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SLW 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.

$130k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$265kEnvironment$105kHuman Services$90kFood & Nutrition$60kAnimals$55kPhilanthropy$35kRecreation & Sports$5k
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $115k
$15,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA$20,000
CHILDHOOD LANGUAGE DISORDERS CENTER$15,000
KANAWHA HOSPICE CARE$15,000
CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA$15,000
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK$15,000
WEST VIRGINIA HEALTH RIGHT$15,000
HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY$10,000
NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC$10,000
NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER$5,000
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL WV$5,000
NAPLES THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC$5,000
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 (FY24–25, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA: $15k → 18%KANAWHA HOSPICE CARE: $15k → 18%KANAWHA HOSPICE CARE: $15k → 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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$585k · 10 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
1

Total granted

$585k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+40%

Still filing today

80%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
HealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentAnimalsRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $90k · revenue +3%
  • TG
    THE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA
    4× · 2022–2025 · $60k · revenue +59%
  • MM
    MANNA MEAL INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $60k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • CW
    COROLLA WILD HORSE FUND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +40%
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
The California Wildlife Center

The california wildlife center (cwc) takes responsibility for the protection of all native wildlife through rehabilitiation, education and conservation. as the los angeles area's premier wildlife medical care and rehabilitation facility,…

Health
2
Wildearth Guardians

Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.

Unclassified
3
Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health
4
Cowiche Canyon Conservancy

Protecting our shrub-steppe and connecting people to this vanishing landscape.

—
5
Center for Natural Lands Management

The mission of the center for natural lands management is (a) to conserve native species, their habitat and functioning ecosystems in perpetuity, (b) to own and/or manage lands in an ecologically beneficial manner consistent with local,…

Environment
6
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
7
Animal Care Sanctuary

Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…

Animals
8
Worldwide Vets Incorporated

Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…

Animals
9
West Shore Wildlife Center

To inspire coexistence between humans and wildlife.

Animals
10
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
11
National Comprehensive Cancer Network

To define and advance quality, effective, equitable, and accessible cancer care and prevention so all people can live better lives.

Health
12
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Naples Botanical Garden Inc; the most unlike its peers is Manna Meal Inc. 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

12 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. 12 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WEST VIRGINIA HEALTH RIGHT INC: $70,000 · OtherWEST VIRGINIA HEALTH RIGHT INCMANNA MEAL INC: $60,000 · OtherMANNA MEAL INCKANAWHA HOSPICE HOUSE: $60,000 · OtherKANAWHA HOSPICE HOUSEUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL WV: $30,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL WVHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY: $10,000 · Other+1 more: $5,000 · OtherTHE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA INC: $90,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S HOME SO…KANAWHA HOSPICE CARE INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesKANAWHA HOSPICE CARE I…THE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA: $60,000 · EnvironmentTHE GARDEN CLUB OF …NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $45,000 · EnvironmentNAPLES BOTANICAL GA…CHILDHOOD LANGUAGE DISORDERS CENTER INC: $90,000 · HealthCHILDHOOD LANGUAG…Naples Therapeutic Riding Center Inc: $5,000 · HealthWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $50,000 · AnimalsWILDLIFE C…COROLLA WILD HORSE FUND INC: $5,000 · AnimalsCOROLLA WI…NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$235,000Human Services$120,000Environment$105,000Health$95,000Animals$55,000Recreation & Sports$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHILDHOOD LANGUAGE DISORDERS CENTER INC: $90,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA INC: $90,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA HEALTH RIGHT INC: $70,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA: $60,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMANNA MEAL INC: $60,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $45,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetKANAWHA HOSPICE CARE INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOROLLA WILD HORSE FUND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL ABILITY CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Tgkvf IncWV13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tgkvf Inc · The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Naples Botanical Garden Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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

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How do I get to SLW Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to SLW Foundation Inc 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 15 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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