· Private foundation
The 1912 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 · $47k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $62k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $22,500 |
| BLUEFIELD UNION MISSION | $15,000 |
| BLUEFIELD UNIVERSITY | $14,000 |
| Bluefield Arts & Revitalization Corp | $10,000 |
| Adult & Teen Challenge | $6,000 |
| WADE CENTER | $6,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS SE WEST VIRGINIA | $5,000 |
| CONCORD UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WV | $3,000 |
| MERCER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| PLAN INTERNATIONAL USA | $2,500 |
| Read Aloud West Virginia Inc | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,800 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of your 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.
21 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 4 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- BUBLUEFIELD UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2025 · $42k · revenue +5%
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $13k · revenue +3%
- CTCHARLES T CHUCK MATHENA II co RICHARD L DAVIS6× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +77%
Funded once
- ATAPPALACHIAN TEEN CHALLENGE INCone grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +18%
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.
Provide social services to a nine-county area of central kentucky.
Community health center
To provide information, counseling, and such services as may be appropriate to families or others in raising and nuturing children.
To provide families in western kentucky with education, advocacy and treatment that prevents child abuse, encourages family stability, promotes healthy relationships, enhances well-being and cultivates safe, nurturing families.
Chip of virginia administers and monitors a network of 7 agencies in 27 virginia localities who work with low-income families to assure that children from birth to age 6 receive the health care necessary for them to lead healthy lives,…
Healthfirst provides outpatient primary healthcare, behavioral health and dental services to the underserved and uninsured residents of fayette county and surrounding counties in kentucky.
Blanchard valley residential services, inc. is dedicated to encouraging individuals with disabilities to reach their greatest potential while supporting quality, meaningful life choices and opportunities through person center approach in…
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
Administers grants and contracts to help the lives of those individuals who fall below the poverty level.
Blue valley behavioral health exists to provide quality behavioral health services to people of all ages within our communities, that promotes healthy and productive lives.
Valley healthcare system shall improve our community's health by delivering the highest quality behavioral healthcare guided by our consumer's needs.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bluefield Union Mission Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 26 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 BLUEFIELD UNION MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds BLUEFIELD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BLUEFIELD ARTS AND REVITALIZATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MERCER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PLAN INTERNATIONAL USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN TEEN CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLES T CHUCK MATHENA II co RICHARD L DAVIS ↗
- Who funds MERCER COUNTY OPPORTUNITY INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE VIRGINIAS INC ↗
- Who funds READ ALOUD WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds CLINCH VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION 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: K B Tierney Charitable Foundation Trust · The Stelio and Betty Tracy Corte Charitable Foundation · The Pace Family Foundation Inc · Preservati Family Char Tr Fdn · The H P and Anne S Hunnicutt Foundation · Celanese Foundation · Jam Family Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 The 1912 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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