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The Antero Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
112
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2024.

Health$891kHuman Services$664kFood & Nutrition$315kEducation$278kYouth Development$219kPhilanthropy$185kPublic Safety & Disaster$171kReligion$159kOther$0
02FY2024 · 112 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k66 grants · $259k
  • $10k–50k44 grants · $826k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $152k
$5,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$833k
Total assets

Anchored by a single position: about 92% of reported assets are held in Amc Series A Preferred Stock.

Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF HARRISON COUNTY INC$100,000
MOUNTAINEER AREA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA$52,000
Change Inititave Corporation$45,000
Recovery Alive Inc$40,000
Harrison County Commission$40,000
REYNOLDSVILLE VFD INC$40,000
Patrons of the Park Foundation Inc$40,000
Genesis Youth Crisis Center$40,000
Harrison County Child Sexual Abuse Task Force Inc$40,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
Harrison County Catholic School System$25,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
The Mustard Seed$20,000
Amputee Center$20,000
Community Resources Inc$17,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $383k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%A Precious Child Inc: $13k → 5%Noble County Samaritan House: $5k → 16%OUTREACH WARRIORS CO: $10k → 16%The CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF WV Inc: $98k → 18%CALHOUN FAMILY RESOURCE NETWORK INC: $10k → 22%A Precious Child Inc: $10k → 5%Community Resources Inc: $17k → 19%A Precious Child Inc: $5k → 5%Noble County Samaritan House: $5k → 16%Catholic Charities WV Inc: $4k → 15%Tyler County Family Resource Network Inc: $15k → 15%WEST VIRGINIA CHILD ABUSE NETWORK INC: $10k → 18%Monongalia County Society for Disabled Children &: $15k → 19%Community Resources Inc: $17k → 19%Catholic Charities WV Inc: $4k → 15%Council Of Senior Tyler Countians: $12k → 15%Catholic Charities WV Inc: $4k → 15%Council Of Senior Tyler Countians: $6k → 15%Safehouse Denver Inc: $10k → 12%Tyler County Family Resource Network Inc: $6k → 15%Colorado African Cultural Center: $5k → 12%Doddridge County Starting Points Center: $2k → 20%Safehouse Denver Inc: $8k → 12%Chestnut Mountain Ranch Inc: $10k → 19%Thriving Families: $12k → 12%Council Of Senior Tyler Countians: $2k → 15%Chestnut Mountain Ranch Inc: $10k → 19%Thriving Families: $7k → 12%Chestnut Mountain Ranch: $9k → 19%Ritchie & Doddridge Mercy Fund: $8k → 20%Wetzel County Center For Children & Families Inc: $2k → 21%Ritchie County Family Resource Network: $7k → 20%Ritchie County Family Resource Network Inc: $7k → 20%DODDRIDGE COUNTY STARTING POINTS CENTER: $2k → 20%DODDRIDGE COUNTY STARTING POINT Center Inc: $2k → 20%Ritchie County Integrated Family Services Inc: $2k → 20%Ritchie County Integrated Family Services Inc: $2k → 20%Richie County Family Resource Network: $2k → 20%Ritchie County Integrated Family Services Inc: $2k → 20%Harrison County Senior Citizens Center Inc: $2k → 15%Harrison County Senior Center: $2k → 15%Harrison County Senior Citizens Center Inc: $2k → 15%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
WY
IA
OH
PA
CA
CO
MO
WV
VA
KS
NC
DC
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.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 83 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

83 repeat relationships: 60 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 51 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

83
76

Total granted

$1.9M
$941k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+7%

Still filing today

53%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $725k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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
    3× · 2020–2023 · $163k · revenue +3%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF HARRISON COUNTY INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $150k · revenue +51%
  • MA
    MOUNTAINEER AREA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC
    2× · 2020–2024 · $67k · revenue +221%

Funded once

  • MF
    MOUNTAINEER FOOD BANK INC
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue -11%
  • FV
    FOLSOM VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +7%
  • WG
    WV GAME CHANGERS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $60k · revenue +600%
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
Wv Helping Hands
Human Services
2
Wayne County Community Services Organization

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

Community Improvement
3
McDowell County Commission on Aging Inc

To provide services to senior citizens of McDowell County, West Virginia.

Human Services
4
Summers County Council on Aging Inc

Provide services to senior citizens of Summers County, West Virginia.

Human Services
5
Pocahontas County Senior Citizens Inc

To provide services to the senior citizens of Pocahontas County, West Virginia

Human Services
6
Central West Virginia Aging Services Inc

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.

Human Services
7
Wilderness Volunteer Fire Department Inc

WVFD provides fire suppression and rescue services to the communities of Nicholas County, WV and surrounding areas.

Public Safety & Disaster
8
West Virginia Community Voices Inc

To improve the health and health care quality for the residents of west virginia.

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9
Grandview Volunteer Fire Dept Inc

Providing public fire protection and emergency rescue services.

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10
Feed My Sheep Food Outreach Inc

It is our mission to provide food, clothing, household cleaning supplies, and personal hygiene products to low income seniors, veterans, homeless, children, and families.

Food & Nutrition
11
West Virginia Health Improvement Institute Inc

The wvhii is a statewide collaboration among multiple stakeholders focusing on improving the health and health care of the citizens of west virginia.

Health
12
Taylor County Collaborative Family Resource Network Inc

To facilitate coordination of services and resources to the community.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of the Upper Ohio Valley Inc; the most unlike its peers is Outreach Warriors. 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

103 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 103 of the 211 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
100/103
Grantees still filing
49/103
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

United Way Of Harrison And Doddridge Counties: $175,000 · OtherUnited Way Of Harrison And Doddridge CountiesWVU Medicine Children's WVUF: $105,000 · Other+140 more: $1,873,250 · Other+140 moreTHE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA INC: $163,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S …GENESIS YOUTH CRISIS CENTER INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesGENESIS YOUTH C…COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC: $34,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY RESOU…CHESTNUT MOUNTAIN RANCH INC: $29,053 · Human ServicesCHESTNUT MOUNTA…A PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $27,500 · Human ServicesA PRECIOUS CHIL…Tyler County Family Resource Network Inc: $21,000 · Human ServicesTHE COUNCIL OF SENIOR TYLER COUNTIANS INC: $20,495 · Human ServicesTHRIVING FAMILIES: $19,000 · Human ServicesSAFEHOUSE DENVER INC: $18,000 · Human Services+14 more: $123,000 · Human Services+14 moreWV GAME CHANGERS INC: $60,000 · HealthWV GAME CH…Valley Hope Association Foundation: $55,000 · HealthValley Hop…Amputee Center: $43,000 · HealthAmputee Ce…HEALTH ACCESS INC: $30,000 · HealthHEALTH ACC…STARS AND STRIDES THERAPEUTIC EQUINE CENTER: $30,000 · HealthSTARS AND …United Health Foundation Inc: $21,500 · HealthUnited Hea…Wetzel County Hospital Inc: $16,700 · HealthWALKING MIRACLESORG: $15,000 · HealthSUSAN DEW HOFF MEMORIAL CLINIC INC: $15,000 · HealthBarnesville Hospital Association Inc: $15,000 · HealthNORTHERN APPALACHIAN TEEN CHALLENGE INC: $15,000 · Health+1 more: $2,500 · HealthUNITED WAY OF HARRISON COUNTY INC: $150,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY INC: $12,000 · PhilanthropyTYGART VALLEY UNITED WAY INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyPLEASANTS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · Philanthropy+1 more: $5,000 · PhilanthropyMOUNTAINEER FOOD BANK INC: $150,000 · Food & NutritionGOVERNORS ONE SHOT INC: $10,000 · Food & Nutrition5 Loaves Food Pantry: $6,000 · Food & NutritionHelp on the Horizon Inc: $6,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $2,000 · Food & NutritionFOLSOM VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC: $100,000 · Public Safety & DisasterHARRISON COUNTY EMERGENCY SQUAD INC: $14,000 · Public Safety & DisasterGREENWOOD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $4,000 · Public Safety & Disaster+1 more: $1,400 · Public Safety & DisasterFood For Thought Denver: $15,000 · EducationWEST VA FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · EducationJAMES AND DEREK HOTSINPILLER MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $14,000 · EducationAVIAN CONSERVATION CENTER OF APPALACHIA INC: $9,000 · EducationGLENVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 · EducationSTEM Generation Inc: $7,000 · EducationWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · EducationTHE CLARKSBURG CHILDREN'S HOUSE: $3,000 · Education+1 more: $2,500 · Education
Other$2,153,250Human Services$495,048Health$318,700Philanthropy$184,500Food & Nutrition$174,000Public Safety & Disaster$119,400Education$77,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA INC: $163,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF HARRISON COUNTY INC: $150,000 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetMOUNTAINEER FOOD BANK INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFOLSOM VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC: $100,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetMOUNTAINEER AREA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC: $67,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetWV GAME CHANGERS INC: $60,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetValley Hope Association Foundation: $55,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetByGrace Ministries: $50,000 over 1y, 62% of budgetChange Initiative Corporation: $45,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetAmputee Center: $43,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetRECOVERY ALIVE INC: $40,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetHARRISON COUNTY CHILD ABUSE TASKFORCE IN C: $40,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetGENESIS YOUTH CRISIS CENTER INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY RESOURCES INC: $34,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCambridge Performing Arts Center: $33,000 over 1y, 54% of budgetCLARKSBURG LEAGUE FOR SERVICE INC: $30,000 over 2y, 35% of budgetHEALTH ACCESS INC: $30,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSTARS AND STRIDES THERAPEUTIC EQUINE CENTER: $30,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetCHESTNUT MOUNTAIN RANCH INC: $29,053 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetA PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $27,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DENVER: $27,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF BRIDGEPORT RECREATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetUnited Health Foundation Inc: $21,500 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetCLARKSBURG MISSION INC: $21,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetTyler County Family Resource Network Inc: $21,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetTHE COUNCIL OF SENIOR TYLER COUNTIANS INC: $20,495 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetHEALTHY HARRISON INCORPORATED: $20,000 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF BLACK DIAMOND COUNCIL INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHRIVING FAMILIES: $19,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetROBERT T SECREST SENIOR CITIZEN CTR: $18,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetSAFEHOUSE DENVER INC: $18,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWetzel County Hospital Inc: $16,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRITCHIE COUNTY FAMILY RESOURCE NETWORK INC: $16,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetFood For Thought Denver: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWEST VA FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHARRISON COUNTY CASA PROGRAM INC: $15,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetWALKING MIRACLESORG: $15,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetMONONGALIA COUNTY SOCIETY FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN AND ADULTS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR OHIO RIVER EDUCATION: $15,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetHOMESTEAD FARM CENTER INC: $15,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetSUSAN DEW HOFF MEMORIAL CLINIC INC: $15,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetBarnesville Hospital Association Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKARIS COMMUNITY: $15,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetNORTHERN APPALACHIAN TEEN CHALLENGE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF PLEASANTS CO: $15,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetParkersburg Art Center Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetHUGH O'BRIAN YOUTH LEADERSHIP: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

Eqt FoundationPeoples Bank Foundati…Firstenergy FoundationEncova Foundation of …Parkersburg Area Comm…Bernard McDonough Fou…United Way of Harriso…Sacred Heart Children…Milan Puskar Foundati…Dominion Energy Chari…The Wm M & a Cafaro F…Sisters of St Joseph …
Eqt FoundationPA48× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eqt Foundation · Peoples Bank Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · Encova Foundation of West Virginia · Parkersburg Area Community Foundation Inc (Previously Pacf Inc) · Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc · United Way of Harrison County Inc · Sacred Heart Childrens Center Inc · Milan Puskar Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Wm M & a Cafaro Family Foundation · Sisters of St Joseph Charitable Fund Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    38report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 211 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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