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Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences of Wv Inc at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2020.

Education$131kArts & Culture$122kHuman Services$36kInternational$22k
02FY2020 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$13,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$111M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OLD BRICK PLAYHOUSE$18,000
HIGH ROCKS EDUCATIONAL CORP$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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
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.

04Its field

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.

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…

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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
West Virginia Chamber of Commerce

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

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6
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
7
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
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.

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9
Wv Helping Hands
Human Services
10
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
11
Leadership West Virginia

Education and leadership development

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12
Festiv-All Charleston West Virginia Inc

To operate, plan, maintain, organize and raise funds for a festival to be held from time to time within the city of charleston, wv featuring visual and performing artists of west virginia and elsewhere.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Step By Step Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Old Brick Playhouse Company. 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, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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.

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.

The Greater Kanawha V…Amazonsmile Foundation
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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences of Wv Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences of Wv Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's 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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 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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