· Public charity
River Valley Health Foundation
The mission of this corporation is to improve the health and well-being of the residents of the ohio valley.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of River Valley Health Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Community Foundation For The Ohio Valley Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year River Valley Health Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $63k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $62,725 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $79,698 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $16,973 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 · FY2022
- Under $10k5 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OHIO COUNTY SCHOOLS | $10,000 |
| YOUTH SERVICE SYSTEMS INC | $10,000 |
| ORCHARD PARK HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| SOUP KITCHEN OF GREATER WHEELING | $8,000 |
| YWCA WHEELING WV | $7,000 |
| NAMI OF GREATER WHEELING INC | $6,600 |
| WHEELING HEALTH RIGHT | $6,000 |
| 1ST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $5,125 |
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 (FY20–22, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 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.
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 +70% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2022, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2022, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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
- YSYOUTH SERVICES SYSTEM INC3× · 2020–2022 · $30k · revenue +20%
- YWYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WHEELING WV3× · 2020–2022 · $21k · revenue +88%
- WLWEST LIBERTY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC2× · 2019–2020 · $18k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- NCNATIONAL CHURCH RESIDENCESgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +140%
- WVWEST VIRGINIA LOCAL HEALTH INCone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -88%
- BCBROOKE COUNTY HEALTH DEPTone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
Establish, conduct, implement, operate, coordinate and finance programs for the benefit of the low-income, minority, elderly, disadvantaged and handicapped citizens of wayne county, wv
The westchester institute for human development (wihd) creates better futures for people with disabilities, for vulnerable children, and for their families and caregivers. wihd accomplishes its mission through professional education,…
Valley healthcare system shall improve our community's health by delivering the highest quality behavioral healthcare guided by our consumer's needs.
The mission of ohio valley goodwill industries rehabilitation center, inc. is to provide vocational rehabilitation, training, and employment services to individuals with either disabilities or social and economic barriers to full employment
Wayne center is involved in the evaluation,placement and services of persons with mental retardation and other developmental disabilities in wayne county.
To provide comprehensive, integrated mental health, substance abuse, and mental retardation-developmental disability services that promote the health and quality of life of our community members.
Provide services to people with disabilities. such services include assistance with housing, employment, transportation and recreational issues.
Whole life services, inc.'s daily operations are motivated by and driven by persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities (id/dd), their families, and others in the community supporting their lives. in order to empower people to…
Providing access to quality primary health care for all.
The purpose of the corporation as defined in the certificate of incorporation is to provide nursing home accommodations for sick, invalid, infirm, disabled or convalescent persons of low income and to this end, to plan, construct, erect,…
Westminster senior services, inc. provides health care services for aged, afflicted, or other dependent persons.
The health resource center of cincinnati, inc. is a nurse managed clinic that provides affordable health care for low-income, indigent, and homeless adults and transitional youth with serious and chronic mental, emotional, behavioral,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wheeling Health Right Inc and the most unlike its peers is Information Helpline - Upper Ohio Valley Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 20 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE OHIO VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds WHEELING HEALTH RIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SERVICES SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHURCH RESIDENCES ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WHEELING WV ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA LOCAL HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds WEST LIBERTY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI OF GREATER WHEELING INC ↗
- Who funds ORCHARD PARK RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE LINSLY SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE SOUP KITCHEN OF GREATER WHEELING INC ↗
- Who funds OGLEBAY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds INFORMATION HELPLINE - UPPER OHIO VALLEY 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: Raymond A & Gertrude D Hyer Foundation · Albert Schenk III & Kathleen H Schenk Charitable Trust · Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley Inc · Rosemary M Front Charitable Trust · Stamp 2001 Charitable Fund · Francis J and Edith Jackson Founda Security National Trust Company · The Banford & Terri Exley Family Foundation Inc · Hess Family Foundation · Vna Home Support Services Inc · Widows Mite Fund · August J & Thelma S Hoffmann Foundation · Claude Worthington Benedum 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 River Valley Health Foundation 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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