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Roy and Gwen Steeley Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$2.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
84
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$168k
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.

Education$10.0MPhilanthropy$3.0MHuman Services$1.2MHealth$1.0MYouth Development$866kCommunity Improvement$665kHousing & Shelter$499kEmployment$197kOther$0
02FY2025 · 84 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k37 grants · $128k
  • $10k–50k28 grants · $610k
  • $50k–250k19 grants · $1.8M
$13,999
Median grant
5
States reached
$54M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATIO$100,000
UNITED WAY OF THE EASTERN PANHANDLE INC$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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TELAMON CORPORATION: $116k → 8%WOUNDED WARRIOR CENTER INC: $500 → 15%WEST VIRGINIA COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS INC: $152k → 15%TRUCKIN 4 TROOPS: $100 → 6%COMFORT CASES INC: $500 → 8%TELAMON CORPORATION: $61k → 8%WEST VIRGINIA COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS INC: $152k → 15%OPPOSING ABUSE WITH SERVICE INFORMATION AND SHELTE: $150 → 21%WEST VIRGINIA COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS INC: $112k → 15%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $500 → 14%WEST VIRGINIA COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS INC: $40k → 15%WEST VIRGINIA COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS INC: $40k → 15%MORGAN COUNTY STARTING POINTS INC: $45k → 16%LIBERA INC: $150k → 19%LIBERA INC: $114k → 19%LIBERA INC: $50k → 19%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

ND
NY
CA
WV
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
LA
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of Roy and Gwen Steeley Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Roy and Gwen Steeley Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$16M · 114 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

114
79

Total granted

$16M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+8%

Still filing today

24%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $224k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHuman ServicesEducationHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • MC
    MORGAN COUNTY PARTNERSHIP INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +285% · 58% of their budget
  • BR
    BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +20% · 74% of their budget
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF THE EASTERN PANHANDLE
    7× · 2019–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +79% · 30% of their budget

Funded once

  • BB
    Battle Buddy Response Team Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $198k · revenue -68%
  • TC
    TELAMON CORPORATION
    one grant, 2024 · $177k · revenue -10%
  • EW
    EASTERN WEST VIRGINIA COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLL
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
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
Western Carolina Rescue Ministries Inc

Provide food, shelter, rehabilitation and christian ministry to the poor and homeless

Housing & Shelter
2
Washington Humane Society

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…

Animals
3
Tug Valley Recovery Shelter Associationinc

Shelter service for abused women and children in mingo and logan counties in west virginia.

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4
Marshall County Animal Rescue League

To provide betterment for animals in marshall county, west virginia, through the operations of an animal shelter and a low cost spay/neuter clinic.

Animals
5
Mountain View Humane

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.

Animals
6
Animal Friends of North Central Wv

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.

Animals
7
The Washington County Humane Society Inc

Rescue and care for stray or unwanted animals.

Animals
8
Animal Shelter of Wood River Valley Dba Mountain Humane

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…

Animals
9
Wenatchee Valley Humane Society Inc

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…

Animals
10
Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Inc

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,…

Animals
11
Wolf Trap Animal Rescue

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…

Animals
12
Paws Rescue

To provide food, shelter and veterinary services to animals

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The West Virginia Humanities Council Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

72 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

8
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
71/72
Grantees still filing
46/72
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BERKELEY COUNTY SCHOOLS: $1,246,024 · OtherBERKELEY COUNTY SCHOOLSMORGAN COUNTY SCHOOLS: $544,610 · OtherMORGAN COUNTY SCHOOLSTHE EDUCATION ALLIANCE-BUSINESS AND COMMUNITY FOR: $426,719 · OtherEASTERN PANHANDLE REGIONAL PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT: $402,083 · OtherTHE MARTINSBURG ROCK SCHOOL: $376,500 · OtherHOSPICE OF THE PANHANDLE INC: $281,563 · OtherMARTINSBURG SUNRISE ROTARY FOUNDATION: $293,233 · Other+160 more: $4,630,767 · Other+160 moreUNITED WAY OF THE EASTERN PANHANDLE: $1,295,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE E…PHILANTHROPY WEST VIRGINIA INC: $921,800 · PhilanthropyPHILANTHROPY WEST V…EASTERN WEST VIRGINIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $485,000 · PhilanthropyEASTERN WEST VIRGIN…HINTON AREA FOUNDATION INC: $290,000 · PhilanthropyHINTON AREA FOUNDAT…+2 more: $26,000 · PhilanthropyBLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $1,351,688 · EducationBLUE RIDGE …WHEELING COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $374,900 · EducationWHEELING CO…+4 more: $80,500 · EducationMORGAN COUNTY PARTNERSHIP INC: $1,585,483 · Crime & LegalMORGAN COU…+1 more: $500 · Crime & LegalWEST VIRGINIA COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS INC: $497,350 · Human ServicesWEST VIRG…THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA INC: $406,250 · Human ServicesTHE CHILD…Libera Inc: $314,000 · Human ServicesLibera In…TELAMON CORPORATION: $177,212 · Human ServicesTELAMON C…+5 more: $47,000 · Human ServicesLEARY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $400,000 · HealthTHE MARTINSBURG INITIATIVE INC: $330,000 · HealthBattle Buddy Response Team Inc: $198,300 · Health+2 more: $11,130 · HealthSTARS THAT SHINE: $591,283 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE EASTERN PANHANDLE INC: $260,100 · Youth Development+3 more: $13,100 · Youth Development
Other$8,201,499Philanthropy$3,017,800Education$1,807,088Crime & Legal$1,585,983Human Services$1,441,812Health$939,430Youth Development$864,483

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%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMORGAN COUNTY PARTNERSHIP INC: $1,585,483 over 7y, 58% of budgetBLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $1,351,688 over 8y, 74% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE EASTERN PANHANDLE: $1,295,000 over 7y, 30% of budgetPHILANTHROPY WEST VIRGINIA INC: $921,800 over 8y, 40% of budgetSTARS THAT SHINE: $591,283 over 5y, 94% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS INC: $497,350 over 4y, 6.1% of budgetEASTERN WEST VIRGINIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $485,000 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA INC: $406,250 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetLEARY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $400,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetTHE MARTINSBURG ROCK SCHOOL: $376,500 over 6y, 87% of budgetWHEELING COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $374,900 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetTHE MARTINSBURG INITIATIVE INC: $330,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetLibera Inc: $314,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetMARTINSBURG SUNRISE ROTARY FOUNDATION: $293,233 over 5y, 69% of budgetHINTON AREA FOUNDATION INC: $290,000 over 6y, 15% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE PANHANDLE INC: $281,563 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE EASTERN PANHANDLE INC: $260,100 over 3y, 24% of budgetTELAMON CORPORATION: $177,212 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJEFFERSON COUNTY COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $83,150 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetMARSHALL UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION: $79,286 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMRB FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetMORGAN COUNTY STARTING POINTS INC: $45,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE APPALACHIAN READING CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetUnited Cajun Navy: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCAMP EZRI: $10,800 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetMILAN PUSKAR HEALTH RIGHT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAIRBORNE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY: $3,175 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetWESTERN MARYLAND SCENIC RAILROAD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN OF THE TREASURE COAST INCORPORATED: $1,800 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,130 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBerkeley County Humane Society: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINDEPENDENT FIRE COMPANY NO1 INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFARM RESCUE: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWATAUGA HUMANE SOCIETY: $700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD FIND OF AMERICA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF JEFFERSON COUNTY INC: $500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOMFORT CASES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHENANDOAH WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN INTERNATIONAL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA REASON TO BELIEVE ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR CENTER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAKE NORMAN HUMANE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN DOORS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 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 ↗

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.

Eastern West Virginia…United Way of the Eas…Rotary Club of Charle…Bowles Rice FoundationClaude Worthington Be…West Virginia Univers…Truist Foundation IncEncova Foundation of …Highmark FoundationThe Greater Kanawha V…Firstenergy FoundationFirst United Communit…
Eastern West Virginia Community FoundationWV34.3× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Roy and Gwen Steeley Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Roy and Gwen Steeley Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Comfort Cases Inc: 0% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 216 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-PF 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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