· Private foundation
Karl and Mildred Niekamp Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 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 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Marshall County Historical Society | $20,000 |
| Cameron High School | $20,000 |
| Simpson United Methodist Church | $15,000 |
| John Marshall High School | $10,000 |
| Center McMechen Elementary | $5,000 |
| Sherrard Middle School | $5,000 |
| McNinch Primary School | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $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 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.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 28 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Karl and Mildred Niekamp Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Karl and Mildred Niekamp Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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