· Private foundation
Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k26 grants · $89k
- $10k–50k40 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k130 grants · $12M
- $250k+2 grants · $622k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $348,000 |
| COALFIELD DEVELOPMENT CORP | $274,000 |
| THE EDUCATION ALLIANCE-BUSINESS AND COMMUNITY FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC | $200,000 |
| CENTRAL SUSQUEHANNA INTERMEDIATE UNIT | $200,000 |
| ALLEGHENY CONFERENCE ON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT | $175,000 |
| FRIENDS OF BLACKWATER INC | $175,000 |
| WEST VIRGINIA MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION EDUCATIONAL FUND INC | $160,000 |
| VALLEY SCHOOL OF LIGONIER | $150,000 |
| RIVERS OF STEEL HERITAGE CORPORATION | $150,000 |
| PITTSBURGH OPERA INC | $150,000 |
| THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA | $150,000 |
| ALLEGHENY INTERMEDIATE UNIT | $150,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION WEST VIRGINIA | $150,000 |
| TEAM FOR WEST VIRGINIA CHILDREN INC | $145,000 |
| WEST VIRGINIANS FOR AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE | $130,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $4.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 75% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 10% of Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +21% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
149 repeat relationships — 94 still active in FY2024, 55 since wound down; 58 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.9M 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
- CDCOALFIELD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION5× · 2020–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +270%
- MUMARSHALL UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION5× · 2020–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +72%
- GWGENERATION WEST VIRGINIA INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +625% · 38% of their budget
Funded once
- CHCAMC HEALTH EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INCone grant, 2020 · $685k · revenue +8%
- PGPITTSBURGH GREEN INNOVATORS INCone grant, 2022 · $220k · revenue -67% · 43% of their budget
- QIQUALITY INSIGHTS INCone grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue -1%
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 foster, support, and assist in any research and economic development activities consistent with the educational objectives and mission of west virginia state university.
To offer a wide range of strategic partnerships, academia, employment and community opportunities to the state, while promoting innovation and critical thinking within our workforce. Our vision is to catalyze economic growth and improve…
The west virginia chamber of commerce provides opportunities for broad based prosperity throughout west virginia.
Valley healthcare system shall improve our community's health by delivering the highest quality behavioral healthcare guided by our consumer's needs.
The mission of wvicu is to advance collectively the interests of west virginia's independent colleges and universities and their students.
The west virginia humanities council awards grants to others, directly funds certain projects, e-wv an online interactive program, and conducts seminars and conferences throughout the state of west virginia.
To promote economic development in the charlottesville and central virginia region.
Dedicated to growing and diversifying west virginia's economy by advancing technology-based economic development (tbed).
The west virginia jobs creator alliance is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting policy initiatives that encourage and support job creators throughout the state. our mission is to spearhead policy concepts that lead to the…
West virginia community action partnership is an alliance of community action agencies that supports and strengthens our members, advocates for low-income and families and promotes partnerships.
The huntington regional chamber of commerce will be the business advocate and actively facilitate the development and promotion of an attractive business climate and workforce in cabell and wayne counties.
The mission of vt-arc is to extend the impact of the virginia tech research and innovation enterprise, delivering superior analytic and technology solutions to government and non-government customers.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Virginia Primary Care Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Mcgee Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
264 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. 264 of the 334 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COALFIELD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MARSHALL UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GENERATION WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT HUB INC ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST ↗
- Who funds PARTNER COMMUNITY CAPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
- Who funds THE EDUCATION ALLIANCE-BUSINESS AND COMMUNITY FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHENY CONFERENCE ON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIANS FOR AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE ↗
- Who funds FAYETTE COUNTY CULTURAL TRUST ↗
- Who funds CAMC HEALTH EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds GROW OHIO VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM FOR WEST VIRGINIA CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds FUTURE GENERATIONS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA NONPROFIT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CATALYST CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds EVERYCHILD NOW ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA ORAL HEALTH COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA RURAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERS OF STEEL HERITAGE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GRANTMAKERS OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds MARSHALL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FILM PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds EDVENTURE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH PUBLIC THEATER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAINEER FOOD BANK 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 · Eqt Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Pallottine Foundation of Huntington West Virginia · The Heinz Endowments · The Grable Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Truist West Virginia Foundation Inc · Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc · Encova Foundation of West Virginia · The Buhl Foundation · Highmark 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 Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation — 2% of income from government
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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