· Community foundation
Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley Inc
To increase a permanent endowment that can respond to the current and future needs of the upper ohio valley.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 50% of COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE OHIO VALLEY INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 119 grants below total $3,196,758 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,889,232 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $692,474 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k28 grants · $188k
- $10k–50k80 grants · $1.6M
- $50k–250k10 grants · $997k
- $250k+1 grant · $399k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WVU FOUNDATION INC | $399,062 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY | $209,774 |
| CAMP KNO KOMA | $209,260 |
| WHEELING HEALTH RIGHT INC | $132,278 |
| MIDDLEBOURNE PARKS & RECREATION FACILITIES | $100,000 |
| WHEELING MT ZION CEMETARY CORPORATION | $67,548 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $65,137 |
| OHIO COUNTY SCHOOLS | $59,516 |
| YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WHEELING WV | $53,086 |
| WETZEL COUNTY HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| TOWN OF MIDDLEBOURNE | $50,000 |
| THE OGLEBAY FOUNDATION | $45,187 |
| COUNCIL OF SENIOR TYLER COUNTIANS INC | $44,282 |
| TRINITY EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH | $43,900 |
| BETHLEHEM UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $41,850 |
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 (FY18–25, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
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 +41% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
129 repeat relationships — 85 still active in FY2025, 44 since wound down; 33 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $420k 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
- WVWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC6× · 2018–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +16%
- DCDIABETES CAMP OF WEST VIRGINIA INC5× · 2019–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +17% · 73% of their budget
- UWUNITED WAY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY INC8× · 2018–2025 · $867k · revenue +146%
Funded once
- BSBARNESVILLE SCHOLARSHIP FUND INCone grant, 2023 · $186k · revenue -61% · 80% of their budget
- SLSHADYSIDE LOCAL SCHOOLSone grant, 2020 · $112k
- GWGREATER WHEELING SPORTS AND ENTERTAINMENT AUTHORITYone grant, 2024 · $99k
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.
Establish, conduct, implement, operate, coordinate and finance programs for the benefit of the low-income, minority, elderly, disadvantaged and handicapped citizens of wayne county, wv
Valley healthcare system shall improve our community's health by delivering the highest quality behavioral healthcare guided by our consumer's needs.
To provide affordable, accessible, and quality healthcare.
The mission of ccwv is to help our communities live the healthiest lives possible by meeting their immediate and long-term healthcare needs. this mission is accomplished by providing high quality, accessible, comprehensive, culturally…
United way of wilkes county is dedicated to improving the lives of our citizens by underwriting identified programs that enhance their well-being through our 21 partner agencies. the united way of wilkes county annually impacts over 32,000…
To provide primary medical care service in a rural community.
To improve care for those facing life-limiting illness through direct support of patients and their families, public education and public advocacy.
To improve the communitys health through the efficient provision, coordination, and integration of quality health services, health education, and research. To provide compassionate, quality health services according to the spiritual,…
The mission of ohio valley goodwill industries rehabilitation center, inc. is to provide vocational rehabilitation, training, and employment services to individuals with either disabilities or social and economic barriers to full employment
The mission of Webster County Memorial Hospital is to provide excellent, high quality care in a compassionate and cost-effective manner.
Mission is to promote and advocate for the welfare of people with intellectual and other developmental disabilities.
In order to mobilize community resources to help people measurably improve their lives - we work collaboratively with our community to identify priorities, and then decide which strategies, dollars, and partnerships should be used to bring…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of the Upper Ohio Valley Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wheeling Housing Authority Resident Council Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
135 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. 135 of the 287 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 DIABETES CAMP OF WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds WHEELING HEALTH RIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds MIDDLEBOURNE PARKS & RECREATION ↗
- Who funds OGLEBAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WHEELING MT ZION CEMETERY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WEST LIBERTY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE COUNCIL OF SENIOR TYLER COUNTIANS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SERVICES SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL DISTRICT KIWANIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMERON COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEAL REHABILITATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE LINSLY SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BARNESVILLE SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WHEELING ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WHEELING WV ↗
- Who funds WEIRTON CHRISTIAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OGLEBAY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CAMERON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds THE HOUSE OF THE CARPENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WHEELING SYMPHONY SOCIETY 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: Albert Schenk III & Kathleen H Schenk Charitable Trust · Hess Family Foundation · United Way of the Upper Ohio Valley Inc · Raymond A & Gertrude D Hyer Foundation · John C Williams Charitable Tr 8024 · The Driehorst Family Foundation · Encova Foundation of West Virginia · August J & Thelma S Hoffmann Foundation · Eqt Foundation · James B Chambers Memorial · Francis J and Edith Jackson Founda Security National Trust Company · Mary Jane Brooks Charitable Trust
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 Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley 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.
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% 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.