· Private foundation
Charles a Lucas Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KANAWHA CITY CHURCH OF CHRIST | $2,500 |
| MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY | $1,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| PARKINSONS VOICE PROJECT | $750 |
| MAKE-A -WISH FOUNDATION | $500 |
| ROCK STEADY BOXING | $500 |
| APPALACHIAN CHILDRENS CHORUS | $500 |
| POTTERS CHILDREN'S HOME | $500 |
| INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTI | $500 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $500 |
| THE CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE | $500 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL | $500 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $500 |
| TUNNELS TO TOWERS | $500 |
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 (FY23–24, $750) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 26% of Charles a Lucas Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 71% of the giving stays in WV; by stated purpose, 55%.
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 +56% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 10 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OVOHIO VALLEY UNIVERSITY INC5× · 2017–2021 · $44k · revenue +56%
THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH6× · 2018–2024 · $7k · revenue +479%
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $2k · revenue +112%
Funded once
- CWCHARLESTON WOMEN'S CLUB CHARITY EVEone grant, 2020 · $307
- UOUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $300
- WWWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECTone grant, 2017 · $250
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.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
Website: https://towerhealth.org/locations/st-christophers-hospital- children stc opco, llc (st. christopher's hospital for children) provides a full range of high-quality healthcare services to all children and youth up to age 21 who seek…
Improve the health of our community and create patient value by providing exceptional outcomes and the finest experiences, all in an affordable way.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To improve, maintain and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Mission: johns hopkins all children's hospital (all children's), a member of johns hopkins medicine, strives to provide the highest quality care to improve the health of our entire community through innovation, collaboration, service…
Founded in 1915, webster is a private non-profit and global university that is committed to delivering high-quality learning experiences that transform students for global citizenship and individual excellence.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 33 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
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 OHIO VALLEY UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Christian Chronicle Inc ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC ↗
- Who funds UNION MISSION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ROCK STEADY BOXING INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Orphan Outreach ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Charles a Lucas Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charles a Lucas Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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