· Public charity
Empty Bowls Monongalia
Through education and continued community involvement, the organization provides resources and broker assistance to Monongalia County WV agencies supporting individuals and families threatened by food insecurity.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $101,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $145,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $43,500 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 $10k6 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $64k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Clay Battelle Area Family Ser | $12,600 |
| Covenant EMC Food Pantry | $10,600 |
| Mon Co Starting Points | $10,600 |
| Native American Comm Center | $10,000 |
| Shack Neighborhood Farm Mkt | $10,000 |
| St Ursula Food Pantry | $10,000 |
| Morgantown Meals On Wheels | $7,500 |
| Avery UMC Snack Program | $7,000 |
| Scotts Run Settlement | $6,000 |
| Canyon Presbyterian Church | $6,000 |
| Christian Help | $5,600 |
| Community Kitchen Inc | $5,600 |
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, $86k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 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.
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 +39% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- MAMORGANTOWN AREA MEALS ON WHEELS5× · 2017–2025 · $37k · revenue +57%
- SNSHACK NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC3× · 2021–2025 · $27k · revenue +89%
- BHBARTLETT HOUSE INC4× · 2017–2022 · $25k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- CHCARITAS HOUSE INCone grant, 2018 · $7k
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.
Provide meals, clothing, counseling, referrals, spiritual guidance and shelter to anyone in need without charge
Provide shelter and basic needs for homeless people. while fostering self-respect and human dignity, samaritan house will encourage the residents' efforts to find employment and housing.
To help relieve hunger in our community. we recognize that the total needs of individuals must be addressed, and will seek to facilitate the meeting of other needs. however, our primary purpose is that of providing nutritious meals to the…
Organization operates a kitchen providing daily meals and housing opportunities serving harlan county and surrounding area. food boxes and personal items are also provided on a periodic basis.
We offer services to the poor, including housing for women and children and food assistance program.
Providing services to the homeless, low income individuals, and hiv/aids infected and affected individuals
Domestic violence shelter provides 24 hour a day crisis intervention and advocacy along with emergency food, clothing, and shelter to those in situations related to domestic violence and sexual assault.
Food and shelter to the homeless and groceries/clothing assistance to poverty stricken households
Charitable Organization organized to provide food and shelter to the homeless and needy.
The Organization provides utility and rent assistance as well as clothing, furniture, and transportation for citizens of Mingo County, WV, and Martin County, Ky.
To promote a violence free atmosphere from domestic and sexual violence in which survivors can recognize their options to have the opportunity to continue living violence free and regain their sense of self-worth; to educate and raise…
Chs empowers individuals and families to live in stable housing, connect to community resources, build relationships and access quality food.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Caritas House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Morgantown Area Meals On Wheels. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 19 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 NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds MORGANTOWN AREA MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds THE PANTRY PLUS MORE INC ↗
- Who funds SHACK NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SCOTTS RUN SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BARTLETT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds RAPE AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INFORMATION C ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN HELP INC ↗
- Who funds CARITAS HOUSE 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: Milan Puskar Foundation Inc · United Way of Monongalia and Preston Counites Inc · Your Community Foundation of North Central Wv Inc · John M Brown Family Foundation · George D Hott Foundation · Hazel Ruby McQuain Charitable Trust · Lynch Foundation Inc · Weldon Family Foundation · Truist West Virginia Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · 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 Empty Bowls Monongalia 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.