· Private foundation
Charleston Retail Credit Associatio
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAPITAL MARKET | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON | $10,000 |
| FUND FOR THE ARTS | $8,000 |
| BUCKSKIN COUNCIL | $7,500 |
| CHARLESTON LIGHT OPERA GU | $6,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| WVU FOUNDATION COLLEGE OF LAW | $5,000 |
| KANAWHA CHARLESTON HUMANE ASSOCIATI | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| CHILDRENS THERAPY CLINIC | $2,500 |
| THOMAS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| KANAWHA VALLEY FELLOWSHIP HOME | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| GABRIEL PROJECT OF WV | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +10% since the first grant, against -92% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 4 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; $6k 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
- CMCAPITOL MARKET INC6× · 2020–2025 · $44k · revenue +48%
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC5× · 2021–2025 · $41k · revenue +10%
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $27k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- LFLIBRARY FOUNDATION OF KANAWHA COUNTY INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -92%
- CBCOUGAR BULLPEN CLUBone grant, 2022 · $6k
- SHSHEPHERDS HEART FOOD PANTRYone grant, 2023 · $3k
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.
To acquire certain real property, and restoration, renovation,expansion and operations of the kanawha county public library.
To work with the community to improve the quality of life by assuring access to quality primary health services, outreach, and education for all persons regardless of their ability to pay.
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…
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…
Animal welfare
Valley healthcare system shall improve our community's health by delivering the highest quality behavioral healthcare guided by our consumer's needs.
Administer workforce innovation and opportunity act (wioa) funds in kanawha county, west virginia
The west virginia chamber of commerce provides opportunities for broad based prosperity throughout west virginia.
Provide direct financial support to agencies, organizations and governmental units in support of the fine arts in harrison county, wv
To provide families in western kentucky with education, advocacy and treatment that prevents child abuse, encourages family stability, promotes healthy relationships, enhances well-being and cultivates safe, nurturing families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fund for the Arts and the most unlike its peers is Davis Creek Watershed Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 32 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 CAPITOL MARKET INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds KANAWHA-CHARLESTON HUMANE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS THERAPY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds CADCO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF KANAWHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds GABRIEL PROJECT OF WEST VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds UNION MISSION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds KANAWHA VALLEY FELLOWSHIP HOME INC ↗
- Who funds DAVIS CREEK WATERSHED 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 · Bernard H and Blanche E Jacobson Foundation · Truist West Virginia Foundation Inc · Encova Foundation of West Virginia · The Daywood Foundationinc · Tgkvf Inc · McJunkin Family Foundation Truist Foundations and Endowment Spec Pract Tr · United Way of Central West Virginia · The Strong-Treister Family 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 Charleston Retail Credit Associatio 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.
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