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· Public charity

River Valley Child Development Services Services Inc

To provide quality services and support to children, families, and the early childhood community

$1.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
44
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$58k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$32MHuman Services$8.8MEducation$2.7MReligion$585kCommunity Improvement$496kYouth Development$473kArts & Culture$378kEnvironment$202kOther$0
02FY2025 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 44 grants below total $403,691, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,434,162 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,030,471 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k36 grants · $236k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $110k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $58k
$6,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$9.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
LITTLE FEET DAYCARE & PRESCHOOL$7,500
HEARTS AND HANDS$7,500
THE IMAGINATION STATION CDC LLC$7,500
SUNBEAM CHILD CARE CENTER LLC$7,063
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SHEPHERDSTOWN DAY CARE: $41k → 9%FAYETTE CO STARTING POINTS: $29k → 18%THE SHACK NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $71k → 19%TOP TOTS ENRICHMENT CENTER: $20k → 19%STEPPING STONES ACADEMY AT THE WOODLANDS INC: $19k → 20%WEBSTER COUNTY STARTING POINTS CDC: $19k → 24%BRADFORD CHILD CARE SERVICES INC: $30k → 11%SHEPHERDSTOWN DAY CARE: $34k → 9%TRI COUNTY YMCA: $187k → 10%FAYETTE CO STARTING POINTS: $28k → 18%THE CHILDREN'S TREE HOUSE CDC: $19k → 9%RICHWOOD TOTS TO TEENS CDC: $15k → 18%HARDY COUNTY CHILD CARE CENTER: $41k → 13%FLORENCE CRITTENTON PROGRAMS: $72k → 15%HARDY COUNTY CHILD CARE CENTER: $34k → 13%FLORENCE CRITTENTON PROGRAMS: $52k → 15%MARVEL CENTER INC: $33k → 18%YMCA OF SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA: $120k → 20%PLAYMATES: $356k → 18%PLAYMATES: $346k → 18%PLAYMATES: $58k → 18%PLAYMATES CHILD CARE: $26k → 18%CCRC CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WV: $25k → 15%PLAYMATES: $24k → 18%YOUTH HEALTH SERVICES: $35k → 17%CHILDRENS PLACE: $20k → 19%TRINITY ACADEMY & DAYCARE: $19k → 19%CHILDRENS PLACE: $18k → 19%YOUTH HEALTH SERVICES: $19k → 17%YWCA OF CHARLESTON: $42k → 18%BRIGHT BEGINNINGS CHILD CARE: $34k → 19%LITTLE EAGLE CHILD CARE CENTER INC: $155k → 9%YWCA CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA INC: $38k → 18%CHILDREN FIRST CDC: $19k → 9%VISITING HOMEMAKER SERVICE: $69k → 19%CHILDREN FIRST CDC: $18k → 9%JOYFUL NOISE INC: $17k → 18%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY WV: $17k → 18%NORBORNE PRESCHOOL AND DAYCARE CENTER: $19k → 11%NORBORNE PRESCHOOL AND DAYCARE CENTER: $16k → 11%KIWANIS DAY CARE CENTER: $44k → 19%KIWANIS DAY CARE CENTER: $36k → 19%HUNTINGTON YMCA: $20k → 19%HUNTINGTON YMCA: $18k → 19%YMCA OF KANAWHA VALLEY: $72k → 18%HANDS ON DAYCARE: $61k → 18%YMCA OF KANAWHA VALLEY: $68k → 18%HANDS ON DAYCARE: $16k → 18%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
KY
WV
MD
NC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 210 repeat orgs$10M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +1% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

210
1036

Total granted

$12M
$10M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
0%

Still filing today

18%
3%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementScience & TechOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • PP
    PLAYMATES PRE-SCHOOL AND CHILD-CARE CENTERS INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $815k · revenue +79%
  • MU
    MARSHALL UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $190k · revenue +15%
  • LE
    Little Eagle Child Care Center Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $161k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • JS
    JIM STRAWN AND COMPANY
    one grant, 2024 · $200k
  • TY
    TRI-COUNTY YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $187k · revenue +4%
  • AE
    ALPHABEST EDUCATION
    one grant, 2024 · $137k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Riceville Community Daycare Inc
Human Services
2
Wilmore Day Care Center

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.

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3
Winters Child Development Center Inc

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.

Human Services
4
Child Care Center of the Common Ground Foundation

Provide child care services to the community for children ages 16 weeks to 12 years.

Human Services
5
We Care Learning and Development Center

Early Education and Child Care Services

Education
6
Christ Church Day Care Inc

Building a stronger tomorrow through nurturing today.

Education
7
Mountain Tots Preschool

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…

Education
8
Tlc Child Care Inc

Provide christian based daycare and pre-school

Human Services
9
Children's Discovery Center

Education and social developement center to provide preschool and after school care to children while promoting a child's emotional, educational and physical growth.

Education
10
Waynesboro Early Learning Center

Provide families with safe, quality child care in an environment that fosters learning and respect

—
11
Ellwood City Childrens Center Inc

Provide for each child, the emotional,intellectual, social and physical development, in a caring,loving and secure atmosphere or environment.

Human Services
12
Child Education Center

Child Education Center is a licensed daycare serving children ages 6 weeks thru 6 years.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shepherdstown Day Care Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

67 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. 67 of the 1,250 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
65/67
Grantees still filing
33/67
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KANAWHA COUNTY SCHOOLS CEP: $344,131 · Other+164 more: $9,453,082 · Other+164 morePLAYMATES PRE-SCHOOL AND CHILD-CARE CENTERS INC: $815,218 · Human ServicesPLAYMATES PRE-SCHOOL A…TRI-COUNTY YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $187,100 · Human ServicesTRI-COUNTY YOUNG MENS …Little Eagle Child Care Center Inc: $161,120 · Human ServicesLittle Eagle Child Car…YMCA OF KANAWHA VALLEY INC: $146,408 · Human ServicesYMCA OF KANAWHA VALLEY…FLORENCE CRITTENTON PROGRAMS INC: $130,228 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION O SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA INC: $120,260 · Human ServicesYWCA OF CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA INC: $91,938 · Human ServicesNICHOLAS COUNTY EMPOWERMENT CORP: $91,900 · Human Services+16 more: $899,871 · Human Services+16 moreMONTESSORI ETC INC: $126,600 · EducationZion Child Development Center Inc: $122,653 · EducationMorgantown Early Learning Facility: $39,300 · EducationCATAMOUNT CHILDRENS CENTER INC: $35,300 · EducationWOOD COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $31,300 · EducationMARSHALL UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION: $189,705 · Community ImprovementMOUNTAINHEART: $37,753 · Community ImprovementRoane County Patch Inc: $49,900 · HealthMONONGALIA COUNTY GENERAL HOSPITAL CO: $35,300 · HealthPrinceton Community Health Foundation Inc: $35,300 · HealthCONCORD UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $34,165 · Science & Tech
Other$9,797,213Human Services$2,644,043Education$355,153Community Improvement$227,458Health$120,500Science & Tech$34,165

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPLAYMATES PRE-SCHOOL AND CHILD-CARE CENTERS INC: $815,218 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetMARSHALL UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION: $189,705 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTRI-COUNTY YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $187,100 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetLittle Eagle Child Care Center Inc: $161,120 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetYMCA OF KANAWHA VALLEY INC: $146,408 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetTHE KING'S DAUGHTERS CHILD CARE CENTERS INC: $135,446 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetFLORENCE CRITTENTON PROGRAMS INC: $130,228 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetMONTESSORI ETC INC: $126,600 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PAKERSBURG WEST VIRGINIA: $125,010 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetZion Child Development Center Inc: $122,653 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetFRIENDS R FUN CHILD DEVELOPMENT CTR: $120,960 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION O SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA INC: $120,260 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetYWCA OF CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA INC: $91,938 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetNICHOLAS COUNTY EMPOWERMENT CORP: $91,900 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetKIWANIS DAY NURSERY INC: $85,615 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetHands On Daycare Inc: $82,857 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetHOLY FAMILY CHILD CARE & DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $75,952 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetSHEPHERDSTOWN DAY CARE INC: $75,190 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetHardy County Child Care Center Inc: $75,190 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetMonroe Early Childhood Assoc Inc: $72,571 over 3y, 9.5% of budgetSHACK NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $70,840 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetVISITING HOMEMAKER SERVICE OF MONONGALIA COUNTY INC: $68,720 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetMOUNTAIN CAP OF WEST VIRGINIA INC: $62,760 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetYOUTH HEALTH SERVICES INC: $59,406 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetYMCA of North Central West Virginia Inc: $56,480 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY RESOURCES INC: $52,519 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetRoane County Patch Inc: $49,900 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetMARVEL CENTER INC: $48,300 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetMorgantown Early Learning Facility: $39,300 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION (7015): $38,050 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S PLACE INC: $38,050 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetMOUNTAINHEART: $37,753 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHEERS SCHOOL FAMILY INC HERITAGE SCHILD DEVELOPMENT CEN: $37,734 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMONONGALIA COUNTY GENERAL HOSPITAL CO: $35,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JOSEPHS DAY CARE CENTER INC: $35,300 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetPrinceton Community Health Foundation Inc: $35,300 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetNORBORNE PRE-SCHOOL AND DAY CARE CENTER INC: $35,300 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetCATAMOUNT CHILDRENS CENTER INC: $35,300 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetCONCORD UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $34,165 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetChildrens Treehouse Child Development Center Inc: $32,300 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetWOOD COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $31,300 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBRADFORD CHILD CARE SERVICES INC: $29,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLITTLE KIDS DAY CARE INC: $28,300 over 2y, 12% of budget
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 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 ↗

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.

West Virginians for A…The Greater Kanawha V…Tgkvf IncEncova Foundation of …Pallottine Foundation…Parkersburg Area Comm…The Huntington Founda…Bernard McDonough Fou…United Way of the Eas…Eastern West Virginia…Sisters of St Joseph …Pallottine Foundation…
West Virginians for Affordable Health CareWV34.6× affinity15 shared granteesties to 6 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization River Valley Child Development Services Services Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from River Valley Child Development Services Services Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 1250 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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