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Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences of Wv Inc

To provide educational, entertaining, and inspirational experiences in the arts and sciences for all people of west virginia and the region.

$137k
Granted FY2020
10
Grants FY2020
1
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What you fund
0165% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20182020.

Arts & Culture$83kHuman Services$78kInternational$22kEmployment$18kOther$110k
02FY2020 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$13,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$111M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HIGH ROCKS EDUCATIONAL CORP$18,000
OLD BRICK PLAYHOUSE$18,000
POCA MIDDLE SCHOOL - VH1$17,500
WEST VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$15,000
MORGAN ARTS COUNCIL$13,000
JACKSON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$12,500
PARTNERSHIP OF AFRICAN AMERICAN CHURCHES INC$11,500
STONEWALL JACKSON MS VH1$11,000
ARTSBANK INC$10,000
STEP BY STEP$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–20, $57k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 16%JACKSON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $13k → 18%PARTNERSHIP OF AFRICAN AMERICAN CHURCHES: $25k → 18%STEP BY STEP: $20k → 18%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$162k · 5 repeat orgs$115k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2020, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
3

Total granted

$162k
$53k

Still filing today

100%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEmploymentOther

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

  • PO
    PARTNERSHIP OF AFRICAN AMERICAN CHURCHES
    2× · 2018–2020 · $36k · revenue +420%
  • SB
    STEP BY STEP INC
    2× · 2018–2020 · $30k · revenue +157%
  • MA
    MORGAN ARTS COUNCIL INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $28k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $22k
  • DM
    DUVALL MIDDLE SCHOOL
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
  • LC
    LINCOLN COUNTY SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2018 · $11k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Roanoke Symphony Orchestra

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…

Arts & Culture
2
The West Virginia Chamber Foundation
Public Benefit
3
West Virginia Job Creators Alliance Inc

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…

4
West Virginia Independent Colleges and Universities Inc

The mission of wvicu is to advance collectively the interests of west virginia's independent colleges and universities and their students.

Education
5
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

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…

Arts & Culture
6
West Virginia Chamber of Commerce

The west virginia chamber of commerce provides opportunities for broad based prosperity throughout west virginia.

7
Wv Professional Dance Company Inc

It is the mission and purpose of wvdc to provide projects and performances at a statewide level that will offer the best value and quality within the framework of west virginia and 21st century learning skills

Arts & Culture
8
West Virginia Public Theatre Inc

The organization seeks to raise conciousness and compassion through groundbreaking, high quality theatrical performances and life-changing educational programs.

9
West Virginia Nonprofit Association Inc

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…

Public Benefit
10
Appalachian Children's Chorus Inc

To provide artistic excellence, a quality music education, and extraordinary opportunities while creating a positive effect on the lives of west virginia's youth.

Arts & Culture
11
West Virginia Association for Young Children

The west virginia association for young children is dedicated to supporting high quality early childhood programs, expanding opportunities for early childhood professionals, and advocating for west virginia' young children. west virginia…

Education
12
Generation West Virginia Inc

Generation wv is the statewide organization dedicated to attracting, retaining, and advancing young talent in the mountain state. generation west virginia equips young west virginians with key skills and career opportunities, ensuring…

Youth Development

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Step By Step Inc and the most unlike its peers is Artsbank Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MORGAN ARTS COUNCIL INC — $28,000 · OtherMORGAN ARTS COUNCIL INCIndividual grant recipient — $22,300 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDUVALL MIDDLE SCHOOL — $20,000 · OtherDUVALL MIDDLE SCHOOLPOCA MIDDLE SCHOOL - VH1 — $17,500 · OtherPOCA MIDDLE SCHOOL - VH1STONEWALL JACKSON MS VH1 — $11,000 · OtherSTONEWALL JACKSON MS VH1LINCOLN COUNTY SCHOOLS — $10,750 · OtherLINCOLN COUNTY SCHOOLSTHE OLD BRICK PLAYHOUSE COMPANY — $40,000 · Arts & CultureTHE OLD BRICK PLAYHOUSE COMPAN…ARTSBANK INC — $28,000 · Arts & CultureARTSBANK INCWEST VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureWEST VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHEST…PARTNERSHIP OF AFRICAN AMERICAN CHURCHES — $36,200 · Human ServicesPARTNERSHIP OF AFRICAN AMERI…STEP BY STEP INC — $29,694 · Human ServicesSTEP BY STEP INCJCCF INC — $12,500 · Human ServicesJCCF INCWORLD VISION INC — $22,261 · InternationalTHE HIGH ROCKS EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION — $18,000 · Employment
Other$109,550Arts & Culture$83,000Human Services$78,394International$22,261Employment$18,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE OLD BRICK PLAYHOUSE COMPANY — $40,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetPARTNERSHIP OF AFRICAN AMERICAN CHURCHES — $36,200 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetSTEP BY STEP INC — $29,694 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetMORGAN ARTS COUNCIL INC — $28,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetWORLD VISION INC — $22,261 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HIGH ROCKS EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION — $18,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJCCF INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
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.

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.

The Greater Kanawha Valley FoundationWV13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation · 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 Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences of Wv Inc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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