· Public charity
Shepherd University Foundation Inc
Provide scholarships and awards for students attending shepherd university, shepherdstown, wv and provide assistance and support for faculty, facilities and programs of the university.
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
- $10k–50k8 grants · $228k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHEPHERD UNIVERSITY | $1,071,036 |
| RUTH SCARBOROUGH LIBRARY | $36,250 |
| CAMP FRAME | $36,250 |
| CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WV | $36,250 |
| SHEPHERD UNIVERSITY TABLER FARM | $36,250 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $26,750 |
| COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES | $26,750 |
| CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN THEATER | $15,650 |
| LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF THE | $14,082 |
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 (FY21–25, $117k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 75% 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.
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 +52% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $87k 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
- CACONTEMPORARY AMERICAN THEATER FESTIVAL4× · 2022–2025 · $60k · revenue ×18
- EAEASTERN AREA HEALTH EDUCATION3× · 2021–2023 · $50k · revenue +52%
- COCASA OF THE EASTERN PANHANDLE INC2× · 2019–2025 · $41k · revenue +194%
Funded once
- JCJEFFERSON COUNTY COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $36k · revenue +29%
- SCSHENANDOAH COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $31k · revenue ×5,581
- SLSEMPER LIBERI INCORPORATEDgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $31k · revenue +132% · 31% of their budget
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.
To promote health and wellness within the community by providing a medical home to reduce barriers to care and ensure access to a full range of coordinated health care and wellness services.
Provide comprehensive primary medical care to the communites served.
Provide homemaker and case management services to home-bound seniors and disabled members in west virginia. provide, also, training and job assistance to those 55 and older on a limited income.
The mission of ccwv is to help our communities live the healthiest lives possible by meeting their immediate and long-term healthcare needs. this mission is accomplished by providing high quality, accessible, comprehensive, culturally…
The good shepherd community clinic, inc. exists so that the working poor and others who lack healthcare access receive quality care and improved health outcomes.
Establish, conduct, implement, operate, coordinate and finance programs for the benefit of the low-income, minority, elderly, disadvantaged and handicapped citizens of wayne county, wv
The mission of the community clinic of southwest missouri is to improve the health of people in our community without access to medical, dental, or mental health care.
Improving the health of our patients and communities by delivering exceptional care, removing barriers, and promoting healthy lifestyles.
Communityworks in west virignia (cwwv) creates housing and community development solutions for all west virginians through a network of member organizations. cwwv carries out its mission by providing effective training and technical…
To provide supportive services for senior adults, terminally ill patients and their familes who reside in chesterfield county.
To promote the well-being and dignity of older adults.
To provide quality free medical care for the uninsured.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities West Virginia Inc and the most unlike its peers is Good Samaritan Free Clinic Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 19 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 SHEPHERDSTOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN THEATER FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds EASTERN AREA HEALTH EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds CASA OF THE EASTERN PANHANDLE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE EASTERN PANHANDLE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY NETWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON COUNTY COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SHENANDOAH COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BERKELEY COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds SEMPER LIBERI INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds A FARM LESS ORDINARY ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds BERKELEY COUNTY COMMITTEE ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN OF THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY ↗
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 · Bowles Rice Foundation · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Truist West Virginia Foundation Inc · Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Shepherd University 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.
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.