· Public charity
River Valley Child Development Services Services Inc
To provide quality services and support to children, families, and the early childhood community
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 84% of RIVER VALLEY CHILD DEVELOPMENT SERVICES SERVICES INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 44 grants below total $403,691 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,434,162 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,030,471 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k36 grants · $236k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $110k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $58k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLAYMATES | $57,538 |
| WVU-PARKERSBURG | $30,682 |
| CONCORD UNIVERSITY | $24,160 |
| WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY | $12,336 |
| MOTHER GOOSE LAND SITE 1 | $11,500 |
| IMAGINATION STATION | $11,213 |
| TINY TOTS DAY CARE CENTER LLC | $10,000 |
| LITTLE BEAR DAYCARE | $10,000 |
| MARSHALL UNIVERSITY | $8,312 |
| EARLY EDUCATION STATION INC | $8,000 |
| CHILD DEV ACADEMY AT MARSHALL UNIV | $8,000 |
| HEARTS AND HANDS | $7,500 |
| LITTLE FEET DAYCARE & PRESCHOOL | $7,500 |
| THE IMAGINATION STATION CDC LLC | $7,500 |
| SUNBEAM CHILD CARE CENTER LLC | $7,063 |
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 (FY17–25, $2.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
210 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2025, 171 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k 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
- PPPLAYMATES PRE-SCHOOL AND CHILD-CARE CENTERS INC6× · 2017–2025 · $815k · revenue +79%
- MUMARSHALL UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION3× · 2023–2025 · $190k · revenue +15%
- TKTHE KING'S DAUGHTERS CHILD CARE CENTERS INC3× · 2023–2025 · $135k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- JSJIM STRAWN AND COMPANYone grant, 2024 · $200k
- TYTRI-COUNTY YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2024 · $187k · revenue +4%
- AEALPHABEST EDUCATIONone grant, 2024 · $137k
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.
At Wilmore Day Care Center, it is our mission to provide holistic care for your child within a loving, Christian environment. We strive to ensure a well-rounded educational experience that will encourage lifelong learning.
The winters child development center is dedicated to providing the best quality childcare in the winters area and educating the children with a christian based curriculum.
Provide child care services to the community for children ages 16 weeks to 12 years.
Early Education and Child Care Services
Building a stronger tomorrow through nurturing today.
Mountain Tots preschool provides high quality early learning enrichment programs that enhances educational, social, emotional, physical, and cognitive development as well as Kindergarten-readiness. We provide preschool and childcare…
Provide christian based daycare and pre-school
Education and social developement center to provide preschool and after school care to children while promoting a child's emotional, educational and physical growth.
Provide families with safe, quality child care in an environment that fosters learning and respect
Provide for each child, the emotional,intellectual, social and physical development, in a caring,loving and secure atmosphere or environment.
Child Education Center is a licensed daycare serving children ages 6 weeks thru 6 years.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shepherdstown Day Care Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dobbins M Fbo Douglass Cen 4947 Tuw. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
67 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. 67 of the 1,250 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 PLAYMATES PRE-SCHOOL AND CHILD-CARE CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds MARSHALL UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Little Eagle Child Care Center Inc ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF KANAWHA VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds THE KING'S DAUGHTERS CHILD CARE CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE CRITTENTON PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds MONTESSORI ETC INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PAKERSBURG WEST VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds Zion Child Development Center Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS R FUN CHILD DEVELOPMENT CTR ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION O SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds NICHOLAS COUNTY EMPOWERMENT CORP ↗
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: West Virginians for Affordable Health Care · The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation · Tgkvf Inc · Encova Foundation of West Virginia · Pallottine Foundation of Buckhannon West Virginia · Parkersburg Area Community Foundation Inc (Previously Pacf Inc) · The Huntington Foundation Inc · Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc · United Way of the Eastern Panhandle · Eastern West Virginia Community Foundation · Sisters of St Joseph Charitable Fund Inc · Pallottine Foundation of Huntington West Virginia
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 River Valley Child Development Services Services 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.