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Spartan Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $167k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $820k
- $250k+1 grant · $360k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLEVELAND CLINIC | $360,000 |
| YMCA OF PARKERSBURG WV | $170,196 |
| Parkersburg Area Comm Foundation | $120,709 |
| WVU FOUNDATION | $110,000 |
| Memorial Health Foundation | $104,000 |
| Marietta College | $101,731 |
| CAMDEN CLARK MEDICAL CENTER | $100,000 |
| Uniontown Public Library | $63,578 |
| THE HILL SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| USGA | $25,000 |
| WEST VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| GREATER KANAWHA VALLEY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| ELY CHAPMAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| MARIETTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $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 (FY21–24, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
30 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 6 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k 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
- WVWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC5× · 2019–2025 · $865k · revenue +8%
- MCMarietta College7× · 2019–2025 · $666k · revenue +28%
- MHMARIETTA HEALTH FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2025 · $380k · revenue +111%
Funded once
- YYMCAone grant, 2022 · $252k
- COCity of Vienna Parks and Recreationone grant, 2022 · $250k
- BGBoys Girls Club of Parkersburgone grant, 2022 · $250k
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.
Waynesburg university educates students to make connections between faith, learning and serving so they might faithfully transofrm their communiities and the world. see continuation on schedule o.as a christian comprehensive university, we…
Enhance the patient and family experience at upper valley medical center by raising community support for programs and services which help build healthy communities.
The mission of the organization is to provide physicians and other healthcare professionals to support the needs of the community, as well as the academic mission of the vcu school of medicine.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
To support and foster vcu health and vcu health sciences through philanthropy, stewardship, innovation, communication, and collaboration.
The missouri western state university foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organization that functions solely to support the mission of missouri western state university, as stated in the university's mission statement. the foundation…
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
To promote, encourage, and assist in the development and growth of west virginia university at parkersburg and to render services to its faculty, students, and alumni, and to the citizens of west virginia.
Park university's mission is to transform lives through accessible, student-centered, quality higher education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Virginia University Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Vienna. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 60 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 68 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 WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Marietta College ↗
- Who funds MARIETTA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PAKERSBURG WEST VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE MOV INC ↗
- Who funds MARIETTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARTSBRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds Camden-Clark Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY ALLIANCE OF THE MID-OHIO VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Ely Chapman Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds Jupiter Medical Center Foundation 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: Parkersburg Area Community Foundation Inc (Previously Pacf Inc) · Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc · Peoples Bank Foundation · Sisters of St Joseph Charitable Fund Inc · The Ross Foundation Inc · Deitzler Foundation Inc · The Virginia L Neptune Charitable Foundation · Bowles Rice Foundation · Marietta Community Foundation Inc · Oakland Foundation Inc · Camden-Clark Memorial Hospital Corporation · United Way Alliance of the Mid-Ohio Valley 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 Spartan 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.
- Jupiter Medical Center Inc — 2% of income from government
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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