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· 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.

$80k
Granted FY2022
8
Grants FY2022
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of River Valley Health Foundation’s FY2025 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. FY2025 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

2
’19
8
’20
9
’21
8
’22
0
’23
0
’24
0
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Philanthropy$1.8MHealth$134kHuman Services$64kEducation$38kHousing & Shelter$20kFood & Nutrition$13kEmployment$10k
02FY2022 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $62,725, the rows itemized in this filing. The $79,698 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $16,973 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 · FY2022

  • Under $10k5 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
$8,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YOUTH SERVICE SYSTEMS INC$10,000
ORCHARD PARK HOSPITAL$10,000
OHIO COUNTY SCHOOLS$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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%YOUTH SERVICE SYSTEMS INC: $10k → 15%YOUTH SERVICE SYSTEMS INC: $10k → 15%YOUTH SERVICE SYSTEMS INC: $10k → 15%YWCA WHEELING WV: $8k → 15%YWCA WHEELING WV: $7k → 15%YWCA WHEELING WV: $7k → 15%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.
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.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$129k · 5 repeat orgs$150k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +70% since the first grant, against +25% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
10

Total granted

$129k
$117k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%
+25%

Still filing today

100%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22
HealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterEmploymentEducationEnvironmentOther
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

  • YS
    YOUTH SERVICES SYSTEM INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $30k · revenue +20%
  • YW
    YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WHEELING WV
    3× · 2020–2022 · $21k · revenue +88%
  • WL
    WEST LIBERTY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $18k · revenue +70%

Funded once

  • NC
    NATIONAL CHURCH RESIDENCESgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +140%
  • WV
    WEST VIRGINIA LOCAL HEALTH INC
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -88%
  • OC
    OHIO COUNTY HEALTH DEPT
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
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
Ohio Valley Goodwill Industries

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

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2
Western Ky Regional Mental Health & Ment Dba Four Rivers Behavioral

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.

Health
3
Valley Comprehensive Community Health Center Inc

Valley healthcare system shall improve our community's health by delivering the highest quality behavioral healthcare guided by our consumer's needs.

—
4
Whole Life Services Inc

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…

Human Services
5
Southeastern Ohio Center for Independent Living

Provide services to people with disabilities. such services include assistance with housing, employment, transportation and recreational issues.

Human Services
6
Wells Nursing Home Inc

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,…

Health
7
Westminster Senior Services Inc

Westminster senior services, inc. provides health care services for aged, afflicted, or other dependent persons.

Housing & Shelter
8
Health Resource Center of Cincinnati Inc

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,…

Health
9
Pathways of Central Ohio Inc

Pathways is the gateway to services which empower the community.

Health
10
Ohio Hills Health Services

Ohio hills health services is a non-profit health care operation, organized by communities in eastern ohio to promote healthy lifestyles and to provide preventative and comprehensive medical and dental care for area residents. the primary…

—
11
Center for Community Resources Inc

To coordinate services among private and government agencies for specialized populations to ensure service continuity, reduce duplication, and assist individuals and families in accessing appropriate mental health, intellectual…

Health
12
Western Home Services Inc

To provide management administrative and other supportive services to the related entities.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wheeling Health Right Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE OHIO VALLEY INC: $1,929,326 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE OHIO VALLEY INCWEST LIBERTY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $17,959 · OtherOHIO COUNTY SCHOOLS: $10,000 · OtherOHIO COUNTY HEALTH DEPT: $10,000 · OtherBROOKE COUNTY HEALTH DEPT: $10,000 · OtherJEFFERSON COUNTY GENERAL HEALTH DIS: $9,915 · OtherTHE SOUP KITCHEN OF GREATER WHEELING INC: $8,000 · OtherINFORMATION HELPLINE - UPPER OHIO VALLEY INC: $7,500 · OtherMARSHALL COUNTY HEALTH DEPT: $6,926 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $5,125 · OtherWHEELING HEALTH RIGHT INC: $46,000 · HealthWEST VIRGINIA LOCAL HEALTH INC: $20,000 · HealthNAMI OF GREATER WHEELING INC: $13,600 · HealthYOUTH SERVICES SYSTEM INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WHEELING WV: $21,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL CHURCH RESIDENCES: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterORCHARD PARK RESOURCES INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterCHANGE INC: $10,000 · EmploymentTHE LINSLY SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $10,000 · EducationOGLEBAY INSTITUTE: $7,500 · Environment
Philanthropy$1,929,326Other$85,425Health$79,600Human Services$51,000Housing & Shelter$35,000Employment$10,000Education$10,000Environment$7,500

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 budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE OHIO VALLEY INC: $1,929,326 over 4y, 22% of budgetWHEELING HEALTH RIGHT INC: $46,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetYOUTH SERVICES SYSTEM INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL CHURCH RESIDENCES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WHEELING WV: $21,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA LOCAL HEALTH INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetWEST LIBERTY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $17,959 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNAMI OF GREATER WHEELING INC: $13,600 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetORCHARD PARK RESOURCES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetCHANGE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LINSLY SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SOUP KITCHEN OF GREATER WHEELING INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetINFORMATION HELPLINE - UPPER OHIO VALLEY INC: $7,500 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetOGLEBAY INSTITUTE: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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.

Raymond A & Gertrude …Albert Schenk III & K…Community Foundation …Rosemary M Front Char…Stamp 2001 Charitable…Francis J and Edith J…The Banford & Terri E…Hess Family FoundationVna Home Support Serv…Widows Mite FundAugust J & Thelma S H…Claude Worthington Be…
Raymond A & Gertrude D Hyer FoundationWV20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Health Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from River Valley Health Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to River Valley Health Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to River Valley Health Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 20 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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