· Private foundation
Seneca Trail Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $75k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $422k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $138k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| GREENBRIER RIVER TRAIL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| WELLSPRING | $25,000 |
| SHEPHERDS CENTER GBR VALLEY | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS | $23,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $23,000 |
| WESTERN GREENBRIER LITTLE LEAGUE | $16,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
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 (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. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +9% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $343k 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
- GVGREENBRIER VALLEY AQUATIC CENTER3× · 2020–2024 · $370k · revenue +77%
- GCGREENBRIER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY4× · 2020–2025 · $120k · revenue +36%
- FRFAMILY REFUGE CENTER INC4× · 2020–2025 · $52k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- WAWVSOM ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2021 · $100k
- WGWESTERN GREENBRIER MIDDLE SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $91k
- SFSTATE FAIR OF WVone grant, 2022 · $58k
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.
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…
To ensure the safety and wellbeing of Greenbrier Valley citizens in all phases of disaster.
Providing public fire protection and emergency rescue services.
Fire and rescue services
Fire protection for the City of Lewisburg, WV and surrounding areas
To provide volunteer fire, rescue & emergency services to the community of reader wv.
To provide fire protection to the citizens of Buckingham County. We also respond to automobile accidents as well as other request for assistance.
Local volunteer fire department providing fire protection and rescue services to the citizens of romney wv and surrounding areas.
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.
Operation of a volunteer fire department.
To act as the economic development arm of the gcra by bringing economic opportunity to disadvantaged areas of greenville county.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greenbrier Historical Society Inc and 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.
Your grantees are a median of 19 years old; the field is 20. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 15% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 98 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 GREENBRIER VALLEY AQUATIC CENTER ↗
- Who funds RENICK COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GREENBRIER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FAMILY REFUGE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Greenbrier Community School Inc ↗
- Who funds Gods Way Home 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 ↗
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: 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
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 Seneca Trail Charitable 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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