· Community foundation
Eastern West Virginia Community Foundation
To operate a community foundation in eastern west virginia, by gathering gifts from donors, growing those contributions through prudent investments, and awarding annual grants to nonprofit organizations from the investment gains.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 64% of EASTERN WEST VIRGINIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION’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 47 grants below total $818,857 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,767,722 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $948,865 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 $10k16 grants · $104k
- $10k–50k30 grants · $622k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $93k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARTINSBURG UNION RESCUE MISSION INC | $92,500 |
| CCAPLOAVES & FISHES | $44,418 |
| ST JOSEPH SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| HAMPSHIRE COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION | $40,000 |
| MARTINSBURG-BERKELEY COUNTY PARKS & RECREATION | $37,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE EASTERN PANHANDLE | $35,426 |
| POTOMAC VALLEY AUDUBON SOCIETY | $32,577 |
| HARVEST LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES | $30,000 |
| CAMP FRAME 4-H ASSOCIATION | $28,868 |
| BERKELEY COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS | $26,896 |
| THE MARTINSBURG INITIATIVE INC | $24,848 |
| BERKELEY SENIOR SERVICES | $24,302 |
| SENIOR LIFE SERVICES OF MORGAN COUNTY | $17,650 |
| ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY | $17,489 |
| PANHANDLE HOME HEALTH INC | $17,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $221k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 14% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +53% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
67 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 17 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $179k 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
- MUMARTINSBURG UNION RESCUE MISSION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $486k · revenue +80%
- BCBERKELEY COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS INC8× · 2017–2025 · $227k · revenue +202%
- BCBERKELEY COUNTY CONGREGATIONAL COOPERATIVE ACTION PROJECT INC8× · 2017–2025 · $189k · revenue +124%
Funded once
- CLCHANGLESKA LUTA TIOSPEone grant, 2021 · $21k · 56% of their budget
- HSHEALTHY SMILES OF THE EASTERN PANHANDLEone grant, 2024 · $21k
- COCITY OF MARTINSBURGone grant, 2023 · $20k
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
Provide comprehensive primary medical care to the communites served.
To provide services to senior citizens of McDowell County, West Virginia.
Provide services to senior citizens of Summers County, West Virginia.
To provide services to the senior citizens of Pocahontas County, West Virginia
Provide homemaker and case management services to home-bound seniors and disabled members in west virginia. provide, also, training and job assistance to those 55 and older on a limited income.
To serve the needs of individuals suffering from life-limiting illness as well as to serve the individuals caring for them. to place emphasis on comfort and quality of life while fulfilling the physical, psychological, social and spiritual…
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…
Mountain state justice provides free legal services to low income people in west virginia and assures that low income people have access to the court system.
Provide hot meals to senior citizens. provide home health care services to the elderly. provide respite care for alzheimers patients. provide transportation for senior citizens. provide social and recreational activities for senior…
Valley healthcare system shall improve our community's health by delivering the highest quality behavioral healthcare guided by our consumer's needs.
The agency was organized to operate programs for the elderly population of wirt county, west virginia.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Catalyst Inc and the most unlike its peers is Foundation for Photobiomodulation Resear. 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 29 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 12% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
84 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. 84 of the 149 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 MARTINSBURG UNION RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds BERKELEY COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds BERKELEY COUNTY CONGREGATIONAL COOPERATIVE ACTION PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY NETWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds POTOMAC VALLEY AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FAITH COMMUNITY COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS ↗
- Who funds SHENANDOAH WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE EASTERN PANHANDLE ↗
- Who funds STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA-WVU JEFFERSON COUNTY 4-H FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PANHANDLE HOME HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds BERKELEY COUNTY COMMITTEE ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE EASTERN PANHANDLE INC ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON COUNTY COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SHENANDOAH VALLEY MEDICAL SYSTEM I ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Senior Life Services of Morgan County Inc ↗
- Who funds BERKELEY COUNTY BACKPACK PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COMBINED MIINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEGION POST 14 ↗
- Who funds HORSES WITH HEARTS INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF JEFFERSON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARTINSBURG INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds MORGAN ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE PANHANDLE INC ↗
- Who funds Berkeley Community Pride Inc ↗
- Who funds WIND DANCE FARM & EARTH EDUCATIONCENTER ↗
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: United Way of the Eastern Panhandle · Shepherd University Foundation Inc · Roy and Gwen Steeley Foundation Inc · Bowles Rice Foundation · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · American Woodmark Foundation Inc · Truist West Virginia Foundation Inc · Rogers Rissler Foundation · Dan Ryan Builders Charitable Foundation · The West Virginia Humanities Council Inc · West Virginia University Hospitals - East Inc · Nora Roberts 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 Eastern West Virginia Community Foundation 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.
- Community Catalyst Inc — 15% of income from government
- Eckerd College — 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.