· Private foundation
Hugh I Shott Jr Foundation Inc
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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $171k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $751k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TOWN OF BLUEFIELD VIRGINIA | $400,000 |
| CITY OF BLUEFIELD WV | $397,215 |
| CENTER FOR APPLIED RESEARCH | $365,000 |
| CHILD ABUSE REPORTING & ENFORCEMENT | $200,000 |
| TOWN OF BLUEFIELD VIRGINIA | $200,000 |
| CONCORD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| CITY OF BLUEFIELD WV | $100,000 |
| CITY OF BLUEFIELD WV | $51,000 |
| CITY OF BLUEFIELD WV | $40,000 |
| WESTMINSTER AT WADE | $32,925 |
| MERCER COUNTY COMMISSION ON AGING | $30,000 |
| MCDOWELL COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN LEGION POST #8 | $15,500 |
| MERCER COUNTY OPPORTUNITY INDUSTRIES | $14,630 |
| WESTMINSTER AT WADE | $12,600 |
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 (FY20–22, $481k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 21%. 79% 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.
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 +16% since the first grant, against -22% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 7 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $293k 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
- CUCONCORD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC2× · 2021–2024 · $350k · revenue +151%
- PRPRINCETON RESCUE SQUAD INC3× · 2020–2022 · $300k · revenue +16%
- CPCHILD PROTECT OF MERCER COUNTY INC2× · 2021–2022 · $218k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- CCCOMMUNITY CONNECTIONS INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $300k · revenue +86%
- BSBLUEFIELD STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $100k
- AAAPPALACHIAN AGENCY FOR SR CITIZENSgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +78%
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.
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
Provide services to senior citizens of Summers County, West Virginia.
To improve the quality of life for senior citizens of hardy county, wv
To provide services to the senior citizens of Pocahontas County, West Virginia
To provide in home services, para-nursing services, nutritional meals, transportation, and other various services to the elderly of Jefferson and Berkley Counties located in WV.
Serve abused and/or neglected children in the Gilmer County area via counseling and other social services.
Plan, develop, finance and operate social and economic programs that are beneficial to elderly, low income and/or handicapped residents of cabell county, wv
To provide primary medical care service in a rural community.
To improve the quality of life for those 60 and over in Hardin County.
To improve the qualiry of life of the senior citizens and their famiilies in grant county, west virginia.
Provide social services to a nine-county area of central kentucky.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Connections Inc and the most unlike its peers is Helpful Harvest Food Bank. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 47 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 BLUEFIELD ARTS AND REVITALIZATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CONCORD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD PROTECT OF MERCER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER AT WADE INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN AGENCY FOR SR CITIZENS ↗
- Who funds McDowell County Commission on Aging Inc ↗
- Who funds MERCER COUNTY FELLOWSHIP HOME INC ↗
- Who funds Abel Crisis Pregnancy Center Inc ↗
- Who funds MERCER COUNTY OPPORTUNITY INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds CITY OF MULLENS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC CRAB ORCHARD MUSEUM & PIONEER PARK INC ↗
- Who funds STOP THE HURT INC ↗
- Who funds DAVIS-STUART INC ↗
- Who funds Helpful Harvest Food Bank ↗
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: K B Tierney Charitable Foundation Trust · The H P and Anne S Hunnicutt Foundation · Community Foundation of the Virginias Inc · Skewes Family Foundation · United Way of Southern Wv Inc · The Paul & Carol Cole Foundation Inc · Preservati Family Char Tr Fdn · Frank Litz Smoot Charitable Trust · West Virginia First Foundation Inc · The Burke & Herbert Bank Foundation · Timken Foundation of Canton · Celanese 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 Hugh I Shott Jr Foundation Inc 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.
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