· Private foundation
Mary B Nickell 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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $47k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WELLSPRING OF GREENBRIER INC | $30,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN THE SCHOOLS OF GREENBRIER CO | $16,900 |
| GREENBRIER VALLEY AQUATIC | $9,500 |
| OLD STONE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $6,000 |
| NEW RIVER COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| LEWISBURG LITERARY GROUP | $3,000 |
| GREATER GREENBRIER VALLEY COMMUNITY FDN | $3,000 |
| FAMILY REFUGE CENTER | $3,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 18%. 100% of those 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 11% of Mary B Nickell Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in WV; read by stated purpose it is 85% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- WOWELLSPRING OF GREENBRIER INC7× · 2019–2025 · $120k · revenue +82%
- NRNEW RIVER COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC6× · 2019–2025 · $28k · revenue +16%
- RAREAD ALOUD WEST VIRGINIA INC5× · 2019–2024 · $22k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- SCSHEPHERDS CENTER OF THE GREENBRIER VALLEYone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -7%
- CHCARNEGIE HALL FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +12%
- GCGREENBRIER CO COMMISSION ON AGINGone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
Gvrp, inc. is an entity focused on watershed protection and sustainable community development. gvrp is concentrating its initial efforts in two areas: public fundraising and development of a community center and charitable open space in…
The organization operates a senior citizen's center in greenbrier county west virgnia. senior citizens are provided with transportation, nutrition, in-home care and other personal and social services.
To act as the economic development arm of the gcra by bringing economic opportunity to disadvantaged areas of greenville county.
Working cooperatively with other libraries and agencies, our mission is to provide comprehensive library services to residents of smithfield and surrounding areas, with emphasis on providing a common meeting place, general reference, and…
To enhance the economic and cultural vitality of the greenport village business district.
To provide leadership and to promote orderly community development.
To ensure the safety and wellbeing of Greenbrier Valley citizens in all phases of disaster.
To serve as a social club for the military veterans located in waynesburg and the surrounding area.
The preservation and study of local history
Our mission is dedicated to preserving the greenbank mill national historical district as a public museum and expanding public knowledge of red clay vally industrial, agricultural and social hstory through on site educational and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greenbrier Historical Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lewisburg Foundation Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 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 WELLSPRING OF GREENBRIER INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER GREENBRIER VALLEY ↗
- Who funds NEW RIVER COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds READ ALOUD WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN GREENBRIER LATCHKEY KIDS ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE HALL INC ↗
- Who funds GREENBRIER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY REFUGE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GREENBRIER VALLEY AQUATIC CENTER ↗
- Who funds GREENBRIER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERDS CENTER OF THE GREENBRIER VALLEY ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE HALL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREENBRIER REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds RENICK COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Lewisburg Foundation Incorporated ↗
- Who funds Alderson Main Street 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: Hollowell Dawkins Foundation Inc · The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation · The Jeanne G Hamilton and Lawson W Hamilton Jr Family Foundation Inc · Seneca Trail Charitable Foundation · The Greater Greenbrier Valley · Abner & Mildred Levine Family Foundation Inc · Marie Leist Foundation Inc · United Way of the Greenbrier Valley Inc · The Daywood Foundationinc · Tgkvf Inc · Robertson Family Foundation Inc · Peoples Bank 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 Mary B Nickell 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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