· Private foundation
Roy and Gwen Steeley Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k37 grants · $128k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $610k
- $50k–250k19 grants · $1.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MORGAN COUNTY SCHOOLS | $167,810 |
| WHEELING COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $150,000 |
| MARTINSBURG INITIATIVE INC | $125,000 |
| BERKELEY COUNTY SCHOOLS | $119,646 |
| LIBERA INC | $114,000 |
| STARS THAT SHINE | $110,000 |
| MORGAN COUNTY SCHOOLS | $105,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE EASTERN PANHANDLE INC | $100,000 |
| BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATIO | $100,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE EASTERN PANHANDLE INC | $100,000 |
| EASTERN PANHANDLE REGIONAL PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT | $95,000 |
| BERKELEY COUNTY SCHOOLS | $85,225 |
| JEFFERSON COUNTY COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INCORPORATED | $80,000 |
| MARSHALL UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION | $79,286 |
| MARTINSBURG INITIATIVE INC | $70,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Roy and Gwen Steeley Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +34% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
114 repeat relationships — 49 still active in FY2025, 65 since wound down; 20 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $224k 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
- MCMORGAN COUNTY PARTNERSHIP INC7× · 2019–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +384% · 58% of their budget
- BRBLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC8× · 2018–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +20% · 74% of their budget
- UWUNITED WAY OF THE EASTERN PANHANDLE7× · 2019–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +79% · 30% of their budget
Funded once
- BBBattle Buddy Response Team Incone grant, 2022 · $198k · revenue -68%
- TCTELAMON CORPORATIONone grant, 2024 · $177k · revenue -10%
- EWEASTERN WEST VIRGINIA COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLone grant, 2022 · $100k
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.
Provide food, shelter, rehabilitation and christian ministry to the poor and homeless
The washington humane society protects animals, supports families, and advocates for positive change to create a world where all animals can thrive. we enrich the humanity of our communities by promoting compassion and encouraging people…
Shelter service for abused women and children in mingo and logan counties in west virginia.
To provide betterment for animals in marshall county, west virginia, through the operations of an animal shelter and a low cost spay/neuter clinic.
The mission of mountain view humane is to end pet overpopulation in southwest virginia and southern west virginia by providing safe, affordable spay/neuter services and vaccine clinics for the community.
Prevention of cruelty to animals through advocacy and community in need. reduction and eventual elimination of the killing of cats and dogs by actively promoting.
Rescue and care for stray or unwanted animals.
We are on a mission to change lives by connecting pets and people. We dothis through innovative programs that inspire and have impact beyond ourborders. We envision a compassionate community where all animals arerecognized for their…
The mission of wvhs is to serve the community through education, protection and pet adoptions. we continue our mission by taking care of displaced pets, rescuing injured and lost animals, providing spay/neuter programs, investigating…
Dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation, and release of orphaned, injured and displaced wildlife. wildlife rescue rescues and cares for all wildlife, including native and nonnative species believing all animals are deserving of care,…
Wolf trap animal rescue is a northern virginia based animal rescue group/foster program developed or the corinth-alcorn animal shelter in corinth, mississippi. the wolf trap animal rescue serves as a foster program for the animals in…
To provide food, shelter and veterinary services to animals
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The West Virginia Humanities Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tony M Music and Arts Foundation in. 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 25 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
72 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. 72 of the 216 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 MORGAN COUNTY PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE EASTERN PANHANDLE ↗
- Who funds PHILANTHROPY WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds STARS THAT SHINE ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS INC ↗
- Who funds EASTERN WEST VIRGINIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds LEARY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARTINSBURG ROCK SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WHEELING COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE MARTINSBURG INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Libera Inc ↗
- Who funds MARTINSBURG SUNRISE ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HINTON AREA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE PANHANDLE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE EASTERN PANHANDLE INC ↗
- Who funds Battle Buddy Response Team Inc ↗
- Who funds TELAMON CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON COUNTY COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MARSHALL UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION ↗
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: Eastern West Virginia Community Foundation · United Way of the Eastern Panhandle · Rotary Club of Charles Town Charitable Foundation · Bowles Rice Foundation · Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation · West Virginia University Hospitals - East Inc · Truist Foundation Inc · Encova Foundation of West Virginia · Highmark Foundation · The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · First United Community Dreams Foundation Inc
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 Roy and Gwen Steeley Foundation 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.
- Comfort Cases Inc — 0% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
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.