· Private foundation
George D Hott Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $144k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $22,500 |
| CHRISTIAN HELP INC | $20,000 |
| SHACK NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC | $20,000 |
| COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC | $18,000 |
| ST URSULA FOOD PANTRY | $16,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $15,000 |
| WVU FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| VISITING HOMEMAKER SERVICE OF MONONGALIA | $10,000 |
| MONONGALIA COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER | $10,000 |
| MORGANTOWN AREA MEALS ON WHEELS | $8,500 |
| SCOTT'S RUN SETTLEMENT HOUSE | $7,500 |
| CASA FOR KIDS | $7,000 |
| PANTRY PLUS MORE INC | $6,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF BLACK DIAMOND COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| WESLEY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $194k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
30 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 INC9× · 2017–2025 · $91k · revenue +5%
- CKCOMMUNITY KITCHEN INC9× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +78%
- BHBARTLETT HOUSE INC7× · 2017–2023 · $71k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- SSSTEPPING STONES INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $17k · revenue +33%
- HCHOSPICE CARE CORPORATION D/B/A WEST VIRGINIA CARINGone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0%
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2021 · $15k
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.
Mountain state justice provides free legal services to low income people in west virginia and assures that low income people have access to the court system.
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
To provide primary medical care service in a rural community.
To serve the needs of individuals suffering from life-limiting illness as well as to serve the individuals caring for them. to place emphasis on comfort and quality of life while fulfilling the physical, psychological, social and spiritual…
Provide homemaker and case management services to home-bound seniors and disabled members in west virginia. provide, also, training and job assistance to those 55 and older on a limited income.
To provide services to senior citizens of McDowell County, West Virginia.
To provide home health care services - nursing, therapy and support services to patients in berkeley, morgan and jefferson counties, w.v.
To provide services to the senior citizens of Pocahontas County, West Virginia
To provide nutrition, personal care and transportation to low income and elderly individuals in mason county, west virginia.
To help revitalize downtown Martinsburg, WV
Providing administrative services to its two subsidiaries, keystone hospice and keystone home health, llc. providing social services to medically fragile populations in southeastern pennsylvania.
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…
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 Sober Living 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 42 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 7% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 45 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 WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MILAN PUSKAR HEALTH RIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds BARTLETT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN HELP INC ↗
- Who funds MORGANTOWN AREA MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds MORGANTOWN SOBER LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds MONONGALIA COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MORGANTOWN COMMUNITY RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds VISITING HOMEMAKER SERVICE OF MONONGALIA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE PANTRY PLUS MORE INC ↗
- Who funds SCOTTS RUN SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF BLACK DIAMOND COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds SHACK NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CASA For Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds OPERATION WELCOME HOME ↗
- Who funds STEPPING STONES INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE CARE CORPORATION D/B/A WEST VIRGINIA CARING ↗
- Who funds MYLAN PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STEPPING STONES INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAINEER AREA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF FRANKLIN AND SOMERSET COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MONONGALIA AND PRESTON COUNITES 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: John M Brown Family Foundation · United Way of Monongalia and Preston Counites Inc · Milan Puskar Foundation Inc · Lynch Foundation Inc · Hazel Ruby McQuain Charitable Trust · Your Community Foundation of North Central Wv Inc · Empty Bowls Monongalia · Bowles Rice Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Weldon Family Foundation · Truist West Virginia Foundation Inc · Encova Foundation of West Virginia
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 George D Hott 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.
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.