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Seneca Trail Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$635k
Granted FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$88k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$1.0MHuman Services$494kEducation$399kHousing & Shelter$171kEnvironment$153kAnimals$120kFood & Nutrition$103kPublic Safety & Disaster$97kOther$0
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $75k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $422k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $138k
$11,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$9.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WESTERN GREENBRIER YOUTH BASEBALL$87,500
GREENBRIER HUMANE SOCIETY$50,000
RAIC$42,000
RONCEVERTE LIONS CLUB$37,083
ORGAN CAVE COMMUNITY CTY$35,316
GREENBRIER HISTORICAL SOCIETY$35,000
RENICK COMMUNITY CENTER$32,600
Individual grant recipient$25,000
WELLSPRING$25,000
SHEPHERDS CENTER GBR VALLEY$25,000
GREENBRIER RIVER TRAIL FOUNDATION$25,000
Individual grant recipient$23,000
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS$23,000
WESTERN GREENBRIER LITTLE LEAGUE$16,500
Individual grant recipient$15,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $292k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 23%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 23%MARVEL CENTER: $19k → 18%MARVEL CENTER: $5k → 18%WV HELPING HANDS: $20k → 18%WV HELPING HANDS: $10k → 18%RENICK COMMUNITY CENTER: $33k → 18%RENICK COMMUNITY CENTER: $105k → 18%SHEPHERDS CENTER OF GBR VALLEY: $20k → 18%SHEPHERDS CENTER OF GBR VALLEY: $20k → 18%FAMILY REFUGE CENTER: $15k → 18%FAMILY REFUGE CENTER: $15k → 18%FAMILY REFUGE CENTER: $12k → 18%FAMILY REFUGE CENTER: $10k → 18%PENNY PITCH: $5k → 18%PENNY PITCH: $2k → 18%PENNY PITCH: $1k → 18%PENNY PITCH: $750 → 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.
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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 33 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +9% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

33 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
44

Total granted

$1.7M
$818k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
0%

Still filing today

33%
18%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $343k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesRecreation & SportsAnimalsEmploymentPublic Safety & DisasterMembership BenefitOther
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

  • GV
    GREENBRIER VALLEY AQUATIC CENTER
    3× · 2020–2024 · $370k · revenue +77%
  • GC
    GREENBRIER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY
    4× · 2020–2025 · $120k · revenue +36%
  • FR
    FAMILY REFUGE CENTER INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $52k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • WA
    WVSOM ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • WG
    WESTERN GREENBRIER MIDDLE SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $91k
  • SF
    STATE FAIR OF WV
    one grant, 2022 · $58k
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
Greenbrier Valley Restoration Project Inc

Gvrp, inc. is an entity focused on watershed protection and sustainable community development. gvrp is concentrating its initial efforts in two areas: public fundraising and development of a community center and charitable open space in…

Environment
2
Greater Greenbrier Long-Term Recovery Committee

To ensure the safety and wellbeing of Greenbrier Valley citizens in all phases of disaster.

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3
Grandview Volunteer Fire Dept Inc

Providing public fire protection and emergency rescue services.

—
4
Greenwood Volunteer Fire Department

Fire and rescue services

Public Safety & Disaster
5
Lewisburg Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Fire protection for the City of Lewisburg, WV and surrounding areas

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6
Reader Volunteer Fire Department Inc

To provide volunteer fire, rescue & emergency services to the community of reader wv.

Public Safety & Disaster
7
Glenmore Volunteer Fire Company

To provide fire protection to the citizens of Buckingham County. We also respond to automobile accidents as well as other request for assistance.

Public Safety & Disaster
8
The Greater Greenbrier Valley
Philanthropy
9
Romney Volunteer Fire Company

Local volunteer fire department providing fire protection and rescue services to the citizens of romney wv and surrounding areas.

Public Safety & Disaster
10
Greenbrier County Committee On Aging Inc

The organization operates a senior citizen's center in greenbrier county west virgnia. senior citizens are provided with transportation, nutrition, in-home care and other personal and social services.

Human Services
11
Green Valley Volunteer Fire Department

Operation of a volunteer fire department.

Public Safety & Disaster
12
Greenville Revitalization Corp

To act as the economic development arm of the gcra by bringing economic opportunity to disadvantaged areas of greenville county.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greenbrier Historical Society Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wv Helping Hands. 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

23 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. 23 of the 98 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/23
Grantees still filing
12/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GREENBRIER VALLEY AQUATIC CENTER: $370,000 · OtherGREENBRIER VALLEY AQUATIC CENTERIndividual grant recipient: $120,000 · OtherWVSOM ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $100,000 · OtherWESTERN GREENBRIER MIDDLE SCHOOL: $90,800 · OtherWELLSPRING: $90,000 · OtherWESTERN GREENBRIER YOUTH BASEBALL: $87,500 · Other+80 more: $1,396,475 · Other+80 moreRENICK COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $137,600 · Human ServicesRENICK COMM…FAMILY REFUGE CENTER INC: $52,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY REFU…SHEPHERDS CENTER OF THE GREENBRIER VALLEY: $40,000 · Human ServicesSHEPHERDS C…WV HELPING HANDS: $30,000 · Human ServicesWV HELPING …MARVEL CENTER INC: $23,500 · Human ServicesMARVEL CENT…+1 more: $8,750 · Human ServicesGREENBRIER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $120,000 · AnimalsGREENBRIER YOUTH CAMP: $35,000 · Recreation & SportsCENTRAL GREENBRIER LITTLE LEAGUE: $26,800 · Recreation & SportsGods Way Home Inc: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterGreenbrier Community School Inc: $50,000 · EducationGATEWAY INDUSTRIES INC: $48,849 · Employment
Other$2,254,775Human Services$291,850Animals$120,000Recreation & Sports$61,800Housing & Shelter$50,000Education$50,000Employment$48,849

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGREENBRIER VALLEY AQUATIC CENTER: $370,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetRENICK COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $137,600 over 2y, 79% of budgetGREENBRIER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $120,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetFAMILY REFUGE CENTER INC: $52,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetGods Way Home Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetGreenbrier Community School Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetGATEWAY INDUSTRIES INC: $48,849 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetSHEPHERDS CENTER OF THE GREENBRIER VALLEY: $40,000 over 2y, 9.9% of budgetGREENBRIER YOUTH CAMP: $35,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetWV HELPING HANDS: $30,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetMARVEL CENTER INC: $23,500 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetCARNEGIE HALL INC: $19,655 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetWV VOLUNTARY ORGANIZATIONS ACTIVE IN DISASTER INC: $18,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRosewood Cemetery Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 49% of budgetRonceverte Volunteer Fire Department INC: $15,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetRONCEVERTE RIVER FESTIVAL INC: $9,500 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetPENNY PITCH: $8,750 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetLewisburg Foundation Incorporated: $3,000 over 2y, 1.9% 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 GREENBRIER VALLEY AQUATIC CENTER ↗
  • Who funds RENICK COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds GREENBRIER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY REFUGE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Gods Way Home Inc ↗
  • Who funds Greenbrier Community School Inc ↗
  • Who funds GATEWAY INDUSTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds SHEPHERDS CENTER OF THE GREENBRIER VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds GREENBRIER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds GREENBRIER YOUTH CAMP ↗
  • Who funds WV HELPING HANDS ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL GREENBRIER LITTLE LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds MARVEL CENTER INC ↗

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.

Hollowell Dawkins Fou…The Greater Kanawha V…The Jeanne G Hamilton…Mary B Nickell Founda…Marie Leist Foundatio…The Daywood Foundatio…United Way of the Gre…Tgkvf IncPeoples Bank Foundati…Robertson Family Foun…Darrell K Cales TrustCartledge Charitable …
Hollowell Dawkins Foundation IncWV43.3× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hollowell Dawkins Foundation Inc · The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation · The Jeanne G Hamilton and Lawson W Hamilton Jr Family Foundation Inc · Mary B Nickell Foundation Inc · Marie Leist Foundation Inc · The Daywood Foundationinc · United Way of the Greenbrier Valley Inc · Tgkvf Inc · Peoples Bank Foundation · Robertson Family Foundation Inc · Darrell K Cales Trust · Cartledge Charitable 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 Seneca Trail Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Seneca Trail Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Seneca Trail Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Seneca Trail Charitable 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 98 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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