· Private foundation
James B Chambers Memorial
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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY IMPACT NETWORK | $5,000 |
| ARC | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $250 |
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 (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 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +2% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 43 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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization James B Chambers Memorial funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James B Chambers Memorial. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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