· Private foundation
Charleston Retail Credit Associatio
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON | $10,000 |
| CAPITAL MARKET | $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 |
| THOMAS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| CHILDRENS THERAPY CLINIC | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| GABRIEL PROJECT OF WV | $2,000 |
| KANAWHA VALLEY FELLOWSHIP HOME | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +22% since the first grant, against -92% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 32 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Charleston Retail Credit Associatio funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charleston Retail Credit Associatio. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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