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Elizabeth Stifel Kline Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $62k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OGLEBAY FOUNDATION INC | $30,000 |
| WHEELING SYMPHONY SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| LINSLY SCHOOL | $11,500 |
| MERCERSBURG ACADEMY | $9,000 |
| FORT HENRY CHAPTER NSSAR | $5,700 |
| DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION WHEELING CHAPTER | $5,000 |
| OGLEBAY INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE OHIO VALLEY | $5,000 |
| YWCA | $5,000 |
| WHEELING COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE OHIO VALLEY | $3,000 |
| OGLEBAY INSTITUTE | $3,000 |
| ELMHURST HOUSE OF FRIENDSHIP | $3,000 |
| WHEELING COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| LINSLY SCHOOL | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $102k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Elizabeth Stifel Kline Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in WV; read by stated purpose it is 84% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +50% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 4 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- OFOGLEBAY FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $183k · revenue +284%
- WSWHEELING SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $147k · revenue +50%
- OIOGLEBAY INSTITUTE8× · 2017–2024 · $90k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $15k
- WAWHEELING ARTS & CULTURAL COMMone grant, 2017 · $3k
- FHFORT HENRY LIVING HISTORY INCone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
The exempt purpose is to support the quality of life and activity in the wheeling national heritage area through beautification projects as well as by acquiring and preserving historically significant structures.
To provide charitable, free medical care and pharmaceuticals to residents who fall below federal poverty guidelines and live in ohio, marshall, wetzel and southern brooke counties in west virginia and belmont county in ohio.
Administer and maintain mt zion cemetery as a place of internment or burial in ohio county, wv as well as to promote and protect its historic character and educational value.
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
To provide family and individual charitable services.
To engage the public in experiencing and learning about southeastern ohios history and culture by supporting programs, publications, and tours in the region.
The organization's mission is to provide guidance and resources to disabled individuals with a focus on educational attainment, employment procurement, health and wellness, community integration, recreation, housing acquisition, and…
Provide services to people with disabilities. such services include assistance with housing, employment, transportation and recreational issues.
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
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…
Winding trails, inc. is a non-profit organization serving people from farmington and surrounding communities, providing year round recreational and educational activities for the enjoyment and growth of families and individuals of all…
As a subordinate/chapter organization of the vermont mountain bike association (ein 03-0356194), the organization operates under the primary mission of its central organization, that being
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 Performance Edge 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 36 years old; the field is 27. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% 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.
19 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. 19 of the 33 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 OGLEBAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WHEELING SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds OGLEBAY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds WHEELING COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE LINSLY SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds LAUGHLIN COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE HOUSE OF THE CARPENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE OHIO VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds ELMHURST HOUSE OF FRIENDSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF WHEELING INC ↗
- Who funds FAITH IN ACTION CAREGIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEEING HAND ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds WHEELING NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE SOUP KITCHEN OF GREATER WHEELING INC ↗
- Who funds GROW OHIO VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds PERFORMANCE EDGE 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: Hess Family Foundation · Albert Schenk III & Kathleen H Schenk Charitable Trust · Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley Inc · August J & Thelma S Hoffmann Foundation · The Banford & Terri Exley Family Foundation Inc · Stamp 2001 Charitable Fund · Raymond A & Gertrude D Hyer Foundation · Eqt Foundation · W E Stone Foundation · James B Chambers Memorial · Chris Hess Foundation · The Driehorst Family 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 Elizabeth Stifel Kline 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.
- Christopher Reeve Foundation — 49% 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.
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