· Private foundation
Encova Foundation of West Virginia
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k65 grants · $192k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $217k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $426k
- $250k+4 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARSHALL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCORPORATION | $450,000 |
| WVU FOUNDATION | $400,000 |
| WVU FOUNDATION | $330,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON | $250,000 |
| LEGAL AID OF WEST VIRGINIA | $100,000 |
| WING 2 WING FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| WEST VIRGINIA UNIV FOUNDATION INC | $75,000 |
| YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CHARLESTON & KAN VALLEY | $51,000 |
| PELOTONIA | $50,000 |
| KEITH ALBEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $50,000 |
| CHARLESTON MAIN STREETS | $27,000 |
| CAPITOL MARKET INC | $25,000 |
| MEDBROOK CHILDRENS CHARITY INC | $25,000 |
| LILYS PLACE | $20,000 |
| WV GAME CHANGERS INC | $15,000 |
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, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +27% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
121 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2024, 79 since wound down; 43 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $781k 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
- WVWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $3.7M · revenue +5%
- MUMARSHALL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED5× · 2017–2023 · $2.2M · revenue +427%
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC5× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +13%
Funded once
- RGROANE GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -72%
- MCMountaineer Clay Crushers SCTP Team 1193one grant, 2021 · $100k · 69% of their budget
- ARAmerican Red Cross WV Regionone grant, 2018 · $50k
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.
Valley healthcare system shall improve our community's health by delivering the highest quality behavioral healthcare guided by our consumer's needs.
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
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…
Work to improve the health of children and families in west virginia through leadership. to provide a forum for diverse organizations to discuss, coordinate and collaborate on issues that improve the health and well-being of west virginia…
To provide food and other related products primarily to member agencies for distribution to those in need, and also for direct distribution.
Communityworks in west virignia (cwwv) creates housing and community development solutions for all west virginians through a network of member organizations. cwwv carries out its mission by providing effective training and technical…
To provide quality healthcare to all individuals, emphasizing outreach to those who are underserved. valley health strives to ensure that quality healthcare is readily accessible to everyone and serves patients regardless of their ability…
The west virginia chamber of commerce provides opportunities for broad based prosperity throughout west virginia.
Eastern West Virginia Community Action Agency serves the disadvantaged people by determining their needs; advocating for and providing programs that help remove them from the causes of poverty.
Central west virginia community action association, inc.s mission is to provide pathways to economic independence for all families by leading community initiatives that address the root causes of poverty.
West virginia community action partnership is an alliance of community action agencies that supports and strengthens our members, advocates for low-income and families and promotes partnerships.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of the River Cities Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Wing 2 Wing Foundation. 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 37 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
199 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. 199 of the 353 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARSHALL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SHAWNEE PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SO WV INC ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA CHILD ABUSE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds CLAY CENTER FOR THE ARTS & SCIENCES OF WV INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CABELL HUNTINGTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID OF WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds MEDBROOK CHILDREN'S CHARITY INC ↗
- Who funds CAMC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPORTABLE RICHMOND ADAPTIVE SPORTS AND RECREATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROANE GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KEITH ALBEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PELOTONIA ↗
- Who funds THE WING 2 WING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mountaineer Clay Crushers SCTP Team 1193 ↗
- Who funds WEST LIBERTY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LILY'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON MAIN STREETS INC ↗
- Who funds LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF KANAWHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE EDUCATION ALLIANCE-BUSINESS AND COMMUNITY FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MIDIAN LEADERSHIP PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds CHILDHOOD LANGUAGE DISORDERS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN MISSION 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: The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation · Truist West Virginia Foundation Inc · Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc · Pallottine Foundation of Huntington West Virginia · Milan Puskar Foundation Inc · Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation · Peoples Bank Foundation · Tgkvf Inc · Highmark Foundation · Bowles Rice Foundation · The Daywood Foundationinc · The Martha Gaines & Russell Wehrle Memorial 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 Encova Foundation of West Virginia 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.
- Western Maryland Area Health Education Center Inc — 1% 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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