· Community foundation
Community Foundation of the Virginias Inc
To promote education, health, beautification, youth, and recreation in the greater southern west virginia and southwest virginia areas.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $183k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $256k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OUTSIDE DREAMS | $80,000 |
| CLINCH VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION JOY CAMP | $75,782 |
| CITY OF BLUEFIELD PLAYGROUND | $50,000 |
| SACRED HEART CHURCH | $50,000 |
| RICHLANDS FIRE-RESCUE (RESCUE DIVISION) | $25,000 |
| CITY OF BLUEFIELD PARKS & REC DEPT | $23,915 |
| BLUEFIELD BEAUTIFICATION COMMISSION | $15,134 |
| ABWE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| CHILD PROTECT OF MERCER COUNTY | $14,000 |
| HELPFUL HARVEST FOOD BANK | $13,560 |
| BLUEFIELD ARTS AND REVITALIZATION CORP | $13,500 |
| CLEARFORK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $12,769 |
| CITY OF BLUEFIELD POLICE DEPT | $10,000 |
| TOWN OF BLUEFIELD POLICE DEPARTMENT | $10,000 |
| PIKEVIEW HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 86% of Community Foundation of the Virginias Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 54% of the giving stays in WV; by stated purpose, 9%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 10 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, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $313k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CPCHILD PROTECT OF MERCER COUNTY INC2× · 2023–2024 · $32k · revenue +64%
- WHWorld Help2× · 2017–2021 · $30k · revenue +16%
- ASAPPALACHIAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT2× · 2023–2024 · $18k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- CVCLINCH VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP INCone grant, 2022 · $29k
- TMTENDER MERCIES MINISTRIES OF PRINCETONone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +7%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $20k
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.
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.
To help local farms thrive, link farmers to markets and supporters, and build healthy communities through connections to local food.
Preserve historic buildings and customs
To ensure the safety and wellbeing of Greenbrier Valley citizens in all phases of disaster.
Public library
To foster the historical and genealogical heritage of fauquier county, virginia.
Community development
Preservation of historic structures and public education as to the area history in the town of beverly, wv.
Lead the lost to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ by showing Christ's love through assisting people with spiritual, physical and economic needs, that they may become disciples in partnership with local churches to carry out the great…
Restoration of an historic opera house and to provide a venue for arts and events in Thomas, WV.
How this is measured
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 62 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds OUTSIDE DREAMS INC ↗
- Who funds Helpful Harvest Food Bank ↗
- Who funds HEAVEN SENT MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD PROTECT OF MERCER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds World Help ↗
- Who funds BLUEFIELD ARTS AND REVITALIZATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds TENDER MERCIES MINISTRIES OF PRINCETON ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN AGENCY FOR SR CITIZENS ↗
- Who funds BRAMWELL FOUNDATION ↗
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: Hugh I Shott Jr Foundation Inc · The H P and Anne S Hunnicutt Foundation · Frank Litz Smoot Charitable Trust · The Pace Family Foundation Inc · K B Tierney Charitable Foundation Trust · Skewes Family Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Community Foundation of the Virginias Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Community Foundation of the Virginias Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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