· Public charity
Herbert J Thomas Memorial Hospital Association
To provide health care services to residents of South Charleston, WV and surrounding communities.
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.
The 8 grants below total $144,386 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $186,711 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $42,325 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $130k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Charleston Regatta Inc | $35,000 |
| The Foundation for Thomas Memorial Hospital | $29,886 |
| West Virginia Golf Association Limited | $25,000 |
| Downtown Charleston Association Inc | $15,000 |
| Buckskin Council Boy Scouts of America | $15,000 |
| West Virginia Secondary School Activities Comission | $10,000 |
| West Virginia University Foundation Inc | $7,500 |
| Capital Area Development Corp of WV | $7,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 100% of your 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.
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.
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.
To support the West Virginia University School of Medicine in the furtherance of its charitable, scientific, and educational purposes by serving as its faculty practice plan and providing a full range of business management services to its…
The west virginia state medical association is organized for the purpose of providing services to its members, who are all either physicians practicing in the state of west virginia or medical students. specifically, the association serves…
The west virginia chamber of commerce provides opportunities for broad based prosperity throughout west virginia.
To foster, support, and assist in any research and economic development activities consistent with the educational objectives and mission of west virginia state university.
The mission of the virginia state golf association is to promote the game of golf and serve the needs of golf in virginia.
The mission of wvicu is to advance collectively the interests of west virginia's independent colleges and universities and their students.
Striving to provide the best health care to every patient, every day.
The west virginia symphony orchestra foundation, inc (the foundation) is a supporting organization, incorporated solely to provide financial support to the west virginia symphony orchestra, inc. the foundation was established to manage…
To offer a wide range of strategic partnerships, academia, employment and community opportunities to the state, while promoting innovation and critical thinking within our workforce. Our vision is to catalyze economic growth and improve…
To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…
To improve the communitys health through the efficient provision, coordination, and integration of quality health services, health education, and research. To provide compassionate, quality health services according to the spiritual,…
The mission of West Virginia University School of Medicine Charleston Division d/b/a West Virginia University Physicians of Charleston, is to support the West Virginia University School of Medicine & Improve the lives of our patients,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Virginia University Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Foundation for the Thomas Memorial and Saint Francis Hospitals Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 11 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 CAMC HEALTH EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds The Foundation for The Thomas Memorial and Saint Francis Hospitals Inc ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON REGATTA INC ↗
- Who funds MARSHALL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA GOLF ASSOCIATION LIMITED ↗
- Who funds BUCKSKIN COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA SECONDARY SCHOOLS ACTIVITIES COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF WEST VIRGINIA ↗
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.
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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 Herbert J Thomas Memorial Hospital Association 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.