· Private foundation
Skewes Family 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k27 grants · $91k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $111k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILD ABUSE REPORTING AND ENFORCEMT | $80,000 |
| MISSION DENTAL OF VIRGINIA INC | $25,500 |
| BIG CREEK PEOPLE IN ACTION INC | $20,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PIEDMON | $15,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY PRINCETON CORPS | $10,000 |
| WEST VIRGINIA HEALTH RIGHT | $10,000 |
| ITMAN FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| STOP ABUSIVE FAMILY ENVIROMENTS INC | $10,000 |
| FIVE LOAVES TWO FISHES FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| JCS MINISTRIES INC | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,000 |
| GRAYHOUND YOUTH SPORTS INC | $5,000 |
| SAFE HAVENS FURBABIES SANCTUARY | $5,000 |
| CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN ACTION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
56 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 40 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, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k 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
- MDMISSION DENTAL VIRGINIA INC3× · 2023–2025 · $203k · revenue +100%
- BCBIG CREEK PEOPLE IN ACTION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $115k · revenue +63%
- STSTOP THE HURT INC3× · 2017–2022 · $60k · revenue +77%
Funded once
- CACHILD ABUSE REPORTING AND ENFORCEMEone grant, 2024 · $50k
- BWBLUEFIELD WV CHAMPIONSHIP FOOTBALL GAMESone grant, 2023 · $30k
- BABLUEFIELD ARTS AND REVITALIZATION CORPORATIONone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -45%
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 provide volunteer fire, rescue and ambulance service to the mountain area of jefferson county, wv and surrounding areas.
Eastern West Virginia Community Action Agency serves the disadvantaged people by determining their needs; advocating for and providing programs that help remove them from the causes of poverty.
To provide volunteer fire, rescue and ambulance services to the residents of the counties of jefferson and berkeley, wv.
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
Provide comprehensive primary medical care to the communites served.
Provision of primary and preventive care services to the rural population of wirt, jackson, and wood counties in west virginia and the surrounding areas.
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.
To provide primary medical care service in a rural community.
None
Animal welfare
Fire and rescue services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Virginia Health Right Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mountain Acres Properties Inc. 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 18 years old; the field is 23. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 150 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 MISSION DENTAL VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds CITY OF MULLENS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG CREEK PEOPLE IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds STOP THE HURT INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds BLUEFIELD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC CRAB ORCHARD MUSEUM & PIONEER PARK INC ↗
- Who funds BEYOND WISHES THERAPEUTIC RIDING PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds ANAWALT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC ↗
- Who funds BLUEFIELD ARTS AND REVITALIZATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ITMANN FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of the Piedmont Inc ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY HEALTH CLINIC ↗
- Who funds BLACKBERRY WINTER INC ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Mountain Acres Properties Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC POCAHONTAS 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: Hugh I Shott Jr Foundation Inc · K B Tierney Charitable Foundation Trust · Thompson Charitable Foundation · Beckley Area Foundation Inc · American Electric Power Foundation · Community Foundation of the Virginias Inc · United Way of Southern Wv Inc · West Virginia First Foundation Inc · The Stelio and Betty Tracy Corte Charitable Foundation · Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc · Pallottine Foundation of Huntington West Virginia · Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation
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 Skewes Family 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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