· Private foundation
Lafon Family Foundation Inc
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 $10k4 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WVU FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| HUNGRY LAMB FOOD INITIATIVE INC | $5,000 |
| TERRA COTTA GOLF CHARITIES | $3,000 |
| BOONE COUNTY CHAPTER OF THE WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% of its 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 98% of Lafon Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 87% of the giving stays in WV; by stated purpose, 64%.
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 +109% since the first grant, against +61% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WVWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $251k · revenue +5%
- HLHungry Lamb Food Initiative7× · 2017–2024 · $48k · revenue +109%
- HHHERO HOUSE2× · 2018–2020 · $6k · revenue +136%
Funded once
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSEone grant, 2021 · $10k
- AIARTIS-NAPLES INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -3%
- HMHELP MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2019 · $5k
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.
Our mission is to end addiction in Appalachia through events that support substance abuse prevention and recovery programs.
To offer recovery to alchoholics and drug addicts through a 12-step program and to provide a safe place for men to acquire sobriety.
The southern west virginia fellowship home is here to serve all in need of a better life apart from drugs and alcohol. we have a confident expectation that a whole new life "a better life" exists for all.
To bring sober living to the local community
Our mission is to provide a supportive and nurturing environment for women in recovery from substance use disorder as they rebuild their lives, cultivate healthy habits, and thrive in sobriety. Through personalized care plans, life skills…
To identify and monitor health professionals that suffer from impairments for the west virginia parmacist recovery network .
Wheeling Hospital, Inc. is a Catholic hospital that serves as a health ministry, providing compassionate care to people of all faiths in a loving, spiritual environment. God gives us the responsibility to carry out his mission of healing…
A faith-based, sober living house, for men who are serious about maintaining a life of sobriety from addictive substances.
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 21 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 WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Hungry Lamb Food Initiative ↗
- Who funds HERO HOUSE ↗
- Who funds ARTIS-NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds DOUBLE H HOLE IN THE WOODS RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds TERRA COTTA GOLF CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Boone County Chapter of the West Virginia University Alumni Asc ↗
- Who funds THE RECOVERY POINT OF HUNTINGTON 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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lafon Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lafon Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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