· Private foundation
Maier Foundation Inc
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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $306k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $660k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARSHALL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $500,000 |
| CLAY CENTER FOR THE ARTS & SCIENCES OF WV | $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 |
| CONCORD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $60,000 |
| WEST VIRGINIA WESLEYAN COLLEGE | $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 |
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 99% 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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 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.
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 35 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Maier Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Maier Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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