West Virginia · Public charity
Coalfield Development Corporation
To solve the problem of generational poverty in rural communities caused by extractive mono-economies through four core capabilities: incubation and investing in employment-based social enterprise, facilitating professional, personal, and academic debelopment for people facing barriers to employment,
- $1.0M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 14
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 34%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $836k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $52,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $212,582
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 29
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $35M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 34% of the organizations Coalfield Development Corporation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $342k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 14 | $836k | 7% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $3.2M | 34% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $1.2M | 67% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $322k | 79% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $231k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $119k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $288k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Solar Holler | $800,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Unlimited Future Inc | $530,422 | 4 | 58% |
| Invest Appalachia Inc | $510,000 | 2 | 26% |
| West Virginia Community Development Hub Inc | $499,560 | 3 | 17% |
| Marshall University Foundation Incorporated | $362,029 | 3 | 1% |
| Appalachain Voices | $343,341 | 3 | n/a |
| Rural Action Inc | $274,885 | 4 | 3% |
| Generation West Virginia Inc | $252,073 | 3 | 4% |
| Neighbors Helping Neighbors Inc | $206,472 | 3 | 33% |
| Appalachian Sustainable Development | $180,001 | 3 | 3% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Solar Holler | $800,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Unlimited Future Inc | $530,422 | 4 | 58% |
| Invest Appalachia Inc | $510,000 | 2 | 26% |
| West Virginia Community Development Hub Inc | $499,560 | 3 | 17% |
| Marshall University Foundation Incorporated | $362,029 | 3 | 1% |
| Appalachain Voices | $343,341 | 3 | n/a |
| Rural Action Inc | $274,885 | 4 | 3% |
| Generation West Virginia Inc | $252,073 | 3 | 4% |
| Neighbors Helping Neighbors Inc | $206,472 | 3 | 33% |
| Appalachian Sustainable Development | $180,001 | 3 | 3% |
| Warrior Creek Development Inc | $170,000 | 2 | 87% |
| Renewall Inc | $167,823 | 6 | 26% |
| Economic Development Greater East Edge Incorporated | $155,500 | 4 | 16% |
| West Virginia Mine Wars Museum | $153,216 | 2 | 23% |
| The High Rocks Educational Corporation | $152,500 | 3 | 2% |
| New Vision Renewable Energy Inc | $152,500 | 3 | 15% |
| Mountain Association for Community Economic Development Inc | $150,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Wv Hive Network Inc | $140,000 | 1 | 13% |
| Step by Step Inc | $127,500 | 2 | 2% |
| State of West Virginia | $123,112 | 2 | n/a |
| Sassa Wilkes | $89,125 | 2 | n/a |
| Mountwest Community & Technical College | $80,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Stepping Stones Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Central West Virginia Regional | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Construction Junction Inc | $44,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Layne Consulting LLC | $32,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Goodwill Industries Kyowva Area Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Keep Your Faith Corporation Inc | $24,100 | 1 | n/a |
| Huntington Black Pastors Ministerial Association Inc | $22,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Ohio University | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| West Virginia University Research Corporation | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Barbara Lavalley Benton | $15,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Real Life Christian Center Church | $13,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Williamson Health and Wellness Center Inc | $13,455 | 1 | 0% |
| Appalachian Center for Economic Networks Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Waterwork Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Homeward Bound Books | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Downstream Strategies | $8,300 | 1 | n/a |
| Our Jobs Our Children Our Future Inc | $8,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Solar Wind Storage LLC | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Roadside Farms | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Elevate Elixirs | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Patchwork Therapy and Growth Center | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Stages Music School | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| West Virginia Healthy Kids and Families Coalition | $6,667 | 1 | 2% |
| Call to Action for Racial Equity | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($107k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Coalfield Development Corporation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation · The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation · Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc · Pallottine Foundation of Huntington West Virginia · Berea College · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Truist Foundation Inc · Sisters of St Joseph Charitable Fund Inc · Appalachian Sustainable Development · Mountain Association for Community Economic Development Inc · The West Virginia Humanities Council Inc · West Virginia University Research Corporation
How this is measured
About Coalfield Development Corporation
- How much does Coalfield Development Corporation give?
- Coalfield Development Corporation reported 14 itemized grants totaling $836,458, out of $1,026,468 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Coalfield Development Corporation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Community Improvement (46%), Environment (20%), Youth Development (6%).
- Who are Coalfield Development Corporation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Solar Holler ($800k), Unlimited Future Inc ($530k), Invest Appalachia Inc ($510k).
- Does Coalfield Development Corporation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 34% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Coalfield Development Corporation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation, The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation, Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc.
- Where is Coalfield Development Corporation based?
- Coalfield Development Corporation is based in WV.
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