a strength, and creativity…
The organization seeks to raise conciousness and compassion through groundbreaking, high quality theatrical performances and life-changing educational programs.
The west virginia chamber of commerce provides opportunities for broad based prosperity throughout west virginia.
Providing art exhibits and education to southwest virginia and northeast tennessee
The wvnpa is a membership association dedicated to serving west virginia's nonprofit sector by providing year-round programming, serving as a clearing house of information, tools and resources through our website, and connect the sector…
Rescue and care for stray or unwanted animals.
Promotion and advancement of dentistry in west virginia
Strengthening philanthropy in the mountain state.
to support the performance and understanding of the vocal art song repertoire through presenting a season of vocal recitals, commissioning new repertoire and performances in schools and other local venues.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fund for the Arts and the most unlike its peers is Friendship Place Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 23 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 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds CLAY CENTER FOR THE ARTS & SCIENCES OF WV INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF BLACK DIAMOND COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON LIGHT OPERA GUILD INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT FRANCES ANIMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds REA OF HOPE FELLOWSHIP HOME INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM READERS INC ↗
- Who funds KANAWHA-CHARLESTON HUMANE ASSOCIATION 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: The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation · Tgkvf Inc · Truist West Virginia Foundation Inc · Maier Foundation Inc · The Daywood Foundationinc · The Strong-Treister Family Foundation · Bernard H and Blanche E Jacobson Foundation · The Martha Gaines & Russell Wehrle Memorial Foundation · Encova Foundation of West Virginia · Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Cecil I Walker Charitable Tr 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.