· Private foundation
Mary B Nickell 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, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| FAMILY REFUGE CENTER | $3,000 |
| GREATER GREENBRIER VALLEY COMMUNITY FDN | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 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 11% of Mary B Nickell Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in WV; by stated purpose, 85%.
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 +17% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- GCGREENBRIER CO COMMISSION ON AGINGone grant, 2022 · $5k
- SCSHEPHERDS CENTER OF THE GREENBRIER VALLEYone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -7%
- CHCARNEGIE HALL FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +12%
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.
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…
How this is measured
16 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. 16 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mary B Nickell Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mary B Nickell Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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