How much did Empty Bowls Monongalia grant in FY2025?

Empty Bowls Monongalia reported 12 grants totaling $145,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing.

Where is Empty Bowls Monongalia based?

Empty Bowls Monongalia is based in WV.

Empty Bowls Monongalia

Foundation Dossiers Also receives grants — funding profile →

· 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.

$145k

Granted FY2025

Grants

Communities

$13k

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 57% of Empty Bowls Monongalia’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

morgantownmeal

2021

issuesmorgantownchildactivitiesmealelderly

2022

issueschildactivitiesmealmon

2023

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2024

—

2025

activitiesmorgantownmealelderlybackpack

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k6 grants · $38k
$10k–50k6 grants · $64k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$159k

Total assets

Largest grants

Clay Battelle Area Family Ser$12,600
Covenant EMC Food Pantry$10,600
Mon Co Starting Points$10,600
St Ursula Food Pantry$10,000
Shack Neighborhood Farm Mkt$10,000
Native American Comm Center$10,000
Morgantown Meals On Wheels$7,500
Avery UMC Snack Program$7,000
Canyon Presbyterian Church$6,000
Scotts Run Settlement$6,000
Community Kitchen Inc$5,600
Christian Help$5,600

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19% — the area typically sits at 16%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$451k · 17 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$451k

$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%

Still filing today

41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesFood & NutritionArts & CultureHealthOther

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

MM
Morgantown Meals On Wheels
4× · 2018–2025 · $29k · revenue +57%
SN
Shack Neighborhood Farm Mkt
3× · 2021–2025 · $27k · revenue +108%
BH
Bartlett House Inc
3× · 2018–2022 · $19k · revenue +34%

Funded once

CH
Caritas House Inc
one grant, 2018 · $7k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Manna Meal Inc

Manna meal provides breakfast and lunch 7 days a week, 365 days a year at our location in st. john's episcopal church, charleston, wv. manna meal serves women, men, families, and seniors on a non-discriminary basis.

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Womens Aid in Crisis Inc

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.

Human Services

Christian Care

Provide meals, clothing, counseling, referrals, spiritual guidance and shelter to anyone in need.

Housing & Shelter

Meals On Wheels of Charlottesville-

To deliver hot meals to homebound persons in need.

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Caring Kitchen Inc

Charitable Organization organized to provide food and shelter to the homeless and needy.

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Food Care Center

To provide food, clothing, and limited household items to those in need

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Christian Help Inc of Mingo County

The Organization provides utility and rent assistance as well as clothing, furniture, and transportation for citizens of Mingo County, WV, and Martin County, Ky.

Human Services

Hickory Soup Kitchen Inc

Provide daily meal to the homeless and indigent of catawba county.

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Meals On Wheels of Jamestown Area

Provide home delivery of meals to elderly.

Food & Nutrition

Jesus House Inc

Food and shelter to the homeless and grocery/clothing assistance to poverty-stricken households.

Human Services

The Community Kitchen Inc

The community kitchen is a direct-service united way agency providing healthy and nourishing hot meals and take-home boxes and advocacy to low and moderate income individuals and families in the monadnock region.

Food & Nutrition

Homestead Soup Kitchen Inc

Public soup kitchen for individuals and families in need.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Scotts Run Settlement 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.

05the grantee network

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

7/11

Grantees still filing

6/11

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$265,700Human Services$75,100Arts & Culture$58,500Food & Nutrition$50,700Health$13,500

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.

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.

Milan Puskar Foundation IncWV24.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Milan Puskar Foundation Inc · United Way of Monongalia and Preston · Your Community Foundation of North · John M Brown Family Foundation · George D Hott Foundation · Lynch Foundation Inc · Hazel Ruby McQuain Charitable Trust · 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 organisation 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Native American Comm Center.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

high risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 550584800 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Native American Comm Center, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 9% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Empty Bowls Monongalia?

Find your warmest path to Empty Bowls Monongalia through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Empty Bowls Monongalia

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Empty Bowls Monongalia?

More from the funding graph

Empty Bowls Monongalia

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Empty Bowls Monongalia?

More from the funding graph