West Virginia · Private foundation
Laposta-Banketas Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $311k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $196,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 26
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.7M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations Laposta-Banketas Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 13 | $311k | 23% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $324k | 30% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $219k | 19% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $83k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $219k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $130k | 35% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $100k | 15% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $685k | 15% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weirton Christian Center Inc | $1,150,014 | 9 | 47% |
| Urban Mission Ministries Inc | $33,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Dunbar Recreation Center Inc | $23,362 | 9 | n/a |
| Canine Angels Inc | $18,500 | 4 | 6% |
| The House of the Carpenter Inc | $17,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Hounds Haven Inc | $17,070 | 7 | 3% |
| Open Door Baptist Church | $16,627 | 1 | n/a |
| First Christian Church | $16,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Southwest Butler Food Cupboard Inc | $16,000 | 6 | 6% |
| The Disability Action Center Inc | $10,500 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 25 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weirton Christian Center Inc | $1,150,014 | 9 | 47% |
| Urban Mission Ministries Inc | $33,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Dunbar Recreation Center Inc | $23,362 | 9 | n/a |
| Canine Angels Inc | $18,500 | 4 | 6% |
| The House of the Carpenter Inc | $17,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Hounds Haven Inc | $17,070 | 7 | 3% |
| Open Door Baptist Church | $16,627 | 1 | n/a |
| First Christian Church | $16,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Southwest Butler Food Cupboard Inc | $16,000 | 6 | 6% |
| The Disability Action Center Inc | $10,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Hancock County Humane Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 5 | 1% |
| The High Rocks Educational Corporation | $9,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Chester - Newell Fish Foundation | $7,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Impact Church | $7,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Weirton Heights Memorial Baptist Church | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Loggerhead Marinelife Center Inc | $4,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Old Friends Inc | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Key Animal Care Fund Inc | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Blue Stream Farms Corporation | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Greater Weirton Senior Citizens Center | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
| World Help | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| West Virginia Christian Youth Corporation | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Special Connections | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens Inc | $500 | 2 | 0% |
| Cornerstone Television Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($829k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Laposta-Banketas Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 16 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Charles M Pugliese and Thelma M Pugliese Charitable Foundation · Hancock County Savings Charitable Foundation · Starvaggi Charities Inc · John C Williams Charitable Tr 8024 · Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley Inc · Eqt Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good
How this is measured
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About Laposta-Banketas Family Foundation
- How much does Laposta-Banketas Family Foundation give?
- Laposta-Banketas Family Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $311,298 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Laposta-Banketas Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (54%), Religion (36%), Animals (4%).
- Who are Laposta-Banketas Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Weirton Christian Center Inc ($1.2M), Urban Mission Ministries Inc ($33k), Dunbar Recreation Center Inc ($23k).
- Does Laposta-Banketas Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Laposta-Banketas Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Laposta-Banketas Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Charles M Pugliese and Thelma M Pugliese Charitable Foundation, Hancock County Savings Charitable Foundation, Starvaggi Charities Inc.
- Where is Laposta-Banketas Family Foundation based?
- Laposta-Banketas Family Foundation is based in WV.
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