· Private foundation
Karl and Mildred Niekamp Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $104k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Strand Theatre Preservation Society | $51,500 |
| Moundsville Marshall CO Library | $38,500 |
| Cameron High School | $20,000 |
| Marshall County Historical Society | $20,000 |
| Simpson United Methodist Church | $15,000 |
| John Marshall High School | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Sherrard Middle School | $5,000 |
| McNinch Primary School | $5,000 |
| Center McMechen Elementary | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $123k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 71% 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.
17 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- STStrand Theatre Preservation Society Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $229k · revenue +114% · 32% of their budget
- HHHELPING HEROES INC6× · 2017–2022 · $90k · revenue +192%
- MCMARSHALL COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC5× · 2020–2025 · $80k · revenue +192% · 31% of their budget
Funded once
- WFWVNCC Foundationone grant, 2023 · $25k
- MMMoundsville Marshall Co Public Libone grant, 2022 · $23k
- CMCameron Middle Schoolone grant, 2023 · $20k
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.
To serve the needs of individuals suffering from life-limiting illness as well as to serve the individuals caring for them. to place emphasis on comfort and quality of life while fulfilling the physical, psychological, social and spiritual…
Anchor homes operates a faith-based recovery program and believes in helping people of all races, nationality, social class, religion, gender, and language with recovery programming and housing. we believe that the answer to addiction is…
Provide housing to low-income families.
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 shelter for victims of domestic violence
Valley Residential Services provides personalized support in safe, comfortable home environments for developmentally disabled individuals, residences for veterans with rehabilitation opportunities, and family assistance services.
Residential treatment centers that offer programs to enable individuals to make the necessary changes to recover from substance abuse and lead productive lives.
To provide substance abuse prevention & treatment.
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.
Rehabilitation of adult alcoholics and drug addicts.
Mountain state justice provides free legal services to low income people in west virginia and assures that low income people have access to the court system.
As a supporting organization of Community Residences Inc, Community Havens provides residential services and housing facilities to those individuals in Virginia who need assistance and support.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley Inc and the most unlike its peers is Marshall County Historical Society Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 28 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 Strand Theatre Preservation Society Inc ↗
- Who funds HELPING HEROES INC ↗
- Who funds MARSHALL COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA NORTHERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO VALLEY RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SERVICES SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE OHIO VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDRENS HOME OF WHEELING 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: Raymond A & Gertrude D Hyer Foundation · Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley Inc · Robert L& Helen E Levenson Family Charitable Tr · The Driehorst Family Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 Karl and Mildred Niekamp Charitable Foundation 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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