· 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,
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14 grants below total $836,458 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,026,468 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $190,010 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $93k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $729k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARSHALL UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORP | $212,582 |
| APPALACHAIN VOICES | $166,999 |
| ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT GREATER EAST | $82,500 |
| GENERATION WV | $80,000 |
| STEP BY STEP INC | $72,500 |
| UNLIMITED FUTURE INC | $62,283 |
| NEW VISION RENEWABLE ENERGY | $52,500 |
| STEPPING STONES | $30,000 |
| OHIO UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| RENEWALL INC | $15,000 |
| HIGH ROCKS EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION | $14,500 |
| WV COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT HUB | $13,000 |
| BARBARA LAVALLEY BENTON | $9,000 |
| RURAL ACTION | $5,594 |
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 (FY21–24, $314k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% 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.
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.
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 +63% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- UFUNLIMITED FUTURE INC4× · 2018–2024 · $530k · revenue +63% · 58% of their budget
- IAINVEST APPALACHIA INC2× · 2022–2023 · $510k · revenue +15% · 26% of their budget
- WVWEST VIRGINIA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT HUB INC3× · 2022–2024 · $500k · revenue +141%
Funded once
- WHWV HIVE NETWORK INCone grant, 2023 · $140k · revenue -22%
- CWCENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA REGIONALone grant, 2022 · $50k
- PBPARTIAN BATTERY SOLUTIONS LLCone grant, 2022 · $50k
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.
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…
-attract national and international investment: west virginia is becoming a leader in the world marketplace, and it did not arrive here by accident. the foundation has a long and accomplished history of attracting national and…
Grow economic opportunity for all residents of the Charleston-Huntington Metro area by increasing investments in the region, leveraging resources and building collaboration among community stakeholders.
For west virginia's future raises funds and provides technical assistance that help state and local non-profit organizations bring people together to support efforts to increase civic participation.
To maximize the development and utilization of the human and economic resources of the wayne county georgraphical area in order to create or preserve jobs and employment opportunities and improve the welfare of people of the area.
Enhance economic development
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…
Go West Virginia, Inc. is dedicated to advocating and educating the public on issues including economic growth and job creation. We will develop and advance an agenda for West Virginia to promote real policy solutions to create jobs,…
The corporation was formed to lessen the burdens of government and act in the public interest; to facilitate economic activities throughout wayne county, ny including the location and expansion of civic, industrial and commercial…
Economic Development and Tourism Promotion in Eastern Kentucky
To promote sustainable economic development by facilitating reuse of commercial, industrial, and mining sites and providing long-term management of key risks from legacy environmental concerns.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Generation West Virginia Inc and the most unlike its peers is Renewall Inc. 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 23 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 49 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
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 UNLIMITED FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds INVEST APPALACHIA INC ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT HUB INC ↗
- Who funds MARSHALL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds RURAL ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds GENERATION WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds Neighbors Helping Neighbors Inc ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR CREEK DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Renewall Inc ↗
- Who funds ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT GREATER EAST EDGE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA MINE WARS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds NEW VISION RENEWABLE ENERGY INC ↗
- Who funds THE HIGH ROCKS EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds WV HIVE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds STEP BY STEP INC ↗
- Who funds STEPPING STONES INC ↗
- Who funds CONSTRUCTION JUNCTION INC ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES KYOWVA AREA INC ↗
- Who funds Keep Your Faith Corporation Inc ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMSON HEALTH AND WELLNESS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN CENTER FOR ECONOMIC NETWORKS 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: 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
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 Coalfield Development Corporation 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.
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.