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Encova Foundation of West Virginia at a glance

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Encova Foundation of West Virginia

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
89
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$450k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$7.9MHealth$2.7MRecreation & Sports$1.6MCrime & Legal$1.1MArts & Culture$803kHuman Services$753kPhilanthropy$623kYouth Development$480kOther$0
02FY2024 · 89 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k65 grants · $192k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $217k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $426k
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.4M
$5,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$52M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MARSHALL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCORPORATION$450,000
WVU FOUNDATION$400,000
WVU FOUNDATION$330,000
UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON$250,000
WING 2 WING FOUNDATION$100,000
LEGAL AID OF WEST VIRGINIA$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
MEDBROOK CHILDRENS CHARITY INC$25,000
CAPITOL MARKET INC$25,000
LILYS PLACE$20,000
WV HEALTH RIGHT$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ON EAGLE'S WINGS INC: $3k → 13%PARKERSBURG AREA COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $5k → 19%NEW BEGINNINGS RESOURCE CENTER: $3k → 19%FLORENCE CRITTENTON PROGRAMS INC: $10k → 15%Golden Girl Group Home: $5k → 18%SPORTABLE: $25k → 22%PARTNER COMMUNITY CAPITAL INC: $10k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST VIRGINIA: $5k → 15%GOLDEN GIRL INC: $3k → 18%SPORTABLE: $25k → 22%Golden Girl Group Home: $3k → 18%Family Refuge Center: $5k → 18%Sportable Richmond Adaptive Sports and Recreation: $25k → 22%FAMILY REFUGE CENTER INC: $5k → 18%Sportable: $25k → 22%FAMILY REFUGE CENTER INC: $5k → 18%Sportable Richmond Adaptive Sports and Recreation: $25k → 22%FAMILY REFUGE CENTER: $3k → 18%CATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST VIRGINIA INC: $5k → 15%YOUTH SERVICES SYSTEM INC: $5k → 15%YOUTH SERVICES SYSTEM INC: $5k → 15%Youth Services System Inc: $5k → 15%Empty Bowls Monongalia: $5k → 19%APPALACHIAN OUTREACH: $5k → 15%LIBERA INC: $13k → 19%LIBERA INC: $13k → 19%WEST VIRGINIA CHILD ADVOCACY NETWORK: $200k → 18%WEST VIRGINIA CHILD ADVOCACY NETWORK: $200k → 18%West Virginia Child Advocacy Network: $200k → 18%YWCA OF CHARLESTON WV: $153k → 18%WEST VIRGINIA CHILD ADVOCACY NETWORK: $100k → 18%West Virginia Child Advocacy Network: $100k → 18%West Virginia Child Advocacy Network: $100k → 18%YWCA OF CHARLESTON WV: $33k → 18%YWCA OF CHARLESTON WV: $33k → 18%Kanawha Valley Senior Services Inc: $13k → 18%YWCA OF CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA: $8k → 18%YWCA of Charleston WV: $7k → 18%YWCA of Charleston WV: $25k → 18%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSN OF CHARLESTON AND THE KANAWHA VALLEY: $10k → 18%YMCA of Kanawha Valley: $10k → 18%DAYMARK: $4k → 18%GOOD NEWS MOUNTAINEER GARAGE: $5k → 18%YMCA of Kanawha Valley: $3k → 18%GOOD NEWS MOUNTAINEER GARAGE: $5k → 18%DAYMARK INC: $3k → 18%Daymark: $3k → 18%BOB BURDETTE CENTER: $3k → 18%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
IA
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$15M · 121 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

121
188

Total granted

$15M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+12%

Still filing today

73%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $781k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • WV
    WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $3.7M · revenue +5%
  • MU
    MARSHALL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
    5× · 2017–2023 · $2.2M · revenue +427%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • RG
    ROANE GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -72%
  • MC
    Mountaineer Clay Crushers SCTP Team 1193
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · 69% of their budget
  • SA
    ST AGNES CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Valley Comprehensive Community Health Center Inc

Valley healthcare system shall improve our community's health by delivering the highest quality behavioral healthcare guided by our consumer's needs.

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2
Wayne County Community Services Organization

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

Community Improvement
3
Community Care of West Virginia Inc

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…

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4
West Virginia Healthy Kids and Families Coalition

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…

Health
5
Wv Helping Hands
Human Services
6
Feeding Southwest Virginia

To provide food and other related products primarily to member agencies for distribution to those in need, and also for direct distribution.

Food & Nutrition
7
Communityworks in West Virginia Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
8
Valley Health Systems Inc

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…

Health
9
West Virginia Chamber of Commerce

The west virginia chamber of commerce provides opportunities for broad based prosperity throughout west virginia.

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10
Eastern West Virginia Community Action Agency Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
11
Central Wv Community Action Assoc Inc

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.

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12
West Virginia Community Action Partnersh

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.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of the River Cities Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

199 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
41
Early backer (in before they grew)
191/199
Grantees still filing
122/199
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $3,733,000 · EducationWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCMARSHALL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $2,152,000 · EducationMARSHALL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCORPORATEDTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC: $1,030,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC+14 more: $626,000 · Education+14 moreRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SO WV INC: $1,010,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD …ST MARY'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $500,000 · HealthST MARY'S MEDICA…CABELL HUNTINGTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $370,000 · HealthCABELL HUNTINGTO…CAMC FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 · HealthROANE GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Health+17 more: $302,250 · Health+17 moreMARSHALL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCORPORATION: $450,000 · OtherMARSHALL UNIVERSI…Buckskin Council BSA: $220,000 · OtherBuckskin Council …WVSU Foundation Inc: $122,500 · OtherWEST LIBERTY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · OtherMountaineer Clay Crushers SCTP Team 1193: $100,000 · OtherLEGAL AID OF WEST VIRGINIA INC: $175,000 · OtherLEGAL AID OF WEST…+113 more: $1,449,221 · Other+113 moreWEST VIRGINIA CHILD ABUSE NETWORK INC: $900,000 · Human ServicesWEST VIRGI…YWCA OF CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA INC: $256,500 · Human ServicesYWCA OF CH…SPORTABLE RICHMOND ADAPTIVE SPORTS AND RECREATION INC: $125,000 · Human ServicesSPORTABLE …+15 more: $198,450 · Human Services+15 moreSHAWNEE PARK FOUNDATION INC: $1,300,000 · Recreation & SportsSHAWNEE P…+7 more: $65,750 · Recreation & SportsCLAY CENTER FOR THE ARTS & SCIENCES OF WV INC: $550,000 · Arts & CultureKEITH ALBEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureHUNTINGTON DANCE THEATRE LTD: $33,500 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $58,500 · Arts & CultureMEDBROOK CHILDREN'S CHARITY INC: $125,000 · PhilanthropyTHE WING 2 WING FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyLIBRARY FOUNDATION OF KANAWHA COUNTY INC: $70,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA: $45,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $24,500 · Philanthropy
Education$7,541,000Health$2,407,250Other$2,616,721Human Services$1,479,950Recreation & Sports$1,365,750Arts & Culture$742,000Philanthropy$364,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $3,733,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetMARSHALL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $2,152,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetSHAWNEE PARK FOUNDATION INC: $1,300,000 over 5y, 83% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC: $1,030,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SO WV INC: $1,010,000 over 4y, 74% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA CHILD ABUSE NETWORK INC: $900,000 over 5y, 37% of budgetCLAY CENTER FOR THE ARTS & SCIENCES OF WV INC: $550,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetST MARY'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetCABELL HUNTINGTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $370,000 over 5y, 8.0% of budgetYWCA OF CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA INC: $256,500 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $185,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetLEGAL AID OF WEST VIRGINIA INC: $175,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCAMC FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSPORTABLE RICHMOND ADAPTIVE SPORTS AND RECREATION INC: $125,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetMEDBROOK CHILDREN'S CHARITY INC: $125,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetKEITH ALBEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $100,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetTHE WING 2 WING FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetWEST LIBERTY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetROANE GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetMountaineer Clay Crushers SCTP Team 1193: $100,000 over 1y, 69% of budgetPELOTONIA: $100,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLILY'S PLACE INC: $80,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetCHARLESTON MAIN STREETS INC: $71,000 over 5y, 6.9% of budgetLIBRARY FOUNDATION OF KANAWHA COUNTY INC: $70,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE EDUCATION ALLIANCE-BUSINESS AND COMMUNITY FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $55,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MIDIAN LEADERSHIP PROJECT INC: $50,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetSHEPHERD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA: $45,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDHOOD LANGUAGE DISORDERS CENTER INC: $45,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES INC: $45,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetMOUNTAIN MISSION INC: $41,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $38,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetEast Bank High School Alumni Association: $35,000 over 4y, 55% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA HEALTH RIGHT INC: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHUNTINGTON DANCE THEATRE LTD: $33,500 over 4y, 12% of budgetCoda Mountain Academy Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetCADCO FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetUNION MISSION MINISTRIES INC: $28,250 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Greater PA and West Virginia Inc: $26,600 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetROARK SULLIVAN LIFEWAY CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCAPITOL MARKET INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetLibera Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetYMCA OF KANAWHA VALLEY INC: $23,200 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE SUMMIT INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCRAIK-PATTON HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetST MARY'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Greater Kanawha V…Truist West Virginia …Bernard McDonough Fou…Pallottine Foundation…Milan Puskar Foundati…Claude Worthington Be…Peoples Bank Foundati…Tgkvf IncHighmark FoundationBowles Rice FoundationThe Daywood Foundatio…The Martha Gaines & R…
The Greater Kanawha Valley FoundationWV136.8× affinity72 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Encova Foundation of West Virginia funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Encova Foundation of West Virginia. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Western Maryland Area Health Education Center Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
60report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Encova Foundation of West Virginia?

Find your warmest path to Encova Foundation of West Virginia through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 353 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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