· Private foundation
Helen W Poffenbarger and Perry S Poffenbarger Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $115k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BEN FRANKLIN VOCATIONAL CENTER | $35,000 |
| WV STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON | $20,000 |
| BOB BURDETTE CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| BACKPACKBUDDYORG | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CHARLESTON WV | $10,000 |
| EDUCATION ELEVATORS FDN | $7,500 |
| SHAWNEE PARK FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| DUNBAR - INSTITUTE SAMARITAN CENTER | $4,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $78k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BBBOB BURDETTE CENTER INC6× · 2019–2024 · $60k · revenue +27%
- BIBACKPACKBUDDYORG INC6× · 2019–2024 · $52k · revenue +76%
- EEEDUCATION ELEVATORS FOUNDATION INC6× · 2019–2024 · $38k · revenue +60%
Funded once
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.
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.
Education assistance
The primary mission is to provide supplementary food during the school for food-insecure students located in bedford county virginia
Provide food for underprivileged school children.
Maintenance of the wvu school of forestry endowment fund
Kindergarten thru 12th grade school
Provide food for school age children.
To provide toys during christmas for underprivilaged children in wyoming county, wv.
Sponsor agricultural education programs for students and the general public.
Charity and Education
Supervision of child care providers
To nourish low income elementary students on weekends by providing backpacks full of food, and to inspire high school students to experience community service through project based learning and student internships.
How this is measured
7 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. 7 of the 14 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Helen W Poffenbarger and Perry S Poffenbarger Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Helen W Poffenbarger and Perry S Poffenbarger Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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