· Private foundation
Darrell K Cales Trust
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2026.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k12 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $403k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $205k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SEWELL VALLEY BAPTIST CHURCH | $75,000 |
| COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS TO LOCAL GRADU | $72,500 |
| TOWN OF RAINELLE | $57,800 |
| GREENBRIER WEST HIGH SCHOOL | $40,200 |
| QUINWOOD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $39,500 |
| HINTON AREA FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF RAINELLE | $25,428 |
| SUMMERS COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $25,000 |
| GREENRBIER HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| GRACE BIBLE ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| WESTERN GREENBRIER LITTLE LEAGUE | $22,500 |
| MARVEL CENTER | $20,000 |
| WELLSPRING OF GREENBRIER INC | $20,000 |
| RAINELLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMEN | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
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 (FY21–26, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 18%. 97% 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 +52% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2026, 28 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k 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
- RVRAINELLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC7× · 2020–2026 · $196k · revenue +57%
- HAHINTON AREA FOUNDATION INC7× · 2020–2026 · $175k · revenue +55%
- WOWELLSPRING OF GREENBRIER INC4× · 2023–2026 · $80k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2025 · $26k
- SCSUMMERS COUNTY COMMISSIONone grant, 2022 · $25k
- DSDANESE SPORTS COMPLEX INCone grant, 2025 · $25k
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.
Providing public fire protection and emergency rescue services.
To provide volunteer fire, rescue & emergency services to the community of reader wv.
To provide volunteer fire, rescue and ambulance services to the residents of the counties of jefferson and berkeley, wv.
Local volunteer fire department providing fire protection and rescue services to the citizens of romney wv and surrounding areas.
Fire protection for the City of Lewisburg, WV and surrounding areas
`the primary mission of the back creek valley volunteer fire company is to protect the lives and property of the inhabitants in the area from the adverse affects of fire, sudden medical emergencies and exposure to dangerous conditions.
Fire and rescue services
Volunteer fire fighting and rescue serving the dry fork community of pittsylvania county
The fire department provides fire protection for the wintergreen community and portions of nelson and augusta counties in virginia.
Provides volunteer fire fighting and other emergency-related services to the community
To provide fire and rescue services to sissonville, millertown, pocatalico and guthrie wv and surrounding areas.
To provide volunteer fire fighting services in the flemington, wv region.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greenbrier Historical Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Nuttall Fire Department Inc. 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 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 134 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 RAINELLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds HINTON AREA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING OF GREENBRIER INC ↗
- Who funds Gods Way Home Inc ↗
- Who funds MARVEL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RUPERT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds GREENBRIER COUNTY COMMITTEE ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds DANESE SPORTS COMPLEX INC ↗
- Who funds WV VOLUNTARY ORGANIZATIONS ACTIVE IN DISASTER 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: Hollowell Dawkins Foundation Inc · The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation · Seneca Trail Charitable Foundation · The Jeanne G Hamilton and Lawson W Hamilton Jr Family Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Darrell K Cales Trust 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.
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