· Private foundation
James B Chambers Memorial
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $57k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KINGS DAUGHTERS | $166,667 |
| YMCA | $97,692 |
| UNITED WAY | $75,000 |
| OGLEBAY INSTITUTE | $60,000 |
| HOLY FAMILY DAYCARE | $50,500 |
| BETHLEHEM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| MIDDLE CREEK SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| HOUSE OF THE CARPENTER | $15,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $12,000 |
| ARC | $5,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY IMPACT NETWORK | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $250 |
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 (FY17–24, $954k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 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.
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 +52% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 4 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, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $206k 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
- THTHE HOUSE OF THE CARPENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $478k · revenue +48%
- OFOGLEBAY FOUNDATION INC3× · 2017–2023 · $373k · revenue +284%
- YSYOUTH SERVICES SYSTEM INC6× · 2017–2022 · $373k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- OPORCHARD PARK HOSPITALone grant, 2023 · $50k
- HFHOLY FAMILY CHILD CAREone grant, 2022 · $49k
- CFCRITTENTON FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $42k · revenue +2%
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
To provide care to childen and their families through a range of services that promote healthy growth and improve the quality of family life
Provide childd care services and preschool for children birth to age 12
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…
Promote and advance decent, safe and sanitary housing for persons of low and moderate income, the elderly, disadvantaged or infirm, in the cabell- wayne counties and surrounding metropolitan area of west virginia.
The primary purpose of the organization is to provide structured day care programs for pre-school children. the organization is dedicated to the nurturing, care and education of infants, toddlers, and pre-school children. the center owns…
The organization operates a childhood center in oberlin, ohio for up tp 100 children ages six weeks to five years old. the center provides a unique, child centered campus for anyone in need regardless of financial ability.
Services to challenged individuals in Vocational,Residential, Home Based, and Community settings.
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.
Bringing industry and new businesses to the tri-state area, particularly huntington, west virginia.
Vocational habilitation center providing programs for individuals with developmental disabilities.
The mission of ohio valley goodwill industries rehabilitation center, inc. is to provide vocational rehabilitation, training, and employment services to individuals with either disabilities or social and economic barriers to full employment
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crittenton Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hoh Share Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 43 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE OHIO VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOUSE OF THE CARPENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OGLEBAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SERVICES SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds OGLEBAY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds GROW OHIO VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds LAUGHLIN COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds WHEELING COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HOH SHARE INC ↗
- Who funds CRITTENTON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY IMPACT NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds SEEING HAND ASSOCIATION 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: Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley Inc · Raymond A & Gertrude D Hyer Foundation · Hess Family Foundation · August J & Thelma S Hoffmann Foundation · Albert Schenk III & Kathleen H Schenk Charitable Trust · Elizabeth Stifel Kline Foundation · Helen J Prince Foundation Security National Trust Co Trustee · Robinson S Parlin Trust · Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc · Rosemary M Front Charitable Trust · W E Stone Foundation · Vna Home Support Services Inc
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 James B Chambers Memorial 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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