· Private foundation
Darrell K Cales Trust
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2026.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| GRACE BIBLE ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| GREENRBIER HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| WESTERN GREENBRIER LITTLE LEAGUE | $22,500 |
| MARVEL CENTER | $20,000 |
| WELLSPRING OF GREENBRIER INC | $20,000 |
| TOYS FOR TOTS | $15,000 |
| RAINELLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMEN | $15,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +52% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- WVWV VOLUNTARY ORGANIZATIONS ACTIVE IN DISASTER INCone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -99%
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.
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.
How this is measured
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 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.
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 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 GREENBRIER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WV VOLUNTARY ORGANIZATIONS ACTIVE IN DISASTER INC ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Darrell K Cales Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Darrell K Cales Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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