· Private foundation
Maier Foundation Inc
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $306k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $660k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLAY CENTER FOR THE ARTS & SCIENCES OF WV | $500,000 |
| MARSHALL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $500,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC | $500,000 |
| WV INDEPENDENT COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES | $120,000 |
| WVSOM FOUNDATION INC | $100,000 |
| THE FOUNDATION FOR THOMAS MEMORIAL AND SAINT FRANCIS HOSPITALS INC | $100,000 |
| MARSHALL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $100,000 |
| CLAY CENTER FOR THE ARTS & SCIENCES OF WV | $70,000 |
| WEST VIRGINIA WESLEYAN COLLEGE | $60,000 |
| CONCORD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $60,000 |
| WV STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
| WEST VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC | $48,000 |
| WEST VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC | $45,000 |
| MARSHALL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $40,000 |
| GLENVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 99% of your 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.
26 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 4 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $131k 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
- MUMARSHALL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED6× · 2020–2025 · $4.2M · revenue +159%
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC4× · 2020–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +15%
- CCCLAY CENTER FOR THE ARTS & SCIENCES OF WV INC6× · 2020–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +145%
Funded once
FAIRMONT STATE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +65%- TFTHE FOUNDATION FOR THOMAS HEALTH SYSTEMone grant, 2023 · $50k
- HCHOSPICE COUNCIL OF WEST VIRGINIA INCone grant, 2023 · $10k
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 foster, support, and assist in any research and economic development activities consistent with the educational objectives and mission of west virginia state university.
The mission of wvicu is to advance collectively the interests of west virginia's independent colleges and universities and their students.
Maintenance of the wvu school of forestry endowment fund
The west virginia symphony orchestra foundation, inc (the foundation) is a supporting organization, incorporated solely to provide financial support to the west virginia symphony orchestra, inc. the foundation was established to manage…
The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…
The west virginia chamber of commerce provides opportunities for broad based prosperity throughout west virginia.
To secure financial support that enables college-bound students to access and graduate from outstanding virginia independent higher education institutions.
Solicitation of public contributions on behalf of member colleges. provides foundations, businesses, and individuals a convenient way of supporting small colleges and universities in virginia.
The organization seeks to raise conciousness and compassion through groundbreaking, high quality theatrical performances and life-changing educational programs.
To offer a wide range of strategic partnerships, academia, employment and community opportunities to the state, while promoting innovation and critical thinking within our workforce. Our vision is to catalyze economic growth and improve…
See schedule o for a complete description of the foundation's mission
The Foundation exists to support development of educational excellence at Valdosta State University.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Virginia University Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is West Virginia Youth Symphony Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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. 21 of the 35 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 MARSHALL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC ↗
- Who funds CLAY CENTER FOR THE ARTS & SCIENCES OF WV INC ↗
- Who funds WV EMULATION ENDOWMENT TRUST ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA WESLEYAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CONCORD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA DRUG INTERVENTION INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds GLENVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RECONNECTING MCDOWELL INC ↗
- Who funds The Foundation for The Thomas Memorial and Saint Francis Hospitals Inc ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON LIGHT OPERA GUILD INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds CAMC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FESTIV-ALL CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S THEATRE OF CHARLESTON ↗
- Who funds FAIRMONT STATE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER KANAWHA VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA YOUTH SYMPHONY 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: The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation · Truist West Virginia Foundation Inc · Encova Foundation of West Virginia · Charles & Mary Fayne Glotfelty Foundation Inc · Tgkvf Inc · Bernard H and Blanche E Jacobson Foundation · Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation · Eqt Foundation · Fund for the Arts · Cecil I Walker Charitable Tr · Herscher Foundation Inc · The Martha Gaines & Russell Wehrle Memorial 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 Maier Foundation Inc 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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